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	'''Mandor''' asks, "Did you foresee a true oracle of that fact or do you just know your mother? The three oracles i mentioned are places, not people. There are a few True Seers i could speak of in time but for the moment lets stick to places."		'''Mandor''' asks, "Did you foresee a true oracle of that fact or do you just know your mother? The three oracles i mentioned are places, not people. There are a few True Seers i could speak of in time but for the moment lets stick to places."

	"The '''''Oracle of Mandalay''''' was once an oracle in a world near the center of shadow in a chaos sway world called Gknfhnismznup . It was a weathery place that the querent cast his questions into the wind and had a vision of his answer. It was powerful, True, and fairly obnoxious. When Mandalay was created the realm was taken into the Green Sway. The Oracle was taken under the auspices of the mark, and the accuracy of the oracle went up astronomically... but... it told damn near everyone. It turned up in people's dreams. and splashed over people with a susceptibility to receiving these messages; prophets, soothsayers, crystal ball readers, ~~and~~ fortune tellers. It cast images of the visions onto walls as if they were murals. It impacted in people who could not shake the idea. Some of these later think they created the vision out of their own minds, and write them up as books, plays and movies. That's fairly annoying to the querent who might have liked it to remain a secret. That's the Oracle of Mandalay. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#The_Oracle_of_Mandalay]]"		"The '''''Oracle of Mandalay''''' was once an oracle in a world near the center of shadow in a chaos sway world called Gknfhnismznup . It was a weathery place that the querent cast his questions into the wind and had a vision of his answer. It was powerful, True, and fairly obnoxious. When Mandalay was created the realm was taken into the Green Sway. The Oracle was taken under the auspices of the mark, and the accuracy of the oracle went up astronomically... but... it told damn near everyone. It turned up in people's dreams. and splashed over people with a susceptibility to receiving these messages; prophets, soothsayers, crystal ball readers, Jazz Musicians, dope fiends, stoned song writers, school teachers who suddenly spoke in tongues, fortune tellers, and third baseman. It cast images of the visions onto subway walls, tenement halls, and murals as if they were murals created by artists and not an Oracle with delusions of grandure. It impacted in people who could not shake the idea. Some of these later think they created the vision out of their own minds, and write them up as books, plays and movies. That's fairly annoying to the querent who might have liked it to remain a secret. That's the Oracle of Mandalay. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#The_Oracle_of_Mandalay]]"

	'''Henry''' got a wine bottle and filled both glasses, his with wine and his fathers with bourbon.		'''Henry''' got a wine bottle and filled both glasses, his with wine and his fathers with bourbon.

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			'''''The [[Seer of Enen en nullen]]'s ''[[commentary on A Conversation on Oracles]]''''''


	https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Heirs_and_spares#Henry_Son_of_'''Fiona'''_and_'''Mandor'''		https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Heirs_and_spares#Henry_Son_of_'''Fiona'''_and_'''Mandor'''

	[[Heirs_and_spares#Henry_Son_of_'''Fiona'''_and_'''Mandor''']]		[[Heirs_and_spares#Henry_Son_of_'''Fiona'''_and_'''Mandor''']]

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	He flicks his cigar out into the air to see it scorch the security field.		He flicks his cigar out into the air to see it scorch the security field.

	"Afterwards they followed the oracle but failed along the way somewhere.. They forged a cabal, shed blood for their cause, saw '''Oberon''' distracted, opened the Black Road from Chaos, and started the war. That led to uncountable deaths in wars in nearly all shadows. That led to Patternfall and the defeat of Chaos. The fall of '''Brand''' and Deirdre to near death and damaging in the Abyss. The marring of the pattern, the damaging of '''Oberon''' in the Repair. To ~~the~~ [[~~reign~~ of Queen Margot]]. To the kingship of Random and the creation of the primal realms of Avalon and Mandalay and the Jeweled Road."		"Afterwards they followed the oracle but failed along the way somewhere.. They forged a cabal, shed blood for their cause, saw '''Oberon''' distracted, opened the Black Road from Chaos, and started the war. That led to uncountable deaths in wars in nearly all shadows. That led to Patternfall and the defeat of Chaos. The fall of '''Brand''' and Deirdre to near death and damaging in the Abyss. The marring of the pattern, the damaging of '''Oberon''' in the Repair. To [[The Court of Queen Margot]]. To the kingship of Random and the creation of the primal realms of Avalon and Mandalay and the Jeweled Road."

