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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1657282" data-attributes="member: 5122">I'll go against the grain and state an emphatic "yes."  You know upon recovery when you've been charmed.  The spell causes the target to feel and to behave as if the caster were a "trusted friend and ally."  The spell does not erase or alter the memory of the time spent charmed.  Even if the target didn't regard the caster as a threat pre-charm -- for example, the target may not have even had the chance to see the caster -- once the spell expires the target is going to remember feeling and behaving as if the caster were a trusted friend and ally.And that's mighty strange.The target may or may not know that he was the target of the charm person spell, depending upon his IC knowledge of specific spells and effects -- but he knows damned good and well that he was the target of some kinda magic futzing with his will and emotions.  And his memories are usually gonna be a pretty good indication of the source of that magic.The only possible exception is if the caster genuinely is a trusted friend and ally of the target (or disguised as one).  Perhaps the caster simply needs to convince the target to do something the caster knows the target wouldn't do, for instance.  Even then, depending upon the action(s) requested by the caster, I'd almost always say the target recovers from the charm with the memory that he's done something he wouldn't normally have done.  And, if so, so much for his "trusted friend and ally."</blockquote>

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