Fate

**Fate** is a tiefling wizard. A sailor and a smuggler by trade, she was born on the Frozen Shore of the Isle of Smoke. Like many tieflings from the northern side of the Isle, Fate is an ice tiefling, more comfortable in extreme cold than extreme heat.

## Early Life

Fate was born in 472 AC to Reverence, a mage living in a small fishing village on the Frozen Shore. Fate's father, Vision, died prior to Fate's birth, as did Fate's older sister, Providence.

Many of the people in Fate's village were aware that Reverence had carried out some sort of dark ritual prior to Fate's birth, but few knew many details. In fact, Reverence, driven mad by the death of her first daughter, had attempted a blood magic ritual to ensure that Providence's soul would be reborn in Fate. Vision had died as the requisite blood sacrifice for the ritual.

In Fate's childhood, Reverence soon began to have doubts about whether she had succeeded in reincarnating Providence. Fate had several physical dissimilarities to her sister, and, unlike Providence, who had been an innately magically gifted sorcerer, Fate was only a wizard, who had to study to develop her skills. Reverence persisted in pushing Fate to develop her magical abilities, but grew colder towards her daughter.

When Reverence became pregnant again, Fate discovered some clues that her mother was planning another ritual. Believing that Reverence intended to use her as the blood sacrifice this time, Fate left home.

## Criminal Career

After leaving her village, Fate attempted to join the Archivists of the Flame, but was rejected from the order. She was also rejected from the Truthspeakers, and although she eventually secured entry into the Lightbearers, she was not chosen for an apprenticeship after her first year of studies. She then befriended Prudence, a teenage smuggler, and began a criminal career.

Fate returned home once as a teenager. She discovered that Reverence had given birth to a son, Blessing, who was obviously not Providence's reincarnation, but who Reverence seemed to love and care for. Fate watched Reverence and Blessing from a distance, and then left, never speaking to them.

Fate also apprenticed aboard an elven ship, learning the ways of the elven seamages. After a horrible shipwreck, Fate lost confidence in her ability as a ship's mage, and began working on the land. In 499 AC, Fate was called to the town of Birchfield by a contact of hers, a smuggler named Naomi Starling.

## Naomi and the Consortium

Along the way, Fate fell in with a group of other travelers, including the elf women Liluth Chaemaer and Stellaluna Silverleaf. Fate joined forces with their band, and the three agreed to work together to help Naomi with her job: breaking three of the smuggler's lieutenants out of the Baron of Lokar's dungeons. During the course of this mission, Naomi's lieutenant and lover Quinn LeMarque was captured by the Consortium of Shadows, and the three women agreed to take on a new job for Naomi, infiltrating the Consortium and freeing Quinn.

In order to carry this out, they traveled to Deep Harbor. Along the way, Fate was betrayed by her contact Eolise Belmont in Saltshore and killed Eolise to prevent her from further endangering their mission. Fate also met Solaris Silverleaf, who began to travel with the party. The four sailed to Deep Harbor aboard the Fiend's Daughter, and Fate was briefly reunited with Prudence, who was working aboard the ship.

## Barovia

In Deep Harbor, Fate and her companions learned that in order to join the Consortium, they must carry out a mission in Barovia. Along with the kenku child Daisy, the four entered the mysterious land of Barovia on a mission to deliver a letter to Burgomaster Kolyan Indirovich. Once in Barovia, however, the party accepted a different quest: to keep the now-deceased burgomaster's daughter Ireena Kolyana out of the clutches of the vampire Strahd von Zarovich.

After contending with the hags of Old Bonegrinder, Fate, Lilluth, and Stellaluna dined with Strahd at Castle Ravenloft, and Fate secretly explored the castle. With the help of the wereravens Dagmara and Fyodor Martikov, they then fled the castle and escorted Ireena to the town of Vallaki. Betrayed by their supposed ally Vasili von Holz, they realized that Vallaki was not safe, and so continued on, traveling to Krezk, the Abbey of St. Markovia, the Wizard of Wines Winery, Yester Hill, Berez, and the Amber Temple.

While in Barovia, Fate also began a romantic relationship with Solaris Silverleaf. She also received a prophecy from the tiefling Liar, telling her that there were two paths before her, one ending with her sitting on a dark throne, and the other with her body lying broken at the foot of a cliff.