deceiver

When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards.

You can avoid getting duped by an unscrupulous deceiver by conducting these tests on your gold to determine if it’s genuine:

One is that it gives liars and deceivers legitimacy.

Trauma is a nasty deceiver, both in the way it makes survivors distrust their memories and the way we, its witnesses, interpret it in the context of everything we see.

It's also known as the "deceiver" mushroom because once it ages and fades, it can be hard to identify.