Fate-locked content (Guide)/Rewards Comparison

This guide covers the various FATE-locked items and qualities available through FATE-locked areas other than Exceptional Stories. It also covers any permanent content and choices available even if they aren't explicitly linked to the items in question. This guide excludes any Seasonal items, FATE-locked or otherwise. For Exceptional Story rewards, see: Exceptional Stories (Guide)/Rewards Comparison.

Items Sorted by Stats

It is worth noting that some options are dependent on the choices you make during a story. Make sure to look at the story's page in order to reach the conclusion you want when you make a decision based on these options.

Best In Slot

These items are Strict Best- or Worst-in-Slot for one or more stats, or Shared Best-in-Slot only with other FATE-locked items.

Item	Slot	Story	FATE	Stats	Notes	Additional Unique Items/Qualities to Story
A Pendant of Helicon Amber	Adornment	Accept a Pendant of Helicon Amber	40	Watchful +4 Persuasive +4 Shapeling Arts +1	Shared BiS for Shapeling Arts with Winking Gemstone Ring. Unlocks free entry to Helicon House with an added bonus of 2 x Fitting in.
Boneless Consort	Spouse	In Possession of a Peculiar Personal Enhancement -	20	Bizarre +3 Committed: +1	Shared BiS for Bizarre and BDR with the Companion in Amber.	Companion in Amber
Companion in Amber	Spouse	In Possession of a Peculiar Personal Enhancement -	20	Bizarre +3 Committed: +1 Shapeling Arts +1	Shared BiS for Bizarre and BDR with the Boneless Consort	Boneless Consort
Übergoat	Companion	GOAT OVER GOAT	1	Watchful +30 Bizarre +2 Dreaded +2 Caprine Authority: +2	Costs 2 x Overgoat ( 23,425.60 total).

Situational Best-In-Slot

These items are often Shared Best-in-Slot for one or more qualities. However, peer items are available during certain Festivals, or with certain Ambitions, etc.

Item	Slot	Story	FATE	Stats	Notes	Additional Items/Qualities Unique to Story
Diogenes	Hat	The Mushroom’s Dream	25		Peer Bizarre and Mithridacy items are available during WHITSUN. Peer BDR items include the freely available Anonymous White Mask. Outclassed in Persuasive by the Bazaar-buyable Fecund Amber Tiara.	A Synthetic Philosopher The Dream of the Hintershroom
The Swan Bride's Mask	Hat	The Poisoner's Library	25	Watchful +8 Dreaded +1 Kataleptic Toxicology +1	Shared BiS for Kataleptic Toxicology with Honed Ushanka from WHITSUN. Several peer Watchful items can be bought at the Bazaar.	The Gonfaloniere of Jericho Locks Gonfaloniere of the Guild of Gondoliers Water in the Blood Addressed as: Gonfaloniere Addressed as: Bosun-in-Gold
Bifurcated Owl	Companion	Theological Husbandry and Flute Street	30	Watchful +5 Persuasive +5 Shadowy +5 Dangerous +5 Dreaded +2 Bizarre +2	Shared BiS for BDR with Übergoat. Many better companions for other stats are freely available.	Slavering Dream-Hound Corresponding Ocelot Obdurate Stallion A Brazen Fate - Why You Fight - Fist of the Bazaar Rubbery Hound Ocular Toadbeast
A Questioning of Riddlefishers	Affiliation	Pose your own question to the Riddlefishers	10	Watchful +3 Shadowy +3 Glasswork +1	Peer item is available from Ambition: Nemesis.
Obdurate Stallion	Transport	Theological Husbandry	20	Dreaded +2	Peer BDR items are freely available. Outclassed by several Seasonal or FATE-locked items, as well as Your Very Own Miniature Hellworm, Saddled and Bridled.	Slavering Dream-Hound Corresponding Ocelot A Brazen Fate - Why You Fight - Fist of the Bazaar
Ratwork Velocipede	Transport	The Spinning of the Wheels	20	Shadowy +2 Dreaded +2 Respectable +2	Shared BiS for BDR with Your Very Own Miniature Hellworm, Saddled and Bridled. Corpulent Carriage, available during FRUITS OF THE ZEE, provides one more point of Shadowy.	Riding the Savage Cobbles
Cultured Attaché Cultured Attachée Same stats	Spouse	Mysteries of the Foreign Office	20	Watchful +1 Persuasive +1 Committed: +1	Shared BiS for Persuasive. Philosophically Perfect Partnership provides one more point of Watchful.
Academic Intriguer Comfortable Intriguer Devout Intriguer Same stats	Spouse	Mysteries of the Foreign Office	20	Dangerous +1 Shadowy +1 Committed: +1	Shared BiS for Dangerous and Shadowy.