	"And '''Fiona''' tells me that neither '''Bleys''' nor her own vision are complete. If you speak to '''Brand''' in the dungeons of Amber I feel he will say the same. Fear the Oracle of Night as it stands by its twin realm the Tower of Grief. It is a font of great wisdom, a place where sadness flows from, and a True Oracle. That's the Oracle of Night. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#Oracle_of_Night]]"		"And '''Fiona''' tells me that neither '''Bleys''' nor her own vision are complete. If you speak to '''Brand''' in the dungeons of Amber I feel he will say the same. Fear the Oracle of Night as it stands by its twin realm the Tower of Grief. It is a font of great wisdom, a place where sadness flows from, and a True Oracle. That's the Oracle of Night. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#Oracle_of_Night]]"

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	'''Mandor''' asks, "Did you foresee a true oracle of that fact or do you just know your mother? The three oracles i mentioned are places, not people. There are a few True Seers i could speak of in time but for the moment lets stick to places."		'''Mandor''' asks, "Did you foresee a true oracle of that fact or do you just know your mother? The three oracles i mentioned are places, not people. There are a few True Seers i could speak of in time but for the moment lets stick to places."

	"The ~~oracle~~ of Mandalay was once an oracle in a world near the center of shadow in a chaos sway world called Gknfhnismznup . It was a weathery place that the querent cast his questions into the wind and had a vision of his answer. It was powerful, True, and fairly obnoxious. When Mandalay was created the realm was taken into the Green Sway. The Oracle was taken under the auspices of the mark, and the accuracy of the oracle went up astronomically... but... it told damn near everyone. It turned up in people's dreams. and splashed over people with a susceptibility to receiving these messages; prophets, soothsayers, crystal ball readers, and fortune tellers. It cast images of the visions onto walls as if they were murals. It impacted in people who could not shake the idea. Some of these later think they created the vision out of their own minds, and write them up as books, plays and movies. That's fairly annoying to the querent who might have liked it to remain a secret. That's the Oracle of Mandalay. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#The_Oracle_of_Mandalay]]"		"The '''''Oracle of Mandalay''''' was once an oracle in a world near the center of shadow in a chaos sway world called Gknfhnismznup . It was a weathery place that the querent cast his questions into the wind and had a vision of his answer. It was powerful, True, and fairly obnoxious. When Mandalay was created the realm was taken into the Green Sway. The Oracle was taken under the auspices of the mark, and the accuracy of the oracle went up astronomically... but... it told damn near everyone. It turned up in people's dreams. and splashed over people with a susceptibility to receiving these messages; prophets, soothsayers, crystal ball readers, and fortune tellers. It cast images of the visions onto walls as if they were murals. It impacted in people who could not shake the idea. Some of these later think they created the vision out of their own minds, and write them up as books, plays and movies. That's fairly annoying to the querent who might have liked it to remain a secret. That's the Oracle of Mandalay. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#The_Oracle_of_Mandalay]]"

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	"Please go on. I want to visit Mandalay more now."		"Please go on. I want to visit Mandalay more now."

	"The Oracle of Drisna is a True Oracle deep in Shadow near the realms of Cynsure and its thousands of intershadow pathways that existed long before the Jeweled Road. Its not a friendly place but it gives highly accurate visions. It is immersive in that you feel like you are in the prophecy as its played out. You can feel it, smell it, even taste it. While the effect varies most querents say they spent time in their prophecy. Not just hours but days, weeks, even years. Long enough to eat, drink, love, fight, and travel in the time of the conclusion of the prophecy as if the Oracle transported them to the shadow where the oracle is complete. Yet when they leave the vision no time in Drisna has past. "		"The '''''Oracle of Drisna''''' is a True Oracle deep in Shadow near the realms of Cynsure and its thousands of intershadow pathways that existed long before the Jeweled Road. Its not a friendly place but it gives highly accurate visions. It is immersive in that you feel like you are in the prophecy as its played out. You can feel it, smell it, even taste it. While the effect varies most querents say they spent time in their prophecy. Not just hours but days, weeks, even years. Long enough to eat, drink, love, fight, and travel in the time of the conclusion of the prophecy as if the Oracle transported them to the shadow where the oracle is complete. Yet when they leave the vision no time in Drisna has past. "

