Barovia IV #23 Fateless
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🗓️ 10 January 2026
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Summary
/feɪt-less/
ADJ.
1. Having or showing a lack of fate. Having no predetermined destiny.
She went through life like a fateless rock tumbling down a hill
2. To act unpredictably or have an immunity to divination.
The only thing more shocking than when she pulled the knife was that the court diviner couldn't find the fateless traitor
3. A condition of unknown causation where the subject cannot have their future predicted by magical means.
Get out! Get out of here! You charlatan! You fake! You fateless wench!
NOUN
1. Being a member of a class known for having blue blood and being immune to divination magic. First observed by the scholar Chester A. B. in the Age of Devastation.
The fateless cannot be tamed by gods or kings, they are a people who are truly free in every sense of the word
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| 0:00.0 | Oi, lads, did you miss out on the Jaron's Outpost Kickstarter and wish you weren't such a big doofus? |
| 0:05.6 | Well, fear not. |
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| 0:11.4 | search for D&D for Nerds or Jaron's Outpost and slam that late pledge button. |
| 0:18.5 | Far from the beautiful beaches of blue sand of my homeland is a place called Barovia, the place we now find ourselves. |
| 0:26.4 | While they may look very different, one thing is the same, the sensation of being surrounded. |
| 0:32.5 | We cannot leave this place, this disgusting barony of one Straud von Zarovich, at least not until we usurp him |
| 0:40.0 | and take the throne for ourselves. Careful though, Friesen carries a heavy price in these parts. |
| 0:46.0 | As you approach those double doors, you can hear on the other side mirth and laughter and song and even dance. |
| 0:56.2 | Oh, weird. |
| 0:58.1 | I guess starting point would be to go to the, I guess, the Cantonese people that I would |
| 1:04.6 | recognize. |
| 1:05.8 | Just trying to think who you're sitting down next to specifically. |
| 1:10.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:45.4 | Who is next to me, apart from Gretchen? Oh, Gretchen on one side? Highs or lows? Let's go with... Let's go highs, why not? A halfling is sitting next to you. You can see the halfling is doing a similar... No, he's not doing a similar... Actually, he's doing quite the opposite to what Gretchen is doing. Gretchen is just shoveling food into her mouth. This halfling, he has a little plate of food, and you can see he's very carefully picking at it. Like he's trying to eat around something, but you can't tell what it is he's trying to eat around. Hi there. Hello, I'm Hector. |
| 1:46.6 | Nice to meet you. |
| 1:47.7 | Nice to meet you, too. |
| 1:50.6 | I'm Wilburra. |
| 1:52.7 | Wilburr-Shir-Foot. |
| 1:54.4 | Nice to meet you, |
| 1:56.1 | Wibar Shorffat. |
| 1:58.1 | Have you been in Barovia long? |
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