<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Anyways statically speaking the background gives 5 dice to any action which counts as 'her destiny' but it is most crude form and background should not meant to used that way. Destiny 5 could literally destroy kingdoms or even part of creation to work it way around in favor for such destined person. Example if a spell would hit her which should annihilate her, instead either spell does not fully work for weird reason or someone jumps to take bullet for her even if it was not supposed to be possible.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Destiny 5 absolutely should<em>not</em>be plot armor beyond what the background provides.<br/><br/>The Scarlet Empress got where she was because she was smart, dedicated, brutal and efficient; she didn't let anything stand in her way and she clawed her way to the top over the bodies of her friends.  The world didn't cut her any breaks; expecting 5 dots of a background to make you immune to deadly spells (or anything else that would get in your way) is kind of ridiculous.  Destiny isn't the "I Win" background -- especially not when you're surrounded by Celestials, whose entire gig is that they cut through Fate and Destiny like a ginsu knife.<br/><br/>You'll notice that during the Empress' rise to power, there were no Solars around to interfere.<br/><br/>Fate, in Exalted, manifests itself in the form of better odds -- as in the case of the destinies crafted by Sidereals, and in the Destiny background -- but never as any kind of perfect defense or other similar overtly magical effect.<br/><br/>Unless you're a Sidereal, but they cheat and abuse Fate rather than letting it guide them along their way.