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bedlamsbard: extraneous worldbuilding
Oct. 1st, 2008 10:05 ambedlamsbardNarnian cards: a deck of seventy-three, with five suits of fourteen cards each, and then three wild cards: The suits are Arrows, Axes, Stars, Stones, and Ships, and that goes from ace to King. Face cards include the Maiden, the Dragon, the Knight, the Queen, and the King. The three wild cards are the Thief, the Wizard, and the White Stag.
These are just regular playing cards, mind, not tarot cards. And I actually have a feeling that they may not necessarily be Narnian in origin, but imported, probably from Archenland. Could be wrong. Who knows. *shrug*
Now I have to work out the Natarene system to figure out how they're different. I think they have four more cards to put them at seventy-seven, and slightly different suits and face cards. (Originally, the Narnian system had sixty-three, and then I looked at the cards I'd laid out for Peter and Edmund and realized that, hey, the numbers didn't add up.)
I may or may not have worked this system out during my 9:00 am Brit Lit I class while my prof was talking about More's Utopia. She was just going over the Renaissance! It was the same thing I'd heard in my Theatre Arts class when we did the Renaissance then! And then I wrote about two sentences of the prologue to the pirate AU, and then class got out.
These are just regular playing cards, mind, not tarot cards. And I actually have a feeling that they may not necessarily be Narnian in origin, but imported, probably from Archenland. Could be wrong. Who knows. *shrug*
Now I have to work out the Natarene system to figure out how they're different. I think they have four more cards to put them at seventy-seven, and slightly different suits and face cards. (Originally, the Narnian system had sixty-three, and then I looked at the cards I'd laid out for Peter and Edmund and realized that, hey, the numbers didn't add up.)
I may or may not have worked this system out during my 9:00 am Brit Lit I class while my prof was talking about More's Utopia. She was just going over the Renaissance! It was the same thing I'd heard in my Theatre Arts class when we did the Renaissance then! And then I wrote about two sentences of the prologue to the pirate AU, and then class got out.