Precognition

## Summary

**Precognition** is, simply put, the ability to know the future. Characters with this ability can, through varying means, accurately predict future events. Said means fall under two main categories; **Divination**, in which a user acquires impossible knowledge of upcoming events by looking into the future itself, and **Analytical Prediction**, in which a user predicts the actions of others, as well as their consequences, through analysis of the factors involved. While the means are different, both forms of the power are fundamentally similar, with noticeable overlap. On top of this, the specifics and power of Precognition differ greatly from character to character.

Some users only predict the immediate future, while others have far-ranging foresight focusing on things further in the future, and many can handle both short and long-term predictions. Some users are limited to predicting only a singular likely chain of events, while others can see many different possible outcomes, gathering information and finding the best paths to take by going through many different possibilities.

**Divination** is a supernatural sense, often overlapping with Extrasensory Perception and/or Clairvoyance. Many examples of Divination are far from combat applicable. Some characters are incapable of truly changing the future, and sometimes visions of distant futures are only seen through prophetic dreams, some sort of strict divine intervention granting the user this ability, or a different situational trigger. Other examples of Divination are less limiting and more practical, allowing the user to implement the foreknowledge into strategizing, and to conveniently use the ability to their advantage. The best Divination users may even demonstrate traits of Cosmic Awareness.

**Analytical Prediction** is typically achieved through methods of fighting skill and/or psychological skill, often overlapping with Martial Arts and/or even Genius Intelligence. The most mundane examples of Analytical Prediction are scarcely better than what's achievable in real life, relying on physical tells and strategy to stay ahead of opponents, and are often unreliable for a user to foreknow events and plan far ahead. Sometimes, a user has Enhanced Senses to be capable of realizing the most miniscule details so they can predict what happens next. Other examples of Analytical Prediction are more extraordinary, being reliable for the user to foreknow events and to come up with impressive strategies, so they can succeed at their difficult endeavors, “exactly as planned”. The best Analytical Prediction users may demonstrate skills that are functionally very similar to actual Divination.

While the abilities are similar, they retain fundamental differences in the process, which means they are affected differently by other powers. Divination struggles with Acausality, for example, while Analytical Prediction is less bothered, only to be trumped by things like a Resistance to Information Analysis. Analytical Prediction also only factors in what the user themselves knows and understands, while Divination is a means of acquiring information that one would otherwise not possess. As a result of these differences, a page should specify which version of Precognition a character possesses. Some characters may possess both, however.