Mechanical Fortune Teller

A Mechanical Fortune Teller which spoke in rhyme was created by Madame Tarsa and resided in her Workshop.

Nature

Although it was a genuinely powerful oracle, its usefulness was limited, as it was programmed to only speak in terms so vague and poetic as to be more or less opaque. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker) Moreover it could only scry Tarsa's own realm, and was unable to predict events outside its boundaries. (PROSE: The Frost King's Treasure) Tarsa, however, could at least order it to speak plainly to her. (PROSE: The Toymaker's Labyrinth)

Biography

She used the Fortune Teller in 2019 to check on Pessimist-242 and Larrikin-1029's progress through her Labyrinth. (PROSE: The Toymaker's Labyrinth)

Later, in December, she checked it on a whim after finishing a batch of Christmas orders, and learned ahead of time about her participatin in the quest for the Frost King's treasure. Though nonplussed about the prospect, she decided to go along with it so as to preserve the temporal loop of the Fortune Teller having foreseen her going. (PROSE: The Frost King's Treasure)