World Building ramblings
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Sometimes, RP can be useful making you figure out world building stuff when playing with OCs from your novels/stories/what have you. Especially when it comes to non-Earth worlds.
In this case Jono was talking with a gentleman from London named Fredrick. (As seen here.) It appears in Fredrick's universe the zodiac is exceptionally important to their magical systems and asking someone's sign means a lot more than trying to pick them up. Which is why Fredrick asks Jono what his sign is. Where upon I realized, I had no idea what Jono's sign would be, how their astrology would work and did I even need to know this? As noticed in the thread, Jono evaded the question.
Never mind the fact that I'm already working out the set of Tarot cards that Jono's fiddling with. I picked bones because the other four suites usually stand for the different elements and that would stand for the basic four kinds of wizards. The bones can either then be for the missing fifth kind of wizard turned to bones and dust or the witches of the world who work with life magic indicated by the living material that was once found in the bones. I imagine one card is going to have to be the classic Hamlet position of a man contemplating a skull in his hands.
I also added a 'wizard' to the court cards so it's now Wizard, King, Queen, Knight and Knave/Page/what have you. This is because the wizards who created the deck would want their own card, as it were. And of course, they're better than anyone else.
The Devil may be replaced with the Fey. And I'm sure there are a few other cards lingering about that are different or there are additional ones in the Major Arcana too.
I have no idea why I've bothered to put this much thought into something that may not even show up
Sometimes, RP can be useful making you figure out world building stuff when playing with OCs from your novels/stories/what have you. Especially when it comes to non-Earth worlds.
In this case Jono was talking with a gentleman from London named Fredrick. (As seen here.) It appears in Fredrick's universe the zodiac is exceptionally important to their magical systems and asking someone's sign means a lot more than trying to pick them up. Which is why Fredrick asks Jono what his sign is. Where upon I realized, I had no idea what Jono's sign would be, how their astrology would work and did I even need to know this? As noticed in the thread, Jono evaded the question.
Never mind the fact that I'm already working out the set of Tarot cards that Jono's fiddling with. I picked bones because the other four suites usually stand for the different elements and that would stand for the basic four kinds of wizards. The bones can either then be for the missing fifth kind of wizard turned to bones and dust or the witches of the world who work with life magic indicated by the living material that was once found in the bones. I imagine one card is going to have to be the classic Hamlet position of a man contemplating a skull in his hands.
I also added a 'wizard' to the court cards so it's now Wizard, King, Queen, Knight and Knave/Page/what have you. This is because the wizards who created the deck would want their own card, as it were. And of course, they're better than anyone else.
The Devil may be replaced with the Fey. And I'm sure there are a few other cards lingering about that are different or there are additional ones in the Major Arcana too.
I have no idea why I've bothered to put this much thought into something that may not even show up
