Identify spell

Spell 'identify'.

• Groups: 'enchantment', 'detection'.
• Execution delay: 6 seconds.
• Costs: mana 100.
• Spell type: utility magic or prayer.
• Target: an item in your inventory, an item you wear, an item on the ground.
• Available to classes: cleric 36, necromancer 25, warlock 25, witch 18
• Bonus for races: svirfnebli, gnome

To learn the exact parameters of an item, you need to identify it. Items can be identified with spells and prayers of identification, or by visiting a sage. The lore skill identifies items a little less precisely, but lets you learn a bit more about behaviors and hidden properties of the item.

Format: c identify object

The identify spell is far more precise than a comparison, and of course cheaper than sage services. It works on items in your inventory, equipment or on the ground near you.

A precise identification of an item will show its name, weight, value, material, flags, and the parameters it changes: stats, hit points, damage/accuracy, armor, and so on. For armor it also names the build -- its construction and its strong and weak side. For a limited item it also shows how long until the item disappears.

To identify bonus effects and charges on spells on magic items, you'll first need to get detection of magic.

Followers of Enki, Leo, and Nofate, as well as Shalafi, will gain new and secret information about the identifiable object during the identification process. However, in the world, there are objects protected from identification even by them.