Magic, People: Fortuna, Verdad Ocultada and the Stars
It is not an entirely rare gift, but it is not so common either. About 30% of the population has some mild Fortuna ability. It is the ability to see things past, present, or future. Some of it is touch based (Touch-Know), some is strictly by course of visions (random or intentionally focused through trance). Divination is another form, using tools such as runes or tarot cards to focus energy. Some mages have prophetic dreams. Masters of Fortuna magic are known as Prophets. There are five known prophets in the world of Aylasia and all live in and around New Meridian. In game there is one active prophet: Aldrich Waldemar was named when Agatha Ambrose died. There are two NPC prophets, Maris Solange and Monroe Puissant, as well as one other available for play. The unnamed fifth prophet may be Atlanta Halton.


There is a facet to Fortuna magic that was created by the prophets in order to hide the visions of certain key people (past or future visions). It was designed as a specific spell that imbued a person with the ability to hide visions for a specific person. The resulting ability is called verdad ocultada. The ability to protect secrets is innate; it is almost as if the person is holding the visions back so that others cannot see them.

An unexpected side effect occurred when cast; the ability passed from one generation to the next through the female line, mother to oldest daughter. Sometimes the ability can pass to the first born daughter of a generation without passing through her mother. The ability may lay dormant in men, and other women in the family not being the first born. It is a very rare ability as the spell was used sparingly by the prophets to gift others. It is also a secret ability; those who are casting it are unknown and those that they protect are not aware of it.

Those with the ability may be given "assignments" by the prophets, people to protect (by hiding visions of them). This is done by passing a vision of the person to be protected; the passing creates an instantaneous bond between the protector and the protected that helps channel visions to the protector and aid them to know which ones to hide. The protectors can protect many secrets at once, and for more than one person. Protectors may chose their own assignments to protect friends and family, in this instance they don't need to be passed a vision to form a bond. In game the only people with this ability were Isabella Aznar (who disappeared) and Gwen Morrow (an NPC who died).


Stars have the ability to see the past, present, and future. This is a very big secret that the stars do not often share. Few mages are aware that they have this ability. They are the reason why mages have visions and can use Fortuna magic. They cannot always choose who will receive their visions, but they share them when they believe that something important will result from it.

The stars have sometimes meddled in human affairs because they have seen several different paths to the future and they would prefer (for whatever reason) that the future heads down a particular path. Sometimes they do not share visions because they believe that one path will take precedence over another. This sometimes results in a skewed timeline, in which some things were supposed to happen but did not because of meddling or a lack thereof.