Modify Memory

Modify Memory
Level5th Level Casting Time1 action Range10m
AoESingle DurationConcentration, up to 1 minute
SchoolTime ComponentsV, S
ClassesArcanist, Bard, Time Mage, Trickster, White Mage*

You attempt to reshape another creature's memories.

The target makes a Wisdom saving throw (with Advantage if you are fighting the creature). On a failed save, the target becomes

Charmed
by you for the duration. The Charmed target is
Incapacitated
and unaware of its surroundings, though it can still hear you. If it takes any damage or is targeted by another spell, this spell ends, and none of the target's memories are modified.

While this charm lasts, you can affect the target's memory of an event that it experienced within the last 24 hours and that lasted no more than 10 minutes. You can permanently eliminate all memory of the event, allow the target to recall the event with perfect clarity and exacting detail, change its memory of the details of the event, or create a memory of some other event. You must speak to the target to describe how its memories are affected, and it must be able to understand your language for the modified memories to take root. Its 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. 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 DM might deem a modified memory too nonsensical to affect a creature in a significant manner.

A Cursna or Esuna spell cast on the target restores the creature's true memory.

At Higher Levels: If you cast this spell at a higher level, you can alter the target's memories of an event that took place up to 7 days ago (6th level), 30 days ago (7th level), 1 year ago (8th level), or any time in the creature's past (9th level).