"That's so weird. Our world has Foresight, or prophecy, a few different kinds. I technically have it but mine is really useless in practice." 

"Oh?"

"It's the long-range kind, which is generally cryptic dreams about things years in the future, and I've had a dream about exactly one thing ever." 

"I would demand a refund!"

"From the gods?"

"Yes."

:Do the gods of your world use money? Ours don't!: 

"They do not at all. Abadar collects money in that vault of his but does not spend it, which seems like being a lousy god of commerce if you ask me, which Fazil never has for some reason."

"Abadar maintains a vault with a copy of all things people have ever made with their own hands."

"...Huh. Where? In the afterlife?" 

"Yes. - it's not impossible to get to look at something but there's no spell for it, you'd need a really good reason or to have earned a heck of a personal favor."

"What does he do with it?" 

"Mostly it's just - there, as far as I know. The story goes that when humans were new he wasn't - sure what to do with them - but he saw them making things that were precious to them, and trying to put them away somewhere they'd be safe, so he - kept copies safe for them."

"But not like for them in the sense that they can go get them."

:That's honestly kind of adorable: 

"I think so too."

Next to them, Mahdi sighs. His magical construct is showing black. 

"I can try again tomorrow," he says. "Sorry."

Vanyel had been trying very hard not to get his hopes up, so he isn't sure why he feels so crushingly disappointed. "Thank you for trying," he says dully. 

He nods. "Did you get through explaining our magic, Fazil -"

"No, we got distracted by how prophecy is broken."

"Next school of arcane magic is enchantment. Messing with peoples' heads. Your head should be hard to mess with, high-level casters develop innate defenses -"

"Oh, interesting. Those are different Gifts in my world - more than one, actually, I have Mindspeech and Empathy but not Mindhealing. Although mages in my world can often learn to shield them out even if they don't have the Gifts themselves." 

"The only way to do Yfandes's thing with arcane magic is a sixth-circle spell which still only lets you communicate mentally for a matter of minutes with people nearby. And detecting emotions is actually divination. Enchantment lets you - force people to hold still, or tell the truth, or find it hard to act against you. At high levels you can puppet them. I haven't specialized in it."

"Oh, that sounds like compulsions. That's just normal mage-gift magic for us, although in my kingdom it's considered unethical and not used - reading people's minds against their will, too. We also have a Truth Spell but it's, um, a weird unusual application of summoning air-elementals, and it doesn't actually need mage-gift, although only Heralds with Companions can do it."

Wow, described like that the Truth Spells sounds so odd. 

"Huh. We can do truth spells with enchantment and then Abadar has a specialized first-circle one for his church only which means as a practical matter Fazil does those and I don't. The air elementals have truth detection?"