The divination of the reich was simple, even crude, and he did not use special materials to make fires, did not ask for sacrifices, and did not do anything amazing. He simply begged for a stone ornament from the white wolf and threw it into the fire. This stone is taken from the riverbed, and the surface is warm and smooth compared to ordinary stones, and the ornaments made are not precious stones, but have a different style of beauty. It is not clear what the people of the steppe called cheese, but in the books he read, the stone was called jade, a word from other languages that was translated directly from pronunciation, and there is no record of where the language was popular or who the speakers were.

"I don't really understand. While the shaman was saying something to the fire, Lothar asked the cheese. Even though he had foreseen the mage's incomprehensible words, he was still curious about divination. It's no wonder that asking God to ask for divination is a matter of mystery and rarely spread, and it's normal to have some interest in it.

Cheese took his gaze back, and the ritual of divination was indiscernible with the naked eye. And it is very rude to use a magical vision to peep at other people's rituals, and many of the existence of divination rituals are very vigilant, and the gaze of a third party other than the diviner is likely to make them run away or even leave a message indiscriminately, then it is very bad, "I don't understand what?"

"If I understand correctly, the relationship between the shaman and the gods they serve is very much like that of a knight and the king whom he swears allegiance. The Count tried to interpret what had happened in terms of what he could understand, "Because the knight will fulfill his obligations for the king, the king will also help when he is in trouble." Divination can also be considered as one of these helps. But what do you mean when you say that a shaman's divination can be done without going through the gods he serves?

"There's nothing wrong with your analogy. The mage tilted his head, as if considering how to follow Lothar's train of thought and tell what he knew, "The problem is that you're thinking too simply. From knights to kings, there are several classes of differences even in small countries, not to mention shamans who have just been selected from the 'lords', they are far from the real nobles, although they can meet the king directly, but they can't really let the latter help them do anything. ”

In other words, the king is indeed the knight's allegiance, but there are quite a few layers in between, and the people in these levels are either subordinate to the knight or completely outside of that relationship. What he is doing now is asking for help from the people of these estates at some cost. As for the effect, the spirits of plants and trees born in the local area must know the land under their feet better than the gods of mountains and rivers in the distance, regardless of the level of class, mainly to people. Besides—" Cheese hesitated.

"Besides, there's a premise to all of this. That is, the gods, or some being at a higher level than the gods, really control the part of the world, and only then can they be effective in helping people. But in fact, many times, divination does not need the help of these gods or goblins or other things, and divination has a more inner and primitive side. In this context, man is not a knight, the world is not a kingdom, and all things are intimately connected in ways that we cannot understand, and divination is to obtain information that people do not know. ”

But this aspect also has a premise, that is, the world needs to be a whole, and everything needs to be interconnected internally, no matter how big the external gap is. And this inner connection can also be seen as a more, well, pure deity. It's just that this kind of god doesn't have a mind of its own and runs like a machine. Is it possible that this connection itself is also an imagination? The inside of this world is not so simple, we are like aquatic plants on the surface of the sea that rise and fall with the waves, and we don't know what the world is like under the surface of the sea. ”

Cheese's voice grew quieter, and his eyes became less determined with his guesses. The fear of the unknown is an emotion that is difficult for ordinary people to overcome, and for the gray robe, this fear will only be stronger. Take the current situation as an example, if the last assumption of the mage is true, then what are those divinations without objects looking for answers? Where will the answers obtained from such divination take people? If the ghosts and gods can still be established without the ghosts and gods, it is probably a more feared thing than the existence of ghosts and gods itself.

The fire was extinguished. Leaving behind the black ashes, the unburned residue and the piece of jade. Even if ordinary jade is burned for a long time in a bonfire, the surface is only covered with black ashes. But after the divination ceremony, when the black substance on the surface of the jade was removed, some small but obvious lines had clearly emerged. There are many similar divination rituals, some using tortoise shells and some animal bones, depending on the local product, but regardless of the medium, divination from traces is a very common method of divination.

The difficulty of this method is not to create traces, but to use all the natural and unnatural traces of divination, and whether these divinations will become accurate allegories, or mere voice-overs or just absurd words that deceive the world, depends on the soothsayer's interpretation of the traces. The same traces are left to different people to interpret, and those who have not undergone the corresponding training can only regard them as traces, and those who know some magic can roughly guess that they are props for divination. Only those who are truly trained and well versed in this can decipher the message behind the traces. And the method of interpretation is mostly related to the loss of mind.

Absence of consciousness does not mean fainting or shock. It means liberating the ability to think that is bound by reason, temporarily forgetting all the acquired knowledge about the world, and returning the mind to the state of primitive nature, and directly understanding the non-written words in front of you in an almost intuitive way. Shamans often achieved this through sacrifices, drinking, carnival dancing, etc., with the help of which they were able to temporarily escape from the world and allow their spirits to wander.

But he doesn't have to, he can directly interpret these cracks. If he is not pretending, then the shaman's inner life can no longer be speculated by ordinary people, and his travels are with the world. Cheese has seen two such people, the first is the sleeper, and the sleeper who is half-asleep and half-awake can achieve a blend of rationality and irrationality. The second is his teacher, the Lord of the Grey Tower, the deceased first Grey Robe, who in Cheese's impression can also do this. The strange thing is that the owner of the Gray Tower should be the most rational in the world.