User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 377 & 378: Imperial Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon & With Friends, Always, Review./@comment-4449950-20140329045401/@comment-7418318-20140329091324

I mostly agree with you, with the exception of this one point:

"And don't give me the "she's predicted guild peeps actions before etc." excuse, because this is completely different. There she was predicting a single thing, or, previously, she's had visions of single horrible things to come. NEVER has she predicted multiple versions of a future based on her own actions."

In the past Carla never really acted on her premonitions, except in Edolas and the movie, which turned out to be self-fulfilling prophecies of sorts, where her premotions only came true because of her acting.

With her not telling the others of her visions, she always remained the only one able to change the course of events from what she saw and when she didn't act, that possible future she saw turned into a sure one.

But this time, she chose to act and thus turned the static future into a flux of uncountably many variations, each one coming from her taking a different action.

Though I absolutely agree with you on the matter of the timing. She shouldn't be able to sift through all those possible futures with such speed and precision on account of doing this for the first time and the astronomical number of ways that a magic circle could be drawn.

In Warhammer 40K Eldar Farseers (who have the very same ability as Carla demonstrated) need decades of intense training before they are allowed call themselves Farseers and thus guide others based on their predictions. And that training can only start after they already learned to control their psychic powers on the path of the warlock.

I like the Carrot version of 378... would you mind if I use it as an outline for a later chapter of my fanfict later? Of course you'll be given full credit.

"Knowing how to draw the magic circle after seeing it in a vision is no different from knowing how to draw a map of the caverns beneath the Edoras castle after seeing it in a vision."

It is very different. The pathways beneath the city have been unchanged for decades or even centuries and to change them requires a lot of excavation and stuff and take month or even years. And most importantly, they were already there and Carla just had to see them.

The magic circle required to overload Face on the other hand was not there yet and there are uncountably many ways how such a circle can be drawn. That she had to look through many possible futures until she found one that would work already shows that it's vastly different than seeing the map of an already existing place.