Agnes the Child |
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Description: A pretty porcelain doll in a lacy dress, clutched by a lumbering bear with shears and blades for fingers.
Upright Meaning: Inspiration: the Power of Youth
Fallen Meaning: Capriciousness: the Faliability of Youth |
An Agnite - The Innocent |
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Description: A small child, sitting cross-legged at the bank of a river or pool, looking down in wonder at his own reflection.
Upright Meaning: Innocence
Fallen Meaning: Naivete |
Pair of Agnites - The Game |
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Description: Two children sitting at a table upon which is a boardgame, strewn with tokens and dice. One child moves a token while the other reads a card.
Upright Meaning: Wisdom through Folly
Fallen Meaning: Useless manuevering |
Three Agnites - The Bully |
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Description: One heavy-set child looms over a smaller, slighter child while a third child looks on approvingly.
Upright Meaning: Compliance through Persuasion
Fallen Meaning: Compliance through Force |
The Agnites - Playground |
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Description: A knot of children on an open field: a ball arcs over them, but it is uncertain whether the children are chasing the ball or fighting amongst themselves.
Upright Meaning: Power of Chaos
Fallen Meaning: Entropy & Loss of Unrestrained Chaos |
Baba Yaga the Crone |
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Description: A skull with its eye sockets lit up with power and life, the teeth stretched into a dead woman's smile.
Upright Meaning: Death -- the End
Fallen Meaning: Death without Solace -- Eternal Torment |
A Yagan - The Dreamer |
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Description: A woman stands hip-deep in rushing water, looking up into a sky full of stars. Similarily, her reflection looks down... into nothing.
Upright Meaning: Vision
Fallen Meaning: Blindness |
Pair of Yagans - The Pallbearers |
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Description: Two men carry a coffin to an open grave in the distance.
Upright Meaning: Death as Completion of a Good Life
Fallen Meaning: Ignoble Death |
Three Yagans - The Library |
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Description: A vast room with a high over-arching ceiling opens, its walls covered with stretched and tanned hides tattooed and scarified with the collected wisdom of the Yagans. A handful of scholars work at desks, poring over the skins.
Upright Meaning: Knowledge or Lore
Fallen Meaning: Forbidden or Dangerous Knowledge |
The Yagans - Catacombs |
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Description: The picture seems to suggest age and rot, a dampness and chill that never leaves the bones. Rows and rows of coffins and crypts line the walls and fill the stone-walled room. A spider in the corner is the only living thing in the room.
Upright Meaning: Surrender to Fate
Fallen Meaning: Taking Fate into one's own hands |
Dahlia the Trickster |
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Description: A starburst with a face at the center, with an array of masks radiating out at the edges.
Upright Meaning: Truth
Fallen Meaning: Deception |
A Dahlian - The Performer |
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Description: A man standing stiffly, arms spread wide and chin lifted as if he were giving an oration.
Upright Meaning: One's part in a larger whole
Fallen Meaning: "The Prima Donna" -- Out of one's place to the detriment of the Play |
Pair of Dahlians - Trade |
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Description: Two women stand, dressed in tattered and colorful clothing, exchange a chicken for a leather bag.
Upright Meaning: Exchange of Goods
Fallen Meaning: Cheat |
Three Dahlians - The Pageant |
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Description: One man, dressed richly, stabs a woman similarily dressed, as another man looks on from the sidelines. The whole scene is encapsulated within the frame of a stage.
Upright Meaning: Literal Pageant, or an entire Life
Fallen Meaning: Subterfuge and Duplicity |
The Dahlians - The Caravan |
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Description: A train of wagons with a few colorfully-dressed men and women walking along beside it.
Upright Meaning: Travel
Fallen Meaning: Homelessness |
Eva the Mother |
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Description: The bulbous earthen body instantly recognizable as Eva the Mother.
Upright Meaning: Mother's Love
Fallen Meaning: Smothering |
An Evan - Winter |
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Description: One thin old man, wrapped in thin blankets and looking forlorn.
Upright Meaning: Inner Strength to Overcome
Fallen Meaning: Suffering |
Pair of Evans - Sowing |
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Description: A naked man and a woman copulating amidst sprouting flowers.
Upright Meaning: Creation / Children
Fallen Meaning: Distraction |
Three Evans - Harvest |
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Description: A man and a woman hold a baby upside-down by its ankles. The man holds a knife to the child's throat, and blood spills to the ground. Where the blood falls, plantlife blooms.
Upright Meaning: Bounty
Fallen Meaning: Price |
The Evans - The Plantation |
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Description: Squat buildings surround a patchwork quilt of green fields; scores of men and women dot the fields, working and talking.
Upright Meaning: Community
Fallen Meaning: Parochialism |
Joan the Warrior |
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Description: A broad sword thrust into the ground; images of battle are vaguely visible in the blade's reflection.
Upright Meaning: Devotion to Duty
Fallen Meaning: Gullibility |
A Joanite - The Soldier |
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Description: A young man, armored and armed, quite obviously prepared for battle.
Upright Meaning: Orders and Dedication
Fallen Meaning: Lack of Initiative |
Pair of Joanites - The Duel |
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Description: Two Joanites stand with swords crossed, shoulders and feet leaning forward in battle.
Upright Meaning: Resolution
Fallen Meaning: Petty Squabbles |
Three Joanites - The Guard |
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Description: Three Joanites stride through a crowd of people in the Bazaar, eyes alert and wary.
Upright Meaning: Protectors
Fallen Meaning: Oppressors |
The Joanites - The Army |
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Description: A mass of Joanites, armed and ready for battle.
Upright Meaning: Valor
Fallen Meaning: Mercenaries |
Magdalen the Lover |
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Description: A four-poster bed, curtains drawn, surrounded by cats.