Perennial Best-In-Slot

These items have peer or better items freely available at all times of year, though they may be difficult to acquire or require the completion of a lengthy storyline.

Item	Slot	Story	FATE	Stats	Notes	Additional Items/Qualities Unique to Story
Laconic Prodigy	Companion	Recruit a Laconic Prodigy as your assistant	20	Dangerous +10 Shadowy +10 Watchful +10	Peer items are the various ministers.
Cross of Southwark	Affiliation	The Brass Grail (Story)	35	Well known at Southwark Cathedral +1 Respectable +1 Dangerous +2 Persuasive +2	Peer Persuasive and better Respectable item is A Salon. Better Dangerous affiliation, The Crew of HMS Ramillies, is available from Evolution.	Masked Former Priest
A Clot of Malachite Flesh	Home Comfort	The Ceremony (Story)	35	Bizarre +1 Respectable +1	Peer BDR items include the easily available Portable Lamp-Post. Better Bizarre and Respectable items can be assembled in the Bone Market or obtained through Parabolan means.
Collection of Discomfiting Photographs	Home Comfort	Mysteries of the Foreign Office	20	Shadowy +4	Outclassed by Rook-Crowned Oneiropompic Stave and Oneiric Key.
An Entirely Non-Cult-Related Tea Set	Home Comfort	The Ceremony (Story)	35	Respectable +1 Dreaded +1	Peer BDR items include the easily available Portable Lamp-Post. Better Dreaded and Respectable items can be assembled in the Bone Market or obtained through Parabolan means.
An Opal-Eyed Skeleton	Home Comfort	The Ceremony (Story)	35	Bizarre +1 Dreaded +1	Peer BDR items include the easily available Portable Lamp-Post. Better Bizarre and Dreaded items can be assembled in the Bone Market or obtained through Parabolan means.
Tapestry from the Elder Continent	Home Comfort	Mysteries of the Foreign Office	20	Persuasive +4	Outclassed by Serpent-Headed Oneiropompic Stave and Beatific Stone.

Early-Game Utility

These items are strictly outclassed for endgame players, but may be useful options for those who do not yet have access to a lategame alternative.

Item	Slot	Story	FATE	Stats	Notes	Additional Unique Items/Qualities to Story

No Notable Stats

These Items cannot be recommended based on their stats alone.

Item	Slot	Story	FATE	Stats	Notes	Additional Unique Items/Qualities to Story
Blemmigan Hat	Hat	The Blemmigan Affair	30	Watchful +5 Dangerous +2 Persuasive -1	Peer or better items can be bought from the Bazaar for relatively cheap.	Identified with a School: The Mycologenes
Shepherd's Timepiece	Weapon	A Trade in Souls	25	Shadowy +2	You're probably more interested in the Shepherd-exclusive options.	Spirifer's Fork
Spirifer's Fork	Weapon	A Trade in Souls	25	Shadowy +2	You're probably more interested in the Spirifer-exclusive options.	Shepherd's Timepiece
Corresponding Ocelot	Companion	Theological Husbandry	20	Watchful +5 Persuasive +5	Required for breeding the Bifurcated Owl. Unlocks an opportunity card that allows for A Scholar of the Correspondence grinding up to level 10. Can be recruited as a journalist for newspaper, saving you 60. Unremarkable statwise for this point in the game.	Slavering Dream-Hound Obdurate Stallion A Brazen Fate - Why You Fight - Fist of the Bazaar
A Daughter in the Shadows	Companion	A Long-Lost Daughter?	25	Shadowy +5 Persuasive +2	Peer for Shadowy with the Bazaar-buyable Devious Henchman. For Persuasive, buy a Deshrieked Mandrake; better options can be obtained at greater cost or during seasonal events.
Ocular Toadbeast	Companion	Theological Husbandry and Flute Street	30	Shadowy +6	Required for breeding the Bifurcated Owl. Peer items include the Unscrupulous Raven Advisor. Outclassed by the Renown: Society 25 item, the Unassuming Judge.	Slavering Dream-Hound Corresponding Ocelot Obdurate Stallion A Brazen Fate - Why You Fight - Fist of the Bazaar Rubbery Hound Ocular Toadbeast Location of an Underground Organ
Rubbery Hound	Companion	Flute Street	10	Watchful +2	Required for breeding the Bifurcated Owl. Unremarkable statwise for this point in the game.	Location of an Underground Organ
Slavering Dream-Hound	Companion	Theological Husbandry	20	Shadowy +4 Dangerous +4	Required for breeding the Bifurcated Owl. Unlocks a rare opportunity card that completely wipes Wounds. Outclassed in Dangerous by the Hound of Heaven, or several Bazaar-buyable companions. Outclassed in Shadowy by the Devious Henchman, among others.	Obdurate Stallion Corresponding Ocelot A Brazen Fate - Why You Fight - Fist of the Bazaar

