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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5708266" data-attributes="member: 4937">Yes, but Charm can actually mess with your emotions.&nbsp; The Charm spell causes you to have warm feelings toward the caster, as if they were among your closest friends, and allows that person to persuade you to act in their interests just as you percieved that person to be a loved one for whom you'd act in their interest.&nbsp; In many ways, its a nastier spell and far more open to&nbsp;&nbsp; abuse than Dominate.&nbsp; A person being Dominated will not act 'naturally', but a person who has been Charmed for the most part will.&nbsp; Dominate destroys a person's will, and with it their initiative and imagination, but Charm leaves these latter largely intact.&nbsp; A person being Dominated isn't really cooperating with its abuser, but a person who is Charmed is actually cooperating in their own abuse.&nbsp; Consider for one thing just how much more emotionally satisfying this is to the abuser.&nbsp; If you combine Charm with the ability to manipulate the subject's memory, like with Modify Memory, then you can really really mess with someone.&nbsp; Not only can you cause them to feel like you are one of their closest friends, but you can implant into them memories of you as one of their closest friends and erase from their memory more recent causes to be suspicious or hostile to you.&nbsp; And I fully agree with jonesy, I'm far far happier to have the police walking around with loaded guns than I am with the thought of them having mind control devices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5708266, member: 4937"] Yes, but Charm can actually mess with your emotions. The Charm spell causes you to have warm feelings toward the caster, as if they were among your closest friends, and allows that person to persuade you to act in their interests just as you percieved that person to be a loved one for whom you'd act in their interest. In many ways, its a nastier spell and far more open to abuse than Dominate. A person being Dominated will not act 'naturally', but a person who has been Charmed for the most part will. Dominate destroys a person's will, and with it their initiative and imagination, but Charm leaves these latter largely intact. A person being Dominated isn't really cooperating with its abuser, but a person who is Charmed is actually cooperating in their own abuse. Consider for one thing just how much more emotionally satisfying this is to the abuser. If you combine Charm with the ability to manipulate the subject's memory, like with Modify Memory, then you can really really mess with someone. Not only can you cause them to feel like you are one of their closest friends, but you can implant into them memories of you as one of their closest friends and erase from their memory more recent causes to be suspicious or hostile to you. And I fully agree with jonesy, I'm far far happier to have the police walking around with loaded guns than I am with the thought of them having mind control devices. [/QUOTE]

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