In-reply-to: d'accord des riens's message of Wed, 23 Nov 1994 05:49:37 GMT Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf Subject: Re: Favorite Trad References: <39s484$jij@jake.esu.edu> <3al83a$1fit@bigblue.oit.unc.edu> Distribution: --text follows this line-- Myriad wrote: >Paul Strack wrote: >> Actually, there are already 10 suits in the Tarot deck: the one's, the >> two's, the three's, etc, up through the ten's. In each suit there are >> four cards: the wand, cup, pentacle and sword. > >and the face cards? >well, i get the point. >but can you imagine trying to number the traditions? can you imagine? >"er, make the hollow ones deuces." "you rat-bastards!!!" Actually, from a hermetic point of view, its easy to number the traditions and thus link them to different cards. Just use the correspondences of the Tree of Life in Kabbalah (I use my own modified version of the correspondences by Chrys posted earlier), and you get: 1: Celestial Chorus (Prime, Keter, Unity) 2: Akashic Brothehood (Mind, Chochma, Wisdom) 3: Euthanatos (Entropy, Binah, Understanding (of death)) 4: Sons of Ether (Matter, Cheshed, Wealth (as in labour-saving inventions)) 5: Order of Hermes (Forces, Geburah, Strictness) 6: Verbena (Life, Tiphareth, Beauty (of life)) 7: Cult of Ecstasy (Time, Netzach, Emotion) 8: Virtual Adepts (Correspondence, Hod, Information) 9: Dreamspeakers (Spirit, Yesod, Foundation (of reality, the Umbra)) 10: The Technocracy (the Physical World, Malkuth, the Kingdom) Note that the Conventions could correspond to the 10's (the Syndicate), the Pages (Void Engineers), Knights (Iteration X), Queens (Progenitors) and Kings (NWO). Orphans refuse to be ordered, and are wild cards. Each suit would represent one of the essences: Pentacles pattern, Swords Dynamic, Staffs Questing and Water Primordial. The Major Arcana might represent the Infinite Essence, the archetypes underlying the other arcana. This is by the way a good idea to create NPCs: draw a card to represent him, and then draw others to give more background (eg. 4 of Pentacles, Power: A Pattern Son of Ether, probably dealing in lots of electricity, 10 of Swords, Ruin: A Dynamic Syndicate mage, probably fond of ruining his enemies).