The Archive of Esoteric Secrets

Detect Emotions

1-level Divination (ritual)

For the duration, you can look into the hearts of others and sense the emotions of any creature within 30 feet of you. If you sense emotions in this way, you can use your action to see a faint aura around any visible creature, and you learn what emotion it is outwardly expressing (or trying to express).   As an action, you can try to probe deeper and try to uncover its inner, potentially hidden emotions. If you probe deeper, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. If it fails, you see a small glowing aura permeating in the centre of its mind. If the target succeeds, it learns that you are trying to probe its mind.   The spell can penetrate most barriers, but is blocked by 1-foot of stone, 1-inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.