What is "diviners"

Usage examples of "diviners".

The Diviners stood in a little group at her right, the others were scattered around the spacious emptiness, close to the high seat.

Two of the Diviners threw themselves upon the crystal, shielding it with their bodies.

They were young, these student Diviners, and their teachers were old, and all were unused to combat.

The Diviners said that I would bring more blood to the House of the Mother.

Then she went with her chief Diviner through long, dim corridors past monastic quarters where young Diviners were trainedso few of them now, she thought, so very few, with how many deserted chambers on all sidesto the place where the Eye of the Mother was kept, in the great Hall of the Diviners.

The Diviners gathered round that which was beneath it, a thing waist high and some three feet across, covered with a finely worked cloth.

The huge crystal, pellucid as a raindrop, seemed rather to absorb the light than to reflect it, so that the golden rays went glimmering down, and back and forthnow deep, now shallow, ever shiftingand the Diviners bent their heads, gazing with their souls into the depths of the crystal.

She went from the Hall of the Diviners back to her own place on the knees of the Mother, and she called together her counselors and the Clan-Mothers and the heads of all the guildsas well as the foremost of the scholars, those who were not too far lost in the vast labyrinthine House that contained the history of a planet, where generations of scholars had studied and catalogued and recreated, deciphering ancient literatures, surmising ancient musics, enjoying learning for its pure and only sake, their minds free, their bodies safe from want.

The huge crystal, pellucid as a raindrop, seemed rather to absorb the light than to reflect it, so that the golden rays went glimmering down, and back and forth now deep, now shallow, ever shiftingand the Diviners bent their heads, gazing with their souls into the depths of the crystal.

Some went to the temples to joyous rites to the goddess of magic, while others sought counsel from diviners who read such signs through incantations.

Conjurers held less status than diviners, and to be compared unfavorably to a wizard of that school was highly displeasing to his ambitious patron.

Procopio knew that people who harbored secrets tended to avoid powerful diviners, and with good reason.

Few diviners had achieved his level of skill, but men such as he could perceive the magic that clung to certain objects like scent to a flower.

The Diviners had long since vanished, and with them had died the knowledge of how to build the Corridors, But the catalysts, who had controlled them for centuries, knew still how to operate and maintain them, taking the Life needed to keep them active from those who used them.

Yetko and his people had traded with these Children of Skaith-Our-Mother for generations, but the trading was done in a place outside the sacred House and never by such exalted ones as were gathered herethe Clan Mothers and the counselors, the Diviners, Skaith-Daughter herselfall glittering in their fine harness and jeweled badges of rank.