-Havard

The Topaz Eye is an organization for all kinds of spellcasters who can access divination magic. What do you think about having a specific organization for this type of characters? Should Divination magic hold a special place in Blackmoor?

Dave Arneson's earlier writings (FFC) do mention predictions and precognitions IIRC...

-Havard

The underlying concept of Blackmoor is very adventurer-centric (one hero -or a small group of heroes- that, in the face of overwhelming adverse odds, manage to resist and turn the tide of history) and therefore, in theory, divination (i.e. checking what is the destiny that the gods decided for us and, somehow, align to it, making the most of what they decided) should be a very opposed way of thinking. However, I think that, the way divination spells are often presented ("from a divination spell you get to know that the Afridhi/the Egg/an obscure chaotic cult.... is working on this and that obscure plot... and now you have a chance to twart it...") is actually very fitting with the setting.

My impression is that I don't see many playing characters joining the Topaz Eye. It sounds more a NPC organization... perhaps exactly that organization that goes from time to time to King Uther, warning him of threatening plots and the like, as mentioned above.

I also like the name of the organization! ;)