The Norns

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"Destiny's Daughters"
Pantheon: Norse
AoC: Fate
Symbol: Staff with three
branches
Home P/L/R: the Outlands/
the Well of Urd

The three Norns - Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld - watch over the magical pool that nourishes Ygdrassil, and they read the existence of mortals and powers alike in its waters. Urd can read the past, Verdandi the present, and Skuld the future of any being they choose to concentrate on. Some say the Norns actually shape destinies of all sentient creatures in the multiverse, but there's really no way to prove that.

Their realm is a tiny grove on the Outlands, overgrown with thick trees and thorns that blot out the light so effectively that no outside illumination can penetrate; a body needs to bring his own. If a basher's persistent enough, he can make his way to the well at the center of the grove and look into it to read his future. Those who do usually regret it; mortals aren't meant to know their fates.

The Norns have no proxies. Some folks say the Norns are proxies, that serve the embodiment of Fate itself. Whatever the truth, it's no dark that the three have no servants of their own.