The Oracle of Delphi

I see time laid out before me, like a row of marble towers fading into the hazy distance, stretching toward a single, inescapable vanishing point. I watch as visions, alive and colourful in my mind, come to pass exactly as foretold. I have seen the fate of nations and the apex of our eternal city. I have witnessed our magnificent civilization shine in the summer sun before fading in the inevitable autumn, eventually to be forgotten and replaced. I see the perpetual cycles of creation and destruction that rule the cosmos, and the tides of nature to which we are all bound. I have seen the moment of your death. I am the Oracle and I have seen it all.