The ability to gain insight into a question or situation using an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Sub-power of Magic and Extrasensory Perception. Magical version of Clairvoyance.

Also Called

• Divination Commands
• Foretelling/Soothsaying
• Fortune Telling
• Mystic Foresight
• Omen Reading
• Scrying
• The Mantic Arts

Capabilities

User can employ divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.') , a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand by using an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Divination can communicate with the supernatural (i.e., gods, demons, spirits, nymphs) or read certain patterns. As such this enables the user to learn secrets long forgotten, interpret dreams, predict the future, to find hidden things or foil deceptive plots. Divination also deals with the uncovering of mysteries, fortune-telling, and the perceiving of places and people at a distance. In ancient times Diviners were often found in the company of leaders and the military, as their power allow them to glean information about enemies and discover the presence of spies, assassins, or plots against them.

Applications

• Divinity
• Extrasensory Perception
  • Dowsing
    • Detection
      • Danger Detection
  • Probability Perception
    • Pattern Sense
• Guidance
  • Divine Communication
    • Destiny Perception
      • Death Sense
  • Supernatural Tracking
• Inner Sight
  • Dimensional Awareness
  • Visualization
    • Parallel Viewing
• Psychic Intuition
  • Psychic Perception
    • Psychic Scanning
• Supernatural Intelligence
  • Supernatural Wisdom
    • Domino Effect
• Weakness Detection

Used By

• Diviner
• Clairvoyant
• Esper
• Fortune Teller
  • Prophet
    • Oracle
• Magician
• Occultist
• Psychic
  • Medium
    • Seer
• Spiritualist
• Witches
• Wizards

Psychic Gifts

• Clairalience
• Clairaudience
• Clairgustance
• Claircognizance
• Clairempathy
• Clairomancy
• Clairtelepathy
• Clairsentience
• Clairvoyance/Flawless Clairvoyance
• Mediumship
• Precognition/Flawless Precognition
• Prophecy
• Psychometry
• Retrocognition
• Syncognition

Variations

See also: Methods of divination.

• Acultomancy - form of divination in which the user uses needles for divination.
• Agalmatomancy - form of divination by the means of statues or teraphim for divination.
• Aichmomancy - form of divination by using sharp objects for divination.
• Angelomancy - form of divination by using angels or angelic objects.
• Astromancy - form of divination in which the user interprets the future through the movement of celestial bodies in certain houses which is believed to affect the future.
  • Heliomancy‎‎ - form of divination by using the sun.
  • Selenomancy - a form of divination by using the moon.
• Augury - form of divination in which the user gains insight by interpreting birds' flight paths, songs, etc.
• Auramancy - form of divination by using auras.
• Bibliomancy - form of divination using books in divination or for advice. The method of employing sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for 'magical medicine', for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world.
• Capnomancy - form of divination in which the user uses smoke for divination.
• Catoptromancy - form of divination in which the user uses mirrors for divination.
• Cartomancy - form of divination in which the user uses cards for divination.
• Cleromancy - form of divination by using "lots", such as bones, stones, sticks and dice.
• Computational Divination - "form" of divination in which the user computes the information, without occult or supernatural means.
• Demonomancy - form of divination in which the user uses demons or demonic items.
• Elementomancy - form of divination in which the user uses the elements for divination.
  • Aeromancy - form of divination in which the user interprets and reads the future through atmospheric conditions (i.e., cloud formations, wind currents, comets, thunder and lightning). It was said to be one of the seven "forbidden arts" along with geomancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, palmistry, necromancy and scapulimancy (the divination of the bones).
    • Typhomancy - form of divination in which the user uses smoke for divination.
  • Geomancy - form of divination using earth.
    • Abacomancy - form of divination in which the user uses the patterns in dust, dirt, silt and sand for divination.
    • Crystallomancy - form of divination in which the user uses crystals for divination.
  • Hydromancy - form of divination using water.
  • Pyromancy - form of divination using fire.
• Hagiomancy - form of divination by using saints and saint objects.
• Necromancy - form of divination by speaking to the dead using corpses as a conduit.
• Numeromancy - form of divination in which the user uses the numbers for divination.
• Oneiromancy - form of divination in which the user uses the dreams for divination.
• Organimancy - form of divination in which the user uses organic materials for divination.
  • Anthropomancy - form of divination by using human flesh, blood, organs and bones.
    • Hematomancy - form of divination by using blood.
    • Osteomancy - form of divination by using bones. Necromancy can also be included in this.
    • Hieromancyform of divination by using entrails of animals.
  • Chloromancy - form of divination by using plant life and vegetation.
    • Tasseomancy - form of divination in which the user uses tea leaves for divination.
  • Trofimancy - form of divination in which the user uses food for divination.
  • Palmistry - a form of divination in which the user reads an individual's palm to see their past, present and future.
• Scrying - reading the future or obtain spiritual visions through translucent or luminescent objects. Sub-methods include crystallomancy/crystal gazing and pyromancy/fire reading.

