The Emerald Setlist

I haven't finished the writeup of the Emerald Set yet; I only have about half of the cards named at all, never mind designed. With that said, I'm posting what is done here as a backup, and to remind myself that this is a work in progress.

In total, the Emerald Set will have 55 cards, because that's how many the Levantine Set has and I'm too damn lazy to consider rewriting a Random Card Generation table myself.

So far, that list runs as follows:

• The Void (one of the Irregular Arcana)
• 1. The Ring
• 2. The Others
• 3. The Rule (added 6/12/07)
• 4. The Smith
• 5. The Soldier
• 6. The Lovers
• 8. The Lost
• 9. The Sword.
• 10. The Tower
• 11. The Scales
• 12. The Hero
• XIII. Winter (one of the Irregular Arcana)
• 15. The Crown
• 16. The Fool
• 18. The Wheel
• 23. Death
• 25. The Cup
• 26. Spring
• 27. (one of the Irregular Arcana)
• 28. The City
• 29. The World
• 35. Temperance
• 36. The Emperor
• 42. The Night
• 49. The Staff
• 50. The Hermit
• 52. The Fall
• 53. Judgment
• 54. The Hidden Treasure

The gaps in the sequence are cards that have no names; I've left them out of the list because the 27th card of the Emerald Set is nameless, and I don't want anybody to nominate a name, no matter how obvious it may be.

Part of what's slowing this whole process down is the way I'm designing the Emerald Set. There's a whole lot of magical thinking, allegory, symbolic thinking and mythopoesis in figuring out what a number should be named, or where a name should go. (The hardest part? Finding names for cards at all.) With the card slotted and at least some of its context understood, I then do a basic writeup of the imagery. Then I bother with the abilities.

This means that it's perfectly normal for a card to grant abilities that, on the surface at least, have nothing to do with the card itself. (The Lovers will be a case in point when I bother to get it statted out.)

It also means that, without the card illustration, I'm often pretty much helpless.

This slows down everything quite a bit.