You wander into a maze. As you walk through the maze, the walls give way to tall hedges, steering you this way and that, until you reach the garden at the center. A part of you is always in this garden, choosing your path through this maze, choosing one path above all others and discarding the alternate routes. Sometimes you look back and see the path not taken. This is the place where all paths converge, although the choice as to which path to take out of here is just as important as the rest of the choices made in your life. You see a cloaked figure holding a great book standing on a bridge over a river. He looks over to you, but his eyes are hidden by the hood of his cloak. As you walk toward the figure, you notice the book is chained to his arm. He looks up to you, and you see that he has no eyes, the man is blind. Nevertheless, he reads to you from the great tome. You find the words cryptic and strange, but a part of you knows what he says to be true. However, you cannot take such knowledge with you beyond Destiny's garden, so as the garden fades back to the maze, you find the words he said are lost to you. And perhaps you should be thankful for that fact, for the gifts of the Endless do not come free.
Everything is in Destiny's book, at least that is the theory. Delirium has said that there are things that are not in Destiny's book, paths outside of his garden, so perhaps he does not know everything. But is the knowledge contained within Destiny himself, or is it contained in his book? It has been suggested that the book contains the knowledge, so Destiny himself does not have to bear the burden of knowing everything, and that he learns by turning the page as we learn by experience. He can be suprised, and his book records his reactions even before they occur. His book is chained to him, to prevent it being taken from him (although it has been rumored that pages have been stolen, even though the book itself recorded these events before they happened so Destiny knew it would happen), and to prevent him being able to free himself from the book, and the burden of the future. The oldest of the Endless holds a great burden, as they all do, in their own ways. Destiny's burden may be lightened by his book, which contains the knowledge so he does not have to. Of all the Endless he may be the most tied to his duty, both physically and figuratively, aside possibly from his younger brother Dream. But Destiny's burden does not require the imagination Dream's does, which may be why it was Dream, not Destiny, who had to make way for a new incarnation.
