• historical use of divination
• modern use of divination

Because most of this is stuff I’ve already touched on, I’m going to take this section on in one fell swoop.

I guess the most important thing to know is there are plenty of ‘fortune tellers’ in Lura just as there are many nameless people out there who claim to be awakened mystics.

(The nameless are people who pretty much live off of others on the major city streets ((homeless)). In Lura, if you fail to make a name for yourself by the time you are an adult, you lose your name – as decided by the Naming Committee.)

Reading the night sky is a dying art — most of the stars are mapped (though anomalies are still considered good/bad omens).

Astronomists are primarily concerned with how the five rings react with each other, how and from where apparitions manifest, and just exactly what it is that the seven rays users see and experience in the fourth ring.

Divining rods work, but intuition is usually inaccurate. Seven rays mystics know that one of the three barriers in the fourth ring is ‘Time’. Humans can only hope to see a little bit ahead of the barrier of ‘present time’. Most animals can see much farther into the future (For instance, when a killer tidal wave is going to roll in on a shoreline, the animals ‘know’ about it hours/days ahead of time and leave the area early). Some demons and gods can also see into the future, according to Lurian beliefs. So human prophecy is very rare, and usually vague or way off from the truth.

Prev: Moving on… | Next: Not a meme! Also not worldbuilding…