Upright Meaning: Pleasure
Fallen Meaning: Exploitation |
A Magdalite - The Diplomat |
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Description: A young woman, arms outstretched and mouth open in oration.
Upright Meaning: Diplomacy
Fallen Meaning: Treachery |
Pair of Magdalites - The Lovers |
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Description: A man and a woman embrace, their stance familiar and telling. The man dips his head to kiss the woman.
Upright Meaning: Marriage
Fallen Meaning: Infidelity |
Three Magdalites - Apothecary |
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Description: The shoulders of two women frame the upper body of a third, who holds forth a vial to the two others, an insinuating smile on his face.
Upright Meaning: Open to Experience
Fallen Meaning: Stupor |
The Magdalites - The Orgy |
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Description: This card is The Orgy. What do you think it portrays?
Upright Meaning: Indulgence
Fallen Meaning: Overindulgence, Gluttony |
Tera Sheba the Wise |
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Description: Three heads, one blindfolded, one with ears covered, one gagged.
Upright Meaning: Justice
Fallen Meaning: Oppression |
A Tera Sheban - The Archivist |
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Description: A sole man at a desk piled high with skins and papers.
Upright Meaning: The Support of Tradition
Fallen Meaning: Confining of Tradition |
Pair of Tera Shebans - Argument |
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Description: Two women point fingers at eachother, mouths open wide in exclamation.
Upright Meaning: Discussion, Exchange of Ideas
Fallen Meaning: Inability to Communicate |
Three Tera Shebans - The Tribunal |
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Description: Three Tera Shebans sit behind a wide desk, looking stern.
Upright Meaning: Judgement
Fallen Meaning: Condemnation |
The Tera Shebans - The Verdict |
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Description: A wooden gavel polished so high onlooking faces can be seen in the reflection.
Upright Meaning: Codification of Truth
Fallen Meaning: Bastardization of Truth |
The World Before |
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Description: A street filled with cars, people, and flashing lights -- alien and strange.
Upright Meaning: Great Acheivement
Fallen Meaning: Hubris
This card is commonly associated with Keepers |
Tibor |
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Description: The ravenous monster that can be seen in Joanite Towers' stained glass windows, standing tall with an army of Z'bri surrounding him, arms lifted in supplication and support.
Upright Meaning: Literal, or any threat
Fallen Meaning: Literal, or Destruction
This card is commonly associated with Z'bri |
Nomads |
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Description: Figures huddled in cloaks, hiding behind the corner of a building. The third figure holds something glowing beneath its cloak.
Upright Meaning: Enlightenment
Fallen Meaning: Incomplete Success |
The Fold |
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Description: A strict delineation between a cloudscape and a mountain range. Z'bri cower on the mountaintops.
Upright Meaning: Protection & Barriers
Fallen Meaning: Entrapment |
The Camps - Crucible |
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Description: Hellish flesh-pits and dejected people, a picture of horror and revulsion.
Upright Meaning: A Time of Suffering that Forces Power to the Surface
Fallen Meaning: Pointless Suffering
This card is commonly associated with the Fatimas |
Traveller |
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Description: A shadow-faced man with an outstretched hand, in which are eight seeds.
Upright Meaning: Guidance
Fallen Meaning: False Promises
This card is commonly associated with Guides |
River of Dream |
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Description: A river purling at its shores, displaying a treacherous undercurrent.
Upright Meaning: Spirituality
Fallen Meaning: Disconnection |
Joshua the Ravager |
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Description: The Fatima of Vengeance in all his glory, paper wings flying behind him, great sword and hammer mowing down Z'bri, mouth open in a shout you can almost hear.
Upright Meaning: War
Fallen Meaning: Mindless Destruction
This card is commonly associated with Jackers |
Betrayal |
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Description: A knife is buried soundly between the roots of Joshua's great paper wings.
Upright Meaning: Betrayal
Fallen Meaning: Prophecy of Joshua -- Vengeance |
The Nation - Vimary |
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Description: A crude map of the island of Vimary, with the standards of the Tribes placed on their territories.
Upright Meaning: Literal, or Safety
Fallen Meaning: Delusions of Safety |
Circle of Chosen |
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Description: A ring of stones and pillars surrounded by dark woods.
Upright Meaning: Glorious Sacrifice
Fallen Meaning: Conformity |
The Fallen - The Eighth Tribe |
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Description: A rag-tag group of people who look out of the card with a baleful malevolence born of rage and dispossession.
Upright Meaning: The Dispossessed
Fallen Meaning: Disreputable and Dangerous Characters
This card is commonly associated with Herites |
Hom - The Gate |
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Description: The Gate of the Banished, through which can be seen the storefront of Junks, the Shelter, and in the center, Hallows.
Upright Meaning: Hope
Fallen Meaning: Den of Iniquity
This card is commonly associated with Lightbringers |
Fullfillment |
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Description: A starscape, constellations and planets clearly marked.
Upright Meaning: Orderly progression of Fate
Fallen Meaning: Crux in the progression of Fate; a turning point
This card is commonly associated with Doomsayers |
Blood and Sacrifice |
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Description: Carte Blanche -- Aside from the caption at the bottom, the card is blank.
Upright Meaning: Prophecy, Destiny, Sacrifice
Fallen Meaning: Unnecessary Blood and Sacrifice to no purpose or end. Senseless and ill-planned destruction.
This card is commonly associated with the Eighth Tribe |
One Goddess |
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Description: Perhaps it is a river, perhaps it is the sky, but very faintly, you can see a serene face beyond the details of the card.
Upright Meaning: Eternity, Communion with Divinity
Fallen Meaning: Stillborn Prophecy |