Stories Sorted by Use

A listing of FATE stories with uses, grouped by usefulness to the average player. Fate stories with no uses will not be listed here. For a complete list see Fate-locked content (Guide). The stories themselves will be listed together as they are a package deal, regardless if the action comes from granted items, or from just playing through the story. It is worth noting that some options are dependent on the choices you make during the story. Make sure to look at the story's page in order to reach the conclusion you want when you make a decision based on these options.

Efficient Repeatable

These stories unlock repeatable options that are much better than their evergreen alternatives.

Story	Type	FATE	Use	Notes	Unique Items/Qualities
The Mushroom’s Dream	Carousel	25	Unlocks Mangrove College and the carousel located there	Efficient source of Blackmail Materials, Antique Mysteries, Comprehensive Bribe, Correspondence Plaques, and Storm-Threnodies.	Diogenes A Synthetic Philosopher The Dream of the Hintershroom
Upwards (Story)	Carousel	25	Unlocks a new carousel on the roof (Upwards (Guide))	Only source of Pentagrammic Skulls and Five-Pointed Ribcages.
The Empress' Shadow	Carousel Storylet	35	Unlocks the carousel, Sinning Jenny's Finishing School Call in a favour with Sinning Jenny	Provides an efficient source for grinding Favours with The Church and The Great Game, as well as a subpar source for Revolutionaries, Bohemians, Urchins, Favours: The Docks and Tomb-Colonies and additional options at Whitsun. The railway meeting option can be useful if you have trouble convincing her.	Disposition of the Empress' Shadow The Shadow in Stockings
The Blemmigan Affair	Storylet	30	A Blemmigan work and either an option on The Demi-Monde: Bohemians, Court and Cell: the Constables, or By the River's Side: the Docks	Only the By the River's Side: the Docks option is mechanically viable, giving 1 of each second chance, and a 50% chance of a 1 x Favours: The Docks.	Identified with a School: The Mycologenes Blemmigan Hat
Flute Street	Carousel	10	Unlocks a source of Favours: Rubbery Men, Rubbery Skulls, and Helical Thighbones	The most efficient source of rubbery favours, and the only repeatable source of Rubbery Skull.	Location of an Underground Organ Rubbery Hound
Learning from a Silk-Clad Expert (Story)	Partial Carousel	30	A researcher in the Laboratory or a guide on Moulin Expeditions	As a guide she comes in with 15 supplies, giving access to two 15-supply guides. In the laboratory she's an expert on Biological subjects, but she's also good at generating Parabolan Research.
Inconvenienced by Your Aunt	Card Option	15	One of three cards that can either refresh actions, or gain favours and a handful of items, depending on final choice Inconvenienced at Port Carnelian	Cards have a 30% luck check, refreshing 10 actions on success for an average of 2 actions per play. Failure provides a favour and a smattering of items worth a few Echoes of profit, along with some amount of Menace reduction. The specifics vary with the ending chosen. The Port Carnelian option is useful.
A Trade in Souls as Shepherd	Card Option	25	Card A new card for selling your soul Option on the Capering Relicker's card Option on the Rooms above a Bookshop card	Relicker option is good if you're not a PoSI. Good deal for selling if you want to sell your soul. Card is an excellent source of Favours from The Church, Society and Constables, or an expensive menace reset. Lodgings card option is bad.	Shepherd's Timepiece
A Long-Lost Daughter?	Option	25	Option on the Capering Relicker's card If you get the daughter: Option on a Nadir card Option on Coffee with the Last Constable Option for gaining St Cerise's Candle for Seekers	Relicker option is good if you're not a PoSI. The Nadir option is very good. Coffee gains you Favours: Constables while you can get it. The cheapest way to gain the Candle.	A Daughter in the Shadows
Übergoat	Option	1	Statue at The Hurlers Option while Hurling (Guide) One time: Gaining London's Nerves A tattoo Gaining St Cerise's Candle	The statue is quite good. The Hurlers option is unknown. The one time options are there, but other options may be preferred.	Übergoat

Efficient Single-Use

These stories unlock a one-time option that saves the player significant resources compared to the free alternatives.

