Fates

The Fates, the Greek Moirai — Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos — spin, measure, and cut the thread of every mortal life, giving each at birth its portion of good and evil.

They fought in the giants' war and killed two of the giants themselves; they beguiled the monster Typhon in his rebellion, tricking him with fruit that sapped his strength; they foretold the death of Meleager, bound to the brand on his mother's hearth; and when Apollo wanted his friend Admetus spared, the god got the Fates drunk to win the concession that another might die in his place — the exception that proves how rarely the thread is renegotiated.

In one they are daughters of Night, listed beside Doom, Death, and the punishing Keres — powers who give mortals at birth their portions of good and evil, who pursue the transgressions of gods and men alike, and whose dread anger does not cease until punishment falls.