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Faerie Fire

Source: Player's Handbook

1st-level evocation

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Each object in a 20-foot cube within range is outlined in blue, green, or violet light (your choice).

Any creature in the area when the spell is cast is also outlined in light if it fails a Dexterity saving throw. For the duration, objects and affected creatures shed dim light in a 10-foot radius.

Any attack roll against an affected creature or object has advantage if the attacker can see it, and the affected creature or object can’t benefit from being invisible.

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a copper piece)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

For the duration, you can read the thoughts of certain creatures. When you cast the spell and as your action on each turn until the spell ends, you can focus your mind on any one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature you choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or doesn’t speak any language, the creature is unaffected.

You initially learn the surface thoughts of the creature—what is most on its mind in that moment. As an action, you can either shift your attention to another creature’s thoughts or attempt to probe deeper into the same creature’s mind. If you probe deeper, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. If it fails, you gain insight into its reasoning (if any), its emotional state, and something that loom s large in its mind (such as something it worries over, loves, or hates). If it succeeds, the spell ends. Either way, the target knows that you are probing into its mind, and unless you shift your attention to another creature’s thoughts, the creature can use its action on its turn to make an Intelligence check contested by your Intelligence check; if it succeeds, the spell ends.

Questions verbally directed at the target creature naturally shape the course of its thoughts, so this spell is particularly effective as part of an interrogation.

You can also use this spell to detect the presence of thinking creatures you can’t see. When you cast the spell or as your action during the duration, you can search for thoughts within 30 feet of you. The spell can penetrate barriers, but 2 feet of rock, 2 inches of any metal other than lead, or a thin sheet of lead blocks you. You can’t detect a creature with an Intelligence of 3 or lower or one that doesn’t speak any language.

Once you detect the presence of a creature in this way, you can read its thoughts for the rest of the duration as described above, even if you can’t see it, but it must still be within range.

Tressym (Reskinned from a Cat) (Familiar), Tiny Fey, unaligned
3 STR (-4), 15 DEX (+2), 10 CON (0), 19 INT (+4), 12 WIS (+1), 7 CHA (-2)
12 AC, 2 HP, 1 HD

Speed: Has wings but cannot fly.
Move 40'
Climb 30'

+2 Proficiency Bonus: 0 Skill Points
+3 Perception: (0 Ranks, +2 Proficiency Bonus, +1 WIS)
+4 Stealth: (0 Ranks, +2 Proficiency Bonus, +2 DEX)

Senses: 13 Passive Perception (10 Base + 1 WIS +2 Racial)
Keen Smell: The cat has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Claw: Melee Weapon Attack: +0 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 (1d1) slashing damage.

Tressym has its own INIT but can't attack. When it drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after I cast this spell again. As an action, I can temporarily dismiss your familiar to a pocket dimension. Alternatively, I can dismiss it forever. As an action while it is temporarily dismissed, I can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 30' of me. Whenever the familiar drops to 0 hit points or disappears into the pocket dimension, it leaves behind in its space anything it was wearing or carrying.

While Tressym is within 100' of me, I can communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action, I can see through Tressym's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of my next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has. During this time, I'm deaf and blind with regard to my own senses.

Finally, when I cast a spell with a range of touch, Tressym can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Tressym must be within 100' of me, and it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when I cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, I use my attack modifier for the roll.

Available spell touch spells: Shocking Grasp, Mage Armor, Dragon's Breath, Fly, Tongues, Greater Invisibility