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 ==Messages==
 {{message|This is an identify scroll.|You auto-identified the scroll by reading it.}}
 {{message|What do you want to identify <first/next>?|You are prompted to select an item in your inventory that is not fully identified.}}
 {{message|Choose an item; use ESC to decline.|You made an invalid selection.}}
 {{message|That was all.|You identified at least one item and ran out of eligible options, but did so without immediately identifying the entire inventory.}}
 {{message|You have already identified all <the rest> of your possessions.|You read the scroll without anything in your open inventory that is unidentified. This uses "the rest" if you learned the scroll by reading it in this instance.}}
 ==Variants==

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 ==Messages==
-{{message|What do you want to identify first?|You read a scroll of identify, auto-identifying it and prompting you to select an item in your inventory that is not fully identified.}}
+{{message|This is an identify scroll.|You auto-identified the scroll by reading it.}}
 {{message|You identify this as an identify scroll.|You read a scroll of identify while confused.}}

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 Scrolls of identify are always safe to read, but non-cursed scrolls usually identify more items. Before reading any scroll(s) of identify, be sure to have as many unidentified items in your open inventory as is reasonably possible; if you have {{of|potion|holy water}} to spare, you can bless your scroll(s) beforehand to increase the chance of identifying more items. If reading the scroll(s) of identify in a [[shop]], you can also use price identification to prioritize which of the shop's wares to formally identify and get the most out of your scrolls.
-A role such as [[Priest]] or [[Wizard]] that can learn the {{spell of|identify}} spell and train [[divination spells]] to [[Skilled]] or better can potentially render scrolls of identify redundant, though they may still be useful if the spell is forgotten at any point (e.g., you have also forgotten several other item identities due to a [[mind flayer]] or an ill-advised [[scroll of amnesia]]). A reliably-cast identify spell in combination with a source of energy such as [[The Eye of the Aethiopica]] lets you identify any object soon after you discover it, even if you only want to know its beatitude.
+A role such as [[Priest]] or [[Wizard]] that can learn the {{spell of|identify}} spell and train [[divination spells]] to [[Skilled]] or better can potentially render scrolls of identify redundant: A reliably-cast identify spell in combination with a source of energy such as [[The Eye of the Aethiopica]] lets you identify any object soon after you discover it, even if you only want to know its beatitude. The scroll may still be useful if the spell is forgotten at any point (e.g., you have also forgotten several other item identities due to a [[mind flayer]] or an ill-advised [[scroll of amnesia]]).
 ===Identification===
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 ===Hack'EM===
-[[Hack'EM]] incorporates the SporkHack change granting every role knowledge of the scroll of identify (via EvilHack) and adds the scroll of knowledge from SpliceHack&mdash;due to the former change, the scroll of knowledge's base price is raised to 50zm in order to make it less trivial to identify via price.
+[[Hack'EM]] incorporates the SporkHack change granting every role knowledge of the scroll of identify via EvilHack, and adds the scroll of knowledge from SpliceHack&mdash;due to the former change, the scroll of knowledge's base price is raised to 50zm in order to make it less trivial to identify informally.
 ==References==

