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Different prophetic women possessed different forms of vision. Some saw personal fates—individual wyrd, the shape of particular lives, dooms written in bloodlines. These women advised families, read children’s futures, helped people understand the pattern they were born into.
Others saw collective fates—tribal destiny, outcomes of battles, success or failure of harvests, movements of peoples across lands. These women advised leaders, helped communities prepare for what was coming, spoke prophecies that shaped historical events.
The most powerful saw cosmic patterns—the movements of gods and giants, the approaching end of ages, the great cyclic events that transcended individual lives. These were rare, their visions reported in songs and stories, their names remembered long after death because what they saw affected entire peoples.
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