The Fates

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Your Upgraded characters have +3/+3. The first character you buy is destined to Upgrade.

**The Fates** is a hero card. Their Upgraded characters have +3/+3 as an Aura effect, and their first bought character is "destined" to Upgrade (it will keep appearing in the first shop seen each turn until that character is Upgraded).

They are one of the starting heroes - automatically owned when an account is created.

## Strategy

The Fate's ability to guarantee an early upgraded character can be incredibly powerful, given the right character is purchased first.

The best characters to choose to purchase on the first turn include:

* Blind Mouse: grants an early level 4 treasure.
* Happy Little Tree: Not only does the early upgrade allow the Happy Little Tree to begin scaling early, but The Fates granting +3/+3 to upgraded characters means that Happy Little Tree will have a minimum of 5 power.
* Lonely Prince: an early 13/13 will be a very powerful character, and will probably be playable up to late level 4.
* Crafty: Similarly to Lonely Prince, and upgraded Crafty has very large stats for it's level.
* Polywoggle: Either Polywoggle will transform into a level 3 character, allowing you to triple it and get a level 3 Upgraded character (see Notes) and Treasure well ahead of schedule, or you can get an upgraded Polywoggle by level 3, ensuring it doesn't Slay before then by benching it or putting it in position 4. It will then transform into an upgraded level 4 character when it slays on level 3.
* Wizard's Familiar: An upgraded Wizard's Familiar can grant powerful scaling early, and can even be playable up to level 6 if Crystal Ball and a way to reduce spell price is found.
* Humpty Dumpty: Taking Humpty Dumpty is extremely risky. While the payoff can be fantastic (Easter Egg, obtained by tripling Humpty Dumpty, works along with **The Fates**'s hero bonus), they are also very likely to crack, especially when buying them as your only characters. You can bench your two Humpty Dumptys turn 2, likely assuring the triple at the cost of losing the turn 2 brawl.

Characters that aren't as good, but still take-able include Rainbow Unicorn, Mad Mim, Golden Chicken, or Kitty Cutpurse. Examples of poor characters to take include Tiny or Labyrinth Minotaur, who still tend to die in one hit after being Upgraded.

If there aren't any good level 2 character to purchase on the first turn, there are a few other options. Casting Roll the Dice or Cinder-Ella will not trigger The Fates, allowing more chances to roll for another character next turn. While a player could skip their first shop to find a better character, it may be better to purchase a decent-to-mediocre character instead.

The other portion of **The Fates**'s ability, granting +3/+3 to an upgraded character, usually isn't very relevant. However, it can be useful in the early game, as even weak characters such as Mad Mim become a 3/9 when upgraded, which is a respectable statline for it's level. It also can help slay characters such as Polywoggle and Kitty Cutpurse get slays more reliably, and help characters with high toughness be more effective in combat.

## Notes

* **The Fates**'s "destined" ability affects the first normally-bought, non-Questing character. Characters obtained in a way other than buying, such as by casting Roll the Dice, do not become "destined", and neither do bought Questing characters.
* If a character is "destined to upgrade", a copy of it will appear in the shop at the start of each shop phase until that character is Upgraded. If the shop is locked, another copy of that character will be added during the next shop. If you roll, the character that is destined to upgrade will not be guaranteed to appear.
* If the "destined" character transforms in any way, e.g. with Polywoggle's Slay ability, the transformed character remains "destined" - copies of it's transformed self, not the original character type, will appear in the shop. Note that this can result in characters higher than your hero level being available in-shop. For example, if Polywoggle Slays on turn 1, a copy of the level 3 character it turns into will appear in-shop on turn 2, despite you being level 2.
	+ If a character that is destined to upgrade and is transformed into a quest characters, the shop will add a quest character to each shop. Note that tripling a quest character this way will "complete" the quest.
	+ The above rule only applies if the first purchased character that was destined to upgrade was the one that was transformed. If a Shard of the Ice Queen or a True Love's Kiss is cast on the second copy of the destined character, or if the second Polywoggle Slays, the original character will still be destined to upgrade. Only the first purchased character being transformed will change what character is destined.
* Casting the "It Was All a Dream" Spell and selecting The Fates will result in the next character you buy being destined to upgrade.
	+ If you purchase a Puff Puff this way, a Puff Puff will be added to your first shop every round, despite the fact that they never Upgrade by tripling. However, it's almost always better to purchase a different character instead.
	+ This also applies while playing Mask. The player can swap to The Fates, use their hero ability to upgrade a character, then cast another "It Was All a Dream" Spell to swap to a character with a more relevant ability.
* By not purchasing the third character that would upgrade the character, that character will continue to be added to the shop. This can be used to get a fourth, fifth, or even sixth copy of that character by locking the shop with the third destined character in it.
	+ By purchasing two of a fated character, and then lock the shop for 4 more turns, you can get 2 upgraded characters. This is most useful for getting 2 upgraded Blind Mice.
	+ Locking an extra 1-2 times can also be useful when playing support characters such as Mad Mim, as they can support each other.
* The **Three Little Witches** skin will, according to Good Luck Games, in the future, play the Spooky Forest expansion card-set instead of the base set.

## Gallery

*The Fates* card art*Three Little Witches* card art by Grafit Studios*The Fates* card art (pre August 11, 2022)
## History

 June 18, 2021 | Released in *Storybook Brawl's* Early Access launch.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 StorybookBrawl.com - *Announcing Storybook Brawl's First Expansion!*. Retrieved October 23, 2022.