The Fates
The Fates are three female demi-gods, who are the weavers of destiny. The Fates are said to control the order of the universe and enforce its laws - however nothing is that simple. They spin, weave and collect Fate Threads.
The Fates symbols are thread, spindle, and scissors.
KNOWN AS = The Fates; The Dirae; The Parcae; The Uror Vikings; The Shai; The Umbar Elves ; The Moirai; The Eumenides in The Hells and the underdark;
The Fates symbols are thread, spindle, and scissors.
KNOWN AS = The Fates; The Dirae; The Parcae; The Uror Vikings; The Shai; The Umbar Elves ; The Moirai; The Eumenides in The Hells and the underdark;
The Fates do not control a person life. There is certain amounts of freewill and numerous choices for a person throughout their life. The Fates do not mess about with the moments people consider important, like falling in-love, marriage and children. The Fates instead focus of the small moments in a person’s life that will definitely lead them to fulfil the main purposes in their mortal life, like the day they learn how to plant and care for a tree.
Living beyond the Veil, The Fates and The Raven Queen are linked through that last cut of a Fate Thread to end a life.~ Philosopher Tisane Quiztail of The Oakveil Clan
The Fates carry out their tasks without judgment or mallis - only spinning fibres of people's lives into yarn, and weaving Fate Thread on a loom. They are essentially caretakers of what should be and what should happen. The Fates work with each Fate Thread of all the mortals of the Moata Solar Sytem - planning out the lives of each one from cradle to the grave.
The Fates also do handle some of the Fate Thread of Dragons, other Magical Creatures certain Immortals - including the eight members of The Enduring Ones.
What the Fates actually do is weave, spin and collect the Fate Thread of a person’s life onto massive looms. The Fate Thread for mortals is silvery Oōruritē.
The Fates also do handle some of the Fate Thread of Dragons, other Magical Creatures certain Immortals - including the eight members of The Enduring Ones.
What the Fates actually do is weave, spin and collect the Fate Thread of a person’s life onto massive looms. The Fate Thread for mortals is silvery Oōruritē.
NONA
The youngest Fate is named Nona - known as The Spinner.
It is Nona who takes a ‘box’ of tangled thread from the shelves, finding an unattached end to a distaff, which she uses to wind the Fate Thread of a life. Once it is fully wound onto the distaff, Nona then feeds it onto a spindle, from which Nona weaves it onto a loom.
Nona chooses when a person's Fate Thread shall be selected to start their life. The person is born, affected by numerous factors including their parents, location and wealth level.
It is Nona who takes a ‘box’ of tangled thread from the shelves, finding an unattached end to a distaff, which she uses to wind the Fate Thread of a life. Once it is fully wound onto the distaff, Nona then feeds it onto a spindle, from which Nona weaves it onto a loom.
Nona chooses when a person's Fate Thread shall be selected to start their life. The person is born, affected by numerous factors including their parents, location and wealth level.
LACHESIS
The middle ‘sister’ named Lachesis - known as The Weaver.
Lachesis stands over each loom with a staff and eyeglass. Lachesis’ task is to measure out the length of a person Fate Thread – keeping it untangled and uses the eyeglass to check on the milestones important to the person’s destiny are reached and obtained.
Lachesis' staff acts as a measuring rod that will determine how long a mortal's life will be. However, Lachesis has been known to get Morta to aid her add extra thread to a life when they choose too. Lachesis effectively figures out how long is someone's life span - and who is given extra length of Fate Thread.
Lachesis stands over each loom with a staff and eyeglass. Lachesis’ task is to measure out the length of a person Fate Thread – keeping it untangled and uses the eyeglass to check on the milestones important to the person’s destiny are reached and obtained.
Lachesis' staff acts as a measuring rod that will determine how long a mortal's life will be. However, Lachesis has been known to get Morta to aid her add extra thread to a life when they choose too. Lachesis effectively figures out how long is someone's life span - and who is given extra length of Fate Thread.
MORTA
The eldest named Morta - known as The Collector.
