Precognesis is a school of magic in which an individual can access the time stream of reality. These individuals are called oracles, who use their mental training to read the future. This ability is open to anyone that is willing to learn, and takes many years of practice and dedication. However, This ability to know everything that is going to happen is a power breaker, and I have sought a way to limit its effectiveness in reasonable ways. One of which is to not make the future linear, and depend on multiple variables.
An oracle who accesses the time stream can only see potential futures, which can number in the thousands. Their goal is to pull on the string of the one that they feel is most likely to come to pass. After selecting this future, thousands more possibilities open up, presenting other futures that came about because of the future that the oracle selected. These potential realities are always changing depending on the decision making and selection process of the seer. This process can take many hours, and becomes harder to read the further one follows the string.
This method of reading the future sounds like a lot of guesswork at best, with hit or miss strategies. A person can spend hours following futures to its ultimate conclusion and be completely wrong, leading whoever has hired them down the wrong path. I need to make these individuals valuable to have in a fast paced environment, such as a warzone, where things are constantly changing and decisions need to be made quickly.
An oracle who accesses the time stream can only see potential futures, which can number in the thousands. Their goal is to pull on the string of the one that they feel is most likely to come to pass. After selecting this future, thousands more possibilities open up, presenting other futures that came about because of the future that the oracle selected. These potential realities are always changing depending on the decision making and selection process of the seer. This process can take many hours, and becomes harder to read the further one follows the string.
This method of reading the future sounds like a lot of guesswork at best, with hit or miss strategies. A person can spend hours following futures to its ultimate conclusion and be completely wrong, leading whoever has hired them down the wrong path. I need to make these individuals valuable to have in a fast paced environment, such as a warzone, where things are constantly changing and decisions need to be made quickly.