Story	Type	Fate	Use	Notes	Unique Items/Qualities
Honeyed laudanum	Option	9	Gives you Honeyed Laudanum, which prevents losing dreams when leaving A state of some confusion.

Niche Repeatable

These items unlock repeatable options that are either equivalent to or outclassed by their evergreen alternatives.

Story	Type	FATE	Use	Notes	Unique Items/Qualities
A Pendant of Helicon Amber	Partial Carousel	40	Gets you into the Sculpture Garden at Helicon House (Guide)	About the same gains here as the rest of Helicon House.
The Brass Grail (Story)	Opportunity Card Storylet	35	Trade Wounds for Favours, or gain Visions of the Surface and lose Wounds. Gain 4 x Ostentatious Diamond and 100 x Moon-Pearl for 4 actions.	Neither the card nor the action are particularly profitable.	Cross of Southwark Masked Former Priest
The Marriage of Feducci (Story)	Storylet	35	Gain 3 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip or 15 x Romantic Notions	1.5 EPA; which of the items you get depends on the outcome of the story.
The Gift (Story)	Card Option	30	One of two cards depending on your final choice, providng Favours: Society or Favours: The Docks A new option when finishing Sinning Jenny's Finishing School	Neither card is a particularly good source of favours, and it'll just clutter your deck. The Sinning Jenny option likewise is less rewarding than the other cash out option.	The Regard of the Generous Princess Held in Esteem by the Crew of the Galatea
A Trade in Faces	Option	25	An option for reducing a menace on various faction cards	None of these options are better than social actions.
Mysteries of the Foreign Office (Story)	Partial Carousel	20	Expands options when Working toward a Foreign Posting	The reward payout is worse than other payouts for ending the carousel. Possibly a niche source of Favour in High Places	One of: Academic Intriguer Comfortable Intriguer Devout Intriguer Collection of Discomfiting Photographs Cultured Attaché Cultured Attachée Tapestry from the Elder Continent
The Spinning of the Wheels (Story)	Partial Carousel	20	A new cash out option for Riding the Savage Cobbles	Not a terribly high EPA, even for an early PoSI.	Ratwork Velocipede The Spinning of the Wheels
Theological Husbandry	Partial Carousel Cards	20	Ability to breed new creatures. Each creature comes with its own card, which can be found at Breeding Monsters Also a one time savings when making your newspaper	Most of the cards are just filler for the most part. The Corresponding Ocelot's card could be useful for raising ASotC while the Slavering Dream-Hound's rare card does clear all wounds.	Corresponding Ocelot Obdurate Stallion Bound in Diocesan Intrigue Slavering Dream-Hound Why You Fight - A Brazen Fate -
Theological Husbandry and Flute Street	Partial Carousel Cards	30	Ability to breed new creatures. Each creature comes with its own card, which can be found at Breeding Monsters	Most of the cards are just filler for the most part. The Bifurcated Owl's card could be useful for raising ASotC.	Corresponding Ocelot Obdurate Stallion Bound in Diocesan Intrigue Slavering Dream-Hound Why You Fight - A Brazen Fate - Rubbery Hound Location of an Underground Organ Ocular Toadbeast Bifurcated Owl
A Trade in Souls as Spirifer	Storylet Card Option	25	A new card for selling your soul Capering Relicker Option Storylet for selling souls in Ladybones Road Option on Royal Bethlehem Hotel Card when Seeking	Relicker option is good if you're not a PoSI Good Deal for selling if you want to sell your soul. Storylet is a good grind for early game characters. Royal Bethlehem option is not great. Seeking Card is not great.	Spirifer's Fork
Heptagoat	Option	7	A Statue at The Hurlers Option while Hurling (Guide)	The statue itself is not very good. The hurling usefulness is unknown

Niche Single-Use

These items unlock a one-time option that is either equivalent to or outclassed by the evergreen alternatives.

Story	Type	Fate	Use	Notes	Unique Items/Qualities
Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold	Option	19	Option on The Skin of the Bazaar	Unlocks the Passion destiny
Action on Flute Street	Option	10	Remove 1 x Weeping Scar	The only way to remove Weeping Scars

Vanity Only

These Fate-locked Stories only provide items or qualities that have no uses. Stories that only provide their named quality are left off.

Item	Story	FATE
Assisting in an Audit Acquainted with the Functionary's Past	A Functionary's Confidant (Story)	15