The mage can read the future. As per the Time 2 Augury spell, save that the mage receives more specific details.
As with the Augury spell, the mage must declare a target (Temporal Sympathy modifies the casting roll). One success allows the mage to ask one question about the target’s future and get an answer. Additional successes allow follow-up questions, allowing the mage to get more specific details.
- Example: October Davenport gets three successes on her Divination roll, so she can ask one lead question and two follow-up questions. She’s trying to find out if a rival mage named Miach is planning on attacking her. Her first question is: “Will Miach attack us tonight?” She gets a vision of Miach standing in her foyer, readying a spell. Her first follow-up question is “When will Miach attack?” The image changes “camera” angles, and she can see the large grandfather clock in the foyer past Garrick, showing 10 minutes until midnight. Her final follow-up question is “Is he working alone?” She sees a new image, this one showing her a number of stealthy, black-clad figures sneaking through the bushes outside her home.
The same person can be targeted with this spell only once every 24 hours. Any attempts to divine him again before 24 hours have passed reveal only meaningless echoes of myriad possible actions the target could take, but with no clue as to which he might take, or which are even more probable than others. If the mage persists, the spell becomes vulgar.
Guardians of the Veil Rote: Speaking the Name of Tomorrow
Time presents innumerable variables and one who would guard the Mysteries must be apprised of them in order to perform his duty. Guardians of the Veil cast this magic when vague predictions simply will not do. Mages of the Silver Ladder are often known to use such magic when attempting to discern the designs of their rivals.
Ancient Lands Pentalogy Rote: Reading the Ripples in the Well [1]
Understanding that the
ripples in the well reflect the fate of the world, Jhess uses
this Free Council rote once the Regent in Silver leaves to
read the future, and sees change coming.
Ancient Lands Pentalogy Rote: Gazing through the Mists [2]
A mystic poem of such beauty
and resonance that it can cause the mists of time to part,
rewarding the poet with a vision of the future, the Regent
in Silver uses this Silver Ladder rote to determine that
Soter intends to seek the Imperial Regalia.
