Modify Memory

Modify Memory

5-level Enchantment

Casting Time 1 action

Range 30 feet

Duration Concentration, up to a minute

Components V, S

You attempt to reshape the memories of a creature that you can see within range. The target must make a Wisdom Saving Throw.

• Major Success: The creature is unaffected and knows you tried to alter its memory.
• Success: The creature is unaffected but thinks your spell was something harmless instead of modify memory, unless it successfully identifies the spell.
• Failure: You can telepathically communicate with the target for the duration, during this time you can alter the target's memory of an event that it experienced within the last 24 hours and that lasted no more than 10 minutes. Either erasing the memory, enhancing the memory's clarity, altering the memory, or adding a false memory. You must describe to the target how its memories are affected in a manner it understands for the modified memories to take root. The target's mind fills in any gaps in the details of your description. If the spell ends before you have finished describing the modified memories, the creature's memory isn't altered. Otherwise, the modified memories take hold when the spell ends.

If you are fighting the creature, it has advantage on the Saving Throw.
A modified memory doesn't necessarily affect how a creature behaves, particularly if the memory contradicts the creature's natural inclinations, alignment, or beliefs. An illogical modified memory, such as implanting a memory of how much the creature enjoyed dousing itself in acid, is dismissed, perhaps as a bad dream. The GM might deem a modified memory too nonsensical to affect a creature in a significant manner.
A Remove Curse or Greater Restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature's true memory.


At higher levels:

• At 6th Level: You can alter the target's memories of an event that took place up to 7 days ago.
• At 7th Level: You can alter the target's memories of an event that took place up to 30 days ago.
• At 8th Level: You can alter the target's memories of an event that took place up to 1 year ago.
• At 9th Level: You can alter the target's memories of an event that took place any time in the creature's past.

Class(es): Bard, Wizard