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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotActuallyTim" data-source="post: 6838181" data-attributes="member: 6804638">Some physical features that are visibly obvious have implications which are not necessarily anywhere near as obvious.For example, picking up a feather and examining it visually might give many details about that feather: white for 1/3 of its length and reddish brown for the remaining 2/3s, rough edges on the base of the shaft, some of the barbs (the little things sticking off the shaft that make up most of what people usually think of when they think of a feather) have been sliced off.However, using those details to come to any conclusions about that particular feather may be difficult, and being able to carefully examine the object for extra details, with a little thought, can prove quite useful in coming up with solid evidence to draw a conclusion. The eyes of minute seeing for example, might reveal extremely small reddish brown stains on the base of shaft, like blood, and that the cut on the barbs was made by a exceedingly sharp blade, as though someone sliced at the previous, uh, owner of the feather with a weapon sharper than ordinary steel, pulling the feather out completely in the process.Oh, and on closer inspection, the reddish brown color on the outer 2/3s of the feather is actually a dye, meaning that someone killed a bird with a magic sword (because its always a sword <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) and then tried to cover it up.</blockquote>

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