Paige's Personal Fortune Deck

From the House of Cards...

A Trump is a picture-card which allows its user to communicate with and even travel to the person or place depicted on the Trump. Trumps are metaphysically connected to the Fortunes (Major Arcana) and the Minor Arcana.

Paige first dabbled with different forms of divination when growing up in N'Orleans with her "sister" Marie. Often times, Paige's hunches and readings of the bones would come true, but for years she herself thought it was more coincidence than anything. Then she met The Great Beast himself and felt the power in the Thoth tarot of Shadow Earth. Crowley had drawn enough symbolism into his reflection of Amber's Fortunes that in the hands of a member of the Royal Blood they revealed untold secrets with uncanny accuracy.

Originally, all Trumps were created by Dworkin, the Master of the Line, although it is now known that others, such as Brand and Merlin, can also create Trumps. In addition to the skills required to create Trumps, there are also tricks of Trump use, some of which are widely known and others of which are not.

Paige learned the Art from her Uncle Brand and in turn, eventually taught her friend, and cousin, Merlin. She prefers to work in oils for larger paintings, but has become enamored of using pastels on pasteboard for her Fortunes. Theories abound as to the source of Trump's power, linking it to the Pattern, or a Primal Image, or perhaps even the design that resides on the reverse of the cards themselves. Echoing Paige's colors of green and gold, Paige keeps the focus on the famliy's patron, but as she does with anything, she has her own take on the matter. Properly emblazoned it is, "Vert, a unicorn head erased Or".

Other Artists have show their faces in Amber since the Sundering, Reid, taught by Dworkin himself it seems, his student Brita, and Ossian, another pupil of Uncle Brand's. Most notable is Cambina, daughter of the late King Eric. While not an Artist, her powers of divination with the Fortunes is amazing. She's helped Paige learn to focus herself better and learn to influence the cards as little as possible with her own biases.

Paige's Personal Deck...

Prince Bleys	Lady Folly	Prince Martin	San Francisco
Princess Fiona	Lord Merlin	Prince Brand	Maria's House

Others...

Lord Rein	King Random	Shadow Heerat
Jones Falls	The Prince's Retreat	Self Portrait	Queen Clarissa

Just hold the mouse over the unicorn to flip the card and see the image.

Prince Bleys (Kenneth Brannagh)

Her first Fortune attempted. Frustrating Uncle Brand, she layed it out horizontally to balk the traditional views of reading Fortunes, either as normal or reversed. Her father, what ever meaning he might have in her life, was always himself, no matter how he appeared in her readings.

Lord Rein (Patrick Stewart)

A mentor of sorts in what Amber is and a comrade if not in arms at least in conspiracy. This isn't actually a Trump, but a sketch in that same format of a dear friend.

King Random (Ewan McGregor)

A possible future subject for her Trump making... Martin's father, Folly's former lover, and our Royal Jester cum King...

Folly (Björk Gudmundsdottir)

Paige's best friend in Amber and sometime lover. This is a Trump in progress, Paige's first since the Fortunes regained their coolness to the touch.

Martin (Matt Damon)

The son of then-Prince Random and Princess Morganthe of Rebma. He's played a significant part in Paige's return to Amber after her father's failed attack and subsequent fall from Kolvir. He and Paige were rather close for a time until problems cropped up. This Fortune has been left in an "unfinished" look. It's been coated with fixative and is a permanent Trump, but Paige still can't answer why she felt inclined to draw Martin topless, knowing his aversion to the scar left by... the problems.

Shadow Heerat

The block city, a center of commerce, where she met her first true love... Not a Trump, but a sketch in the same likeness, for possible furute use.

San Francisco

Paige's home away from Reality... [more coming]

Jones Falls

Paige's home away from the City and Castle, a lovers' retreat... Not a Trump, but a sketch in the same likeness, for possible furute use. [more coming]