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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3397812" data-attributes="member: 4090"><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&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Actually, though, that makes me think of something that I'd been considering in regards to a story once. That being, that many spells cast by wizards come with their own &quot;signatures&quot;- sort of like the code that programmers occasionally put into work they've done. It's nothing that affects the functioning of the program, but it's their own signature saying &quot;This was done by me&quot;. In the case of a spell, it wouldn't be anything that would affect the spell, or necessarily even in the casting (like a different somatic or verbal component or anything), but something that could be detected by a close analysis of the spell using any of your general detection abilities. Sort of like an arcane mark built into the functioning of a spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cthulhudrew, post: 3397812, member: 4090"] :p Actually, though, that makes me think of something that I'd been considering in regards to a story once. That being, that many spells cast by wizards come with their own "signatures"- sort of like the code that programmers occasionally put into work they've done. It's nothing that affects the functioning of the program, but it's their own signature saying "This was done by me". In the case of a spell, it wouldn't be anything that would affect the spell, or necessarily even in the casting (like a different somatic or verbal component or anything), but something that could be [I]detected[/I] by a close analysis of the spell using any of your general [I]detection[/I] abilities. Sort of like an [I]arcane mark[/I] built into the functioning of a spell. [/QUOTE]

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