Morta has the undesirable task of cutting the Fate Thread. The end of Fate Thread will have become threadbare and messy. Morta watches where Lachesis points as a place to make a clean cut – although at times instead Lachesis and Morta tirelessly work together to extend the Fate Thread by adding extra Fate Thread to a person’s life. On occassion, an accident or another person will ‘tear’ and ‘pull apart’ at the Fate Thread of a life. It is Lachesis and Morta who must either save the person by adding on ‘frsh’ Fate Thread – or if Morta makes a clean cut, to end the life – calling Scythe of The Enduring Ones, in their role as The Raven Queen , to collect the interconnected Spirit and Soul to take them to the Shadowfell.
Morta has the undesirable task of cutting the Fate Thread. The end of Fate Thread will have become threadbare and messy. Morta watches where Lachesis points as a place to make a clean cut – although at times instead Lachesis and Morta tirelessly work together to extend the Fate Thread by adding extra Fate Thread to a person’s life. On occassion, an accident or another person will ‘tear’ and ‘pull apart’ at the Fate Thread of a life. It is Lachesis and Morta who must either save the person by adding on ‘frsh’ Fate Thread – or if Morta makes a clean cut, to end the life – calling Scythe of The Enduring Ones, in their role as The Raven Queen , to collect the interconnected Spirit and Soul to take them to the Shadowfell.
The Fates were, are and always will be. These three can foretell an individual's destiny, although rarely reveal more than a riddle or selective piece. The Fates experience every time at once as they spin, weave and collect Fate Threads of people's lives - for them it is The Past, The Present and The Future for them, at the same time.
The Enduring Ones
The Fates have Fate Threads of gold for the few Immortals they do focus on, especially the members of The Enduring Ones. These Fate Threads of gold are locked away even more securely and secretly - even from all the Immortals.
Scythe and the goddess Sharran disagree on the aspects of loss and grief. Sharran desires to control The Fates, and make grief continue to linger - the strange actions of the grieving who aid Sharran in gaining even more power.
Scythe and the goddess Sharran disagree on the aspects of loss and grief. Sharran desires to control The Fates, and make grief continue to linger - the strange actions of the grieving who aid Sharran in gaining even more power.
THE FATES' REACTION TO TYPES OF MAGIC
The Fates do not have issues with those thread was always leading them to Eldritch or other Types of Magic. They do not, however, tolerate if someone uses Eldritch or any other type of Magic to mess with the Fate Thread of another person.
MAIN RESIDENCE
Moirai within the Shadowfell is the main residence of The Fates. There is no entrances or windows. Those serving the Fates are unseen and loyal.
The Fates are often not thought of until the last day of the month of Pex, when people may celebrate the Night of Destiny .
They are guarded by black jackals.
The Fates are even more powerful than the Gods and Goddess, which makes the need to hide them away, more important. Not even the deity Mask, who also resides in the Shadowfell, can enter the Moirai.
The Fates are even more powerful than the Gods and Goddess, which makes the need to hide them away, more important. Not even the deity Mask, who also resides in the Shadowfell, can enter the Moirai.
SECONDARY RESIDENCE
The Fates also can be seen, in the form of three elderly women sitting at a massive weaving loom threaded with silvery Oōruritē , in a glass clocktower building made of clear glass within the centre of the garden maze of The Garden of Forking Ways - many ways to see inside, but none may enter without an invitation from one of The Fates.
THE DAYS OF THE CORRUPTION
In the days of The Corruption of Moonweaver (to become Hecate Darkmoon). The Fates were taken as prisoners. Hidden away in a dark section of Warrior's Ridge (still located within Limbo ). Gunnar (also known as Troilus of The Enduring Ones) captured The Fates - holding them for a long time - asking them to change his destiny. It was Lachesis who added on to his thread, while changing the colour of the thread - from Gold of the Immoral to black of the Unseen Ones.
Summary
FATE THREAD COLOURS
The Fate Thread represents a person’s time alive. The colour reflects what type of life they have.
* Silvery Oōruritē = mortal lives
* Golden = The Enduring Ones and other Immortals they collect the Fate Threads of
* Rainbow = Dragons and other Magical Creatures
* Black = the Unseen Ones
* Silvery Oōruritē = mortal lives
* Golden = The Enduring Ones and other Immortals they collect the Fate Threads of
* Rainbow = Dragons and other Magical Creatures
* Black = the Unseen Ones
APPEARANCES
These three demi-gods have changeably appearances. Always as three, usually as females.
