Mind Swap ritual

[Waldham]

Hello, I have a question about mind swap ritual.

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Heightened (9th) You can cast the ritual without a duration, leaving no magic to counteract. The effects are reversible only by another mind swap ritual or powerful magic like wish. This increases the cost of the ritual to 10,000 gp and is an evil act unless both targets are willing.

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f a body dies, the mind and spirit controlling it dies instantly. When the spell ends, the minds and souls snap back to their original bodies. At this time, if the original body is dead, the mind and soul attempting to return to that body die as well.

So a character is in an other body for a unlimited duration, must the character return to it original body if its original body is dead ?

Thanks for your future answer.

[QuidEst]

Waldham wrote:

Hello, I have a question about mind swap ritual.

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Heightened (9th) You can cast the ritual without a duration, leaving no magic to counteract. The effects are reversible only by another mind swap ritual or powerful magic like wish. This increases the cost of the ritual to 10,000 gp and is an evil act unless both targets are willing.

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f a body dies, the mind and spirit controlling it dies instantly. When the spell ends, the minds and souls snap back to their original bodies. At this time, if the original body is dead, the mind and soul attempting to return to that body die as well.

So a character is in an other body for a unlimited duration, must the character return to it original body if its original body is dead ?

Thanks for your future answer.

Only when the duration ends. For an unlimited duration effect, that won't occur naturally... But a dispel would be lethal.

As mentioned below, this is "no duration", which means the magic is all done and finished. Nothing to dispel, and no duration to end.

[NorrKnekten]

Its not really accurate to say "unlimited duration".
Rather at 9th rank the swap is permanent and the spell is no longer there to reverse by any means other than Wish or similar.

If however the original body was killed and someone use Wish to undo the effects then the character would be returned to their original body.

[Finoan]

This part:

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If a body dies, the mind and spirit controlling it dies instantly.

works no matter if the ritual is 9th Rank and has no duration or if it is cast at 9th Rank. If one of the bodies dies, the mind that is currently in that body also dies.

Which would be terrifying to the other of the pair if the ritual is cast with a duration. You are now on a clock less than a week at which point the magic will end and you will snap back to your original, and now dead, body.

If it is cast at 9th Rank and has no duration, then only Wish or similar powerful effects would cause the revert. But if it is reverted, then the mind in the swapped body would once again be sent back to its original, and still dead, body.

Presumably, the world would be left with a living, but mindless body hanging around.