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Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse Question - Goloma True Gaze

This might be a stupid question, but I'd like to seek out some clarity about something regarding the True Gaze ancestry feat for Goloma.

True Gaze

"When you focus your eyes carefully, your gaze can pierce through all obfuscations, even magical ones. When you use True Gaze, you gain the effects of a 6th-level true seeing [Truesight, as of Remaster] spell, using your Perception modifier for the counteract check."

Lost Omens Mwangi Expanse pg 117

Truesight

Duration 10 minutes

You see things within 60 feet as they actually are. The GM rolls a secret counteract check against any illusion, morph, or polymorph effect in the area, but only for the purpose of determining whether you see through it (for instance, if the check succeeds against a polymorph spell, you can see the creature’s true form, but you don’t end the polymorph spell).

Player Core pg 364

So this effectively lets you cast True Seeing/Truesight as a 1-action activity. For the most part, there's nothing all that confusing except for one detail that feels it could be interpreted a couple ways: Is duration included in the list of "effects" that is gained from using this action?

In other words, does the True Seeing/Truesight from this feat last 10 minutes, same as a standard casting of the spell, or does it last for a more limited duration or for a single turn?

If it doesn't last the normal duration, then I assume that it's effectively giving me the ability to Seek on that action with the benefits of True Seeing, but since that's not explicitly stated, I come before you.

Thank you for providing me this closure.

Yep the sorcerer draconic bloodline don't expect you to use divine/primal spells from some other dragons but If your GM is not averse to homebrew you can create a bloodline variant with him/her.

For example, to do a gold dragon bloodline you can switch:

Tradtion: Arcante -> Divine
Granted Spells: true-strike -> fear, chromatic wall -> banishment, Prismatic Wall -> divine aura

Keep the rest same of draconic bloodline.

Do these changes probably won't do break any balance and allows to make a more specialized draconic bloodline.

I guess I didn't make it apparent, but I am the GM in this scenario. But I do appreciate the homebrew tips. Though there does lie a greater question for whether the Arcane Draconic Sorcerer can base their bloodline off a dragon that is not chromatic or metallic. My heart says yes, and it's just that RAW hasn't caught up to modify the list of options.

The only input I can offer is that, no, I don't think you would change the tradition of the bloodline. Gold and silver dragons are already divine casters, but nevertheless offer arcane spells with their bloodline.

This is a painfully clear case of me not checking all the facts. Thank you for the input. Though as long as Draconic sorcerers are all arcane casters, is it still possible to have inherited that bloodline from an Imperial or even a Primal dragon?

The title's a bit misleading but it's the best way I thought of to lead my question:

A friend of mine made a draconic bloodline sorcerer, and I went and mentioned to him all the other different types of dragons there were in 2e's other bestiaries since the first one, and he got really hooked on Sovereign Dragons.

So he started asking me if he could make a sorcerer with a bloodline tied to a Sovereign Dragon. RAW says no, but there's also an argument to be made that the draconic bloodline sorcerer was written at a time when Primal and Imperial dragons weren't added to the bestiary yet. Adding to the point, the Wyrmblessed Bloodline does include Primal and Imperial dragons into its listed of possible draconic lineages, so it's wholly believable to me that the draconic sorcerer description just hasn't been updated to include the complete list of possible dragon options, either because for the sake of keeping the same page count or because nobody's mentioned it so they haven't circled back around to it.

Regardless of the reason behind it, is there anything stopping me from acting on this? Make his sorcerer an Occult caster since spellcasting Sovereign Dragon would be an Occult caster and make the damage type tied to his bloodline spells mental based off the Sovereign Dragon's breath weapon? Arguably this is more of a homebrew question, but the point of asking this in rules is to bring to light and hopefully get an answer on whether Draconic bloodline was meant to be applicable to all existing dragon types the same way that Wyrmblessed is. Maybe it'd still be arcane since Wyrmblessed is consistently divine regardless of the lineage, I dunno. Any input is appreciated.