Search a location, examine evidence, read a trail, or piece together what happened here and when.
The body tells you the hour. The drag marks tell you how many carried it. The ash in the hearth is two days old and the bread on the table is one — someone came back after. Most people look at a room and see a room. Discovery is the habit of looking at a room and seeing everything that has already happened in it.
Discovery is the skill of deliberate investigation — taking time, reading evidence, following a trail, and reconstructing events from what’s left behind. Make a Discovery (Intellect) Trial whenever you are actively searching a place, examining an object for secrets, or tracking a quarry by the signs it left. Discovery owns tracking regardless of environment: a blood trail in an alley and bootprints in snow are the same cognitive act. For immediate, in-the-moment perception, see Awareness (Intellect).
Examples: finding a hidden compartment by the seam it leaves in the wood; following two-day-old tracks through a rain-softened field; reading the signs of a struggle in an otherwise tidy room; deciphering a damaged inscription that everyone else called unreadable.