Augurs¶
Augurs are humanoids who carry "an extra-terrestrial lineage", a bloodline that grants sight of what is hidden or yet to come. The blood is common and the gift is rare: roughly one person in a hundred carries it, and nearly all of them "live their entire lives without realizing it" (S536).
The bloodline¶
To most who carry it, the Augur blood "is little more than an occasional vivid dream that turns to reality, or a dream that uncovers some otherwise unknown truth." One in a hundred of those can control enough of the gift to work as fortune-tellers and perform simple divinations. "Only 1 in a 1,000 of these fortunetellers is a full blown Augur with the ability to fully control and manipulate their gift" (S536). An Augur in the full sense is therefore a person in a million, and the people has no homeland, settlement or common culture in the sources; it is a scattering of gifted individuals among the other races.
Orders and conspiracies¶
The Augurs' history is the history of the orders that gathered them. The Order of Agalon was "a once powerful order of Augurs which literally controlled the fate of the world", ranked in sects (Aspirant initiates, Arbiters, Seers, Archivists, Antiquars) under a Sovereign Council. It fell to a betrayer: Heruditus "helped gods (Kalar) to destroy the order. He showed the gods how to be invisible to the auguries" (S536). The Ghorvallian Conclave was "a small group of Augurs which operated in secret and whose existence is likely forgotten to almost every book", and is credited with orchestrating the First Great Mage War "which led to the death of millions and the reduction of magic use among humans". The Assassins of Ghoresh, at the height of their power, "were actually led by an Augur, which used his auguries to further his own power and determine the best way to carry out impossible-seeming assassinations" (S536).
Gap
The one source is a page of notes. It does not say where the extra-terrestrial lineage came from, what an Augur's gift looks like in use, how Augurs are recognised or treated by the peoples they live among, or whether any order of Augurs survives into the Fifth Age. The sect names of the Order of Agalon are listed without description.