[Absolute crackpot theory] Haruspex, or did the Darkin use hemomancy to see the future?

It's 2am GMT and there's no roadmap, so it's time for lore crack.

This theory is sourced in the story "Twilight of the Gods" by Graham McNeill, Roman history and culture and... the meaning of the word "hemomancy".

#1. "Hemomancy" doesn't mean control of blood, it means "divination by blood"

One always wonders why early Riot went for this instead of, say, the more appropriate "hematurgy" - from Ancient Greek "haemato" (blood) and the suffix "-urgy" (work) - the technique of working with blood. Is there an implication that one can divine with blood in the League universe?

#2. We indeed know some Darkin could see the future.

We know from the "Legends of the Darkin" that:

They taught themselves forbidden sorceries, and came to view themselves as the rightful inheritors of the world.

and some of those forbidden sorceries were blood magic and fleshcrafting. Now in TotG we encounter a curious pair of Darkin:

Shabaka and Shabake, the raven-feathered seer twins, did not even look up, too engrossed in casting auguries with scrimshawed fingerbones.

Augury is an ancient Roman tradition, where a specialised seer called the "augur" would predict the future by observing bird flight. (Side note: We know Noxus is based off Rome and Swain seeing the future with the help of ravens only strengthens the thematic link. The Augur Grand General is just super awesome.)

That said, it is unclear where the raven sisters draw their divination powers from. Could it be something to do with the forbidden arts the Darkin taught themselves? Could the “-mancy” aspect of hemomancy be enabling some Darkin to see what the future might hold?

#3. Some of the rare cases of blood/flesh magic in Ancient Rome have to do with divination

One of the more popular methods of telling the future in Rome was the art of haruspicy. Essentially, this involved performing elaborate rituals on a sacrificial animal, then cutting it open and predicting the future by its insides. Romans used it to make decisions about:

• Future events

• The outcome of battles

• The stock market

Etc.

An additional fun fact about haruspicy is that it was first practiced in ancient Babylon, so you have the thematic link of it originating in Shurima. As the wiki states:

The Nineveh library texts name more than a dozen liver-related terms. The liver was considered the source of the blood and hence the basis of life itself. From this belief, the Babylonians thought they could discover the will of the gods by examining the livers of carefully selected sheep. A priest known as a bārû was specially trained to interpret the "signs" of the liver, and Babylonian scholars assembled a monumental compendium of omens called the Bārûtu. The liver was divided into sections, with each section representing a particular deity.

Now here’s the theory/my questions:

##Do Noxians practice haruspicy? ##Did Shabaka and Shabake practice haruspicy? ##Does haruspicy come from the Darkin? ##Does it fall under hemomancy?

As you can probably tell, this theory is absolute crack and a mix of several coincidences and historical trivia. I fully acknowledge this, but thinking about it is rather fun.

Frankly I’m against hemomancy being an umbrella term for haruspicy and blood magic (and perhaps fleshcrafting). In lore Vlad really doesn’t need any buffs. My proposal is to rename hemomancy to hematurgy and define it more carefully.

Also define who can and can't see the future and why - this can get very confusing very fast.