dominate person from the dominated perspective

[Ettina]

If you dominate someone, once the domination wears off, do they remember what made them do and/or did in their presence? Can you order them to forget something, and have it stay forgotten after the power wears off?

For example, if a vampire uses their racial dominate to make someone hold still and let them drink some of the person's blood, can they then tell the person to forget what just happened, and have the person come out of the domination feeling sick and weak but with no idea that they were fed on by a vampire?

[Urpriest]

I think a decent rule of thumb is that being Dominated doesn't give you any capabilities you didn't otherwise possess. Since you can't intentionally forget things when not dominated, you shouldn't be able to do so while dominated.

[KillianHawkeye]

I think a decent rule of thumb is that being Dominated doesn't give you any capabilities you didn't otherwise possess. Since you can't intentionally forget things when not dominated, you shouldn't be able to do so while dominated.

Seconded.

Domination lets you control another person's actions. It does not let you re-write their memories or change their personalities in any way (for that, other spells exist). And in no place does it say that the victim doesn't remember being dominated or the actions they are being forced to take, so they remember everything. Hell, dominating somebody and forcing them to do terrible things like murder their own family and be left with the horrific memories of the deed is one of the most classically villainous uses of this sort of mind control! :smallamused:

[Fouredged Sword]

Now, if a spell caster can cast erase memory on themselves, the order WOULD work. Also, a character may render themselves blind drunk in an attempt to forget the memory. They must have the ability to do the order. Impossible orders are ignored.