Seer

> "*A long time ago, around the time of the first witches; there were seers. They are a form of witches but instead of magic, they have the ability to see into the future and past and many more.*"
> ― **Bree** to **Damon** in *Bloodlines*
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A **Seer** is a witch with the power to divine future, past and present events through extrasensory perception.

## Description

The term 'seer' is a titular name for witches that specialize in the practice of divination. While witches are adept at performing divination and clairvoyance to a different degree, having to access it via spells, seers are naturally endowed with such power. They are significantly more attuned to the psychic vibrations of the universe, and may access information through various techniques that are incomprehensible to the average witch. Meaning all seers are clairvoyant witches but not all witches are seers.

Since they're are not like regular witches they are found be to special, rare and extremely desirable due to their omniscient power.

## History

The origin of Seers remains unknown, however, it is known that seers have existed alongside witches for many centuries.

## Powers and Abilities

Divination is the ability to analyse patterns and use this to uncover history (past) or to foretell the future usually through visions. Seers have been shown to exhibit divination in all its variations; clairvoyance, psychometry, intuition, and premonitions. A seer's prophecies usually manifested as cryptic riddles, though it is noted that visions become more and more precise as the event in question draws closer. Seers or witches that have been known to be gifted in divination, the visions could appear direct or indirect depending on the context. It is usually initiated by making some form of a connection with their subject, this could be physical contact or being in the same environment or having history with the subject.

Trained seers seem to have control over their visions and can call them at will, however there have been others who have had visions without specialized control as their abilities were not developed.

### Basic Powers

* Precognition

The ability to **perceive information about future places or events before they happen.** As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. Some visions may be set in stone whether or not you see them, others may happen only if that person select a certain course of action. Precognition is usually uncontrollable and unpredictable.

* Retrocognition

The ability to **discern events of the past**. Opposite to Precognition. This power is mainly used to figure out what happened and usually entering a trance while seeing and hearing a noted past event, whether it be concerning themselves or of an unfamiliar lineage in a past occurrence. Occasionally spontaneous. While this is happening the seer is unable to notice present surroundings.

* Clairvoyance

The ability to **gain direct visual information of the present**. This ability is used to discern locations and gain information about objects, beings, or places.

### Other Powers

* Astral Premonition

The ability to **receive visions of the past, present or future by astral projection**. This allows the user to experience the vision first hand. While you are out of your body, your body is essentially dead/in a coma and thus very vulnerable during astral

* Psychic Reflection

The ability to reflect emotions and/or memories back onto a person or onto another being.

## Weaknesses

* **Disbelief:** The act of denying/ignoring or disbelieving in one's premonition could result in pain such as headaches.
* **Distraction:** When calling upon a premonition, denying a seer from concentrating or giving full attention to their craft, may render them ineffective. Since premonitions cut off the sight, seers are vulnerable to attack before their completion.
* **Overexertion:** A seer could break or burn themselves out by working themselves too much by trying to call a premonition that won't come this could lead to headaches, nose bleeds, unconsciousness, and if taken to the extreme, death.
* **Mortality:** Seers, like any witch, are still human and share many of the same weaknesses as non-supernatural beings (e.g. age, decapitation, disease, heart-failure, suffocation, snapped neck, etc.).

* **Psychic Evasion Shield**: Subjects can 'hide' from a seer's premonition by having a spell casted on them. So when a seer tries to receive a vision about an individual that has 'hidden' themselves, there's nothing. Some seers are able to fight through this block but this results in pain to the seer.
* **Premonitions:** Can cause great strain to the user's mind. While in a trance the seer is unable to notice their surroundings.
* **Herbs:** Ingestion of certain herbs can cause a seer to lose consciousness and prevent them from using sight for an undetermined amount of time. The Lobelia flower prevents a seer from being able to focus and concentrate, which is necessary to effectively receiving visions, making it a common herb used in the weakening of a seer in the same manner as someone would use vervain to weaken a vampire. There are also other herbs that will temporarily mute or suppress visions, though the length of time the herbs are effective are based on the strength of the witch in question.
* **Magic:** Seers are just as susceptible to the forces of witchcraft as any other being. This is inclusive of mystical objects such as Papa Tunde's Blade, and Dark Objects.
* **Staff of Arcadius:** An ancient Mesopotamian tuning fork capable of producing a high frequency that has some minor effects on witches and seers, giving them painful headaches.

