Mark of Fate transports us to a world unlike our own, yet a story parallel to the plight of many-a sense of identity, community, and history. This tale follows a young and sprightly girl named Alesia, brought up simply and hardworking, often dreaming beyond the fields she tends with her strict and structured mother. Alesia is deeply confounded by this mundanity, yearning for more...and as we know, what we put out into the universe, we most times receive in great measure and even greater expanse-ready or not. With verve comes action and danger, peril and promise that Alesia must confront. This path leads her down a winding road of even more questions, unearthing deep truths buried for reasons and reckonings far before her life began. She grapples with the decision to embrace these inherited traumas and choices, most times challenging her moral dexterity over outright survival. She must lean into a power unbeknownst to her to address a fate far preceding her age or understanding. All unraveling into the notion that we cannot escape ourselves, nor the marks and scars we acquire from the lessons learned along the way.