Hindsight
"Silvery threads wrap around you as the ritual ends, all stemming from the beautifully cut diamond gripped tightly in your hands. These cords of time and space snake up your arms, your neck, your face - and your eyes glow with an ominous mist as the world around you turns to shadow. Phantom imagery rushes around you, allowing you to gleam information from aeons past."
Effect
The Hindsight spell permits the caster to stare into the past, shadows of time rushing around the centered individual. There are two possible effects that can be used when you cast the spell:
Of the first, you can see and hear into the past in a 60-foot-radius sphere centered on you, granting you a look at events that happened previously at your current location. The level of detail you see and hear by means of this spell depends on the span of time you wish to observe; concentrating on a span of days renders a more detailed perspective than a span of centuries, for example. You can view only one span of time per casting, chosen from the following options:
Days: You sense the events of the past, stretching back one day per caster level. You gain detailed knowledge of the people, conversations, and events that transpired.
Weeks: You gain a summary of the events of the past, stretching back one week per caster level. Exact wording and details are lost, but you know all the participants and the highlights of the conversations and events that took place.
Years: You gain a general idea of the events of the past, stretching back one year per caster level. You notice only noteworthy events such as deaths, battles, scenes of great emotion, important discoveries, and significant happenings.
Centuries: You gain a general idea of the events of the past, stretching back one century plus an additional century for every four caster levels beyond 1st. For instance, a 16th-level caster would gain insight into the events of four centuries in the past, and a 17th-level caster would see back across five centuries. You notice only the most remarkable of events: coronations, deaths of important personages, major battles, and other truly historic happenings. Of the second, you gain a hyperspecific view of one twenty-four hour period from the last thousand years. When casting the spell, you must designate an exact date and time - and you gain a summary of all events from this period. If a historically significant event occurs, then you can look upon exactly what happened during the event from the perspective of a bystander.
Days: You sense the events of the past, stretching back one day per caster level. You gain detailed knowledge of the people, conversations, and events that transpired.
Weeks: You gain a summary of the events of the past, stretching back one week per caster level. Exact wording and details are lost, but you know all the participants and the highlights of the conversations and events that took place.
Years: You gain a general idea of the events of the past, stretching back one year per caster level. You notice only noteworthy events such as deaths, battles, scenes of great emotion, important discoveries, and significant happenings.
Centuries: You gain a general idea of the events of the past, stretching back one century plus an additional century for every four caster levels beyond 1st. For instance, a 16th-level caster would gain insight into the events of four centuries in the past, and a 17th-level caster would see back across five centuries. You notice only the most remarkable of events: coronations, deaths of important personages, major battles, and other truly historic happenings. Of the second, you gain a hyperspecific view of one twenty-four hour period from the last thousand years. When casting the spell, you must designate an exact date and time - and you gain a summary of all events from this period. If a historically significant event occurs, then you can look upon exactly what happened during the event from the perspective of a bystander.
Discovery
Hindsight was invented by Astrid Ermendrud in the first century as a way to further understand the actual details of Genesis. However, it was lost to the ages until being rediscovered by Modern Master of Divination Virgil Aeonwave in the late Gorecrest Dynasty.
Related Organizations
Material Components
The caster is required to hold a 1,000gp diamond cut in the shape of an hourglass to successfully carry out the ritual.
Related School
Divination
Effect Casting Time
One hour
Range
60 feet out from the caster
Level
6th-9th
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