Daystar and Alexander discuss some of the major problems with prophecies in stories, and ways to potentially avoid the major pitfalls.

Timestamps:

1:22 Prophecy as a way of Spoiling Tension

5:56 Creating Conflict

10:35 Developing Characters

11:45 Prophecy Tension

16:45 Predictable Attempts to avoid Prophecy

19:00 Shallow Intrigue

22:10 How to make prophecy work

30:55 Tricking Prophecies

37:03 Conditional Prophecies

39:20 Prophecy in the Real World

47:23 Being Clever in Subversion