IN MEKHANE, fate and gods will tell a story involving the available characters, using the Tale cards.

The story is divided in rounds called chapters. At the end of each chapter, fate will freely decide which character will die, based on how the story has developed — and that story develops through destiny cards that tell each god (player) which characters should survive (the numbers on the destiny card refer to the position of the character cards).

At the end of the game, one of the gods wins the game if their favorite character survived.