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-A '''scroll of identify''' is a type of [[scroll]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. When read, it [[Identify|identifies]] items in the player's [[inventory]], with the amount of items identified based on its [[beatitude]].
+A '''scroll of identify''' is a type of [[Magical item|magical]] [[scroll]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''.
 ==Generation==
-% of all randomly generated scrolls will be a scroll of identify, making it somewhat common.
+[[Monk]]s may be given a scroll of identify as the random scroll in their starting inventory.{{refsrc|src/u_init.c|89|nethack=3.6.7}} [[Wizard]]s may be given a non-cursed scroll of identify as any of the three random scrolls in their starting inventory.{{refsrc|src/u_init.c|167|nethack=3.6.7}}
 Writing a scroll of identify with a [[magic marker]] takes up 7 to 13 charges.
 ==Description==
-[[Read]]ing the scroll of identify will [[auto-identify]] the scroll and reveal the full identity of at least one chosen item in the hero's open inventory;{{refsrc|src/read.c|1482|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} if a scroll would identify a number of items less than the amount of unidentified items in the inventory, the hero chooses which items to identify.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1506|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+[[Read]]ing the scroll of identify will [[auto-identify]] the scroll and [[Identification|reveal the full identity]] of at least one chosen item in the [[hero]]'s open inventory, with the amount of items identified dependent on its [[beatitude]]:{{refsrc|src/read.c|1482|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} if a scroll would identify a number of items less than the amount of unidentified items in the inventory, the hero chooses which items to identify.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1506|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-If the scroll is blessed or uncursed, it will identify 1, 2, 3, 4, or all items in the inventory, with the probability of each number given in the table below:
+A cursed scroll of identify will only identify one item.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1499|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} If the scroll is blessed or uncursed, it will identify 1, 2, 3, 4, or all items in the inventory, with the probability of each number given in the table below:
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-If the hero's [[luck]] is positive, a blessed scroll will always identify at least two items, with a {{frac|3|5}} chance of identifying more.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1502|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} A cursed scroll will only identify one item.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1499|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} If the scroll is read while [[confused]], it will auto-identify itself with no further effect.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1488|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
+In practice, if the hero's [[luck]] is positive, a blessed scroll of identify will always identify at least two items, with a {{frac|3|5}} chance of identifying more.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1502|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} If a scroll of any beatitude is read while [[confused]], it will auto-identify itself with no further effect.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1488|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
-{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|0a575befcc45cf438ebeee93043bb97ef2c08448}}, if a cursed scroll of identify is read when the scroll has not yet been identified, it will act the same as if you had read the scroll [[confused]].}}
+{{upcoming|NetHack 3.7.0|Per {{commit|0a575befcc45cf438ebeee93043bb97ef2c08448}}, if a cursed scroll of identify is read when the scroll has not yet been identified, it will act the same as if the scroll had been read while [[confused]].}}
 ==Strategy==
-Scrolls of identify are always safe to read, but noncursed scrolls usually identify more items. Before reading any scroll(s) of identify, be sure to have as many unidentified items in your open inventory as is reasonably possible; if you have {{of|potion|holy water}} to spare, you can bless your scroll(s) beforehand to increase the chance of identifying more items. If reading the scroll(s) of identify in a [[shop]], you can also use price identification to prioritize which of the shop's wares to formally identify and get the most out of your scrolls.
+Scrolls of identify are always safe to read, but non-cursed scrolls usually identify more items. Before reading any scroll(s) of identify, be sure to have as many unidentified items in your open inventory as is reasonably possible; if you have {{of|potion|holy water}} to spare, you can bless your scroll(s) beforehand to increase the chance of identifying more items. If reading the scroll(s) of identify in a [[shop]], you can also use price identification to prioritize which of the shop's wares to formally identify and get the most out of your scrolls.
 A role such as [[Priest]] or [[Wizard]] that can learn the {{spell of|identify}} spell and train [[divination spells]] to [[Skilled]] or better can potentially render scrolls of identify redundant, though they may still be useful if the spell is forgotten at any point (e.g., you have also forgotten several other item identities due to a [[mind flayer]] or an ill-advised [[scroll of amnesia]]). A reliably-cast identify spell in combination with a source of energy such as [[The Eye of the Aethiopica]] lets you identify any object soon after you discover it, even if you only want to know its beatitude.
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 ==History==
-The scroll of identify first appears in Hack 1.21, a variant of [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]], and also appears in Hack for PDP-11. It is included in the initial item list for [[Hack 1.0]].
+The scroll of identify first appears in Hack 1.21 and Hack for PDP-11, which are based on [[Jay Fenlason's Hack]], and is included in the initial item list for [[Hack 1.0]].
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 ==Variants==
 ===SporkHack===
-In [[SporkHack]], every role begins the game with knowledge of the label for the scroll of identify.
+In [[SporkHack]], every role begins the game with knowledge of the random label for the scroll of identify.
 ===xNetHack===
-In [[xNetHack]], to counterbalance the removal of the identify spell, scrolls of identify are made more reliable: Blessed scrolls always identify 7 items, and uncursed scrolls always identify 4, while cursed scrolls only identify 1 item. Reading a scroll of identify while confused will "identify yourself" and give [[enlightenment]].
+In [[xNetHack]], to counterbalance the removal of the identify spell, scrolls of identify are made more reliable: Blessed scrolls always identify 7 items, and uncursed scrolls always identify 4, while cursed scrolls only identify 1 item. Reading a scroll of identify while confused will "identify yourself" and grant [[enlightenment]].
 When reading a cursed scroll of identify, the game may randomly print the phrase "[[Do you want your possessions identified?]]" in place of the usual prompt.
 ===SpliceHack===
-In [[SpliceHack]] and [[SpliceHack-Rewrite]], the [[scroll of knowledge]] is a scroll with the same base price as the scroll of identify; 1 out of roughly every 10 scrolls that cost 20 zorkmids will be a scroll of knowledge, making price identifying scrolls of identify slightly less trivial.
+In [[SpliceHack]], the [[scroll of knowledge]] is a scroll with the same base price as the scroll of identify; 1 out of roughly every 10 scrolls that cost 20 zorkmids will be a scroll of knowledge, making price identifying scrolls of identify slightly less trivial.
 ===EvilHack===
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 ===Hack'EM===
-[[Hack'EM]] incorporates both the SporkHack change granting every role knowledge of the scroll of identify (via EvilHack) and the scroll of knowledge from SpliceHack; due to the former change, the scroll of knowledge's base price is raised to 50zm in order to make it less trivial to identify via price.
+[[Hack'EM]] incorporates the SporkHack change granting every role knowledge of the scroll of identify (via EvilHack) and adds the scroll of knowledge from SpliceHack&mdash;due to the former change, the scroll of knowledge's base price is raised to 50zm in order to make it less trivial to identify via price.
 ==References==

