The highest power is its own downfall

The most tragic figure in ancient mythology was also the most powerful.

Imagine having the greatest gift, only that you're completely unable to make any use of it - except to embody a cautionary tale and become a figure of immense sadness for all humanity.

Thus was Cassandra, the daughter of the Trojan king Priam and his wife Hecuba, the subject of endless and inexhaustible retellings in ancient Greek and Roman mythology and…