Talk:Thirteen Heroes/@comment-66.30.94.139-20161213160931/@comment-26932361-20161222215715

You can't control the minds of players in a game but you can control their characters and their abilities; I'd imagine that once you use the item on someone their characters become like NPCs that you control and order, so it's possible that back in YGGDRASIL that it did work on players as well.