Archetype:Diviner

Diviner
Madame Xanadu (DC Comics) uses divination to Help her clients.
Archetype of:	Diviner.

The archetype for the characters that possess or have traits of a diviner. Variation of Psychic.

Properties

The archetype is a diviner, someone who seeks to gain insight into a question or situation through various methods, often involving rituals or practices that are considered occult or supernatural (i.e., divination). Diviners consult with their clients to find information on a wide range of topics. For example, a diviner might use tarot cards to guide a client on an important decision. Another client might visit a diviner to get help locating a lost object through divination. Here are some key aspects of a diviner’s role:

Interpreting Signs and Omens: Diviners use various tools and methods to interpret signs, events, or omens. This can include reading tarot cards, casting runes, or interpreting the patterns in tea leaves.

Connecting with the Supernatural: Many diviners claim to communicate with spirits, gods, or other supernatural entities to gain insights. This can involve practices like spirit possession or using objects believed to have spiritual significance.

Providing Guidance: The primary role of a diviner is to provide guidance to individuals seeking answers. This can involve diagnosing problems, predicting future events, or offering advice on how to proceed in a given situation.

Cultural and Religious Context: The methods and significance of divination can vary widely across different cultures and religions. For example, in some African traditions, divination is a deeply respected practice that involves a rich body of knowledge and cultural history.

Ritualistic and Social Elements: Divination often has a formal or ritualistic element and can be a social activity, especially in a religious context. It can be seen as a way to organize seemingly random events to provide meaningful insights.

Applications

• Danger Detection
• Death Sense
• Destiny Perception
• Detection
• Dimensional Awareness
• Divine Communication
• Domino Effect
• Dowsing
• Extrasensory Perception
• Guidance
  • Supernatural Tracking
• Inner Sight
• Parallel Viewing
• Pattern Sense
• Probability Perception
• Psychic Intuition
• Psychic Perception
• Psychic Scanning
• Supernatural Intelligence
  • Supernatural Wisdom
• Weakness Detection

Associated Users

• Astrologer
• Clairvoyant
• Psychic
• Esper
• Fortune Teller
  • Prophet
    • Oracle
• Magician
• Medium
• Occultst
• Spiritualist
• Seer
• Witches
• Wizards

Psychic Gifts

• Clairalience
• Clairaudience
• Clairgustance
• Claircognizance
• Clairempathy
• Clairomancy
• Clairtelepathy
• Clairsentience
• Clairvoyance/Flawless Clairvoyance
• Mediumship
• Precognition/Flawless Precognition
• Prophecy
• Psychometry
• Retrocognition
• Syncognition

Variations

See also: Methods of divination.

• Acultomancy - form of divination in which the user uses needles for divination.
• Agalmatomancy - form of divination by the means of statues or teraphim for divination.
• Aichmomancy - form of divination by using sharp objects for divination.
• Angelomancy - form of divination by using angels or angelic objects.
• Astromancy - form of divination in which the user interprets the future through the movement of celestial bodies in certain houses which is believed to affect the future.
  • Heliomancy‎‎ - form of divination by using the sun.
  • Selenomancy - a form of divination by using the moon.
• Augury - form of divination in which the user gains insight by interpreting birds' flight paths, songs, etc.
• Auramancy - form of divination by using auras.
• Bibliomancy - form of divination using books in divination or for advice. The method of employing sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for 'magical medicine', for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world.
• Catoptromancy - form of divination in which the user uses mirrors for divination.
• Cartomancy - form of divination in which the user uses cards for divination.
• Cleromancy - form of divination by using "lots", such as bones, stones, sticks and dice.
• Computational Divination - "form" of divination in which the user computes the information, without occult or supernatural means.
• Demonomancy - form of divination in which the user uses demons or demonic items.
• Elementomancy - form of divination in which the user uses the elements for divination.
  • Aeromancy - form of divination in which the user interprets and reads the future through atmospheric conditions (i.e., cloud formations, wind currents, comets, thunder and lightning). It was said to be one of the seven "forbidden arts" along with geomancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, palmistry, necromancy and scapulimancy (the divination of the bones).
    • Typhomancy - form of divination in which the user uses smoke for divination.
  • Geomancy - form of divination using earth.
    • Abacomancy - form of divination in which the user uses the patterns in dust, dirt, silt and sand for divination.
    • Crystallomancy - form of divination in which the user uses crystals for divination.
  • Hydromancy - form of divination using water.
  • Pyromancy - form of divination using fire.
• Hagiomancy - form of divination by using saints and saint objects.
• Necromancy - form of divination by speaking to the dead using corpses as a conduit.
• Numeromancy - form of divination in which the user uses the numbers for divination.
• Oneiromancy - form of divination in which the user uses the dreams for divination.
• Organimancy - form of divination in which the user uses organic materials for divination.
  • Anthropomancy - form of divination by using human flesh, blood, organs and bones.
    • Hematomancy - form of divination by using blood.
    • Osteomancy - form of divination by using bones. Necromancy can also be included in this.
    • Hieromancyform of divination by using entrails of animals.
  • Chloromancy - form of divination by using plant life and vegetation.
    • Tasseomancy - form of divination in which the user uses tea leaves for divination.
  • Trofimancy - form of divination in which the user uses food for divination.
  • Palmistry - a form of divination in which the user reads an individual's palm to see their past, present and future.
• Scrying - reading the future or obtain spiritual visions through translucent or luminescent objects. Sub-methods include crystallomancy/crystal gazing and pyromancy/fire reading.

