You can mold your face to assume the likeness of a recently killed humanoid, allowing you to impersonate that person – in facial appearance, at least – for a short period of time.
You must touch the face of the dead person whose identity you wish to assume, and he or she can have been dead for no more than 30 minutes. Your own features then become soft as clay, and you can mold them to match the dead person’s. All physical features at the time of death, including cuts, bruises, and other injuries, are duplicated. Your face matches the shape of beings approximately your own size; those with noticeably greater or smaller facial areas than your own (belonging to a different size category) are compressed or stretched to fit your own facial proportions. Identifying features such as skin color, bears, eye color, ear shape, tattoos, and the like are automatically transferred.
The transformation is physical, not an illusion, and cannot be detected by most spells that penetrate illusions; true seeing reveals a magical aura but not your original features. At the end of the spell’s duration, your face appears to grotesquely sag and melt into corruption, only regaining its normal appearance 10 minutes after the spell’s expiration.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of:
- 3rd or 4th level: the spell lasts 8 hours.
- 5th or 6th level: the spell lasts 24 hours.
- 7th or 8th level: the spell lasts 30 days.
- 9th level or higher: the spell lasts until dispelled.
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