Destinies (Guide)

Early MYN Content and Onwards

Destinies are a special type of equipment item of which you can only have one at a time. They are generally acquired, or can be subsequently changed, during certain seasonal festivals. An original Destiny can be exchanged for a greater Destiny in Irem, a late-game location.

How to get a Destiny

Basic Destinies are currently available for free during four festivals: the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, Fruits of the Zee Festival, Hallowmas, and Christmas. The available Destinies and associated glimpses of the future are the same during all four festivals; only the method of starting the stories differs. In Irem, a late-game port, you can exchange a basic Destiny for an Iremi greater Destiny.

If you already have a Destiny, you can change to a new one during the same four festivals. The first Destiny change during a festival is free, while subsequent changes during that festival cost FATE. Basic Destinies can be changed in either the festival location or Irem; Iremi Destinies can only be changed in Irem.

Outside of festival weeks, you can also acquire or change your Destiny year-round in Irem for FATE.

Feast of the Exceptional Rose

Gaining a Destiny requires 20 Masquing. On the card The Feast of the Rose!, visit The Perfumer-Semiotician and spend 20 Masquing to reach The Gates of the Rose, from where a Destiny can be chosen.

Fruits of the Zee Festival

To find your Destiny at the Fruits of the Zee Festival, wait until the second week of the festival when the zee's bounty is restored. Then visit The Fruits of the Zee Festival, Restored! and Accept an invitation from the Drownies. They'll take you to The Drowning Feast where you can choose your Destiny.

Hallowmas

To find your Destiny during Hallowmas, you must first wait for Visitors at Hallowmas. The visitor you choose will determine which possible future you can experience and thus which Destinies are available to you. You can change this by taking different visitors until you lock it in at The Gates of Midnight, but keep in mind each visitor has a cost.

Every visitor requires Making Waves 5 and Nightmares 5 and will reduce your Making Waves. Most visitors also require other Qualities and/or cost other items.

Visitor	Costs / Requirements	A Possible Future:	Associated future
A thud at the window	1 x Tiny Cave Fish	The Taste of Blackest Brine	An abyssal future
A greedy thud at the window	3 x Tiny Cave Fish Seeking Mr Eaten's Name 1 Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies 1
A furtive knock at the back door	-	A Darkness in the Air	An obscure future
An unmarked black coach	A Scholar of the Correspondence 1	The Chill of the Void	A chilly future
A metallic rap at the door	Embroiled in the Wars of Illusion 2	A Pricked Finger	A silvered future
The Bishop of Southwark	Hellfarer 10 A Brazen Fate - With Cleansing Blade FATE
A Diabolical Diplomat	Hellfarer 10 A Brazen Fate - An Infernal Agent FATE
A sword in the streets	-	A Blaze of Distant Light	A jewelled future

Christmas

To find your Destiny during Christmas, you need an Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow and at least one level of Putting the Pieces Together: the Taste of Lacre. Use the Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow. Select the The Oracle of the Lintel and you will dream of The Gate of Tears where you can choose your Destiny.

Glimpses of the Future

Obtaining a Destiny is not a direct choice between every possible Destiny. Instead, your choice of possible future determines which Destinies you are offered. Once you glimpse a future, you cannot leave without choosing your Destiny, so choose wisely!

There are five different glimpses of the future, each leading to four or five potential Destinies. Some Destinies can be obtained from multiple futures, but (almost) all options within a glimpse give different Destinies.

Since glimpses of the future are story-heavy and Destinies have lasting mechanical consequences, this guide offers multiple sections to help you determine your future with a level of spoilers of your choice.

A handful of Destinies cost FATE when obtained, and a few others indirectly cost FATE because they require a quality from a FATE-locked story. The former Destinies are mechanically superior to other basic Destinies, while the latter are not. Both types grant the special quality A Charmed Fate. In Irem, players with a A Charmed Fate can obtain the otherwise-FATE-locked item A Questioning of Riddlefishers for free as compensation for (likely) exchanging their Destiny for a more powerful greater Destiny.

