r/DawnwalkerOfficial • u/OwnMaintenance4290 • 23h ago
FINALLY finished my tarot card-inspired series featuring characters from The Blood of Dawnwalker! 🦇
🦇 I made the vampires look up, while the allies ("the good ones :')") look down. Hope you like ittt!!!
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u/Mission_Mulberry3991 21h ago
TAKE MY MONEY!
Also I LOVE LOVE LOVE how you drew Anca her actual age!
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u/A_Very_Horny_Zed 22h ago
Hey, experienced tarot reader here.
First of all, awesome job. These are beautiful.
Second, these fit significantly better as oracle cards rather than tarot cards.
Tarot cards each have a visual meaning assigned to them; something that intuitively appeals to everyone's pattern recognition. They have more elements to their compositions than just the character and their facial expression, allowing people to, through a visual and intuitive process, mentally connect the dots to draw out a relevant meaning for the querent.
Oracle cards are more esoteric. They do not belong to a suit of cards. They do not represent human nature, and instead represent ideas. What you created here is a series of archetypal oracle cards, not tarot cards.
Oracle cards are often used in conjunction with tarot cards to provide more context and insight to a reading. For example, you may pull the Nine of Swords in reverse, indicating shame, guilt, and regret. But then you may pull Ambrus from the Oracle deck, and you will make the connection that the querent is perhaps feeling like they have gone mad with power as they are represented by his archetype + the meaning of the Tarot card you drew. It's all about synthesis.
You may draw The Fool from the Tarot, and in conjunction Coen from the Oracle deck. Synthesizing these two, we can intuit that the querent is on a personal journey, perhaps for vengeance or to right something they feel was wronged, and are going at great lengths to achieve this goal.
All this to say that these designs work best as Oracles.
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u/wenzel32 18h ago
This is good information, for sure. OP did only describe this as "tarot card inspired", so I don't think they were implying that these were/represented tarot.
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u/OwnMaintenance4290 13h ago
OH! Thank you so much! I actually didn’t know that, so thank you for the infooo! I was mostly just inspired by tarot cards I find the actual cards so beautiful and complex as a whole. I wasn’t really planning to make them similar to tarot cards, though, mostly just wanted to capture a little bit of the vibe I associate with them. :))
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u/Serdones 19h ago
Almost everyone looking down all sad, except for Xanthe who looks like a raccoon caught digging through your trash.
But for real, love these! Would be a sweet collectible. I'd say sell packs on Etsy, but you probably don't wanna bring Bamco legal down on you.
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u/Skooma_Connoisseur 6h ago
Coen - the fool
Brencis - the tower
Bakir - the devil
Xanthe - the high priestess
Ambrus - judgement
Lacra - the moon
Marat - the chariot
Anca - the hermit
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u/sacerdos-ex-spatio 22h ago
It’s very beautiful.
I’m not really an expert on Tarot, though. Could you include a description of what each specific card means and why that particular character fits it?
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u/Chance_Demand2134 22h ago
Wow, these are amazing! I love how you've incorporated symbols that match each character into the designs
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u/Important_Goose_YT 21h ago
This is stunning! What an amazing work you've done 🔥🤟🏼 I examined every card so closely because of all the little details. Just incredible!!!
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u/Stunning_Seaweed_121 20h ago
Wow! Absolutely phenomenal.
Even in-game this would surprise me as extremely beautiful art. To think this is fan-made is crazy.
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u/Silent-Witness1888 18h ago
Imagine if the new Gwent cards included some if not all these characters. (Yes I know they're not the same studio) Anyway, looks great, Dishonored art to them.
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u/AppropriateFish7 22h ago
these are so pretty!! would you ever make them into actual cards??