KLOTHYS, Goddess of Destiny

GODDESS OF FATE AND DESTINY

Believed to have sprung into existence during The Falling, when the three Norns collapsed into one being. Klothys is the god of destiny and fate. It is said that when a new child is born, Kloythys will appear and decide how long the new born should be allowed to live. She oversees the order of the cosmos, ensuring that all things remain in their proper place, knowing how easily the cosmic balance could be undone if she were not vigilant.ON the heels of near-catastrophic upset of the cosmic order-the rise to godhood of Selesnya - Klothys has emerged from the Underworld for the first time in mortal memory to untangle the strands of destiny and set the world right.

Klothys typically appears as a woman with six curling horns and an impossibly long mane of pale hair that cascades around her horns, drapes over her eyes, and spools into her spear-like weapon and the various other spindles she carries.

Beneath her outward calm, Klothys seethes at the way mortals and gods alike have pulled apart and rearranged the threads of destiny to feed their petty ambitions. Her peaceful mien falls away in the presence of such villains. In her rage, her red-glowing eyes come into view through the veil of her hair, and she wields burning strands of hair as a devastating weapon.

KLOTHYS'S INFLUENCE

Klothys is the embodiment and enforcer of destiny. Largely forgotten after ages spent in the Underworld, Klothys has only recently emerged, brimming with silent frustration at the state of Nyx.

Each strand of Klothys's hair is part of the fabric of destiny, the natural order that underpins all existence. Her followers claim to see these strands woven into all things, granting them understanding of cosmic truths and insights into how the future should unfold.

KLOTHYS'S GOALS

Once content to oversee and preserve destiny from the Underworld, Klothys now endeavors to undo the cosmic damage caused by Heliod, Selesnya, and ambitious mortals in recent years. The ways in which they ravaged reality to realize their selfish dreams has threatened Idavoll and Nyx, and only by untangling the strands of destiny can Klothys set things right. The status quo she seeks to restore, however, comes with a cost in mortal casualties and societal upheaval that would accompany this process. She intends to humble the same institutions that condoned or committed these crimes against Idavoll. When her efforts have laid low the proud, the defiant, and the exploitative, then Klothys will have restored the natural order and ensured the world's survival.

DIVINE RELATIONSHIPS

Klothys views many of the gods with disdain, considering them to be complicit in Selesnya's theogenesis, Heliod's acts of arrogance, or both. She reserves special contempt for Heliod and his champions, relishing everyopportunity to teach them humility.

Klothys also clashes with other gods associated with order and progress, seeing their defiance of the natural order as a dangerous affront. Ephara's ravenous colonization, Tyr's passion for overcoming insurmountable odds, and Karametra's taming of nature all run the risk of inspiring ambitious mortals who lust for ever more power and strain to break away from their proper place in the cosmos.

Klothys respects the other gods whose interests balance creation and destruction, such as Njord, Purphoros, and Nylea, considering them better attuned to Idavoll's needs and destiny's myriad outcomes. Nylea shares Klothys's delight in the world's natural cycles. Purphoros's willingness to build and demolish appeases Klothys-as well as the fact that he despises Heliod as much as she does.

Klothys's relationships with Erebos and Athreos are complicated. Ages spent in the Underworld with Erebos have driven home for her how arrogant and tyrannical he is, as ready to commit the same sins as Heliod if given the opportunity. Even so, Erebos and Klothys maintain a level of mutual respect. Until recently, Klothys and Athreos were unflappable allies. But now her emergence from the Underworld has blurred the borders between the realms, as she draws horrors into the mortal realm with her and thereby raises Athreos's ire.

Of course, Klothys trusts no other god as much as she does Sylkri, who also recalls the Vanir's earliest hours. The two have a deep respect for one another.

WORSHIPING KLOTHYS

Klothys doesn't trace her origins to mortal devotion, and she has languished in obscurity for almost the whole of human history. Unlike the other gods (except Sylkri), she doesn't need worship to sustain or empower her, and she doesn't seek out reverence or demand it. By and large, mortals are irrelevant to her, except insofar as they have played a role in tangling the strands of destiny by defying nature's order.

Klothys hasn't had a mortal champion before. Upon emerging from the Underworld, she created a host of Nyxborn agents to help her restore Idavoll to its proper path. You might be one of these so-called Agents of Destiny, single-minded in the purpose for which you were made. Or you might be among the first of a new cadre of followers of Klothys.

MYTHS OF KLOTHYS

Klothys is barely remembered in the mortal world, having sequestered herself in the Underworld while human civilization was in its infancy. Some surviving myths speak of a personified "destiny" in a way that vaguely suggests the possibility of an actual god's involvement.

Walkers of Woe

The nightmarish creatures known as woe striders are said to be products of Klothys's punishment. These beings descend from an age when some mortals learned to unshackle themselves from the strands of destiny. To what end is a question lost to time, but Klothys put a quick end to these blasphemers and eradicated nearly all knowledge of their methods. Ever since, the shades of these accursed mortals have walked the Underworld as woe striders, monstrosities endlessly seeking strands of destiny that they might use to replace their own discarded lots.

The Smoking Strand

Hidden far from civilized coasts lies a strand of Klothys's hair that she purposefully plucked. Knotted in on itself, the strand appears as a seething ball of dense smoke. Any who touch the strand risk having it invade them, infecting them with a pernicious destiny that Klothys herself tore from the natural order. None can say what terrible destiny the Smoking Strand drives its possessor toward, but the ruins within which it lies might give some hint-caverns burrowed deep into a mountain of petrified bodies, the twisted obsidian corpses of humanoids and animals alike.

Destiny Rests

There are no know holidays regarding Klothys. Though some say on the longest day of the year when the sun rises followers of Klothys freeze in place and dont move a muscle until the sun has fully set. This is to help balance out the ties of fate as they are exactly where they need to be for the day to inpact the neccesary lives.