Associations

• Extrasensory Perception
  • Clairvoyance
• Magic
  • Psychic Magic
• Seer
  • Fortune Tellers
• Sensory Arts

Limitations

• May not affect users of Psychic Shield, Magic Immunity, Psychic Immunity or Indomitable Will.
• Weak against Magic Negation/Destruction.
• The users of Precognitive Immunity.
• May not affect users of Psychic Falsification.
• All methods take time and space for the ritual.
• May require supernatural aid to correctly predict the future.
• Predictions may be symbolic/opaque or unintelligible.
• May be random and uncontrollable.
• Most methods need specific items (i.e., bibliomancy requires a book while I Ching requires many things).

Known Users

See Also: Whatevermancy.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Comics/Cartoons

• Madame Xanadu (DC Comics)
• John Constantine (DC Comics)
• Doctor Fate (DC Comics)
• Traci Thirteen (DC Comics)
• Klarion Bleak (DC Comics)
• Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics)
• Gambit (Marvel Comics)
• Maleficent (Disney's Sleeping Beauty)
• Inanna (The Wicked + The Divine)
• Cassandra Igarashi/Urdr (The Wicked + The Divine)
• Soothsayer (Kung Fu Panda 2)
• Madame Leizel (Di-Gata Defenders); via The Eye
• Lumina (Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow)

Folklore/Mythology

• Levites (Abrahamic Mythology)
• Sibyls (Classical Mythology)
• Oracles (Classical Mythology)
• Astrologers (Medieval Occultism)

Literature

• Seers (Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts)
  • Gellert Grindelwald
  • Cassandra Trelawney
  • Sybill Trelawney
• Rachel Elizabeth Dare (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
• Warlocks, wizard, witches and witch-chameleons (Shadow Falls)
• Jacquetta of Luxembourg (The White Queen)
• Elizabeth Woodville ( The White Queen)  

Live Television/Movies

Video Games

• Prophet Cookie (Cookie Run)
• Akinator (Akinator)
• Arcana (Goddess of Victory: Nikke)
• Fortune Teller (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past)
• Fanadi (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
• Sparrot (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
• Madame Clairvoya (Luigi's Mansion)
• Benedetta Gaetani/The Wink (Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects)
• Chihaya Mifune (Persona 5)
• Matilda Bouanich (Reverse: 1999)
• Beryl Bouanich (Reverse: 1999)
• Getian (Reverse: 1999)
• Mercuria (Reverse: 1999)
• Merlina (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Kamek (Super Mario)
• Merlon (Super Mario)
• Menat (Street Fighter)
• Rose (Street Fighter)
• Dantalion (Valkyrie Crusade)

Web Comics/Series

• Dominic Deegan (Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire)
• The Oracle (The Order of the Stick)
• Astropaths (Warhammer 40,000)

Known Objects

• Urim and Thummim (Biblical Occultism)
• The Book Shadows (Charmed 2018)
• Rasputin's Reliquary (Don Bluth’s Anastasia 1997)

Gallery

Prophet Cookie (Cookie Run)

Rasputin's Reliquary (Don Bluth’s Anastasia)

Arcana (Goddess of Victory: Nikke)

Basil Hawkins (One Piece) often speaks like a fortune teller and has been noted to mention reading "signs".

Students during a Divination class (Harry Potter)

Gellert Grindelwald (Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts)

Uranai Baba (Dragon Ball series) can use Divination with her magical crystal ball.

Dantalion (Valkyrie Crusade) knows the past and future.

Bologna Succubus (Toaru Majutsu no Index) can use a form of divination, utilizing a magic circle drawn from a combination of her saliva and some milk. When the spell is used, a portion of the circle sizzles and turn brown to indicate the target's direction and distance from her present location.

Kafū Chino (Gochūmon ha Usagi desuka?) making a coffee reading to a customer.

Joseph Joestar's Stand, Hermit Purple (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)

Soothsayer (Kung Fu Panda 2), read Shen's future at his insistence, she seems to use personal effects of someone (e.g., Shen's feather and the hem of his robe) to read their future by burning the objects in a brazier and foreseeing their future in the smoke.

Inanna (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to divine the future…

…using constellations to keep track of his fellow gods.

As a goddess of fate, Cassandra Igarashi/Urdr (The Wicked + The Divine) is capable of divination.

The Book of Shadows (Charmed 2018)

Jacquetta of Luxembourg (The White Queen) was skilled in the practice of predicting the future, having been trained by her grand-aunt in the art of reading tarot-cards. Later on, through her first husband's arrangements, she acquired the art of mirror-gazing, which enabled her to see past, present, and future events through looking into a mirror

Elizabeth Woodville (The White Queen) was skillful in the practice of predicting the future, having been secretly trained by her mother in the art of reading tarot cards.

Matilda Bouanich (Reverse: 1999)

Beryl Bouanich (Reverse: 1999)

Getian (Reverse: 1999)

Mercuria (Reverse: 1999)

Marmolims (Sonic X)

Videos

The origin of Solomon Grundy - Justice League-2

Joseph Outsmarts The Empress's Outsmarting