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Place yourself or others where you feel the characters best fit within the Puzzlebox Tarot deck! There are 22 Major Arcana paralleling precisely the traditional sets. In addition, there are 24 additional Minor Arcana - Page, Knight, Queen, and King of each Warp. General meanings of the cards will be available via links such as '[Wheel of Fortune]?', where in addition the characters under these cards will be mentioned, and space for reasoning and comments will be available.
This page is intended to list the cards and those associated with them. Its just fun, though, nothing serious! Unless someone wishes to make some plot of it. Anything could happen on Puzzlebox, after all! You may add cards, within reason and logic, but likely its best to keep them as the Minor Arcana if you do.
The first was close to a conventional tarot, with 22 Major Arcana and 24 Court cards representing various characters, plus another 30 "pip" Minor Arcana and two as yet undefined cards. There would be six suits instead of four, one for each Warp. Instead of the numbers 1-10, the "pip" cards would be binary: 0, 1, 2, 4, and 8.
The second was a little closer to a Mexican loteria set, actually, and was to consist of cards in four suits: noun, noun modifier, verb, verb modifier. This was to be implemented both ICly and OOCly, as a means to inspire players and characters with a random set of vague ideas to draw connections between.
Either or both of these projects may still happen someday. In the meantime, given the richness and popularity of the Tarot system of archetypes, references to it on Puzzlebox are bound to occur.
The following is a list of the Major Arcana and Court cards. Feel free to suggest characters that seem to fit these cards' symbolism. Suggestions for less archaic and gender-biased, more abstract titles for the Court cards would also be welcome.
For a good precis/synthesis of Tarot, get thee a copy of Alan Moore's "Promethea: Book III". There you'll see how the different Major Arcana create/are metaphors for the real world, so to speak. Not to mention being a damn fine read.