Curious Kaelira

"Five gold!" Amara shouted from next to me.

With that, the annual Grand Auction had begun!

Kaelira cried inwardly. She couldn't read the staff's ability as I could, after all, only I had primordial eyes sitting in my eye sockets, but even then, she could tell that it was already overpaying for the staff. 

While some artificers could examine items to gain this same information (name, rarity, imbued spells) - like the old man in Braedon who sold me my sealed Soul Reaper saber - they needed a closer look and cast a spell, which was an audible action as they had to mouth the incantation out loud.

The auctioneer's failure to outright state the imbued spell but describe it with very colorful words was a borderline fraudulent act on the organizer's part, but I wasn't surprised.