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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 7561463" data-attributes="member: 27957">The self fulfilling prophecies of Greek Tragedies followed a very specific template for a specific narrative purpose. Someone receives a prophecy of doom from the gods, they try very hard to avert it, and those exact actions end up causing it thus proving the futility of trying to escape your fate and defy heaven. That's why they were a staple of the Tragedies, not myths in general. Just throwing one in willy nilly misses the point entirely.Which is not to say you couldn't shift things around. Say, instead, our budding Frost Queen was already working on a ritual to allow her to draw on more divine might because she wasn't satisfied with what she had. So her patron sends her a vision showing her that the completed ritual would kill him and doom the world, a divine "knock it off" message. Only she decides no, that's a great idea and exactly what she wants, and uses the clues from the vision to figure out how to make it happen.</blockquote>