Minerva's Haruspices

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You are one of Minerva's chosen; a being of sufficient wisdom and strength of mind to be initiated in her esteemed order of the Haruspices. As such, you have been granted a circlet which, when worn, enables you to perform feats of insight which have been heretofore unattainable by mortal beings.

There are several skills that, when possessed by a Haruspex, provide for more effective divinations; more information can be found in the help file 'haruspex skills'.

The various insight skills you gain by wearing this circlet are detailed in the help file 'haruspex divination'; this file also contains fundamental divination information and instruction.

The Haruspices are a secret society; never reveal your membership to the world at large. You may, however, instruct a potential member in how to join our ranks when you have taken adequate measures to ensure that they do not intend to act against us.

With such powers come restrictions; read the help file 'haruspex restrictions' for details.

Haruspex Skills

A Haruspex will find useful to hir divinations the skills of anatomy, animal lore, divination, and legend lore. As these skills grow, one will find that divinations become easier, and thus less taxing on one's spiritual reserves.

Haruspex Divination

As a Haruspex, you may perform four different types of divinations:

 divine location    -- divine the general location of another being
 divine area        -- divine the exact circumstances of another being's
                       location
 divine inventory   -- divine the full inventory of another being
 divine alignment   -- divine the exact alignment of another being
 divine artifact    -- divine the general location of an artifact of the
                       land

The syntax for divinations involving living beings is:

       divine <being>'s <divination type> with <corpse>

The syntax for artifact divination is:

       divine artifact <artifact name> with <corpse>

Haruspex Restrictions

Due to the deep level of concentration that must be attained in order to properly perform a divination, one must maintain an ordered alignment if one expects to take advantage of the benefits of being a Haruspex. In addition, a Haruspex may not use instruments of chaos, for these will disrupt the ordered structure of the mind; nor may a Haruspex worship the goddess of Discord, Eris.