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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corathon" data-source="post: 5654933" data-attributes="member: 22238">Prophecy is (or should be) something that can be seen to be true in retrospect, but that does not give out too much ahead of time; otherwise prophecy prevents itself from being fulfilled. E.g. if the prophecy says that "Josmith of 17 Main Street, Greyhawk City is destined to destroy Iuz", then Iuz will just have Josmith killed as a baby.I don't often use this sort of thing, but on an ocaission when I did, a character who was believed to be mentioned in a prophecy was killed, and could not be raised. The PCs overheard two NPCs talking. The first said "The Woman of the Waves is dead. We are undone!" The other replied "Since she is dead, she was not the Woman of the Waves." The point is that the various figures in the prophecy were given vague designations like "the Woman of the Waves", "the Child of Celebration", or "the Wielder of the Jade Katana" that might apply to many people. If a supposedly destined character dies prematurely, then he as not actually destined. Perhaps the PC that replaces the dead one is actually the fated one...</blockquote>