Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6369172-20150616123743/@comment-220364-20150616234100

Stoop Davy Dave wrote: "It's a power of their attribute."

The flames imparted knowledge to the heroine, without being sentient themselves. So that's accurate, but what's it called when they do that?

"go with Divination. "

That sounds like just the right word for it, but nobody else was calling it that. Less clunky than "pyrocognition" too, so I can spare myself the embarrassment of coining that term.

" I'd leave it as part of Energy Constructs and not really mention it."

Energy Constructs take thoughts, from the character, and make them physical; this power imparts knowledge to the character. Closely related but not the same.

"can be included on the item page for the ring"

Okay, that works for the GLC, and for all I know that's how it's been handled all along. For non-GLC characters, though, it's like a whole separate super power. Even for the magicians, who routinely find stuff out this way, it serves a distinct function; it's not defense, it's not attack, it's not mobility, it's purely knowledge.

Here's my problem: There's not a category page for Divination, so it's not a popular or well-recognized super-power. Is it worthy of a Category: Powers page, of its own, or is it like a subcategory of some existing super-powers, like Clairvoyance and Retrocognition.

See Divination and Category:Divination. They're currently tucked under Category:Magic since that, in most cases, is what it is based on.

Anything that is like computer data retrieval can be handled with notes attached to the equipment. Keep in mind, the GL rings and the like are basically quick look up Wikipedia and Google. And any one with a smartphone can do a Google or Wikipedia search.