Attempting to sever the River of fate of the Lord of Mysteries, whose honorific name included "Beacon of Destiny" and who possessed equally powerful symbolism, was no idle fantasy on the Goddess of fate's part. It was a decision she had carefully considered.
This was not merely because she was the Weaver of All Fates, the Symbol of Ultimate Judgment, and the Eternal Goddess of the Future. She also had the help of the Mother Goddess of Depravity, one of the most powerful Great Old Ones—the only being who had existed when the River of fate first began to flow, still existed now, and would exist forever into the future.
When the Original Creator first awakened and created this world, reality, the Spirit World, the Astral World, and their fates were still mingled together. There were no concepts of time or space, nor any living beings.
Only when the Original Creator gave birth to the Mother Goddess of Depravity did reality gain support, the Spirit World and Astral World separate, and the River of fate begin to flow. Afterward, the Mother Tree of Desire and the Son of Chaos were born, bringing living beings and their desires, as well as order and its hidden shadows.
Among the "three firstborn," the Mother Goddess of Depravity was special. She was the Master of Reality and also gestated the fates of all things. Only after she and the Original Creator gave birth to their eldest daughter, the Goddess of fate, did the fates of all things begin to intertwine, acquiring discernible patterns and definite futures.
The Goddess of fate was the Mother Goddess of Depravity's eldest daughter, but was the Mother Goddess of Depravity not also the Original Creator's eldest daughter?
The latter possessed the same mystical significance as the former. She was