Transplant Visage, Detect Magic, and Permanent Duration Spells

[Jonathan Folkerts]

So I was looking at the Transplant Visage spell, http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/t/transplant-visage/, and I noticed the odd wording in there: "Because the alteration made by transplant visage is permanent, there is no residual magical aura, and your new appearance is not recognized by detect spells." Usually I would look at that and see this as a specific vs general rule, but the wording there implies that any alterations made by any other spell with a duration of permanent, say Polymorph Any Object, has no residual aura and can't be detected with detect magic.

How does Detect Magic interact with spells that have a duration of "permanent," like PAO or Transplant Visage, as opposed to "instantaneous," like Cure spells?

[Plausible Pseudonym]

Permanent spells should be detectable, I'd attribute this to an error that wasn't caught.

[Ascalaphus]

Looks like an error. If the duration is permanent, then the spell is permanently active and therefore detectable.

What they probably meant would be "duration: instantaneous", so the spell is instantaneous, and the result is a permanent transplantation with no aura.