Minerva's Haruspices

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-	You are one of Minerva's chosen; a being of sufficient wisdom and strength of	+	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.
-	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	+	[[Category: Associations]][[Category: Affiliations]]
-	more effective divinations; more information can be found in the help file	+	[[Category: Devotional (affiliation types)]]
-	'haruspex skills'.	+	[[Category: Magician (affiliation types)]]
-		+	[[Category: Ordered (affiliation types)]]
-	The various insight skills you gain by wearing this circlet are detailed in	+	[[Category: Secret (affiliation types)]]
-	the help file 'haruspex divination'; this file also contains fundamental	+
-	divination information and instruction.	+
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-	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.	+
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-	With such powers come restrictions; read the help file 'haruspex restrictions'	+
-	for details.	+
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-	'''Haruspex Skills'''	+
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-	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.	+
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-	'''Haruspex Divination'''	+
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-	As a Haruspex, you may perform four different types of divinations:	+
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-	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	+
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-	The syntax for divinations involving living beings is:	+
-	divine <being>'s <divination type> with <corpse>	+
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-	The syntax for artifact divination is:	+
-	divine artifact <artifact name> with <corpse>	+
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-	'''Haruspex Restrictions'''	+
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-	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.	+

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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.