The Orchard of Lights
Author: Arabella Dusk,
published 2 years ago,
Happy Friday, everyone! I hear you like the secret gods known as the Hours, and AK is good at tantalisingly not revealing much about them. So I just wanted to share a quick update on [url=https://weatherfactory.biz/the-lucid-tarot/]the Lucid Tarot[/url], our upcoming tarot deck for [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/][i]BOOK OF HOURS[/i][/url], whose Major Arcana focuses entirely on the Hours of [i]Cultist Simulator[/i]. It's all-new art drawn directly from the saucy, source-y lore of AK's 'CS Design' spreadsheet. You can't get tastier than that.
[h1]The Lucid Tarot[/h1]
Bask in the joy of seeing pockets of colour appear out of an inky blackness...
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35142931/68c50c9dfa1be7a51d8aaf4b6cbd6e8f3cd520e4.gif[/img]
...or enjoy a few close-ups of my favourites below:
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//31397842/149679fe459db46d8cc945e65a3e621a545d31a0.png[/img]
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//31397842/fcdc5d35f2b8990f56157757b6d486e58f8d6183.png[/img]
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//31397842/ffda33d806f6e9c503c9765379a3fde91a166bb6.png[/img]
...and a final one for those pale-skinned dweebos like myself who pass all signs of melanin and go directly to BURN. We call upon your mercy, Flowermaker!
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//31397842/17773baddf690a944504074df914eea5af6d5cae.png[/img]
Each of these cards was designed, drawn and coloured from scratch, because obviously the Hours deserve as much love and attention as they can get. I wanted to put a more human spin on the Hours with this deck, as we already have a lot of gorgeous symbolism in the [url=https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/774143958/tarot-of-the-hours-a-78-card-tarocchi]Tarot of the Hours[/url]. But what would you see in the chapel windows of the Church of the Bright Edge, for example? Or what would gaze semi-benevolently down upon the altar of the Temple Unceasing? I'd love for these to actually appear in the windows of Hush House in [i]BOOK OF HOURS[/i], but AK and I spent a lot of time talking production schedules this week and we have quite enough to get on with for that game already...
Minor Arcana cards are more numerous than Major Arcana (56 Minor, 22 Major) but they'll deliberately harken back to cards you've mostly already seen in [i]Cultist Sim[/i]. We've shared the 10 of Swords already, for example:
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//35142931/5eaeb515abd97eb7ef01b6ad4b2c09728c785bc5.png[/img]
The 10 of Swords represents martyrdom, victimhood and 'bottoming out' - so the Incursus seemed like a pretty good touchpoint for that. You can expect to see a Lucid Tarot reimagining of your [i]Cultist[/i] cards in the next set of these cards you see - anyone want to guess which [i]Cultist Sim[/i] characters I've chosen for the Page, Knight, Queen and King of Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles...?