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True Seeing - Shukenja

Level 5 priest spell · Divination

Reversible
Sphere
All
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M
Casting time
8
Duration
1 rd./level
Area of effect
120-ft. sight range
Saving throw
None

The shukenja using this spell sees all things as they truly are, including secret doors, displaced beings, and invisible, ethereal, and astral persons and things. Illusions are pierced, and polymorphed, altered, and magiced things appear as they should be. Alignments can be determined. The spell's reverse, false seeing, causes the person affected to see the reverse of the truth.

Both spells require an ointment that must be aged for 1 d6 months, the ointment for true seeing is made of rare powdered mushrooms, saffron, and fat, while the reverse contains oil, poppy dust, and mare's sweat.

Notes: Common for oriental priests; otherwise, very rare.

Sources

This spell on the AD&D 2nd Edition Wiki