Ottar's Mask

This spell allows the caster or any willing being touched by the caster to perfectly assume the face and frontal appearance of another being. The being must be visible to the caster at the time. The adopted shape is a toes-to-hair duplicate of the front facing of the body only.

The being whose form is taken can be of a different gender, age, and race. The imposture is undetectable; not even a betraying dweomer is exhibited. Eye hue, hair length and hue, moles, wounds, and the like are all duplicated, as are scents and textures. Assumed features gained by use of this spell are fully usable (drow eyes have infravision, for example), but the spell does not grant spell-like natural powers of a race whose guise has been assumed. The spell recipient's Dexterity is also unchanged.

The magic is powerful enough to cause creature-specific poisons and spells to react as if the frontal image is the whole being (thus, a human in drow form and attacked frontally is unlikely to be charmed, though a hit by an arrow of elf slaying would be fatal). The spell recipient can drop the guise instantly by silent act of will. The changed form has no effect on the spell recipient's spellcasting ability, although the recipient must be careful to not allow material components to be transformed into part of the assumed frontal shape.

The material components of this spell are an eyelash a piece of skin from any creature.

It is thought that no living wizards outside the Seven and some Harpers know this spell, though there are persistent rumors of the Witches of Rashemen employing it.

Notes: Very rare in the Forgotten Realms setting; virtually unknown elsewhere.