Left-Handed Fate

Crew on the Left-Handed Fate and the Driven Star.

The ****L*******eft-Handed Fate*** was the boat that belonged to Captain Richard Bluecrowne.

## Information

### *Bluecrowne*

Captain Bluecrowne showed Lucy Bluecrowne House, where she was to live, but she hated it because it wasn't a ship, specifically the *Left-Handed Fate*, which he was captain of. Lucy hated being asked to leave the *Fate*, where she'd lived since she was five years old. She mentioned Liao working with fire aboard the schooner. Liao suggested that she sneak back aboard the letter-of-marque ship, but Lucy knew that she could not do that.

Lucy later brought a cutter to the *Left-Handed Fate*, the one she had chosen to be hers. The ship was alive with the busy crew. Some of the crew inspected the cutter, and Captain Bluecrowne commented on how many people were taking time off their own duties to do so. The Fates deemed it fit and the cutter was bought, and Lucy named it the *Driven Star*. The *Left-Handed Fate* was later brought to Flotilla instead of the Quayside Harbors, for the hull to be re-coppered. Lucy mentioned the *Fate*'s fighting style: small, fast, and clever.

After Liao Bluecrowne was kidnapped, the *Fate* was too far away to help, so Lucy and Xiaoming had to rescue Liao from Trigemine and Blister on their own. Afterward, however, when Lucy and Liao were escaping on the Skidwrack aboard the *Driven Star*, the *Left-Handed Fate* arrived. But it was too far away to do more than fire a warning shot, while it came slowly toward Lucy and Liao. It arrived in time, however, to pull them out of the Skidwrack and on board after they'd escaped. Since Xiaoming had sacrificed herself in the fight for Liao, she was not there to be at the house with them. Captain Bluecrowne decided that Lucy and Liao had to stay aboard ship with him, to Lucy's delight.

### *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*

Sullivan told about Flotilla, mentioning the time when, it was said, the entire district of Flotilla had scattered and vanished to protect a legendary ship and its crew.

Captain Frost told a story about the time when the *Fate* stopped at Valletta Harbor. Soon after the steward, the cook, the purser, and the surgeon went ashore in the cutter to replenish the *Fate*'s stores, Lowe broke Garvett's storm bottle. He made a replacement, which predicted oddly, and Melusine and Lowe found themselves alone aboard the *Fate* (the rest of the crew having mysteriously disappeared) in red waters nowhere near the harbor. They encountered a ghost ship, and Melusine steered the *Fate* to lead them back to Valletta Harbor. The crew all suddenly returned, and the ship's normal sounds began again.

## Physical characteristics

The *Left-Handed Fate* is a large schooner. It has many guns and lots of sails. The side of the *Fate* is emerald green, and it has a figurehead of a woman with an upraised left hand. There are many lines along the boat that can be used to pull oneself up. The *Left-Handed Fate* has one small cutter.

## Inhabitants

### Crew

* Richard Bluecrowne (captain)
* Beller (mate)
* Burrows
* Domanova (doctor)
* Fitch (first mate)
* Foster (second mate)
* Garvett (steward)
* Harrick (gunner)
* John Backell (sponger, formerly)
* Kendrick (coxswain)
* Nell Levinflash (navigator, formerly)
* Prim (bosun)
* Raines (carpenter)
* Santat (purser)
* Wooll (sailing master)
* "Cook" (cook)
* "Sails" (sailmaker)
* Other unnamed crew members

### Other

* Lucy Bluecrowne
* Liao Bluecrowne
* Xiaoming (occasionally, formerly)

## Trivia

* The crew of the *Left-Handed Fate* are known as Fates.
* Lucy and Liao each had their own cabins.

## Gallery

**Take a look at our **gallery for Left-Handed Fate****.

## References

1. ↑ *Bluecrowne*
2. ↑ *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*