Take the 2-minute tour ×  Which rote spell (from the Mage: The
Awakening line) would be the most effective and "cost effective"
(easiest to learn and cast etc) to reveal an Azlu Crawler (from
Werewolf: The Forsaken core and the Predators sourcebook) that
has already entrenched itself in the skull of its host body?
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accepted  The Death 1 rote Forensic Gaze. (Mage: The Awakening,
p.134) Page 121 of Predators tells us that the process of
usurpation by the Azlu inevitably kills the host. Forensic Gaze
allows the mage who casts it to know "what killed the being in
question and how much time has passed since it died." Since it
explicitly works on vampires, it's no stretch to see how it
would work in this case as well. ("Cause of death: brain eaten
by tiny spider. Time of death: three days ago. And yet you're
still walking around.")  Failing that, the Prime 1 Rote Supernal
Vision could pick up the "threads of Essence" in the bodily
fluids of the possessed