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Augathra wasn’t mad when she began receiving her “dark dreams.” They slowly drove her mad over many years, but well before madness claimed her (and note: she was fully functional when insane, not seen by others as damaged until her final wanderings), her...
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@TheEdVerse how did Augathra the Mad's predictions become the basis for the names of the years in the realms, seems odd for them to go with the list of names from someone known for losing their sanity when there are presumably other divination mages in the realms?
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..predictions had established an uncanny track record of always being right—just sometimes only being seen as such in hindsight, because what she dreamed, and wrote down, was in some cases so cryptic.
Augathra didn’t promote herself as a seer, but became known as..
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..THE seer of her time because of her unerring accuracy: those who wanted to look ahead had already come to trust “the roll” part of her regular scholarly writings, which after her disappearance (see the FR Wiki entry for her, for her fate) became known as the...
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..Roll of Years.
Augathra wasn’t a divination mage. She had the Gift and became an arcanist (wizard) of some accomplishment, but her main work was the study of Draconic spell incantations, focusing on word sounds of syllables and how much power they could draw...
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..from the Weave and shape (focus and turn to a specific school of effects). Her damaged mind is still of sufficient power that in the sharn body she now shares, she rules over the minds of both Shar Cormrael and the phaerimm Xeris.
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