User blog:ChromastoneandTabby/Tech 10: Rebooted Tarot Analogies

Well, it's the middle of the night, I'm tired, and it's nearing Halloween, so what better to do than to talk about mystical things and stuff?

Probably a few things, but whatever.

Anyways, I figured I'd try to match up some characters from Tech 10: Rebooted to the tarot's Major Arcana. Try it yourself for your own series, it's fun!

These descriptions are all ripped from TVTropes, by the way.

0 - The Fool: Napoleon Eldridge - A trickster as often as an innocent protected by his own luck, a madman who speaks with the voice of gods, or an idiot who hides strange powers. The Fool is a symbol of the in-between, of The Grotesque, innocence, divine inspiration, madness, freedom, spontaneity, beginning a journey, inexperience, chaos, creativity, and infinite possibilities.

1 - The Magician: Tech - The Marseilles version tends to view him more as The Trickster and sometimes a bumbling one (and is sometimes instead named Juggler), whereas for the Rider-Waite versions he's more of a person in control of nature's forces. In divination, it's often attributed to the consultant, so it can more often represent the protagonist. The Magician symbolizes action, initiative, self-confidence, manipulation, and potential.

2 - The High Priestess: Moranna Ceres - A symbol of hidden knowledge, wisdom, female mystery and magic.

9 - The Hermit: Igneoux - It's associated with wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches. Often a symbol for the Mentor, or a Seeker Archetype, but also The Hero undergoing a Heroic BSOD taking a much-needed Journey to the Center of the Mind to sort out his personal demons before returning to kick ass.

13 - Death: Dethrouge - It is often used for a cheap effect of doomy foreshadowing, and even more frequently parodied as such. More accurately in Tarot, a symbolism of metamorphosis and deep change, regeneration and cycles.

15 - The Devil: Warlord Kroz - The card of The Dark Side, the urge to give in to selfish impulses. May be the time for a Deal with the Devil, other temptations or the confrontation with one's inner evil.

16 - The Tower: The Puppet Master - A straight Tower of Babel allegory about pride preceding a fall. Often associated to overly arrogant, prejudiced, and authoritarian organizations (including The Government) which walk to their own ironic demise, as well as the necessity of profound, sometimes destructive, change.

20 - Judgement: Prelude - It's The End of the World as We Know It, the time for the Final Battle. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are probably not very far off. Actions are weighted, plots reach their conclusion, secrets are revealed, and it's time to see if it will all end up for the best or not. Beware of death by redemptions and resurrected messiahs. Whatever the case, no deed, good or evil, goes unrewarded, because here everything is revealed for the whole world to see.