Associations

• Dream Interpreter
• Extrasensory Perception
  • Clairvoyance
• Magic
  • Psychic Magic
• Seer
  • Fortune Tellers
• Sensory Arts

Limitations

• May not affect users of Psychic Shield, Magic Immunity, Psychic Immunity or Indomitable Will.
• Weak against Magic Negation/Destruction.
• The users of Precognitive Immunity.
• May not affect users of Psychic Falsification.
• All methods take time and space for the ritual.
• May require supernatural aid to correctly predict the future.
• Predictions may be symbolic/opaque or unintelligible.
• May be random and uncontrollable.
• Most methods need specific items (i.e., bibliomancy requires a book while I Ching requires many things).

Known Users

See Also: Whatevermancy.

Cartoons/Comics

• Madame Xanadu (DC Comics)
• John Constantine (DC Comics)
• Doctor Fate (DC Comics)
• Traci Thirteen (DC Comics)
• Klarion Bleak (DC Comics)
• Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics)
• Gambit (Marvel Comics)
• Maleficent (Disney's Sleeping Beauty)
• Inanna (The Wicked + The Divine)
• Cassandra Igarashi/Urdr (The Wicked + The Divine)
• Soothsayer (Kung Fu Panda 2)
• Madame Leizel (Di-Gata Defenders); via The Eye
• Lumina (Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow)

Folklore/Mythology

• Levites (Abrahamic Mythology)
• Sibyls (Classical Mythology)
• Oracles (Classical Mythology)
• Astrologers (Medieval Occultism)

Literature

• Seers (Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts)
  • Gellert Grindelwald
  • Cassandra Trelawney
  • Sybill Trelawney
• Rachel Elizabeth Dare (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
• Warlocks, wizard, witches and witch-chameleons (Shadow Falls)
• Jacquetta of Luxembourg (The White Queen)
• Elizabeth Woodville (The White Queen)

Gallery

Rasputin's Reliquary (Don Bluth’s Anastasia)

Basil Hawkins (One Piece) often speaks like a fortune teller and has been noted to mention reading "signs".

Students during a Divination class (Harry Potter)

Gellert Grindelwald (Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts)

Soothsayer (Kung Fu Panda 2), read Shen's future at his insistence, she seems to use personal effects of someone (e.g., Shen's feather and the hem of his robe) to read their future by burning the objects in a brazier and foreseeing their future in the smoke.

Inanna (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to divine the future…

…using constellations to keep track of his fellow gods.

As a goddess of fate, Cassandra Igarashi/Urdr (The Wicked + The Divine) is capable of divination.

Marmolims (Sonic X)

Jacquetta of Luxembourg (The White Queen) was skilled in the practice of predicting the future, having been trained by her grand-aunt in the art of reading tarot-cards. Later on, through her first husband's arrangements, she acquired the art of mirror-gazing, which enabled her to see past, present, and future events through looking into a mirror

Elizabeth Woodville ( The White Queen) was skillful in the practice of predicting the future, having been secretly trained by her mother in the art of reading tarot cards.