In-Game Hints (spoiler-free)

The branches to choose a possible future include a short hint of that glimpse's theme. This table simply shows those hints for those who wish to consider their options in advance but also wish to avoid spoilers.

Possible future	Hints
A chilly future	Destinies between stars.
An obscure future	Nocturnal, anarchic destinies.
A silvered future	Destinies in an imagined wilderness.
A jewelled future	Destinies of conquest and immortality.
An abyssal future	Destinies beneath the black waves.

Short Descriptions (story spoilers)

Each possible future features your character in a very unusual situation, where you must choose a path forward. This table briefly describes the situation and the choice for those who wish to choose a future they find interesting or avoid ones that would be out-of-character.

Possible future	Situation	Choice
A chilly future	You are years into your journey, flying to a Judgement with the Bazaar and the other Masters.	Have you grown fond of the others? Will you continue with them?
An obscure future	The Liberation of Night is here and every light in the Neath is extinguished.	Who will you save, if anyone?
A silvered future	You are in Parabola, working for the Fingerkings. Today is the Feast of Masks.	Which prisoner will you release?
A jewelled future	You and your many allies are days away from breaching the Mountain-of-Light.	What will you do with the power to bestow eternal life?
An abyssal future	You are meeting the oldest Lorn-Flukes at the Drowning Feast.	What will you give them?

Rewards of Choices (mechanical spoilers)

The glimpse you select and the choice you make within it will determine your Destiny. This table simply shows what you receive for each choice as well as any requirements those choices may have.

Note that during Fruits of the Zee Festival and Christmas — but NOT during Hallowmas — An abyssal future also requires An Explorer of the Unterzee - The Captain.

Choices for Each Destiny (mechanical spoilers)

Each Destiny can only be obtained by choosing particular options; some can only even be obtained from one path. This table is the reverse of the previous, showing which sets of choices correspond to each Destiny.

Stats and Descriptions (mechanical spoilers)

Destinies that provide multiple stats are listed according to the stat they increase the most.

Destiny	Description	Stats
Shadowy Destinies
Appetite	You may yet satisfy your hungers.	Shadowy +5 Destined +1
Gloom	There is a darkness in your future.	Shadowy +5 Destined +1
Backstage FATE	Your hands, secretly, on the lever that moves the world.	Shadowy +5 Persuasive +3 Destined +1 A Charmed Fate +1
Dangerous Destinies
Authority	Dominion will be given unto you.	Dangerous +5 Destined +1
The Instrument FATE	It will end in war.	Dangerous +5 Destined +1 A Charmed Fate +1
The Road FATE	The sky will open to you.	Dangerous +5 Watchful +3 Destined +1 A Charmed Fate +1
Watchful Destinies
Gleam	Lost in light.	Watchful +5 Destined +1
The Memory	You will change beyond all understanding, but something of you will remain.	Watchful +5 Destined +1
The Revelation	Everything will change. For the better?	Watchful +5 Destined +1
Persuasive Destinies
The Curator	You will preserve.	Persuasive +5 Destined +1
The Oath	You will be true.	Persuasive +5 Destined +1
Passion FATE	There will still be something beautiful.	Persuasive +5 Destined +1 A Charmed Fate +1
Unwise Destinies
Torment	It will end horribly for you.	Shadowy -3 Persuasive -3 Watchful -3 Dangerous -3 Destined +1

Iremi Destinies

Acquiring one of the "original" Destinies is a requirement for weaving a greater Destiny in Irem. Exchanging an ordinary Destiny for an Iremi greater Destiny can be done for free at any time of year. In order to do so, you must first complete the story Evolution in order to gain full access to Irem.

The process of selecting a greater Destiny is very different from that of selecting ordinary Destinies. Irem's mechanics allow you to fully explore each possible future and see all potential Destinies before making a final decision. As such, this section of the guide is much shorter and more spoiler-heavy. For more information on Irem's mechanics, see Irem (Guide).

