Chapter 1
- Scrying. Creating a direct sensory connection to a location outside of the user's typical line of sight. (Clairvoyance, Arcane Eye, Scrying)
- Detection. Revealing information about the caster's immediate environment. (Detect Magic, Locate Creature/Object, See Invisibility, True Seeing and the Diviner's Third Eye)
- Comprehension. Allowing the caster to comprehend information not immediately sensible. (Identify, Comprehend Languages, Detect Thoughts, Tongues, Legend Lore and the Diviner's Third Eye)
- Foresight. Gaining limited foretelling capabilities. (Foresight and the Diviner's Portent)
Chapter 2
Foresight is often seen as the heart of Divination. However, it can be argued that Foresight is the result of Detection and supreme Comprehension. Scrying combines more pure magical energy to effectively enhance detection to supernatural levels.
Fundamentally, Divination focuses on obtaining information through magical means. Divination spells allow information to be gathered across vast distances, language barriers, and even across time itself. The subschools of Detection and Comprehension are closely related, but there are subtle distinctions between spells of one or the other.
Spells such as Comprehend Languages and Tongues don't actually tell you what language somebody is speaking, nor change the sounds that actually hit your ears — they access the true meaning of spoken and written words, bypassing language entirely. Identify and Legend Lore present the caster with facts about an object that have always been true — it's merely the first time the caster has come across them.
Chapter 3
Many believe in the notion of free will: the ability to choose our actions and destinies. Some say that the existence of gods discredits the notion. Others claim that while the gods see far, they are far from omniscient.
The puzzle here is simple; if the universe was a certain way at some point in the past, and all the laws of the universe are consistent and determinable, then does that mean every fact about the world is predetermined? That is, could an omniscient being know everything about the future?
If that's the case, then what does it mean to truly have free will? Some believe that the notion of free will is incompatible with foreknowledge and determinism, but others point to the existence of both as proof that the two concepts can coexist.