Sometimes, beautiful human maidens with a musical rhythm to their tasks - who take in the consideration of their serious responsibility: the life of mortals.
At times, they appear as ugly Hags - The Maiden, The Mother and The Crone - who are enchanting lives and using magic to force destiny to happen for an individual.
Other times, The Fates are kind elderly women, with unwavering certain of their tasks - taking great care while delighting in their tasks.
When furious the three Fates appear in the form of The Eumenides, also known as The Furies
.These are three goddesses of vengeance - who relentlessly punish wicked acts, especially murder, perjury, and desecration of family ties. Depicted without hair - torn from their heads in rage, leaving some bloody roots behind. They have deep pits as eyes, that cry tears of ice as well as tears of blood. Their wings are skeletal, baring only black leathery skin like bats. Sometimes, beautiful human maidens with a musical rhythm to their tasks - who take in the consideration of their serious responsibility: the life of mortals.
At times, they appear as ugly Hags - The Maiden, The Mother and The Crone - who are enchanting lives and using magic to force destiny to happen for an individual.
Other times, The Fates are kind elderly women, with unwavering certain of their tasks - taking great care while delighting in their tasks.
When furious the three Fates appear in the form of The Eumenides, also known as The Furies
The Eumenides hunt and torment those guilty of heinous crimes, pursuing them relentlessly and driving them to madness.
Their names are whispered as being Halletto, Hetaera, and Histone - each associated with a specific forms of divine rage.
Variations & Mutation
Warp and Weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics.
The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread.
In the terminology of weaving, each warp thread is called a warp end; a pick is a single weft thread that crosses the warp thread.
The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread.
In the terminology of weaving, each warp thread is called a warp end; a pick is a single weft thread that crosses the warp thread.
Cultural Reception
The Fates' actions are seen by some people as unchangeable, and see them to embody the concept that everyone has an allotted fate or destiny - down to cutting the Fate Thread of a life, which signifies a death.
Some people have been known to lazily give their lives over to fate. They barely make a single decision for themselves.
While other people fight hard to have complete freewill. They will go out of their way to choose the opposite of what they think is their fate or destiny.
The Fates are not entirely inflexible - the Fates never will obstruct freewill.
The three Fates observe the moments in a life considered by them to continue a person along their path to their destiny. The Fates watch with amusement as eternal law takes its course.
The Fates mark the spindle of Fate Thread for that person's life with the animals connected to that person - even if the person never knows which is their Spirit Animals, Power Animal, Spirit Familiar and Totems.
Some people have been known to lazily give their lives over to fate. They barely make a single decision for themselves.
While other people fight hard to have complete freewill. They will go out of their way to choose the opposite of what they think is their fate or destiny.
The Fates are not entirely inflexible - the Fates never will obstruct freewill.
The three Fates observe the moments in a life considered by them to continue a person along their path to their destiny. The Fates watch with amusement as eternal law takes its course.
The Fates mark the spindle of Fate Thread for that person's life with the animals connected to that person - even if the person never knows which is their Spirit Animals, Power Animal, Spirit Familiar and Totems.
The Paradox Of Fate
Upon receiving a prophecy, a vision, or a warning, any person inevitably faces a choice, of giving up and accept it, or to fight against it.
Almost always, if someone tries to step differently than their given path, the same pattern unfolds - it is not fate alone that dooms them. Instead, it often is their desperate attempt to escape that fate or destiny that seals them on the path they were trying to wholeheartedly to avoid.
Almost always, if someone tries to step differently than their given path, the same pattern unfolds - it is not fate alone that dooms them. Instead, it often is their desperate attempt to escape that fate or destiny that seals them on the path they were trying to wholeheartedly to avoid.
In Literature
The poets cruelly taunt The Fates with questioning heartbreak and poor destinies.
In Art
In art, the three often do not appear alike:-
Nona appears as a younger woman, with long blonde straight hair of the dawn sun, because of her relationship with the birth of humans - shown preparing unspun thread, usually seen in silver in colouring.
Lachesis is shown as a middle-aged woman, with warm brown wavy hair, like gentle waves of the ebbs and flows of life - shown with an eye glass and measuring stick.
Morta is pictured as a wrinkled old woman with messy hair of strips of Black and silvery grey, because of her hand in the death of mortals - shown holding a large pair of scissors.
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