So as any reader of fantasy books or watcher of fantasy films should know, prophecy is a tool often used. The fortelling centuries ago of some dark time or threat to the world which some hero (usually some country stable boy who just happens to be ‘the chosen one’) is meant to be discovered and save everybody. Have you noticed however that these prophecys are always so damn cryptic? Its always something like “the coming of the dark one shall spell the beginning of the end times”, it never gives you any details. Who is the dark one? When exactly is he coming? How long is the end times? Now either these sage mystic fellows who get these prophecys either just get a glimpse or are just damn unhelpful. Would it kill them to provide notes? A calendar saying when things will happen? Why can’t they say “On the 24th of June Darryl Thorn (the dark one) will arrive in the capital city at the West Gate around about tea time, signalling the beginning of the end times, which by the way is the next three months after that day” ?

Geuss its just not mystic-y enough.

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