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An important element of the Golarion setting is that the death of Aroden resulted in the unraveling of many ancient prophecies. Fate just doesn't mean what it used to mean. How does that affect a sorceror whose background is defined by "destiny?" Do they even exist in Golarion? Can a Pathfinder Society character select the Destiny bloodline? Is there an easy fix?
THE DESTINED SORCERER BLOODLINE IS ALL i CAN THINK OF. Sorry, caps were on. Destiny itself is pretty unravelled, for now. The harrower prestige class is a sort of fortune teller with a prophetic bent, but being truly destined by the events around the god's fall would be rare. Perhaps an elf sorcerer with the destined bloodline would have been alive when it happened. Most all humans from that time would be dead, or close to it.
There isn't much to go on. I guess destiny and all it entails is a personal thing, that may have imapct farther down the road than anyone can see. Not very helpful, am I?
I think the PS would welcome a destined sorcerer, at least the few who would understand what that means.
Is it necessary to know what a person's destiny is in order for them to be destined? Perhaps such people aren't fated in the conventional sense, but rather have been selected by some power to accomplish some important goal. Maybe they're not 'destined', but having a god watching out for you and steering you in certain directions might well produce similar effects.
Alternatively, perhaps such people were destined for greatness had Aroden lived. Prophecy may have been overturned, but fate may still favour certain people, even if they serve causes and carry out quests very different to what they might have in that other world.
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Alternatively, perhaps such people were destined for greatness had Aroden lived. Prophecy may have been overturned, but fate may still favour certain people, even if they serve causes and carry out quests very different to what they might have in that other world.
Ooh, now this is all sorts of cool!
So and so was 'destined' to perform some great deed (famous or infamous), but with the prophecies all ashes, she's now got flapping threads of destiny all around her, not attached to anything specific, but which give her certain special advantages, as things sometimes seem to 'go her way.'
She's making her own destiny now, from the tattered fragments of her original fate. Will she manage to reach the heights (or plunge the depths) to which she was originally destined? Will she fail to leave a mark on the world, her glorious potential unrealized? Will she somehow *transcend* her original destiny, and accomplish even greater things?
As a harbinger of broken prophecies, the destined sorcerer of Golarion might be seen as a stormcrow, someone whose arrival portends chaos and uncertainty, as rules thought to be immutable break before his will, and long-standing orders fall. Everything is uncertain, and the world is roiled in his wake, like water churned up by the passage of a ship, a ship that knows not it's destination or even it's course...
Basically, I'm thinking something like the taveren (sp?) of the Wheel of Time novels. Agents and Heralds of Destiny, whom strange and seemingly impossible events seem to accompany, only in this case, 'destiny' is broken, and the events do not seem to follow any particular pattern.
Standard stuff that happens in any game would happen, but with the Destined Sorcerer's presence, they would seem to be the result of his presence. (The party *happens* to show up in town as something major is happening, and while that's what *always* happens in D&D adventures, it's made to sounds like it had something to do with the Destined's appearance. Someone critically hits an 'impossible' shot, or makes an insane skill check, or saves against something that they seemed guaranteed to fail, and those present get a sense of destiny. But it goes both ways, and sometimes a character will utterly choke on a vital roll, and those present will feel as if somewhere, a string on a musical instrument snapped, and eyes will turn to the Destined Sorcerer, wondering if he is also to blame for their misfortunes...)
It would all be flavor (except for those occasions where the Destined Sorcerer actually did affect the outcome with a spell or ability!), but add a lot to the 'broken' nature of destiny and prophecy in the Age of Lost Omens.