<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=294097.msg14438321#msg14438321">Quote from: Chulanowa on 07-10-2018, 12:44:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Honestly, garb should suffice for an identifier like that. Specific modes of dress to denote social standing and status are pretty normal through history. <br/><br/>Like in Alyssa's case, what she's wearing could be just like a "uniform" of what temple slaves wear. No one else who <em>isn't</em> a slave would wear it (except, perhaps, as some sort of fetish or clever disguise), and if she were to don someone else's outfit, well, now you've got an obvious slave  / serf (being an ungulu, after all) trying to dress above their station.<br/><br/>The way the Romans did it was just to hang a placard on the neck of the slave denoting who they belonged to. And since being some rich person's slave was better than being some absolute nobody foreigner in the tanning district of Rome, it really wasn't an issue.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Tattoos were used in Rome, but only for criminals who were condemned. So a human gladiator sentenced to that role might be tattooed so he couldn't 'pass' for a non-criminal human. In the later eras, tattooing was used on legionaries of the<em>auxilia</em>, specifically foreign mercenaries, so that they couldn't desert when fighting their own countrymen.<br/><br/>A collar with the owner's name or crest seems more workable, with possible exceptions for slaves of institutions that wouldn't ever sell them (i.e., temples). Manner of dress and species should be plenty in this situation, with papers/passes for slaves who are out and about.