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!SpellItem
Name: Detect Evil and Good
AltName: '[Détection du mal et du bien](hd_spells_detection_du_mal_et_du_bien.md)'
Type: divination
Level: 1
CastingTime: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Classes: Cleric, Paladin
Family: SpellVO
Source: (SRD p134)
Id: spells_vo.md#detect-evil-and-good
ParentLink: spells_vo.md#spells-srd-p
ParentName: Spells (SRD p)
NameLevel: 1
Attributes: {}
---
> [Spells (SRD p)](srd_spells.md)

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# Detect Evil and Good

- MDR: [Détection du mal et du bien](hd_spells_detection_du_mal_et_du_bien.md)
- Source: (SRD p134)
-  1st-level divination
- **Casting Time :** 1 action
- **Range :** Self
- **Components :** V, S
- **Duration :** Concentration, up to 10 minutes
- Classes: Cleric, Paladin

### Description

For the duration, you know if there is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you, as well as where the creature is located. Similarly, you know if there is a place or object within 30 feet of you that has been magically consecrated or desecrated.

The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.

