Istus (IS-tus) is the Power of future destinies and predestination. She has few true followers, but many call upon her in time of need or want when they fear the future. Istus receives many offerings in places where people need good luck to sustain them (such as places under tyrannical rule, and in conquered states).

Istus is depicted in one of three ways: as an old crone spinning the strands of the Web of Fate, as a noble and haughty women; or as a cold, young maiden. Because Fate has been unkind to so many on Wearth, offerings of incense, candles, and the like are often ambivalent. Istus’ clerics are small in number, nut often sought out by rulers and nobles for divinations.

Everything is connected to every other by invisible strands that push and pull over time. The choices a person makes in life affect the pull of some strands, allowing one to alter fate in a small way, but some of these webs of fate have a strong and inevitable pull that cannot be escaped. The perceptive can come to understand these strands and watch them to predict the future. Accepting your destiny is the greatest service you can make to yourself, for dishonesty about your role in the world leads to ruin and disaster.

Clerics of Istus tend toward stoicism. They regard honesty as an absolute virtue. Many are cold, unfeeling folk, given the vagaries of Fate, although a few kinder souls may be found who feel that Fate has been uncommonly generous to them and they wish to serve Istus in return. Divinations play a key role in the determination of the actions of these clerics.