About the Twisted Fate

The Twisted Fate is a gigantic mothership of tycharan making. The ship's true name is actually Kaster-sulat-Radesketkyl which means "Storm of the Black Wasteland", "black wasteland" being the tycharan term for outer space. Although it is true the ship received its "Twisted Fate" moniker to play off the name of its so-called rival, the Abstract Destiny, it is also true that the name stuck in part because it's easier for non-tychari to pronounce and remember.

The Fate is massive almost beyond comprehension. Magical transporters are used to traverse from deck to deck as well as between rooms at opposite ends of the ship, as simply walking would take too long otherwise. It has a population, rather than a crew, and is entirely self-sufficient. Water is magically replicated while an entire deck is devoted to farming crops and raising herds of livestock to feed its inhabitants (water is a simple thing to produce via magic, whereas the replication of varied foods would be a waste of mana) as well as the recycling of waste materials.

The Upper Inhabitants' Deck, the decks above it, and the Hanger are all rather as people expect spaceship rooms and corridors to be. They are very tall and wide to accommodate giant creatures (like dragons), constructed from a smoky-colored metalloid and lit with electric lights. The mage-laboratories mix technological equipment with runic circles and spell-altars, and the Upper Inhabitants Deck combines apartment-like rooms with recreational facilities one would more expect on a planetary space station.

The rest of the decks, however, look like things one would find carved into the bowels of a mountain or deep underground. The substance they are built from is still of smoky hues, but rooms and corridors are rounded and irregular as if worn from the rock-like material by centuries of water-flow, and mage-torches prevail rather than electric ones. Those that live on the Lower Inhabitants' Deck live in rooms that are more like caves (suiting many of the beastlike population) while the recreational areas include a giant cavern of grassy turf and a magically simulated open sky, complete with artificial sunlight.

The corridors of the Chosen's Deck are of the natural-seeming sort, but rooms both natural and technological reside behind the doors, as do recreations that mimic those on both Inhabitants' Deck (albeit not as extensively).

The Egg Caverns adopt the natural look, sculpted from the same smoky "rock" as the Decks directly above them. Another magical "sky" hangs over each one, keeping the places well-lit. There are no audiences to hatchings. There is a viewing platform, which seems to be carved from the cavern walls and is elevated above the reddish-brown sands on which eggs are incubated, but only Dritanys and her assistants are permitted there. Clutch parents may stand on the sand. Others who wish to watch may only do so at a holo-computer tuned to the "channel" recording the event.

The Hangars are where small fighters and transport ships are kept, alike to the Fate itself with their sharp and sweeping bodies. The Hangars are also where teleporting beasts arrive--usually Seekers with the newest of the Chosen in tow.

The entire ship possesses a regulated day-night schedule. This is most obvious in the Egg Caverns and other rooms where suns and moons arc across the sky-ceilings in the 27-hour tycharan day. Corridor lights, whether electric or mage-torches, are also dimmed at night. The Fate has true night and day to its inhabitants, and there are distinct shifts of those who are diurnal versus those who are nocturnal.