Heads, feet, and everything else.
Headband/Circlet
The traditional location for any sigl affecting the wielder’s vision. Sigls are usually worn in this location because you have to, not because you want to – if you want something like a darksight sigl that converts incoming radiation into visible light, it basically has to go on the lower forehead or around the bridge of the nose (you can mount it on a ring and hold your hand to your face whenever you need to use it, but it only takes most drucrafters an hour or two of trying this method to realise that they really don’t want to do it long term).
Outside of necessity, a headband is pretty much the worst possible place to mount a sigl – it’s easier to lose than a necklace, it doesn’t have the flexibility of a ring, you can’t see it without a mirror (so mounting more than one brings its own problems), and it’s incredibly obvious to observers and potential thieves. Still, if you have to, you have to.
Glasses/Spectacles
A relatively recent replacement for the headband/circlet approach that became popular in the twentieth century. A pair of glasses with a sigl set into the bridge is much less eye-catching than a circlet or a headband, and it can be quite subtle – by choosing a suitable material and design for the glasses, the sigl can be camouflaged so well that most observers won’t notice that the drucrafter is wearing a sigl at all.
The only drawback of glasses vs. a headband is that they’re a bit easier to lose – glasses do slip off or get knocked off, and if the lenses get cracked or broken but you still want to use the sigl, it puts you in a bit of a difficult position. Still, most drucrafters consider the benefits worth the trade-off.
Shoes/Anklet/Toe Ring/etc
A very rare option. While mounting a sigl near the feet might seem to make a kind of sense given that human beings use their feet just as much as their hands, in practice much of the utility of wearing sigls on the hand comes from the fact that people have so much natural dexterity with their fingers. Take that away, and it isn’t very effective.
The only real application for this location is for certain Motion sigls. Some drucrafters have experimented with using jump and other mobility sigls placed on a foot, but this typically makes the drucrafter massively unbalanced. Using a pair of sigls, one on each foot, works much better, but of course doubles the cost. Aside from this and the equally niche mighty blow sigl, this location typically goes unused.
Handset
For drucrafters who don’t want to wear their sigls at all, a handset – where the sigl is set into some sort of grip or other hand-held object – is the natural option. The variety of sigl handsets is huge: some look like the handle of a tool or weapon, others more like the grip on a ski pole or walking stick. The exact design doesn’t matter very much, since all a handset really does is make a sigl bigger (and thus easier to hold onto and keep track of).
There are two reasons to use a handset setting. The first is when you’re only planning to use your sigls one at a time in a controlled environment, where you’ve got time to pick up and set down a handset in between uses. So long as you can spare a few seconds to switch between sigls, then whether the sigl is worn or carried doesn’t really matter. The second, less common reason to use a handset is when you have so many sigls that wearing them all just isn’t practical. Given how expensive sigls can be, this is a bit of a luxury problem for most people, but for some medical drucrafters who might have an collection of fifty different Life sigls, all specialised for treating slightly different conditions, carrying them around in handset form is the most convenient solution.
The drawbacks of handsets are obvious – you have to fish out the right handset before you can use it. This is fine for industrial or medical work, but makes them a bad choice in dangerous situations where every second counts. They’re also very easy to steal.
No belly button piercings? 😉