[RPG] Does Nondetection plus Invisibility hide you from the The Third Eye Wizard ability

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Nondetection protects you from divination magic.

In an early post on Sage Advice, I read Nondetection + Invisibility even protects against True Seeing. Okay, makes sense.

But what about the Divination Wizard's Third Eye ability? It doesn't read that you cast a spell or in particular that you are using magic on yourself. It only mentions that you use an action and increase your powers of perception. As such, there's no magic involved, correct? And as such these powers could perceive through invisibility + nondetection?

It would make sense to treat it as magical, but at the same time I've always wondered why the sight ranges seemed severely limited compared to their spell-based counterparts. Perhaps this is why? Hoping for answers based on RAW only or Mike Mearls/Jeremy Crawford posts. (Links please.)

Best Answer

Nondetection will hide you from The Third Eye

See this related question: Do Nondetection and Invisibility protect you from True Seeing?

Furthermore, see the following Sage Advice: Does Nondetection plus Invisibility beat True Seeing?

I'll summarize some key points:

  • There are only two Divination spells that create magical scrying sensors: Clairvoyance and Scrying -- these are covered in part 2 of the Nondetection spell
  • True Strike and Hunter's Mark are the only two divination spells that ask you to target a creature. Both of these are not "detect-class" spells -- that is, they don't find something in the way you would think Nondetection wants to hide you
  • Most other Divination spells target the caster (range of Self) such as See Invisibility, Detect Thoughts, or True Seeing
  • It is absurd that Nondetection, a second-level spell, protects against only one cantrip, and one 1st level spell. Therefore:
  • A better interpretation is: Nondetection prevents you from being detected by any divination magic.

Again, refer to the Sage Advice linked above if you find this objectionable. It is more of a spirit of the law argument than a letter of the law one.

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