Destiny (DC Comics)
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Destiny is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
He is the eldest of the Endless, and is portrayed as a tall figure, obscured within a brown robe and cowl. He reads what is to be from a large book chained to his right wrist. He does not leave footprints, nor does he cast a shadow. Destiny's realm is a garden, the maze-like paths of which he walks continually. His book is his sigil in the galleries of the other Endless. Destiny is blind although this doesn't appear to hinder him.
He is the least characterised and least used of the Endless in the series. His first appearance in the series at the beginning of the fourth collection, Season of Mists. In a quiet way he seems to direct Endless family affairs; it is he who calls the family meeting that begins Season of Mists.
Like Lucien, Cain and Abel and some other Sandman characters, Destiny was initially the host of a 1970s DC horror comic, Weird Mystery Tales. In this title the Book of Destiny was called the Cosmic Log, and there was, of course, no mention of his family.