This spell is a part of the Crystal Ball spell chain and is found in the Crystal Ball rune stone.
The posteramancer has seen where they are going. They have watched the shape of their own future unfold across the Crystal Ball, across Future Reflection, across every act of foresight they have undertaken since they first learned to read what time was showing them. They know what they are going to become. They know the power that is going to be theirs. It was always going to be theirs. Fate wrote it long before they were born. The only question was when. Power Preordained is the posteramancer deciding that when is now.
When this spell is cast the posteramancer reaches through Fate into their own predestined future and borrows just once, just for this moment - a power that has not yet arrived but was always going to. They may use any single spell or skill of tier 5 or tier 6 from any chain in which they have already learned at least one spell or skill. The path was already begun. The destination was already written. Fate permits the shortcut because it knows the power was always going to end up here eventually.
The borrowed power functions exactly as it would if the posteramancer had earned it through normal progression with full effect, full potency, no reduction for being borrowed rather than owned. It is used once and then returns to the future where it belongs, waiting patiently for the posteramancer to catch up to it through the normal passage of time and growth. The posteramancer is not surprised by what they just did. They already knew they were going to do it. That, perhaps more than anything else, is what it means to truly foresee your own destiny.
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