	"Now there are two bad things about this one. It may give you a True Vision, but afterwards as you take paths forward it nudges you to stick to the vision it fortold. One might never know its happening but the effect is unavoidable and may effect people around the querent and the shadows they travel in.. Its an invasive bitch. Second, it gives the querent a glitch. A facial tick, the inability to taste pork products, a lazy eye, farting during intercourse... Something. And the tick won't go away till the vision is achieved. That's the Oracle of Drisna.[[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#Oracle_of_Drisna]]"		"Now there are two bad things about this one. It may give you a True Vision, but afterwards as you take paths forward it nudges you to stick to the vision it fortold. One might never know its happening but the effect is unavoidable and may effect people around the querent and the shadows they travel in.. Its an invasive bitch. Second, it gives the querent a glitch. A facial tick, the inability to taste pork products, a lazy eye, farting during intercourse... Something. And the tick won't go away till the vision is achieved. That's the Oracle of Drisna.[[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#Oracle_of_Drisna]]"
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	He sits looking out at the morning sky over the grounds of the Anorusa Plaza in the city of Nenton, Antheris, where they raised a son. Smokey colorful fireworks over the baseball stadium go off signaling a game's beginning. He looks down at people in the hiking trails and the swimming lake. Aerial drones fly in the air lanes bringing deliveries as the day gets underway for so many people in this technological age. He takes a deep drink and sighs...		He sits looking out at the morning sky over the grounds of the Anorusa Plaza in the city of Nenton, Antheris, where they raised a son. Smokey colorful fireworks over the baseball stadium go off signaling a game's beginning. He looks down at people in the hiking trails and the swimming lake. Aerial drones fly in the air lanes bringing deliveries as the day gets underway for so many people in this technological age. He takes a deep drink and sighs...

	"I would not know your mother if not for the Oracle of Night."		"I would not know your mother if not for the '''''Oracle of Night'''''."

	As a Lord of Chaos and as someone in the line of succession to the High Lordship of Chaos, albeit low on the list, i have to respect the Oracle of Night and its twin realm the Tower of Grief as they sit by the Fane of Zila and the battlefield of Patternfall where Benedict defeated Chaos in a time of war."		As a Lord of Chaos and as someone in the line of succession to the High Lordship of Chaos, albeit low on the list, i have to respect the Oracle of Night and its twin realm the Tower of Grief as they sit by the Fane of Zila and the battlefield of Patternfall where Benedict defeated Chaos in a time of war."

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	'''Henry''' says, "The Oracle of Night, Mother doesn't like her I take it. The way she stormed out of the room."		'''Henry''' says, "The Oracle of Night, Mother doesn't like her I take it. The way she stormed out of the room."

	'''Mandor''' asks, "Did you foresee a true oracle of that fact or do you just know your mother?"		'''Mandor''' asks, "Did you foresee a true oracle of that fact or do you just know your mother? The three oracles i mentioned are places, not people. There are a few True Seers i could speak of in time but for the moment lets stick to places."

	"The oracle of Mandalay was once an oracle in a world near the center of shadow in a chaos sway world called Gknfhnismznup . It was a weathery place that the querent cast his questions into the wind and had a vision of his answer. It was powerful, True, and fairly obnoxious. When Mandalay was created the realm was taken into the Green Sway. The Oracle was taken under the auspices of the mark, and the accuracy of the oracle went up astronomically... but... it told damn near everyone. It turned up in people's dreams. and splashed over people with a susceptibility to receiving these messages; prophets, soothsayers, crystal ball readers, and fortune tellers. It cast images of the visions onto walls as if they were murals. It impacted in people who could not shake the idea. Some of these later think they created the vision out of their own minds, and write them up as books, plays and movies. That's fairly annoying to the querent who might have liked it to remain a secret. ~~Thats~~ the Oracle of Mandalay. "		"The oracle of Mandalay was once an oracle in a world near the center of shadow in a chaos sway world called Gknfhnismznup . It was a weathery place that the querent cast his questions into the wind and had a vision of his answer. It was powerful, True, and fairly obnoxious. When Mandalay was created the realm was taken into the Green Sway. The Oracle was taken under the auspices of the mark, and the accuracy of the oracle went up astronomically... but... it told damn near everyone. It turned up in people's dreams. and splashed over people with a susceptibility to receiving these messages; prophets, soothsayers, crystal ball readers, and fortune tellers. It cast images of the visions onto walls as if they were murals. It impacted in people who could not shake the idea. Some of these later think they created the vision out of their own minds, and write them up as books, plays and movies. That's fairly annoying to the querent who might have liked it to remain a secret. That's the Oracle of Mandalay. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#The_Oracle_of_Mandalay]]"

