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[bedlamsbard]

...dude, I'm not even going to ask how Edmund knows how to read tarot cards. (Narnian tarot cards at that, and he's not even reading from a tarot deck, just a regular deck of cards. Anyone on my flist read tarot cards?)

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[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Why would Narnia be co-current with medieval? It's a fantasy kingdom; if they want to use tarot cards, they can use tarot cards. Although I rather think the tarot cards are an import, and actually, looking back at the snippet, I don't think they're Narnian tarot cards (or that Edmund learned on, anyway); they're an import.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

don;t mind me, I get fixated on that setting.

Mm, though since tarot cards in this universe were originally a more complex version of our current western set (the normal ones + a bunch of wild card trumps), you could have it as a thing that'd been around in Narnia for awhile pre-Jadis taking over. And then figure out who'd segue into what wild card. have you got established in your 'verse whether Jadis was known about pre-taking over or not? Because if she was, there's a chance that she might appear as one of the characters in another country's set. eg, Aslan as the Emperor, Jadis as the High Priestess.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

In my 'verse, Jadis was in Narnia for a few decades before she took over, and she was ruling Narnia for anywhere from a few years to a few decades before the Long Winter began. So. *shrugs*

To be fair, though, looking at the scene as it's presented now, Edmund didn't learn to read tarot in Narnia; he learned it when he was traveling with a group of Tatuie performers (which are the equivalent of gypsies, or something? Maybe?) (this is the time he juggled knives and snuck into Telmar to meet personally with a spy). And he's not even reading off tarot cards, he's just reading off a regular deck of cards.