Cosmos

Death

## Death — Mythos They say Death was not born but appointed. When the first fire learned to go out, the world panicked. Mountains held their breath,…

Twist of Fate

## Twist of Fate They say Fate is a thread, but the oldest storytellers insist it is a braid: three strands—choice, chance, and consequence—twined so…

Time of Your Life

## Time of Your Life They say this card was first painted on the back of a broken clockface, pried from a tower that had stopped chiming the hour it…

Open Vault

## Open Vault In the old cities beneath the mountains, where the stone remembers every oath spoken above it, there is said to be a door with no handl…

Trillium

## Trillium In the oldest forests—where sunlight arrives in careful threads and the ground keeps its secrets under last year’s leaves—there is said t…

Lighthouse

## Lighthouse In the old coastal kingdoms, where maps ended in blank parchment and sailors stitched prayers into their sleeves, there stood a lightho…

The Left Joker

## The Left Joker — Mythos They say the Left Joker was never meant to be printed. In the first decks, there were only the ordered powers: Kings who r…

Sunrise

## **Sunrise** They say the Sun does not rise; it is *invited*. In the oldest stories, the world endured a night that would not end. Not the ordinary…

Knight of Tomorrow

## Knight of Tomorrow — Mythos They say the first dawn was not born of sun or flame, but of a vow made in the dark. In the age when the world still a…

Money Flow

## Money Flow In the first counting-house of the world, before ledgers learned to lie and before coins learned to sleep in coffers, there was only **…

Abundance

## Abundance In the earliest age—when hunger still had a voice and the earth had not yet learned to keep its promises—there lived a wanderer named Ve…

Fire Sign

## Fire Sign They say the first flame was not stolen from the gods, but agreed upon—three vows struck in the same breath, three sparks that refused t…

Spring Flowers

They say the first spring did not arrive by warmth alone, but by a bargain struck in the grey season between endings and beginnings. When the world w…

Closed Hand

Closed Hand is the card that arrives without knocking. It is said to have been painted last, after the deck was already complete, when the artist rea…

Fallen Banner

The **Fallen Banner** is not a card found in any orthodox deck. It is spoken of as an intrusion—an omen that appears when a reading has wandered too…

Golden Offer

Golden Offer is the card of a bargain that glitters louder than it speaks. In the oldest decks it is said to have appeared uninvited, slipping betwee…

Echo Chamber

Echo Chamber is said to have first appeared in a miscut run of cards printed for a court that no longer admits it ever existed. The deck was commissi…

Blind Gate

Blind Gate is not a door, though it wears the shape of one. It appears in the deck only when the deck is not looking—when the hand that shuffles is d…

Iron Veil

Iron Veil is the card that does not arrive in a deck—it appears. Found slipped between lamination and paper, pressed into the gutter of old books, se…

Knight of Swords

The Knight of Swords is said to have been born in the thin hour before dawn, when the sky is neither night nor day and every boundary is undecided. I…

Knight of Wands

The Knight of Wands was not born so much as sparked. In the oldest telling, the first fire did not come from lightning or sun, but from a vow spoken…

The Fool

The Fool is the first footfall and the last echo: the wanderer who steps beyond the edge because the edge was only ever a story. In the oldest tellin…

Love

Love is the first pact and the last trial, the card that refuses to be owned. In the oldest telling, it was not painted by any hand but appeared as a…

Forest Clearing

Forest Clearing is the seventeenth hush between trees—the place the woods forget to be a maze. In the oldest stories it was not made by axe or fire,…

Lost Coin

The Lost Coin is said to have been minted in a city that never agreed on its own name. Some called it a port, others a shrine, others a marketplace b…

Moonwell

Moonwell is the card of the hidden water—an oracle that does not speak in words, but in reflection, ripple, and return. It is said to have first appe…

Underdark

Underdark is the card of the world beneath the world: the hidden stratum where foundations are laid, debts are remembered, and truths grow teeth. It…

Glass Orchard

Glass Orchard is the card of cultivated fragility: a grove that bears fruit only because it is carefully, constantly tended, and a harvest that shatt…

Empty Quiver

Empty Quiver is the seventeenth arrow and the first silence. In the oldest telling, there was a hunter who never missed. Their bowstring sang like a…

Frost Lantern

In the first winter, when the world’s breath still steamed and the mountains had not yet learned the patience of stone, the night came too early and…

Ocean

## The Mythos of the Tarot Card: **Ocean** In the oldest decks—those said to have been inked with ground pearls and bound in sealskin—there is a card…

Sea Glass

## The Mythos of **Sea Glass** In the oldest coastal towns—those that keep their graveyards facing the water and their doors painted the color of sto…

Undercity

Undercity — Mythos Arcana: Major Number: 18½ (a card that sits between paths, never fully counted) Element: Earth and Shadow Symbols: buried gates, i…