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Okay, I need some opinions on something my GM did a while back. Here's the scenario, my character basically performed the perfect murder, killing someone in their sleep and leaving absolutely no evidence behind whatsoever. In fact, the character killed has been known to disappear for long periods of time (sometimes unexplained) and there's no reason to believe that the character isn't simply "missing" and not dead.

There's no signs of a struggle, no body to be found, no forced entry, I wasn't even in my own body when the murder was carried out. By the time anyone checked the person's room all magical aura's had long since dissipated. There were absolutely no witnesses, and since the target died in their sleep then even their departed soul is unaware of what happened. I also utilized an ability the GM had given me earlier that prevents any form of resurrection or reincarnation (even blocking wish and miracle).

My character is one that is virtually unheard of by all, all of his dealings are through a possessed body and nobody knows he's a possessed man. Even the man who was possessed only knows that he's missing memory of certain dates and times when he was possessed (and his piss poor int generally means he doesn't make any kind of connection) My character is so low profile that practically nobody really even knows he exists.

My GM however decides that a high level wizard repeatedly cast legend lore to determine:
A. What happened to the person.
B. Who murdered them.
C. Detailed information as to how the murderer did it.
D. Any of my characters significant activities within the past year or so (most of which wasn't related to the murder).
E. Information on my characters defenses.
F. Pretty much everything short of telling the mage my exact location.

Now my understanding of legend lore is that as far as thematics are concerned it tells the spellcaster the legends about a given person, place, or thing. And since my character very existence is nigh unheard of and the very few who have met him aren't even aware there was a murder (after all, those few don't know my actions in a possessed body that is many many miles away in what is effectively an enemy state).

So as far as the spirit and themeatics of the spell are concerned the spell was miss used (IMO). Mechanically things get a bit muddled, as the spell more or less states that due to the severe lack of information on the event or peoples involved that it would take 2d6 weeks to cast and only provide information that is "vague and incomplete". Now the spells says that it will likely point you in a direction that may lead to better info and thus allow a better casting of legend lore at a later date. But the fact of the matter is, there's no possible place it could point you towards in order to gain better knowledge, as only I know of the act (and possibly a deity, although due to the circumstances of this campaign's plot I find it unlikely).

When I mentioned the possibility of gaining info from a deity to my GM he said that the spell doesn't need that and that it can simply draw out the information without a source.

I'm not sure what to make of this, but it seems like he's stretching things to find a way to make my actions known to others. Any thoughts?