Spell Description

You call up visions of the past. For the duration, you can spend at least 1 minute in meditation after which you receive dreamlike, shadowy glimpses of recent events. The spell ends early once you have meditated in this way a number of times equal to your spellcasting modifier. The visions you call up either relate to an object you hold or your immediate surroundings:

  • Object Reading. Holding an object as you meditate, you can see visions of the object's previous owner. After meditating for 1 minute, you learn how the most recent owner acquired and lost the object, as well as the most recent significant event involving the object and that owner. Alternatively, you can learn if the object was owned by another creature in the recent past (within a number of days equal to your spellcasting modifier). You can also spend 1 minute meditating while focusing on a specific owner of the object to learn how that owner acquired and lost the object, as well as the most recent significant event involving the object and that owner.

  • Area Reading. As you meditate, you see visions of recent events in your immediate vicinity (a room, street, tunnel, clearing, or the like, up to a 50-foot cube), going back a number of days equal to your spellcasting modifier. For each minute you meditate, you learn about one significant event, beginning with the most recent. Significant events could involve powerful emotions, battles, betrayals, marriages, murders, births, or funerals. However, they might also include more mundane events that are nevertheless important to that area.

Visions of the Past

5th level, primal (divination)

Casting Time

1 minute

Duration

1 hour (concentration)

Range

Self

Components

V,S,M*

*this spell requires incence worth at least 10 gold pieces, which the spell consumes.