True Name: Enheduanna (?)
Parameters:
STR C
END C
AGI B
MGI A+
LUK A
Noble Phantasm EX
Clairvoyance (Bārûtu) – EX
The divination arts of ancient Mesopotamia. The ancient Mesopotamian holistic interpretation of reality states that there is an “ideal shape of the World”. It is known that the High Priest’s duty was to identify and interpret “abnormalities”—divergences between reality and this ideal shape—, which were believed to be a response from the
in disagreement to the actions and decisions of humans. To Alter Ego, however, Bārûtu was the path towards
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Alter Ego, as the greatest priestess to have ever lived, transcended the mundane methods, achieving divination through high-speed mental calculation. To avoid the excruciating time waste of collecting omens and signs from all sorts of different sources, she taught herself to “see the world as the gods do”, capturing all things within her perception in an instant, and use them as her reference. By setting a temporal sampling rate (generally blinking or walking), she collects data samples of the world around her. With enough samples, she can calculate the past that generated those samples and the future they will create. Within her territory and with an adequate access to magical energy to sustain her, her processing capacity can match that of a certain setting’s spiritron computer in the Moon.
As the High Priestess of the Moon God, Alter-Ego was also the mortal embodiment of the god’s bride, the goddess ruling over the interpretation of dreams, and all other means of insight and divination. As such, she must have mastered these arts at a very early age. Perhaps, it was this heightened awareness of the world at too young an age that set her on the path she ended up walking…