The Five Maidens are five Celestial Incarna who are second in power only to the Unconquered Sun, though Luna is rightly considered an equal. Their duty is the maintenance and administration of Fate in Creation. Each Maiden has a specific portfolio and administrative role within the Bureau of Destiny. While their original role was to specifically manage and weave fate on the Loom of Fate, they have largely delegated this task to the Pattern Spiders and their subordinates within the Bureau. The Maidens are inscrutable; they have issued arbitrary sealed orders in the past and they have heavily interdicted the development of the Sidereal Exalted for reasons that are not entirely clear (in particular, the Maidens created all existing Sidereal charms). At the same time, their administration is r