Sirius looked down and peered into a particular cave, though this was perhaps a misnomer. He was feeling the senses of his new praying followers, and yet he couldn't help but rearrange his vision to come from the far reaches. He felt a tinge of guilt, they were extraordinarily gifted in his new magicks, but there was a steep cost. To open up their new senses, they had to forsake their old ones. They wore heavy gloves and clothes around their mouths and noses soaked in material to dampen their smell. Lighting was sparse, and food was bland and flavorless. The cavern was mostly silent however, occasionally, there were songs sung in whispers or instruments quietly played. Of their mundane perception, their hearing was the most important. He had taught them of his new secrets, and while he gave them the knowledge of the mechanics to inform their choice, he never advocated for it. Despite his aversion, their merits were impressive. Their whisper-sight was only something he could grant them due to their training, the ability to tap into a small portion of the divine to see through falsehoods. Only one person among the circle had been able to harness it, but they all hold the potential to do so. As they prayed, they revealed their stories to him, and none of them were particularly pleasant. Not everyone who came was entirely innocent but was duty-bound to accept them as his followers. He could only wish that they would find peace in the new understanding of the world that they were discovering. [hider=Story Summary] Sirius is watching a new druid circle that he had formed after creating Augury, the Circle of Whispering Sight. He is averse to their harsh practices, founded in the knowledge he gave them through visions but not something he instructed them to do, but is impressed by their skill with augury and believes he is now obligated to aid them. [/hider] [hider=Might Summary] Starting: 5/5 Ending: 0/0 Augury Extraordinary Abilities (-1 MP, -5DP): -> Premonition: By attempting to invoke visions through will and magic (typically mana sorcery, but other methods work such as druidry), augurs can more readily access divine knowledge. Premonitions are often not as involved as regular visions: dangerous items may glow red, they may hear foreign words in languages which they understand, or they can feel the hatred or mistrust a god has towards a particular object or person. Premonitions are a skill, and master augurs can potentially: react faster than otherwise possible, hold a conversation in a language they do not understand, purposely invoke a full-scale vision. -> Appraisal: Involves opening the senses to the magical and divine, typically through mana sorcery or druidry but other methods are possible. Appraisals occur through focusing on an object an augur is touching and a simple appraisal only rely on this heightened sense, and a moderately trained augur could tell if something is strongly magic and/or divine (but nothing further), a vague sense of what materials it is composed of (they not automatically know what those materials are, but can compare this sense to known quantities, IE all iron has the same feeling and steel would have a similar but distinct feeling) and if it is dangerous (but not how or why, but it will exclude known quantities of danger. A normal bronze dagger would not read as dangerous, but an unidentified veil of liquid would if it contained snake venom) Augurs can acquire more information by either being more skilled, or by having a more complex appraisal that can often involves meditation and prayer, and sometimes involves other magical rites. -> Sorcerous Fortune: Augurs can use a form of mana sorcery in order to subtly manipulate the ways around them: arrows may slightly veer off an miss them, keys may fall into their reach, cards can shuffle in just the right way for them to win, etc, etc. This can both be conscious and subconscious, though it is more difficult to consciously use this sorcery Claiming the Augury Port (-3 MP) Created Holy Order, Circle of the Whispering Sight (-1 MP): -> Augury Adepts I: Members of this circle have an enhanced affinity for augury, allowing them to learn it easier and better use it conjunction with their druidic powers. -> Whisper-Sight II (Free with Augury Port): An advanced skill that is combination of augury and druidry with requires absolute focus, by depriving the mundane senses, practioneers of this ability can tap into a fraction of a fraction of the divine senses, allowing them to sense any deception or illusion. They do not automatically know the truth, but they can sense if someone is lying, if an image is an illusion, etc. [/hider]