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Divination dice are an item added randomly to religious (not titan) shrines located throughout the world, with several able to spawn at monasteries. They can be picked up and rolled to determine the will of the gods relevant to the dice, granting a variety of possible effects both positive or Fun. Multiple dice may be held and rolled at a time, though this only appears to count as rolling the first picked up dice.^[Verify]

Dice come in several known varieties depending on the number of sides:

• D20 (twenty-sided, known as "icosahedral")
• D12 ("twelve-sided" or "dodecahedral")
• D8 ("eight-sided" or "octahedral")
• D6 ("six-sided" or "cubic")
• D4 ("four-sided")

The list of known dice effects:

• Creates a random artifact-quality weapon at the shrine the dice were from^[Verify]
• Creates a random artifact-quality piece of armor at the shrine the dice were from^[Verify]
• Upgrades each piece of the user's armor by one level^[Verify]
• Grants the user indefinite^[Verify] enhanced healing factor, capable of restoring lost limbs within hours/between area loads^[Verify]
• Grants the user a random friendly pet spawned nearby (current list of possibilities unknown, seems to prefer exotic/giant creatures)
• Grants the user a week of good luck (unknown effect, assumed to be similar-but-opposite to the mummy's curse)
• Various messages that have no effect, giving ominous, foreboding, or fateful advice or statements
• Grants the user a week of bad luck (assumed to be similar/the same as a mummy's curse but temporary)
• Transforms the user into a random creature for one week (seems to prefer exotic/giant creatures)^[Verify]

It is likely that dice with more sides have more extreme effects: dice with fewer sides than 12^[Verify] cannot cause the stronger effects (shown in bold), both good or bad. Each die can only have one very positive effect in its list of possibilities; this may be dependant on the deity the die represents instead of the object.^[Verify]

Warning: Using the same dice under the same diety's blessing more than twice in an uncertain period of time, known to be between 24 hours - 1 week, will anger the gods, cursing the ill-fated thrower in a similar way to toppling over a statue. Any creature cursed by the gods in such a way will be unable to benefit from the dice again in the future of any diety.

Bugs

• The curse to transform the user into a beast seems to be treated as a normal syndrome, and thus can be instantly healed by simply unloading the cell (fast travelling, sleeping). However, the victim appears to suffer stat penalties afterwards.^[Verify]
• Dice may under unknown circumstances respawn even after being taken from their home shrine, after a cell reload.^[Verify]

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• Some dwarves love to roll dice and play games about dragons and dungeons (or the variant, Ogres and Oubliettes, for some very bizarre reason, this latter having more than a few followers among the humans.)