## Blood

* **Insight**: The blood of a seer has to power to share a premonition with a vampire.
* **Spells/Rituals**: Their blood can be used for binding spells. A seer's blood mixed with a doppelganger's is very powerful, as they are both rare creatures.

## Relationships

### Witches

The relationship between seers and witches is largely unknown, as seers are rare creatures. When a witch comes across a Seer they are mistaken them to be witches themselves - which is true since Seers are a form of witches. Given their similar practices, their relationship is said to be neutral and positive. A witch is very welcoming when they come across a seer.

### Vampires

The relationship between these two species is a complicated one and more often a negative than positive. This is mainly due to the fact, vampires seek the insight of a seer's gift. However there has been seers who have worked alongside vampires but sometimes these seers are not particularly fond of this.

## Known Seers

 **Diana** | Diana is Athina's first doppelgänger and is the second seer of Athina's doppelgänger line as well as the second known seer to exist.
 **Vivienne Pierce** | Vivienne Pierce is Athina's second doppelgänger and is the third seer of Athina's doppelgänger line as well as the third known seer to exist.
 **Louise Gilbert** | Louise Gilbert is Athina's third and final doppelgänger and is the fourth and final seer of Athina's doppelgänger line as well as the fourth known seer to exist.
 **Ruben Morris** | Ruben Morris was the seer hired by Marcel to help him and Rebekah Mikaelson find out the identity and history of Rebekah's host body. After discovering that the host body belongs to Eva Sinclair, Ruben attempted to kill Rebekah's host body with poison, not realizing Rebekah was possessing her, as he saw a chance to kill Eva before she started to kill and abduct young witches again for her sacrificial spell, and also to protect his own son. Overpowered by the two, Ruben's life was spared after being knocked unconscious. Ruben is the fifth known seer to exist.
 **Alexis** | Alexis was a seer in the service of the vampire Lucien Castle. He used her for business practices such as predicting the stock market, as well as for foretelling potential threats. She was the one who foretold the prophecy of the Mikaelson Family's demise, which drew the Trinity and the Strix to New Orleans. She was killed via poisoning by the vampire Aurora just as she was about to reveal a new portion of her prophecy that would explicitly show the fall of Klaus Mikaelson. Alexis is the sixth seer known to exist.
 **Ariane** | Ariane was a member of the Sisters, a coven loyal to the Strix vampire Aya. While not trained in the ways of a seer, she did possess a great enough talent for Aya to induct her into the Sisters. She foretold the prophecy hinting at the weapon capable of killing an Original by using Elijah's mind as a focus. Due to this, she gleaned all of the information in his mind, and he killed her to prevent her from revealing any of it. Ariane is the seventh seer known to exist.
 **Ivy** | Ivy is the "Oracle of Jackson Square" and is claimed by Vincent to be the greatest seer in the city of New Orleans. Ivy is the eight seer known to exist.

## Trivia

* Seers, unlike regular witches, seem gifted in divination and have a deep connection with their gifts.
* Not all witches have a gift or affinity for divination else there'd be nothing special or rare about seers.

* According to Bree, seers were around the time of witches.
* The existence of Seers seems to be limited to witches born from the Petrova bloodline, though this remains unconfirmed.
	+ It has been proven that the existence of seers in not limited to the Petrova bloodline, as four seers appeared in *The Originals*. Ruben Morris, Alexis, Ariane, and Ivy; though Ruben is the only one out of those four still currently alive.
* Seers, Doppelgängers, Immortals, Supernatural Hunters and Sirens are among the rarest species shown in the series.
	+ This has been shown to be true by the fact that out of the eight seers that exist, only two are still alive and one is undead and unable to use her powers.
	+ Then eight doppelgängers exist, but only two are still alive and one is undead.
	+ Then all three immortals become mortal and died.
	+ Then only one supernatural hunter is know to still be around and that is Jeremy Gilbert.
	+ And finally, both sirens have been killed by Acardius.