Felandriel prepared her standard powerful target assassination list this cycle. It's around ten at night in Korvosa right now. She's in her demiplane. She's possessing a volunteer instead of using her own body because this could all still be a trap. Hell might be willing to spend three wishes to capture her real body.

Greater scrying.

The spell is redirected away from its intended target.

The scrying sensor resolves above Ileosa Arabasti. She's asleep in her royal bedroom in Castle Korvosa.

But it's not actually her. Felandriel has never encountered such a redirection effect before. No spell she knows of is capable of this. Time to see what the body double knows.

She casts her minute buffs. Invisibility, greater heroism, grand destiny, protection from evil, freedom of movement from a scroll, and many others.

Gallipsiwhoop is in a small form today. He casts his minute buffs. He casts silent table on a pebble. He climbs into Felandriel's handy haversack.

Plane shift.

They appear in the middle of a vast grassland—

Greater teleport.

She appears flying above Castle Korvosa. It's midnight. Even this late, the royal guard patrols the area.

He peeks his head out of the handy haversack.

She's invisible and under mind blank but even that may not be enough.

Undead Anatomy IV. She becomes an invisible ghost of large size.

Collaborative Thaumaturgy to double the duration of an eighth circle spell without using a ninth circle slot. He crawls back into the haversack.

She flies through the walls of Castle Korvosa.

Castle Korvosa has many deadly guardians. Not a single one of them can detect an invisible creature under mind blank that's also incorporeal. Visual senses cannot detect invisible creatures. Nonvisual senses cannot detect incorporeal creatures. True seeing fails against mind blank.

The elite royal guardsmen don't notice her. The Gray Maidens don't notice her. The Red Mantis Assassins don't notice her. The bound greater devils don't notice her.

Red Mantis Assassins and over a dozen greater devils. Hell's influence over Korvosa is significantly higher than she was informed of.

She flies through more walls undetectably. Why are there shining children in the basement? This is irrelevant. The royal bedroom is what matters.

The royal bedroom is identical to its appearance in her scrying sensor.

The false Ileosa snoozes.

Gallipsiwhoop flies out of the haversack and holds out the pebble. Sound in the room muffles.

He draws on the void. Reveal Weakness.

Hmm. The body double is a third circle song-sorcerer. Strange.

Deep slumber. Just in case.

The false Ileosa continues to snooze. Felandriel's spell does not seem to have affected her.

Perhaps she is more powerful in a nonmagical way.

Mind probe. It takes a full minute to cast.

The probe sinks into the false Ileosa's mind.

Who are you.

A simulacrum of Ileosa Arabasti.

What. A simulacrum with magical abilities—

How were you created?