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[Alexandr Korol]

no one lives longer than the time allotted. As daughters of Night, the Moirai are sisters and allies of the Erinyes, who were regarded not only as forces of darkness, but also as relentless spirits of vengeance and punishment, and hence of death. When represented as daughters of Themis, the Moirai appear as goddesses of regularity and order. Their father Zeus, the supreme organizer of order resting upon his laws (Greek θέμιστες), is called Moiragetes (Greek Μοιραγέτης, “leader of the Moirai”), a title also borne by Apollo, as herald of the decrees of Zeus.

Clotho spins the thread of fate from whatever comes into her hands. Lachesis, without looking, weaves together the threads of the fates of different people. And the third — Atropos — cuts the threads of fate, thus bringing death to them.”

When I was studying, reading and analyzing all this about what fate and fortune are, the system also highlighted to me such words as “anthropomorphism” and “anthropic principle.” I must definitely place emphasis on this, that every reader must read in Wikipedia what this is.

Read the articles in Wikipedia “Anthropomorphism,” “Anthropic principle.”

That is, this is a kind of hint so that the reader can correctly perceive the idea and thought laid in my novel, so that the boundaries are not erased, so that a person does not forget and understands that this is all sacred language and that it should not all be taken literally. That is the essence.

Now the next thing. With fate, chance, and fortune we have figured things out. What conclusions can I draw at this moment in time? What does the system want from me when, so to speak, it directs my attention to this? It reveals even more information to me so that I surrender to this force to which even the Gods submit. Maybe this is somehow connected precisely with faith. Maybe this is an emphasis that now the wheel of fortune has turned, and the golden age begins, or this transition into the opposite world, that is, heaven. Maybe it is about the fact that now fortune awaits me specifically as luck. But as if it is more some kind of tuning with the higher power, with the mind, with nature, as if the emphasis is more on this.