If everyone on the East Coast's Mystical Side were asked to vote for the Mystic Art they most longed for, it would surely be any art that could make them stronger.
But if they were asked which Mystic Art was essential, the answer would absolutely be Divination.
Yet everyone who practiced and studied Divination understood one truth-life was full of uncertainty, just as you never knew what the next chocolate would taste like.
Divination merely gave you a chance to steal a small glimpse.
Perhaps you picked up the box and held it up to the sunlight.
Perhaps you tilted the box and peered through a gap.
But you must never rely on Divination.
Because when you used the sunlight, it could sting your eyes and make you see things wrong.
Because when you looked through the gap, you might see more than one chocolate.
So Divination was not one hundred percent accurate.
And anything that was not one hundred percent accurate could be called one hundred percent inaccurate.
Divination really is something you both love and hate.
The Empire's court mage, Shariko, had voiced that sentiment while officiating the wedding of his friend, the Court Jester Harrington, and the court lady Liss.
Because in his divination, his friend Harrington should have remained single all his life, just like him.
Yet who could have known that his friend would marry, enjoy a happy marriage, have a son the following year, a daughter in the third year, and another son in the fourth?
And him?
He really had remained single all his life.
According to certain rumors, his friend's marriage seemed to have spurred the Empire's court mage into searching for his own other half.
Then the Empire's grand knight beat him up.
Then the witches battered him with their cauldrons.