This spell is a part of the Influence spell chain and is found in the Influence rune stone.
The illusion that simply stands is useful. The illusion that moves, speaks, and responds - that is something else entirely.
Controlled Illusion is Dream at the height of its creative expression, the mentimancer reaching out through the space between minds and giving their creation the appearance of life. What begins next to the caster can be directed anywhere within range, moving as the mentimancer wills it, acting as the mentimancer decides, speaking words the mentimancer chooses. From a distance it is indistinguishable from whatever it has been made to appear as. It has no physical presence - it cannot lift, carry, or affect the world around it - but it can deceive, distract, and mislead with remarkable effectiveness. Those who study it for a moment will find the seams by making a Hard - 2 Perceive Check, the penalty decreasing by 1 with each round used to study the illusion. Those who do not will have no reason to look.
The cost is the mentimancer's full attention. While the illusion moves, they do not. Their mind is there, not here, present in the projection, absent from themselves. They can speak to those immediately around them, but that is all. Dream requires complete focus to sustain something this alive. The mentimancer is the puppeteer, and puppeteers do not dance while their hands are busy.
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