Fate and Free Will

Walter's visions and the Maid's prophetic dreams suggest a fated meeting, yet their choices—to flee, to trust, to love—demonstrate free will in overcoming the Lady's predetermined schemes and shaping their own destiny.

Walter is drawn to the three strangers as if by fate, and his confusion about whether they are real or a dream suggests a tension between destiny and his own choices.

Walter is torn between the duty to avenge his father and the inexplicable pull of the three strangers, questioning whether his visions are real or delusion.

Walter accepts the storm as fate, choosing to see it as a delay that may bring new tidings, highlighting the tension between destiny and personal agency.

Walter's choice to go to the shard despite his inner conflict between hope and fear highlights the tension between fate and his own free will.