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Description and lore
The familiar world gains the unsettling suggestion that something magical has passed through it.
Sight changes the inspection of a room into a search for traces rather than an inventory of furniture.
Its caster may spend longer over a plain latch than over the room's finest ornament.
At a glance
The familiar world gains the unsettling suggestion that something magical has passed through it.
Techniques and Spells · Alpha v44 reference
Requires: Casting Skill: Perception. Affinity: Intellect. Requirements: Intellect d6; Perception d6. one learned slot.
Use: Action · Self; inspect within 30 feet · one visible space or object per turn · Persistent · 1 Mana
Effect - Resolution: Perception Test, TN 4 for an exposed magical trace; use a relevant opposing concealment result instead when one exists.
Effect - Defense: a hidden creature’s applicable concealment or effect remains its stated contest; this spell does not cancel it automatically.
Effect: on success, learn whether the inspected target bears active magic or a recent magical trace and its broad location. The caster does not learn a spell’s full rules, identify its maker, see through solid barriers, or automatically reveal an Invisible creature.
Duration: up to 1 minute, ending if the caster becomes incapacitated; one inspected target per turn.
Ending or recovery: no special cooldown.
Critical: no additional effect; a qualifying Skill maximum uses the separate Training rule, not a combat critical.
Exception: this is perception of magic, not certainty about motive, future, or truth.
Hidden traces of magic glimmer at the edge of your vision.
Your gaze leaves the gilt mirror and returns to the quiet mark beside the door.