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 ==Strategy==
-Before reading any scroll(s) of identify, be sure to have as many unidentified items in your open inventory as is reasonably possible; if you have {{of|potion|holy water}} to spare, you can bless your scroll(s) beforehand to increase the chance of identifying more items. If reading the scroll(s) of identify in a [[shop]], you can also use price identification to prioritize which of the shop's wares to formally identify and get the most out of your scrolls.
+Scrolls of identify are always safe to read, but noncursed scrolls usually identify more items. Before reading any scroll(s) of identify, be sure to have as many unidentified items in your open inventory as is reasonably possible; if you have {{of|potion|holy water}} to spare, you can bless your scroll(s) beforehand to increase the chance of identifying more items. If reading the scroll(s) of identify in a [[shop]], you can also use price identification to prioritize which of the shop's wares to formally identify and get the most out of your scrolls.
 A role such as [[Priest]] or [[Wizard]] that can learn the {{spell of|identify}} spell and train [[divination spells]] to [[Skilled]] or better can potentially render scrolls of identify redundant, though they may still be useful if the spell is forgotten at any point (e.g., you have also forgotten several other item identities due to a [[mind flayer]] or an ill-advised [[scroll of amnesia]]). A reliably-cast identify spell in combination with a source of energy such as [[The Eye of the Aethiopica]] lets you identify any object soon after you discover it, even if you only want to know its beatitude.

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 ==Description==
 Scrolls of identify are always safe to read, but noncursed scrolls usually identify more items. When read, the scroll will [[auto-identify]] itself and reveal the full identity of at least one chosen item in the player's open inventory;{{refsrc|src/read.c|1482|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} if a scroll would identify a number of items less than the amount of unidentified items in the inventory, the player chooses which items to identify.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1506|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} If the scroll is read while [[confused]], it will auto-identify itself with no further effect.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1488|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}
 If the scroll is blessed or uncursed, it will identify 1, 2, 3, 4, or all items in the inventory, with the probability of each number given in the table below, while a cursed scroll will only identify one item.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1499|version=NetHack 3.6.7}} If the player's [[Luck]] is positive, a blessed scroll will always identify at least two items, with a {{frac|3|5}} chance of identifying more.{{refsrc|src/read.c|1502|version=NetHack 3.6.7}}

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