You touch an object, surface, corpse, relic, or location that was present during a past event. Choose a moment in the past connected to the target that occurred no more than 1 year ago. For the duration, you enter a trance and witness fragmented echoes of that event.
The vision is sensory but imperfect. You can see and hear the event from the target’s perspective or immediate surroundings, but cannot interact with it. Creatures in the past cannot perceive you.
Upcasting
When cast using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the maximum age of the witnessed event increases.
| Slot Level | Maximum Past |
|---|---|
| 4th | 1 year |
| 5th | 100 years |
| 6th | 1,000 years |
| 7th | 2,5000 years |
| 8th | 5,000 years |
| 9th | Any age connected to a sufficiently powerful relic or site |
The DM determines how clear the vision is based on the strength of the connection.
Clarity Check
When you cast the spell, make an Intelligence (Arcana) check.
| DC | Result |
|---|---|
| 10 | You receive symbolic flashes and emotional impressions. |
| 15 | You witness a clear but brief sequence of the event. |
| 20 | You witness the event clearly and may follow one creature or sound within the immediate scene. |
| 25 | You can detect magical tampering, erased memory, hidden observers, or altered records connected to the event. |
Risk: Temporal Backlash
If the Arcana check fails by 5 or more, the caster suffers one of the following:
- psychic damage;
- a false or symbolic vision mixed with truth;
- one level of exhaustion;
- physical aging;
- temporary disorientation, as if under the effects of confusion for 1 round after the trance ends;
- the attention of something connected to the event.
Limitations
The spell cannot reveal:
- events the target was not physically or magically connected to;
- thoughts, unless spoken or psychically imprinted;
- names erased by powerful magic, unless cast at a place or with a relic strongly tied to that name;
- events shielded by divine, infernal, abyssal, or chronal wards, unless the caster succeeds against a higher DC.
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