Editing Contessa (section)

===Titan Fortuna===
Upon her becoming Titan Fortuna, her power changes to quickly being able to create and envision thousands of possible futures, along with the steps needed to achieve them, within seconds for any single goal she requests. She can read the details of all of them when she wills, in order to see the other details of the futures where her goal is fulfilled so to choose which one is the most favourable, then select one future Path to work towards. If both the Titan and the human Host use the power in-tandem and work together, they can concoct possible future Paths even quicker than normal.

However, the future Paths she comes up with are not every possible future, merely the ones her power's processing ability has calculated. As such, what Paths there are is dependant on this calculating ability, such as how long is spent on coming up with futures for a single goal and the aid that the Host can supply in thinking power and processing ability.<ref name ="Rad 18.z">[[Radiation 18.z]]</ref>

As a [[Titan]], Fortuna only has her host, Contessa, as a blind spot.<ref name="II19.5 eOwnBlindSpot">"It's not what I did," Rain said, rubbing at his eyes. "It's what I said. I sent a message, to the only person that Titan Fortuna can't see." - [[Infrared 19.5]]</ref> For example, she can directly path [[Endbringers]] such as [[the Simurgh]].<ref name="II20.a eGuide">The Simurgh lay prone within the storm that was the Sleeper. Unmoving. That hadn't been him. That had been Dauntless, acting with the benefit of Titan Fortuna's sight, guiding the direction of the blast.<br><br>The storm crackled, boiled, popped, the colors taking on a rainbow sheen that somehow felt it shouldn't make sense with the way the colors unfolded.<br><br>That would be enough to take her out of the picture. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/28/last-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.a]]</ref> However, Fortuna still needs time to spread her range of influence; despite being vastly more powerful than the Simurgh, Fortuna was initially on the backfoot during their precog duel because she just became a Titan and was starting from scratch. In comparison, the Simurgh spent two years preparing for her fight against the Titan and was already close to achieving her goals.<ref name="II18.z strength">''We began this fight when you broke, child'', the Titan Fortuna thought, trying to communicate to the battered kernel of human consciousness within herself.<br><br>''She began this two years ago, when Gold Morning occurred. It doesn't matter that we have a hundred times her strength. She's within paces of the finish line, and she's no stupid rabbit racing a tortise. Nearly every action she could take brings her closer to a checkmate.'' - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/21/interlude-18-z-radiation/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref>

Several interdimensional cracks manifested around the [[Titan]] after [[The Ice Breaks|the ice broke]].<ref name="II17.y eOwnBlindSpot">She watched cracks spread further.<br><br>The cracks found their next launching off point. A woman with awareness extending ''everywhere''. Each line of awareness was a weak point, like lines scored into rock before that rock was cracked. The cracks stretched easily along those efficient lines.<br><br>The woman in the suit, now locked in place, caught by her own well of power.<br><br>''Because she's her own blind spot, like Withdrawal said, much as any of us are blind to our own selves''.<br><br>She was too interconnected. Her power tied to too many things too constantly, and that power formed bridges. Connected everything, in a way. - [[Interlude 17.y II]]</ref><ref>Where enough different strikes intersected enough times, that which lay within broke away, falling back to reveal something else on the other side. The Cheit portal was the biggest case of it. The border between Gimel and Cheit broke away, and as it did, buildings from that other Earth were revealed, intersecting with facets and slices of Gimel. Some small, some vast.<br>[...]<br>Near the portal, at the worst of it, more was falling away. Gimel revealed Cheit, Cheit revealed Gimel, and when both fell away, there was a landscape of black crystal that seemed to connect to this new titan.<br>[...]<br>At the center of that new manifestation of cracks and destruction, a purple bubble with a triangular point extended down. The icon, a stylized woman in a fedora with tie, minimalist face, marked it as Contessa. The purple served to label her as a special case. - [[Interlude 17.y II]]</ref> Fortuna would use these cracks in her paths;<ref>''Step one: hold the cracks back, until the right moment,'' the Titan Fortuna and the child Fortuna thought in concert. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/21/interlude-18-z-radiation/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref> however, as these cracks opened to [[shardspace]], a nearby [[Simurgh]] could now potentially interfere with the information Fortuna was trying to transmit to her network.<ref name="II18.9 eInterfere"/> More specifically, the Simurgh's signal over time could "tamper" with paths being investigated by the Titan so that they appear to be in the [[Endbringer]]'s favor.<ref>But she had to ask: how long had the sheet been there? Had the answers been tampered with? Were there details that needed investigating?<br><br>She could check of course. The answer to that question was on the sheet. But in the time it took to find it, there could be more tampering, more details changed.<br><br>She already had the answer, that the silver woman had tampered. But where? She checked, and she found the answers.<br>[...]<br>Every route she investigated was seeded with false data, poisoned fruit, and patches of shadow that lay over the path, the far side of those patches ruled over by the silver woman. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/21/interlude-18-z-radiation/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref> That said, once Fortuna asked her host for help and worked in concert to quickly execute a path without investigating it too much, the Simurgh could not tamper with it, forcing the Endbringer to leave.<ref name="II18.z eQuick">The Titan Fortuna reached out to the child Fortuna deep within herself, and spoke with a certainty the child knew well. If they did not win here, ''now'', they would be enslaved.<br><br>The child refused to be a slave again. The Titan refused to be a slave for other reasons. But they were able to think and act in concert.<br><br>''A path''. One that most likely ended in a desirable outcome. To investigate too much would leave it on the table long enough for the silver woman to get silver fingerprints on it.<br>[...]<br>As if sensing the resolution, the silver woman turned and levitated herself away. Ceding the battle, or taking her own initial steps. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/21/interlude-18-z-radiation/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref>