# Fortune — The Lusiads character guide

> Fortune in The Lusiads by Luís de Camões.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** smile of constant Fortune, tricksy Fortune

**First appearance:** 0005-canto-i

## Who they are

Personification of luck and fate, often addressed as a force influencing the voyage.

## In the story

### [Epigraph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lusiads_se/chapters/epigraph)

Referenced in Shakespeare's quote as a giver of prizes.

### [To My Master Camões](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_lusiads_se/chapters/to-my-master-cam-es)

Fortune is described as fickle, having made Camões a lifelong sport of her will, subjecting him to all human and inhuman ill.

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