The Forking Garden
Colour pools = golden book-shaped
Ethereal curtains = Gold or glass
Shape and size = Infinite
Gravity = Standard
Time = Flowing (1 real day = 2 subjective days)
Tuning Fork = Oōruritē "B♯"
Morphic trait = Alterable
The Forking Garden is the realm of Destine of The Enduring Ones, made up mostly of a colossal maze.
Located beyond the boundaries of outlying space, the Forking Garden is a strange, ever-changing landscape, traversed by paths that fork, divide and reconnect within the maze. Sometimes it might look like a hedge maze, labyrinth in ancient ruins, a vast sandy desert, or something completely different.
Destine of The Enduring Ones is the only one who understands the Garden's geography - he hardly receives visitors unless he calls for them. When he needed to someone to protectThe Woven Nebula of Fates from the Luck Lords, Destine finds someone special from Esau or Lyre in the Prime Material Plane, sending them back afterwards - to only a hour after the person first left.
Sometimes Destine uses his mansion in the Garden to hold meetings with his fellow members of The Enduring Ones - not all attend every time, especially since Troilus has became one of the Unseen Ones.
Trespassers are doomed to wander the Garden until their deaths.
A Warforged named Lobot is the only mortal being known to find their way through the Garden thanks to his tracking power leading him straight to Destine. Lobot saw The Fates sitting at the large loom inside the glass clocktower. There in The Forking Garden, Lobot did a short stint as the gardener, however frequently returns to their life as a bounty hunter.
DESTINE
Destine
NAMES = Destine; Fateful; Gardner; Fortune's Majesty; Fortune's Master; Guardian of The Fates; Destiny;
SYMBOLS = glass book; gold chains; REALM = The Forking Garden
Pronouns = him/he
AVIAN = Great Horned Owl "Destiny" - looks aggressive and untrusting large owl with book still chained to claw - an appearance used to scare of strangers to his realm
FELINE = charcoal grey short-haired cat "Fateful" - sits on the book in the sun to rest - book still chained to paw
CANINE = Saint Bernard "Gardner" - book in mouth and chained to paw - companion of Lobot when in The Forking Garden
Noted as the oldest of The Enduring Ones, Destine always appears as a hooded figure dressed in robes of grey or brown, carrying an enormous open tome named The Woven Nebula of Fates. The massive tome that Destine holds is linked to his wrist by chain made of gold ... The question of if the book chained to Destine or he is chained to the book, remains unanswered.
Within the book is glass pages full of writing of the entire sum of existence, past, present and future - the clasp made of Oōruritē.
Destine can read any information from within the tome, however only The Fates can change the contents. Destine holds the tome with no desire to readily share the knowledge inside - nor to share those interactions he has with The Fates with most mortal beings. However, Destine does show in moderation and with self-restraint, when speaking with other immortals.
Although often depicted as blind, Destine actually can see, and wears a blindfold to only focus on the sights of all creatures' Fate Threads running in his vision at once.
Destine rarely demonstrates much personality. He never changes his appearance or travels beyond his own realm. Although he wears a blindfold, he can see - but does not uses his eyes to see the currently visible things in his sightline.
Destine moves within a maze in his garden - it is a labyrinth that symbolizes one’s life journey and is called the Forking Garden. Destine’s realm is home also to The Fates, a Warforged named Lobot. It is frequently trespassed by the radical Luck Lords local to Tymora - who so far have been stopped from getting the book.
Destine's whispering speech is a combination of Numerosity along with numerous slang words of multiple languages - some so old they are forgotten and others are yet to be created.
+ Destine seems the most encased in their role, a singular form, and responsibilities of any of The Enduring Ones.
Within the book is glass pages full of writing of the entire sum of existence, past, present and future - the clasp made of Oōruritē.
Destine can read any information from within the tome, however only The Fates can change the contents. Destine holds the tome with no desire to readily share the knowledge inside - nor to share those interactions he has with The Fates with most mortal beings. However, Destine does show in moderation and with self-restraint, when speaking with other immortals.
Although often depicted as blind, Destine actually can see, and wears a blindfold to only focus on the sights of all creatures' Fate Threads running in his vision at once.
Destine rarely demonstrates much personality. He never changes his appearance or travels beyond his own realm. Although he wears a blindfold, he can see - but does not uses his eyes to see the currently visible things in his sightline.
Destine moves within a maze in his garden - it is a labyrinth that symbolizes one’s life journey and is called the Forking Garden. Destine’s realm is home also to The Fates, a Warforged named Lobot. It is frequently trespassed by the radical Luck Lords local to Tymora - who so far have been stopped from getting the book.
Destine's whispering speech is a combination of Numerosity along with numerous slang words of multiple languages - some so old they are forgotten and others are yet to be created.
+ Destine seems the most encased in their role, a singular form, and responsibilities of any of The Enduring Ones.
The Fates
The Fates, who weave the threads of each one's destiny into people's lives. The Fates are Nona, Lachesis and Morta. These three, in the form of three elderly women sitting at a massive weaving loom threaded with silvery Oōruritē , in a 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 Fates main residence is within The Shadowfell, named Moirai.
LOBOT
Lobot is an intergalactic bounty hunter, a Warforged who travels all over the Moata Solar System - mainly to the two inhabited planets of Esau and Lyre. Known for their colourful speech, excellently tracking skills, and rapid regeneration/repair. Lobot is seen as a nuisance more than a threat.Inspired by the idea of genocide, Lobot created a swarm of lethal scorpion-like creatures, they set them on people wiping out some entire species by themself. Lobot claims it was a science project and gave themself an 'A' grade. Since then they has traveled the galaxies collecting bounties. Despite this ruthless nature, Lobot has a strict code of honour when it comes to these agreements.
Lobot loves to fight, loses patience easily, is very arrogant and does not get along in a small group. Even when they does gain a companion or "friend" this person are often the target of Lobot's physical and verbal violence.
Lobot is an infallible individual of their word. Lobot will never break a contract, even if it means death. However, experience has taught them to choose words carefully to allow for loopholes.
Lobot returns to The Forking Garden regularly to tend to the garden and the maze.
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