This mark was made by its makers in millennia past to memorialize and bestow their maddening and malicious manifestos upon the meat of those fortunate enough to escape the maws of their magnificent minions. The malignant mission of these misanthropic masters now manifests within your mark through magics most mighty and mysterious!
Through this mark, you may will mundane objects to life to masticate your miserable enemies. But HARK! When used carelessly, this mantle may see your very own children turn their fangs on you. But alas, such is the life of a parent.
Upon gaining this mark, you can cast the following spell:
Make Mimic
3rd-level transmutation (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action (1 hour)
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute
You target a nonmagical object of medium size or smaller and will a malicious entity into it. The targeted object becomes a mimic and considers all other creatures to be targets. It has all the statistics of a normal mimic, but with half the hit points. If the targeted object is being worn or carried by another creature, the creature must succeed in a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or be grappled by the mimic. On a successful save, the mimic is thrown to the ground in an adjacent, unoccupied space and it considers the thrower its target. The mimic will target the closest creature to it, prioritizing the last creature it attacked or, if the mimic is attacked, the last creature to attack it. The mimic reverts back to a nonmagical object at the end of the spell’s duration, or if it is reduced to 0 hit points.
If this spell is cast as a ritual, the targeted object can instead become a mimic familiar, which lasts for 24 hours. The object used for the mimic familiar must instead be small or tiny. It retains the statistics of a normal mimic, but has 7 hit points and follows all your commands. You can choose to expend a spell slot when casting the spell in this way to strengthen the lifeforce of the familiar, and after 7 consecutive days, the mimic familiar becomes permanent. The mimic familiar reverts back to a nonmagical object if a new mimic familiar is made. Even if the previous familiar was permanent, the new one is not.
At Higher Levels: If this spell is used to create normal mimics, an additional mimic is made within range for each spell slot above 3rd-level. If this spell is used to create a mimic familiar, an additional mimic familiar can be made for each spell slot above 3rd-level, including permanent mimic familiars after 7 consecutive days of casting.
Curse: You have developed a paranoia of any mundane object in a conspicuously isolated placement. You have disadvantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks to determine if an object is a mimic. You also now have a compulsion to talk to inanimate objects.
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