	'''Henry''' got a wine bottle and filled both glasses, his with wine and his fathers with bourbon.		'''Henry''' got a wine bottle and filled both glasses, his with wine and his fathers with bourbon.
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	"The Oracle of Drisna is a True Oracle deep in Shadow near the realms of Cynsure and its thousands of intershadow pathways that existed long before the Jeweled Road. Its not a friendly place but it gives highly accurate visions. It is immersive in that you feel like you are in the prophecy as its played out. You can feel it, smell it, even taste it. While the effect varies most querents say they spent time in their prophecy. Not just hours but days, weeks, even years. Long enough to eat, drink, love, fight, and travel in the time of the conclusion of the prophecy as if the Oracle transported them to the shadow where the oracle is complete. Yet when they leave the vision no time in Drisna has past. "		"The Oracle of Drisna is a True Oracle deep in Shadow near the realms of Cynsure and its thousands of intershadow pathways that existed long before the Jeweled Road. Its not a friendly place but it gives highly accurate visions. It is immersive in that you feel like you are in the prophecy as its played out. You can feel it, smell it, even taste it. While the effect varies most querents say they spent time in their prophecy. Not just hours but days, weeks, even years. Long enough to eat, drink, love, fight, and travel in the time of the conclusion of the prophecy as if the Oracle transported them to the shadow where the oracle is complete. Yet when they leave the vision no time in Drisna has past. "

	"Now there are two bad things about this one. It may give you a True Vision, but afterwards as you take paths forward it nudges you to stick to the vision it fortold. One might never know its happening but the effect is unavoidable and may effect people around the querent and the shadows they travel in.. Its an invasive bitch. Second, it gives the querent a glitch. A facial tick, the inability to taste pork products, a lazy eye, farting during intercourse... Something. And the tick won't go away till the vision is achieved."		"Now there are two bad things about this one. It may give you a True Vision, but afterwards as you take paths forward it nudges you to stick to the vision it fortold. One might never know its happening but the effect is unavoidable and may effect people around the querent and the shadows they travel in.. Its an invasive bitch. Second, it gives the querent a glitch. A facial tick, the inability to taste pork products, a lazy eye, farting during intercourse... Something. And the tick won't go away till the vision is achieved. That's the Oracle of Drisna.[[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#Oracle_of_Drisna]]"

	"Shall I go on?"		"Shall I go on?"
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	"Afterwards they followed the oracle but failed along the way somewhere.. They forged a cabal, shed blood for their cause, saw '''Oberon''' distracted, opened the Black Road from Chaos, and started the war. That led to uncountable deaths in wars in nearly all shadows. That led to Patternfall and the defeat of Chaos. The fall of '''Brand''' and Deirdre to near death and damaging in the Abyss. The marring of the pattern, the damaging of '''Oberon''' in the Repair. To the [[reign of Queen Margot]]. To the kingship of Random and the creation of the primal realms of Avalon and Mandalay and the Jeweled Road."		"Afterwards they followed the oracle but failed along the way somewhere.. They forged a cabal, shed blood for their cause, saw '''Oberon''' distracted, opened the Black Road from Chaos, and started the war. That led to uncountable deaths in wars in nearly all shadows. That led to Patternfall and the defeat of Chaos. The fall of '''Brand''' and Deirdre to near death and damaging in the Abyss. The marring of the pattern, the damaging of '''Oberon''' in the Repair. To the [[reign of Queen Margot]]. To the kingship of Random and the creation of the primal realms of Avalon and Mandalay and the Jeweled Road."

