The effects of Places of Power can be felt by anyone and everyone. A particularly strong one can have an immediate effect on a person who has never grasped the concept of Magia, and prolonged exposure to even a weak Place of Power will eventually affect the exposed person. There are however individuals, who possess a predisposition towards detecting the fluctuations within the structure of Magia on a much more profound level. Those people, are called the Seers. Albeit the name isn’t perfect: there is nothing to see, other than on a metaphysical level.

The Seers are not a binary construct. They are a spectrum, and a very wide one too. Although it is currently believed that one cannot “become” a Seer, as in the predisposition is something to be born with, this raw potential, due to its varying degree of strength and knowledge of Magia, might be revealed at a different time in life, differing from person to person. On top of that, something as simple as defining the abilities of the Seer, especially concerning the line where the un-Seers are ending the Seers begin, has proven to be too difficult. As of today, still, the only way to discover the identity of the Seers is to wait until their abilities show on their own. It is otherwise impossible to determine the natural predisposition before the Seer’s first discovery of a Place of Power. And those potentials must be added, do vary greatly. From simple increase in the profanity of the effect that the Places of Power have on a Seer, all the way to being able to locate a Place of Power from a certain distance, without laying the eyes on it. Paradoxically, despite the fact, that as all data suggest, the stronger the potential the less frequent it occurs, the more powerful Seers are known in greater number than weaker ones. This is due to the very fact, that the chance of identifying a Seer increases with the natural potential the Seer possesses.

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