[The Basics of Prophecy: Written by Oralmius phator, third sage of the White Tower]
Oralmius? Weird na. A little bit on the grander side of things. Though just reading through the man’s writing over the course of the next while, Riven could tell he was a pompous asshat and the na fit him quite well. He obviously had a thing against peasants to boot.
As an introduction, let first say that most of you peasants will never be able to fully grasp even the basics of this ancient art. Most of those who do have a gift simply acknowledge it as déjà vu and carry on with their lives not knowing their potential. Most who seek potential do not find it. Most of you looking this book over probably can’t even read and are as intelligent as the sheep and goats we feed on.
You fucking peasants usually sll just as bad, too.
The first thing to note about prophecy is that the lines of fate either choose you or they don’t. You will be able to use prophecy, to mold it, or you can’t at all. There is no helping it, no changing it, no rhy or reason as to why you may or may not have the gift. For one out of every ten thousand that do have a minor grasp of this art, I applaud you and highly suggest you keep reading. Having this gift is a great boon that will reward you for the rest of your life, and developing the skill of crafting prophecies and fate to fit your own desires is a worthwhile goal for very obvious reasons.
The art of creating prophecy is just that—an art, one that you can bend and shape to your liking at varying and limited extents. It ans you can occasionally see and therefore slightly change the future, but only if you have a strong grasp on fate. It is certainly not foolproof, though—even the greatest of prophets cannot read into everything. For those that don’t have the gift, attributes their soul had, and could utilize various environntal ores that weren’t ever present on Earth. Those who practiced smithing apparently couldn’t utilize many of these special elents without massive drawbacks. Examples the book included were Lava-Forged Battle-Axe and Scimitar of Windsong. The Lava-Forged Battle-Axe could be created using an elent called Molten Ubsrid, which was apparently a very rare material found at the bottom of volcanoes. The Scimitar of Windsong could be created using crystallized fairy dust intermixed with steel. The book even ntioned extrely talented smiths creating varieties of living weapons, though these were often the rarest and very hard to co by.
The cook, baker, or chef classes were rather unique as well. Most of it was based on a support role, where they were able to create foods that could give buffs, blessings, and resistances to those who ate them. So foods could be created to keep a person from going hungry for weeks, and other, more valuable foods could even amplify one’s health and vitality by threefold over the course of an hour. The better and rarer ingredients were often sold for massive amounts of money, too. The book was quick to state that nobody could even utilize the cooking skill for these bonuses at all without having the class—aning that in order to even begin to create such extravagant als, you absolutely had to take up the cook class. Which was unlike most other crafting classes that could take on combat classes and do the craft on the side with lesser bonuses than one would get with the actual classes oriented to the craft, and it made those who chose the cooking classes a fairly appreciated bunch.
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