Akashiren Fortune Telling

Akashiren Fortune Telling is the collective name for the methods and rituals the people of Akashiro use to gain answers or insight regarding future eventualities. Although there is no guarantee for these methods to have any concrete bearing on the future, people often perform these rituals or seek experts in these methods for a sense of guidance or comfort about anxieties regarding the future. 
== Methods of Fortune Telling ==
===Akashiren Tea Reading ===
The Akashiro Shogunate has a long history with tea, both from the domestic production and the imports from Yun-Tsau, from which the culture and the rituals of tea reading is presumed to originate.
Akashiren tea reading (aka. tasseomancy) differs from their neighbor state's in that it intersects with the flower language of the lands. Special tea blends containing these specific flowers have been made specifically for the purpose of tea reading, ignoring the potential taste or toxicity these flowers may infuse into the tea. 
For example; someone might suspect someone to be lying, so they go to an Akashiren tasseomancer for answers. The tasseomancer brews some tea containing petals of white tulips and pays extra attention to the petals as the tea brews and afterwards. Depending on the taseomancer's observations, they then synthesise this knowledge with their experience to then give their insight and potential advice to their client. The exact methods depend on the tea reader, but the movement of the petals, or if they stick to certain indicative decorations on the side of the tea cup used in the fortune telling often carries significance.