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kadharononReading Le Morte d'Arthur continues, but very slowly, because all of these people are... just not very bright. These knights keep going on quests where they make the most boneheaded decisions possible, often when there's someone else there warning them that they're making a boneheaded decision.
Igraine remains at the top of the list of wronged Arthurian women who deserve to go on a killing spree, but honorable mentions include:
In other news, I'm back on a tarot deck kick and considering another set of major arcana for the podcast Waiting for October. I need to comb through and figure out if there's enough support there for a full major arcana. But while I was thinking about that, my brain presented me with. well. are you ready for this.
Hexwood major arcana.
I've only got thoughts for a few, but so far:
Anyway, got to think about that one a bit more the next time I do a re-read, since I'm not entirely certain there are enough prominent characters to support a mostly-one-character-per-card style major arcana, but it might come close if I made some of the cards specific scenes instead. Like, the scene where they're trying to figure out what salve to fix Hume's eye with is very much The Magician.
Igraine remains at the top of the list of wronged Arthurian women who deserve to go on a killing spree, but honorable mentions include:
- The nameless mother of Sir Tors, who was probably raped by Pellinore, who followed up this indignity by stealing her dog
- The nameless woman Sir Tors stole a dog from, who knew dog-stealing was a trait that's nature, not nurture
- The nameless damosel who was waiting to go on a quest with a guy who was then slain by an invisible knight, who then went on that quest with Balin instead, and was (a) forced to bleed a silver dish full of blood for a random woman they met on the way, and (b) then died when the castle the invisible knight was in fell on her head.
- Lionors, an earl's daughter, who Arthur knocked up and then apparently just immediately forgot about
In other news, I'm back on a tarot deck kick and considering another set of major arcana for the podcast Waiting for October. I need to comb through and figure out if there's enough support there for a full major arcana. But while I was thinking about that, my brain presented me with. well. are you ready for this.
Hexwood major arcana.
I've only got thoughts for a few, but so far:
- Vierran as the Fool
- Mordion as the Magician
- Hume as the Hanged Man, maybe?
- Reigner One as either the Devil or The Emperor
- The Bannus as The Wheel of Fortune (unclear whether this should be separate from Yam)
- Mordion and Vierran as the Lovers (obviously)
- (Maybe Arthur's the Emperor? He's not a huge presence outside of Vierran's head for most of the book.)
Anyway, got to think about that one a bit more the next time I do a re-read, since I'm not entirely certain there are enough prominent characters to support a mostly-one-character-per-card style major arcana, but it might come close if I made some of the cards specific scenes instead. Like, the scene where they're trying to figure out what salve to fix Hume's eye with is very much The Magician.
