Foretell
Spell, Low Magic, level 1
A divination revealing whether a chosen route or course of action holds danger for the caster, another person or a group, and roughly how serious it is.
From the book
A divination that asks whether a particular route, or a particular plan of action, holds danger. The caster may ask on his own behalf, for one other person, or for a whole group. If the answer is yes, the spell also grades the threat into one of three levels: minimal, fairly hazardous, or perilous, which helps a party weigh whether to press on.
At a glance
- Effect
- Danger graded as minimal, fairly hazardous, or perilous
- Save
- None
- Spell type
- Non-variable
A scene
The llama traders want to cross the high passes into Nazca before the snows, and they have paid the Quechua shaman Tupaq in salt to ask the spirits first. He shakes his bundle of feathers over a fire of dried moss and asks after the whole caravan together. The smoke leans west, then curls back on itself. The route holds danger, he tells them, and it is fairly hazardous rather than perilous. The traders argue about that grading for an hour. In the end they go, but they tie their animals together and send a boy ahead to watch for rockfall.