Deceive the Eyes

(• • Life; Possibly with • • Mind or • • • Mind) The Book of Crafts 57

By rubbing ash into a cut on her arm, a Hem-Ka can mask her scars and tattoos from the eyes of those who would not understand them. By blowing dust into the faces of those around her, she may disguise some thing, person or item that she does not want discovered.

[Life magick shifts skin pigments to hide the Hem-Ka's markings for a while, while the Mind element keeps people from questioning her if she wants to move unmolested. The Mind-only variation keeps bystanders from seeing something that's really there by convincing them that it isn't. Obviously, the larger or more prominent the item, the more successes the Hem-Ka must roll to conceal it. This isn't true invisibility, but simply "clouding men's minds," as it were. The first version of the spell is often vulgar without witnesses, while the obfuscation variation is often coincidental. A concealed object will not simply fade from the gaze of a direct observer.]