n. fate, destiny

Do you have no better reason for acting than destiny? Are you nothing but a plaything of dez... of fate?
(Paarthurnax, 0003F9E1)

Dez motmahus. Even to the dov, who ride the currents of Time, destiny is elusive.
(Paarthurnax, 000556DB)

Thoringar wahlaan qethsegol monii vahrukt, Noomi, wen dez los wah Aus nin do pogaan Ogiim ronaaz.
Thoringar raised this stone for his daughter’s memory, Noomi, whose fate it was to Suffer the sting of many Orc arrows.
(Word Wall for Aus, Marked for Death)

A person’s eventual fate, or the sense of purpose or prophecy. Personified as something that wild and fickle, beyond mortal influence.

Likely from the English word ‘destiny’.