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Compel True Name

Rank 4 (rare) — arcane, divine, occult, primal (auditory, concentrate, incapacitation, linguistic, mental, true-name)

Source: Pathfinder Secrets of Magic

Cast 2 actions
Components verbal
Range 30 feet
Targets 1 creature whose true name you know
Duration varies
You instruct the target to do something, compelling obedience by calling it by its true name. Your instructions can't be self-destructive. Though this spell has the linguistic trait, this applies only to the instructions; the creature doesn't need to know its own true name to be affected. The target must attempt a Will saving throw. **Critical Success** The target is unaffected, is temporarily immune to further castings of this spell by you for 1 week, and learns your true name. **Success** The target is unaffected, is temporarily immune to further castings of this spell by you for 1 day, and learns a fragment of your true name. **Failure** The target does as you command. The spell has a duration of 10 minutes, or until the target has completed a finite instruction or the instructions become selfdestructive. The creature is temporarily immune to further castings of this spell by you for 1 hour. **Critical Failure** As failure, but the spell's duration is 8 hours, and the creature is not temporarily immune.

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