The learning to the current iteration takes fewer tries than you would first-order-expect; Nethys does not require anything like hundreds of loops to get there.

It does take some.  Prophecy is shattered and some things are just plain hard to foresee; and also there's lots of interesting possibilities for a curious Nethys to explore, early on.

The learning to the current iteration takes fewer tries than you would first-order-expect; Nethys does not require anything like hundreds of loops to get there.

It does take some.  Prophecy is shattered and some things are just plain hard to foresee; and also there's lots of interesting possibilities for a curious Nethys to explore, early on.

Still.  Nethys sees those things that would be obvious in hindsight, in advance; He does not need to learn the hard way and then slap Himself on the forehead for being so silly.