_**Prerequisite:** [[Warlock#Pact of the Censer|Path of the Censer]]  feature_ ___ As an action, you may cause your censer to billow a dense cloud of colorful smoke. This forms into a smoky shade of yourself in an adjacent square. This shade can’t create sound, light, scent (aside from a faint, smoky fragrance), or other sensory effects, though it can be the target of spells that create such effects. As a bonus action or as part of the bonus action to move your censor, you can mentally command this image of smoke to act however you wish (including interacting with a smoky version of any item in your possession when the shade was created), but it always remains centered on the censer. The shade is revealed as smoke with any physical interaction, as physical objects and creatures pass through it, though it grants your censer total cover. An [[00-Balance Of Powers/3-Mechanics/6-Ability Scores/Investigation|Investigation]] check against your spell save DC also reveals the shade is an illusion. The shade holds its form in light and moderate winds, but distorts in strong winds, revealing it to be an illusion. The shade only grants [half cover](https://a5e.tools/rules/world-bonuses-penalties-and-cover "Click to view a local node.") to your censer against attacks made by creatures that have seen it as an illusion. The shade remains for a 1 minute, until you dismiss it (no action required), or if leave your censer’s range. Once you have used this feature a number of times equal to your [spellcasting](https://a5e.tools/rules/spellcasting "Click to view a local node.") ability modifier, you can’t do so again until you finish a [long rest](https://a5e.tools/rules/resting "Click to view a local node.") . #eldritchInvocation #illusion #gainCoverForItem