"What element we are? Seems to be personality."

"Huh. Interesting. You got any idea what personality corresponds to what?"

"Stone, stubborn. Volcanic, passionate. Wind, hm, not free exactly but close. Forest is creative. Water is adaptive."

"—okay so maybe I'm flattering myself here but I could see myself as any of those."

"You're probably flattering yourself. I was positive I would be stone and stone alone - yet I got a hint of ocean. It's probably a guideline at best."

"If I were to rank... from most to least, creative, passionate, adaptive, not-free-exactly-but-close, and stubborn."

"Then perhaps you will get control over plants like that irritating centaur."

"'That irritating centaur'?"

"He irritates me. He rambles on about his art at all hours. Personal failings are fine but Tenno is also reckless and negligent with how he places tiles, which is unacceptable."

"—that sounds potentially pretty dangerous."

"Exactly."

"Why does he?"

She throws her hands up. "Go ask him. He hasn't done anything disastrous enough yet that my compatriots would care about so I can haul him to tribunal."

"Tribunal?"

"Where Fates hand each other justice."

"Oh, that makes sense, I didn't know you organised yourself like that."

"It's messy and sometimes inefficient. But it's something."

"How's it work, exactly?"

"If the tribunal, a meeting of fifty at minimum and publically-among-us discussed, finds them guilty of excesses they are collectively punished by shunning. If they are found to have excessive fault at a second tribunal, they are banished to the edges of the known world for one thousand years. If there is a third, it is all other fates' responsibility to ensure they are permanently destroyed."

"—yeowch. I thought permanent destruction wasn't possible?"

"The threshold for tribunal punishments is very high. Permanent destruction is possible. I will not tell you how."

"Will you tell me how when I become a Fate, if we run into each other?"

"Certainly! It's traditional, even, to be told the necessary background information and customs. We can feel new Fates happen if they are close enough, by the way. The range is roughly 'the same continent'."

"Oh, that's pretty awesome. Alright, thank you."

"Say, what is your magic?"