Short Descriptions (story spoilers)

Like the table for ordinary Destinies, this table briefly describes the events of each destiny for those who wish to choose a future they find interesting or avoid ones that would be out-of-character.

Possible destiny	Neathy Tarot number	Summary	Correspondence description
The Mushroom	numberless	You form a transhumanist commune after the liberatory dark sets in.	To see the world not with eyes, but with hyphae.
The Lovers	VI	As the world shrinks for you and your beloved spouse(s), the depth of your love grows, including into Parabola.	The pull of mutual gravity willingly accepted.
The Chariot	VII	TRAVELLER RETURNING. You go East at full speed.	Escape velocity.
Justice	XI	You continue The Great Work with the Calendar Council, spreading the Liberation through the Neath and eventually throwing off the yoke of the Judgements themselves.	A long-overdue change in course.
The Hanged Man	XII	As the Youthful Naturalist considered, you transform yourself whenever you are about to die, eternally escaping death.	The necessary sacrifice of a limiting part of yourself.
The Tower	XVI	You don't visit the Adulterine Castle or enact an immensely powerful Discordant Law: No thing shall be.	Nothing.
The Moon	XVIII	You make yourself into a city, with a piece of the moon replacing your heart.	A truth that can be felt, but never spoken.
The World	XXI	You return to the surface at great expense, trusting your ability to survive under the warm Sun.	To win it all.
The Mask	XLIX	You were prepared when the Roof broke and the Sun killed the Bazaar, and continue the work for Liberation.	To protect a truth with an armour of lies.
The Star	LXVII (XVII in Earth tarot)	You make arrangements with geographic powers to ensure a future for the Seventh City, after the Bazaar leaves.	A course set by the light of something bright and distant.
Judgement	LXXVII (XX in Earth tarot)	You will enforce the Law and worship the Sapphir'd King.	A reckoning no longer postponed.

Rewards of Choices (mechanical spoilers)

This table shows which Destinies can be obtained from each future. Many Destinies require items obtained elsewhere in Irem; these are not shown here. One requires being Committed: to a relationship. Another requires a very expensive and nonexistent fabric.

Mechanical Spoilers

A full list of advanced Destinies and stats.

Destiny (Neathy Tarot)	Description	Stats
The Mushroom (numberless)	You will scatter a new spore.	Persuasive +5 Monstrous Anatomy +1 Destined +2
The Lovers (VI)	You will be joined.	Persuasive +5 Glasswork +1 Destined +2
The Chariot (VII)	You will move on.	Watchful +5 Zeefaring +1 Destined +2
Justice (XI)	You will remake the world.	Dangerous +5 A Player of Chess +1 Destined +2
The Hanged Man (XII)	Death will take aim at you, and miss.	Shadowy +5 Shapeling Arts +1 Destined +2
The Tower (XVI)	No future.	Dangerous +5 Steward of the Discordance +1 Destined +2
The Moon (XVIII)	You'll know it in your bones.	Dangerous +5 Kataleptic Toxicology +1 Destined +2
The World (XXI)	You will return.	Watchful +5 Kataleptic Toxicology +1 Destined +2
The Mask (XLIX)	You will keep a secret.	Shadowy +5 Mithridacy +1 Destined +2
The Star (LXVII; XVII in Earth tarot)	You will keep your eyes on the horizon.	Dangerous +5 Artisan of the Red Science +1 Destined +2
Judgement (LXXVII; XX in Earth tarot)	You will know right from wrong.	Dangerous +5 A Player of Chess +1 Destined +2

Instead of choosing one of the above Destinies, you can also choose to instead retain your previous Destiny and acquire a special Home Comfort. This item has a net advanced stat bonus equivalent to choosing a greater Destiny, though it is only available for Mithridacy.

Mark of Acceptance

Mithridacy +2