Taking all possibilities into account would be madness.
It's the duty of an oracle- when someone asks of a prediction- to give the most likely outcome...
Which oftentimes, when you find us being vague... it's because we're not entirely sure.
And we like to be correct, and usually telling someone exactly what will happen- will mean the opposite occurs.
No repeat business.
But I'm not an oracle by trade.
Only nature.
I'm a surgeon otherwise.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postBiologically an oracle, yes.
But professionally a surgeon.
And I suppose it has some perks.
Knowing what decisions will make the patient more likely to survive ahead of time...
But it doesn't make a difference when medical knowledge will do the same thing.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postIt is, when it comes to being a surgeon.
If anything it's useless when it comes to that.
Sure, I could with my added abilities- make sure i categorically cannot fail by removing all elements of my own mistakes through accidental cuts, by removing the branches that I can take where I make a mistake and fail.
But with human error such things can come down to seconds, and I'd spend perhaps so much time before a 'perfect' operation such as that, that the patient may have died in the wait.
And the effort is wasted.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postI made it as an aside but...
That is the ability I have learned in addition.
It's also why you saw me holding this knife with my eyes closed.
-he produces the knife again-
I see fate as a web of possibilities, stretching out onto an endless horizon.
Every choice, possibility- all of it contributes to divergences.
However, unlike other oracles- I found out how to "cut" the branches away.
Thus, I streamline my fate.
I remove possibilities artificially.
Thus... I actively alter what fate may throw at me.
For example, were I the type of man to kill for pleasure- I could make sure I would never be caught by removing the possibility.
In that case- something may happen that will make it so that I cannot be a proven murderer.
Evidence being destroyed- the unreliability of human memory making eyewitnesses useless.
Et cetera, et cetera.
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this postVingolf. And I'm not making that up. That's actually the name of Gjallarhorn's Earth Headquarters.
Hmm...
"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."

(cheeky smile) I was only making a joke, ma'am.
Doesn't that get confusing eventually?
"We all fail. We all make mistakes. That is what makes us human."