Milil's Hymnal of Song

This rare magical book is bound with the hide of a song dragon. Milil's symbol of the silver harp is mounted on the front cover. The pages are made from bark carefully trimmed from the trees of living dryads and hamadryads, with strands of their hair to bind and strengthen the paper. The pages are then sewn into the hide cover using korred hair.

Powers

In addition to the lyrics and music of dozens of holy hyms for Milil's church, the book imparts transforming knowledge. While the hyms can be read and learned as desired, once the first page of transforming knowledge is read, the reader will be compelled to read every page in the book. Once read, the book will vanish.

Any spell casting wizard or bard who is already proficient in an appropriate instrument can learn the secret of spellsinging. Somatic spell components are provided by playing the instrument, while verbal components come from singing.

Any fighter, paladin, crusader or bard reading the text may automatically join Milil's Hamonious Order.

Further, depending on the readers current class, the book permits one eligible change of class as follows:

• If the reader is a priest, he may convert to Milil's priesthood with no loss of level. If he is already a cleric of Milil, he may become a Tuneservant specialty priest of the same level with all associated powers. Current Tuneservants will immediately gain enough experience to put him at the midpoint of the next level, disregarding any racial level limit.
• If the reader does not already have a priest class, he may immediately multiclass or dual class to a Tuneservant specialty priest.
• If the reader does not already have a bard class, he may immediately multiclass or dual class to a bard. If he doesn't already have a kit, one can be chosen at the time of transformation, so long as the kit would normally be open to his race, culture and background and he meets the requirements. Even thought spell casting isn't gained until 2nd level, knowledge of spellsinging is retained.
• if the reader already has a fighter (but not ranger or paladin) class with between 5 and 8 levels and a rogue class (thief or bard) with between 5 and 9 levels, he me immediately dual or multiclass to the the Druidic Bard specialty priesthood.

Racial class restrictions do not apply to the transformation, but racial level limits do apply to any new class. If the reader elects to change class, two points can be added to the prime requisite stats of the new class, but meeting the stat requirements is not required to assume the new class.

As with other magical texts of this sort, however, the knowledge cannot be recorded or repeated to others. Any additional reading of a similar manual is of no benefit to the character.

History

This item passes from character to character and is generally not owned by any individual for any length of time.