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Jyggalag
I think that Jyggalag should gain the ability of pre-cognition. According to Dyus in the Shivering Isles downloadable content:
"The great library was the height of logic and deduction. Contained within its walls were the logical prediction of every action ever taken by any creature, mortal or Daedric. Every birth. Every death. The rise of Tiber Septim. The Numidium. Everything. All predicted with the formulae found within Jyggalag's library."
I believe Jyggalag should be able to easily do this, if Dyus, who is only a man, can use this formula to see events before they happen:
"I have been waiting for you, Your Grace. This day, as all days before and after, is well known to me. There are no surprises to Dyus of Mytheria. Sheogorath has fallen and you seek the means to foil the machinations of the Prince of Order. You seek the Throne of Madness."
Do note that Dyus is trapped in a sealed room underground, so there is no other way he could have known this.
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Dyus
This page takes quotes strictly from Dyus in-game.
Other Gods
There could be a very minor case made for most TES gods having pre-cognition, and a bigger case for them being acausal. These are found in Vivec's dialogue when asked about what being a god is like:
"It is like being a juggler. Things are always moving, and you learn to know where they are without even thinking about it. Only there are many, many things moving. And sometimes, like any juggler, you drop something. I'm afraid it has become a lot more a matter of dropping things lately. There's too much to do, and not enough time, and I'm losing my touch. Perhaps I'm growing old.
It is a bit like being at once awake and asleep. Awake, I am here with you, thinking and talking. Asleep, I am very, very busy. Perhaps for other gods, the completely immortal ones, it is only like that being asleep. Out of time. Me, I exist at once inside of time and outside of it.
It's nice never being dead, too. When I die in the world of time, then I'm completely asleep. I'm very much aware that all I have to do is choose to wake. And I'm alive again. Many times I have very deliberately tried to wait patiently, a very long, long time before choosing to wake up. And no matter how long it feels like I wait, it always appears, when I wake up, that no time has passed at all. That is the god place. The place out of time, where everything is always happening, all at once."
Vivec also takes the player character outside of time in Morrowind. This shows that at least Vivec is acausal:
"You will now have a brief, momentary sensation of time passing. Don't be alarmed. You are being taken out of time in order to avoid the unpleasant experience of learning how to use Wraithguard. It will be over before... [There is a brief sensation of motion in total darkness, floating, but without a sense of weight or direction.] ...you know it."
(Later)
"I have no idea what happened to the Dwemer. I have no sense of them in the timeless divine world outside of mortal time. And, in fact, if I did believe they existed, I would be in no hurry to make contact with them."
These three quotes are from Vivec's dialogue. Now, here are more quotes from other sources which would support this:
"As for time, cause, and consequence, let's just say that the laws of the Dragon God do not apply to Oblivion. Oh, it's useful to adopt the trappings of duration when dealing with mortals, so you'll find Maelstrom quite familiar in that regard. We know how lost you feel away from the hand of Akatosh!"
(Later)
"You have received a sending—divine in origin, of course, and not mortal, as you mortals are subject to time and its maddening limitations."
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25521
"Oh, of course, 'Doyen,' because assuaging the grief of mortals is so important to me. Let me be clear: inhabitants of the Shivering Isles are affected by Time, but we are not subject to it. We are subjects of Lord Sheogorath, who subjects us to whatever subjects he is in the mood to subjudicate. Because Time is subjective."
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25313
So who agrees or disagrees?
I think that Jyggalag should gain the ability of pre-cognition. According to Dyus in the Shivering Isles downloadable content:
"The great library was the height of logic and deduction. Contained within its walls were the logical prediction of every action ever taken by any creature, mortal or Daedric. Every birth. Every death. The rise of Tiber Septim. The Numidium. Everything. All predicted with the formulae found within Jyggalag's library."
I believe Jyggalag should be able to easily do this, if Dyus, who is only a man, can use this formula to see events before they happen:
"I have been waiting for you, Your Grace. This day, as all days before and after, is well known to me. There are no surprises to Dyus of Mytheria. Sheogorath has fallen and you seek the means to foil the machinations of the Prince of Order. You seek the Throne of Madness."
Do note that Dyus is trapped in a sealed room underground, so there is no other way he could have known this.
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Dyus
This page takes quotes strictly from Dyus in-game.
Other Gods
There could be a very minor case made for most TES gods having pre-cognition, and a bigger case for them being acausal. These are found in Vivec's dialogue when asked about what being a god is like:
"It is like being a juggler. Things are always moving, and you learn to know where they are without even thinking about it. Only there are many, many things moving. And sometimes, like any juggler, you drop something. I'm afraid it has become a lot more a matter of dropping things lately. There's too much to do, and not enough time, and I'm losing my touch. Perhaps I'm growing old.
It is a bit like being at once awake and asleep. Awake, I am here with you, thinking and talking. Asleep, I am very, very busy. Perhaps for other gods, the completely immortal ones, it is only like that being asleep. Out of time. Me, I exist at once inside of time and outside of it.
It's nice never being dead, too. When I die in the world of time, then I'm completely asleep. I'm very much aware that all I have to do is choose to wake. And I'm alive again. Many times I have very deliberately tried to wait patiently, a very long, long time before choosing to wake up. And no matter how long it feels like I wait, it always appears, when I wake up, that no time has passed at all. That is the god place. The place out of time, where everything is always happening, all at once."
Vivec also takes the player character outside of time in Morrowind. This shows that at least Vivec is acausal:
"You will now have a brief, momentary sensation of time passing. Don't be alarmed. You are being taken out of time in order to avoid the unpleasant experience of learning how to use Wraithguard. It will be over before... [There is a brief sensation of motion in total darkness, floating, but without a sense of weight or direction.] ...you know it."
(Later)
"I have no idea what happened to the Dwemer. I have no sense of them in the timeless divine world outside of mortal time. And, in fact, if I did believe they existed, I would be in no hurry to make contact with them."
These three quotes are from Vivec's dialogue. Now, here are more quotes from other sources which would support this:
"As for time, cause, and consequence, let's just say that the laws of the Dragon God do not apply to Oblivion. Oh, it's useful to adopt the trappings of duration when dealing with mortals, so you'll find Maelstrom quite familiar in that regard. We know how lost you feel away from the hand of Akatosh!"
(Later)
"You have received a sending—divine in origin, of course, and not mortal, as you mortals are subject to time and its maddening limitations."
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25521
"Oh, of course, 'Doyen,' because assuaging the grief of mortals is so important to me. Let me be clear: inhabitants of the Shivering Isles are affected by Time, but we are not subject to it. We are subjects of Lord Sheogorath, who subjects us to whatever subjects he is in the mood to subjudicate. Because Time is subjective."
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/25313
So who agrees or disagrees?
