Destiny
Some universes were home to anthropomorphic personifications of Destiny or Fate.
Biography
Destiny of the Endless
- See main article: Destiny of the Endless (Psychopomp)
In one universe, Destiny was one of the Endless — in fact, he was the oldest of the seven Endless, predating even Death. He held a Book which was in fact a part of his own being, and recorded every event that would ever take place in the Endless's dominion (which was suggested to include not a single universe but an entire multiversal cluster branching out of it, including all extant alternate histories of this universe). After the passage of time led to all sentient beings slowly dying out, and with them, the other Endless, Destiny became the second-to-last Endless and was finally taken by his sister Death, who was left as the last sentient being in the dead universe. (PROSE: Psychopomp)
Behind the scenes
As Psychopomp is a fanfiction crossing over Jenny Everywhere with the characters and world of The Sandman, the version of Destiny it heavily mentions is that featured in The Sandman, originally created in 1971 by Jack Kirby as the central figure and narrator of DC Comics' horror anthology comic series, Weird Mystery Tales, and retconned by Neil Gaiman as one of his creations the Endless.
Although this particular depiction of Destiny is copyrighted, the notion of an embodiment of destiny, often depicted as a prophet-like robed figure holding a book, is a public domain artistic motif. Indeed, two decades before Kirby's Destiny first appeared, a similar figure called “Fate” was used for the same purpose of “horror host” in an anthology title, by Ace Comics' The Hand of Fate; this character, unlike DC's later “Destiny”, is in the public domain.