	"And '''Fiona''' tells me that neither '''Bleys''' nor her own vision are complete. If you speak to '''Brand''' in the dungeons of Amber I feel he will say the same. Fear the Oracle of Night As it stands by its twin realm the Tower of Grief. It is a font of great wisdom, a place where sadness flows from, and a True Oracle"		"And '''Fiona''' tells me that neither '''Bleys''' nor her own vision are complete. If you speak to '''Brand''' in the dungeons of Amber I feel he will say the same. Fear the Oracle of Night as it stands by its twin realm the Tower of Grief. It is a font of great wisdom, a place where sadness flows from, and a True Oracle. That's the Oracle of Night. [[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Diners_of_Amber#Oracle_of_Night]]"

	Shocked, '''Henry''' is silent for a moment. He looks at his father and doesn't know what to say. He gets up, goes to find his mother, and hugs her. "I love you, mom, no matter what, and for all time."		Shocked, '''Henry''' is silent for a moment. He looks at his father and doesn't know what to say. He gets up, goes to find his mother, and hugs her. "I love you, mom, no matter what, and for all time."

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	"Real soothsayers, as the theory in Chaos and some realms of shadows goes; once someone places themselves within the perceptive sphere of the oracle, either a person or a place, the forces looks down possible lines considering the person involved. The better the oracle, the more exact the reading. However, the same person, and the same oracle, have often yielded different results at different times. When this occurs skeptics think the soothsaying false. Others, such as myself, think it was merely looking down another likely outcome."		"Real soothsayers, as the theory in Chaos and some realms of shadows goes; once someone places themselves within the perceptive sphere of the oracle, either a person or a place, the forces looks down possible lines considering the person involved. The better the oracle, the more exact the reading. However, the same person, and the same oracle, have often yielded different results at different times. When this occurs skeptics think the soothsaying false. Others, such as myself, think it was merely looking down another likely outcome."

	"The question then, is how accurate in the oracle and what is the bias of the oracle? Can the oracle look down a few possible lines or down millions of lines or look down a line for a million years? How often does the oracle pick the most likely outcome and deliver that result?		"The question then, is how accurate in the oracle and what is the bias of the oracle? Can the oracle look down a few possible lines or down millions of lines or look down a line for a million years? How often does the oracle pick the most likely outcome and deliver that result?
	"And that is where your mother gets in trouble..If i go on...I foretell a frosty week for the both of us with her. Do you think that is soothsaying or experience with the principle? Shall I go on?"		And that is where your mother gets in trouble. She consulted a highly accurate True Oracle...If I go on...I foretell a frosty week for the both of us with her. Do you think that is soothsaying or experience with the principle? Shall I go on?"

	'''Henry''' stands nodding, "I want to go on, but let me talk to her first."		'''Henry''' stands nodding, "I want to go on, but let me talk to her first."

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	'''''A Flashback in the Bariman-Sawall Pentouse, Nenton, Antheris'''''		'''''A Flashback in the Bariman-Sawall Pentouse, Nenton, Antheris'''''

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	'''Fiona''' looks over '''Mandor''''s shoulder as he casts a private fortune one sunday morning. She tssks under her breath as she reads the cards herself despite her disdain for the practice.		'''Fiona''' looks over '''Mandor''''s shoulder as he casts a private fortune one sunday morning. She tssks under her breath as she reads the cards herself despite her disdain for the practice.

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	'''Fiona''' looks over '''Mandor''''s shoulder as he casts a private fortune one sunday morning. She tssks under her breath as she reads the cards herself despite her disdain for the practice.		'''Fiona''' looks over '''Mandor''''s shoulder as he casts a private fortune one sunday morning. She tssks under her breath as she reads the cards herself despite her disdain for the practice.

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	'''Fiona''' looks over '''Mandor''''s shoulder as he casts a private fortune one sunday morning. She tssks under her breath as she reads the cards herself despite her disdain for the practice.		'''Fiona''' looks over '''Mandor''''s shoulder as he casts a private fortune one sunday morning. She tssks under her breath as she reads the cards herself despite her disdain for the practice.