For the duration, you sense the presence of magic and things of magical origin within 10 feet of you, no matter how distant their origin. If you sense anything in this way, you can use your action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic or magical origin, and you learn its origin. You cannot detect areas using this spell - only objects, creatures, and structures.
When using your action to focus on a single target, you learn the source of any magical effects currently affecting it no matter how faint (spellcaster’s curse, deity’s blessing, magical bloodline, psionic powers, etc.), but you do not learn the specifics of the magical effects themselves or their schools of magic. You also do not learn whether any magic from the surrounding environment permeates it.
If your target is a creature, you also learn whether its ancestral line is of magical origin, if and where any magic (including healing) has altered its body, and whether it currently uses magic to survive. If it does, you may learn from what means it obtained this magic and how recently. You know whether this creature has knowledge that is magical in nature.
In order to cast this spell, you must use an object that can cleanly magnify light as a material component. This component is not consumed. This spell cannot penetrate solid barriers and is blocked by 5 feet of water.
* - (hair from a magical beast)
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