Enchanting Anticipation

Intoxicating influence threads through your voice as you recite a fragment of an impossible play. The lines you speak end abruptly—just before a revelation no mortal mind was meant to witness. A sickly, otherworldly spotlight ignites overhead, fixing itself on you and casting a distorted silhouette that twitches just a moment out of sync with your movements.

Choose up to four creatures within range that can hear you. Each must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, a creature becomes gripped by dreadful anticipation and is charmed by you for the duration.

While charmed in this way, a creature suffers the following effects:

The King’s Spotlight

• The creature must use all of its movement on each of its turns to move closer to you by the safest route.
  
  
• It has disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you.
  
  
• It has disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to perceive any creature other than you.
  
  
• If the creature ends its turn 10 or more feet away from you, it takes 1 psychic damage per spell level as a whisper of forbidden truth leaks through the unfinished line.
  
  

A creature can repeat the Wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

The Patron’s Ovation

While at least one creature is affected by this spell, your voice resonates with the King’s impossible cadence. You have advantage on Charisma (Performance) and Charisma (Deception) checks, and spells you cast seem to flicker with yellow light.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the maximum number of creatures affected by this spell increases by two for each spell slot above 3rd.