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-[[chosen:magic:span-magic|Span]] magic is, of the eight magic types, by far the least common among the [[chosen:|Chosen]]. There is generally no more than one oracle in every hundred thousand Chosen; given that there have probably never been that many Chosen alive at one time over the whole of [[avishraa:|Avishraa]], oracles are a once-in-a-lifetime sort of occurrence.
+[[chosen:magic:span|Span]] magic is, of the eight magic types, by far the least common among the [[chosen:|Chosen]]. There is generally no more than one oracle in every hundred thousand Chosen; given that there have probably never been that many Chosen alive at one time over the whole of [[universe:mikurmiya:avishraa|Avishraa]], oracles are a once-in-a-lifetime sort of occurrence.
 Span magic is that which deals with space and time, and a truly skilled oracle can do terrifying things.
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 Anomalies in time can be caused when one oracle looking forward comes in contact with another oracle looking back. Because, under certain circumstances, each is visible to the other, they are capable of communicating, allowing the future oracle to attempt to change the past by influencing their counterpart there, or for the past oracle to find their future being required to contain the events surrounding their future counterpart. Only one or the other can happen, and which one actually occurs depends on the intentions of each oracle and who proves to be more persuasive.
-Certain modes of nonlinear travel can also stymie an oracle's ability to see them through time. The most common situation involves those traveling by [[concept:glyphic-teleportation|linking book]]. Oracles cannot see into the future of other worlds, so that someone who links to a different one goes beyond the range of the oracle's sight; nothing is seen of them between the time they link away and the time they link back. However, once such an individual returns, the oracle can see their past, so that someone avoiding an oracle in this way must keep avoiding them thereafter if they want their activities to remain hidden.
+Certain modes of nonlinear travel can also stymie an oracle's ability to see them through time. The most common situation involves those traveling by [[concept:glyphic_teleportation|linking book]]. Oracles cannot see into the future of other worlds, so that someone who links to a different one goes beyond the range of the oracle's sight; nothing is seen of them between the time they link away and the time they link back. However, once such an individual returns, the oracle can see their past, so that someone avoiding an oracle in this way must keep avoiding them thereafter if they want their activities to remain hidden.
 In a somewhat related situation, an individual who will, in the future, be removed from the material universe entirely - as with those who visit the [[extrinsic:order|Planes of Order]] or [[extrinsic:chaos|Chaos]] - is //completely// invisible to prescience. The oracle can see them in the past, and certainly their current physical presence, but the futures the oracle sees proceed as if the affected individual were simply erased from existence. For the oracle, this is a disturbing experience; seeing someone whose timeline abruptly stops at the ever-changing present is much like a human seeing a ghost.
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   - **Oracles may only be under the control of the GM.** Since, thus far, I've been the only GM for this continuity of Avishraa, I guess this risks sounding like a fancier way of saying "MINE!", but I'm not really opposed in principle to someone else GM'ing and having one, provided they do it right. :P
   - **There may be only one oracle alive at any given time.** One oracle at a time risks being overpowered, and narratively complicated, enough; a team of them would be dreadful in both senses. There might be some room to bend here with two oracles who were opposed to each other.
-  - **If an individual has Span magic, it's the only type they have.** Oracles are always only oracles, not [[chosen:magic:element-magic|elementalist]]-oracles or [[chosen:magic:semblance-magic|illusionist]]-oracles. Someone who might be capable of foreseeing your every move or teleporting your heart out of your chest don't need no other damn powers.
+  - **If an individual has Span magic, it's the only type they have.** Oracles are always only oracles, not [[chosen:magic:element|elementalist]]-oracles or [[chosen:magic:semblance|illusionist]]-oracles. Someone who might be capable of foreseeing your every move or teleporting your heart out of your chest don't need no other damn powers.
   - **An oracle cannot freely time-travel.** An oracle can look and travel through space, but can only freely look through time. The only way to travel to the future is through the pocket-realm method mentioned above, and there is no traveling to the past, ever. (There is a conceivable exception to this in Divine Intervention. There are indeed godlike beings that could smack you around in time like a table tennis ball, but it's not restricted to oracles, it's not likely in the first place, and if it does happen, it's going to be at //their// discretion, not yours.
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 There have been a grand total of six oracles to appear in the entire history of the Citadel (though there have been more in the world as a whole); while each of them have been considered individually important, their rarity and individuality makes it difficult to assign any kind of socioeconomic generalizations. The nature of their powers, and the fact that the first of the six oracles was the one who led the Chosen to found the Citadel in the first place, has given subsequent oracles there an aura of spiritual authority and hidden knowledge, but not all of them have accepted the mantle, and indeed some of them have been reluctant to advise anyone of anything.
-The sixth and current example, Dlyss, has used her precognition to attain wealth and political influence in the Citadel, acting as a consultant for the [[avishraa:community:citadel:council|Citadel Council]] and for others from many walks of life. Her firm belief in a particular divinely-appointed destiny for the Chosen has led her to very much embrace the role of a prophet and dogmatist, and she has allowed and quietly encouraged a [[culture:organization:hzataalar|movement]] to form around her.
+The sixth and current example, Dlyss, has used her precognition to attain wealth and political influence in the Citadel, acting as a consultant for the [[geopolitical:citadel:council|Citadel Council]] and for others from many walks of life. Her firm belief in a particular divinely-appointed destiny for the Chosen has led her to very much embrace the role of a prophet and dogmatist, and she has allowed and quietly encouraged a [[organization:hzataalar|movement]] to form around her.
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 ...and there we are, the eight magic types.
-I should say that, while the magic types cover specifically the inborn powers that the Chosen have, they're not the only kinds of "magic" in the setting, in the sense that there are other ways of affecting the world that don't quite conform to conventional laws of physics. The term suffers a bit, though, from not matching the perceptions of the inhabitants of [[avishraa:|Avishraa]], who consider some of the things we might think of as "magic" to be various shades of something else - and, for that matter, to lump Chosen magic in with other powers, such as those of the [[concept:doomtouched|Doomtouched]], which are of an entirely different nature.
+I should say that, while the magic types cover specifically the inborn powers that the Chosen have, they're not the only kinds of "magic" in the setting, in the sense that there are other ways of affecting the world that don't quite conform to conventional laws of physics. The term suffers a bit, though, from not matching the perceptions of the inhabitants of [[universe:mikurmiya:avishraa|Avishraa]], who consider some of the things we might think of as "magic" to be various shades of something else - and, for that matter, to lump Chosen magic in with other powers, such as those of the [[concept:doomtouched|Doomtouched]], which are of an entirely different nature.