Precognition

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**Precognition** is an ability of witches 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.

When a user receives visions of the future, it was usually a few hours or a day ahead, but they can receive visions that take day, weeks, months or even years to occur. And on occasion, it can only be within an hour of the event happening.

## Techniques

### History Recording

Witches can compile and record all of history/time, including the moment of creation, the past, the present, the future and the end of it all. Allowing them to know exactly how history will play out in its entirety as well as deciding the course history will take and what events will come to pass and which will be erased.

Witches can read the history of anyone/anything as well as add or remove parts of the targets history too.

### Future Life Awareness

Witches can remember some or all of their future lives, possibly even remembering every power from their future lives in order to use them.

### Future Recollection

Witches can intuitively understand what is going to happen and how to deal with it. The power works on a purely instinctual level: witches don't receive any additional data, but can spontaneously feel how events are going to unfold and what the best course of action is, making it more an inherent part of themselves than an external ability. Thus they always automatically make the most optimal decision in any scenario. Making them to achieve the best possible results in all fields of life and deal with events in the most efficient manner. They automatically seize all opportunities and make the most out of any situation.

This hyper instinct allows them to make the right decision in any situation, multiplying their survivability and success rate, develop their physical/mental abilities, acquire/learn new skills at extraordinary levels, allowing them to overcome great hardships with minimal damage and pull victory from the jaws of defeat despite all odds.

## Types and Variations of Precognition

### Accelerated Probability

Witches can perceive the information of any situation and use the variables of that information to predict/perceive the paths that lead to certain outcomes will occur, based on what choices are made. They can then accelerate themselves along the path of their desire, which causes them to reach the conclusion of the path taken.

#### Causality Perception

Witches can perceive and understand all cause and effect relations, deducing the path leading to any effect, allowing them to plan, analyze, and take action with absolute efficiency. They can perceive the cause and effect relations of their own thoughts giving them the ability to tackle various situations by simply thinking about possible routes they could take.

In a fighting situation, they can adapt perfectly to all factors before they even appear, achieving maximum efficiency in the offense, defense, and strategy, ensuring optimal success as long as there is the slightest chance.

Witches can instantly understand anything by perceiving all the causes/effects it is currently made of, as well as all the previous ones that lead to this state. For example, a simple glance at someone would be enough to learn about their nature, personality, history, expectations, strengths, weaknesses, etc. The perception can also be turned to the person's future, its many paths, their probabilities, and the one which will eventually be realized.

### Astral Premonition

Witches are able to gain knowledge of/from the future by actually traveling to the future in their astral form. Witches appears to be corporeal and can interact with the people there, some users may be able to affect the world in general while there.

### Danger Intuition

Witches can sense nearing danger, acute danger, potential immediate danger, or impending danger and sense unwanted or hectic threats to their well-being and evade it. The intuition usually regards themselves but may include their surroundings, like a distant car-wreck.

### Death Sense

Witches can sense the coming of death, determining when someone is dead or dying or if others have died in a specific location. This may extend to seeing the names and lifespans of those whose faces the witch sees.

### Destiny Perception

Witches can sense the fate of themselves and others: they can see if they, or others, are meant to be loved, hated, rich, poor, die or if they are fated to be good or evil.

### Divination

Witches can employ divination, a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand by using an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Divination can be achieved by communicating with the supernatural (i.e. gods, demons, spirits, nymphs) or by reading certain patterns.

### Empathic Precognition

Witches can foretell future events and observe what might happen by utilizing their personal thoughts and feelings about another. The strength of the witch's emotions corresponds to how evident their vision of the future will become.

### Flash Precognition

Witches are able to see into a short-term future if usually only seconds or minutes worth. While useless for long predictions, it does give several practical advantages.

### Flawless Precognition

Witches can foresee the exact futures, observe what will happen, and possess knowledge and insight of the events to come, with no mistakes and 100% certainty. Even if the future is changed by someone, it will mean nothing, as even the change in the future was already predicted by the witch. Also, Precognitive Immunity does not protect the witch against this power.

### Future Life Awareness

Witches can remember some or all of their future lives, possibly even remembering every power from their future lives in order to use them.

### Life Perception

Witches can perceive the flow of life-force in all living things, perceiving problems life-flow, the coming life and births of others, etc. This may extend to seeing the names and lifespans of those who's faces the witch sees.

### Numerology

Witches can predict the future and as well as influence it with the use of mathematics, witches can read the future with numbers.

### Objective Precognition

Witches are able look to into the future, but they are limited to the desires and decisions of other people.

### Precognitive Artistry

Witches can predict the future by drawing pictures. An example of this is when Davina had continuous flashes of a face and ended up drawing a picture of Céleste Dubois.

#### Precognitive Crafting

Witches can see the future and reveal an image of it through crafting. The witch can use a particular or multiple kinds of craft.

### Precognitive Dreaming

Witches are capable of perceiving future events in dreams.

### Precognitive Power Replication

Witches can foresee the future and can replicate any power from anyone seen inside the vision. A number of uses of this ability could be useful, such as seeing a massive battle between people with abilities, then copying said abilities in order to stop the battle itself when the time arrives, for example.

### Precognitive Speech

Witches can perceive future and/or recite/prophesy it aloud, they may be aware of the process and able to control it, or it may be completely involuntary and/or be uttered in trance.

There are two examples of this. The first being when Céleste was disguising herself as Sabine and prophecized that Hope and Henrik would be the death of all witches. The second being when the seer Alexis, who worked for Lucien Castle, prophecized the Mikaelson's and their sirelines downfall to the Beast.

### Prescience

Witches have an instinctive knowledge of events before they happen. Such as knowing their enemy's every move/intention, know the cause/effect of events, prepare for/prevent the unwanted outcome, etc.

### Prescient Reflexes

Witches possesses automatic reflexes, which perceive the future without the users brain or other powers. This allows their body to react to/plan out reactions/movements to future events and attacks even before other people know about, or have decided them, attacking, blocking, evading and countering enemies, and responding to events.

As the witch is not cognitive of the future the body knows, or how their body will move/respond against and what those responses are makes predicting them very hard.

### Subjective Precognition

Witches can foresee possible futures and observe what may happen based on the decisions they would make, but they are limited to the desires and decisions of themselves.

### Time-Space Synesthesia

Witches can transform musical notes and sounds into visions of the future, tapping into the timestream and project visions from the future. By playing a musical tone, they are able to project visions of the future for others or themselves to observe.

### Xeno-Accelerated Probability

Witches can sense all the variables of any situation for other people, predict the outcomes and what choices the other person could make. They sense the possible courses of action for the target, and can see what consequences will happen for each action the target person can make.

## Limitations

* Precognitive Immunity makes the subject unseen in any and/or various predictions.
* Can cause great strain to the witch's mind.
* Can't see what has already happened, unless the user has Retrocognition.
* Unless they can read a person's thought/emotions, the user can misunderstood of someone's true intentions.
* May require being in a trance, asleep or unconscious to see the future.
* Foretelling may be an involuntary action happening unexpectedly.
* May only be able to see destiny, being unable to change events.
* Visions may be more similar to dreams, difficult to remember, or decipher.
* May be behave like a reverse memory, wherein the nearest futures or most important future events are the most vivid.
* May be limited by how far into the future they can see.
* May be uncontrollable and unpredictable.
* May only be able to see a certain aspect of the future.

## Trivia

* Precognition is also known as foresight, future vision, divination, fortune-telling.