Divination

Divination is a branch of sorcery that involves attempting to foresee the future or gather insights into future events through various rituals and tools. Although quite a difficult type of magic, witches can perform divination without specialized gifts.

Description
Witches who are born with the rare and natural gift to foretell the future are known as seers. Non-seers can learn divination methods and develop and gain various insights with them, but their success varies. Divination is taught as an elective subject at many witching schools.

Divination has been practiced since the ancient times. The earliest known method of human fortune-telling is the product known in the west as Chinese fortune sticks.

Learned witches seem to regard the practice of divination with skepticism due to it being a lot of guessing and imprecise.

Centaurs
Centaurs have a method of practicing divination which is distinct from that of humans, apparently mainly based around observing the movement of planets, moons, and stars, which they have been doing for centuries. It can take up to a decade for centaurs to understand what these celestial portents mean and, even then, the results are rarely precise.

Centaurs seem to have a low opinion of human methods of divination.

Methods

 * Astrology - observing the movements of planets and stars
 * Cartomancy - reading tarot cards
 * Catoptromancy - looking into mirrors
 * Chinese fortune sticks
 * Crystal-gazing - looking into a crystal ball
 * Dream interpretation - analyzing the meaning of dreams
 * Ichthyomancy - involving fish
 * Myomancy - involving rats and mice
 * Palmistry - reading the lines on a person's palm
 * Pyromancy - involving flames
 * Ornithomancy - analyzing the droppings and flight patterns of birds
 * Ovomancy - cracking open eggs and observing which way the yolk falls
 * Tessomancy - reading tea leaves
 * Xylomancy - involving twigs

Known Seers

 * Cassandra Vablatsky