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Billy Hargrove ([personal profile] driving) wrote in [community profile] fellden2019-11-02 09:36 pm

[video, un: billy & un: clary] open to stars & moon

- does this really go out to everyone? Okay. Anyways, hey, I'm Billy.

Sure does! ( Helpful, Clary! She turns to the video feed properly, giving a not-very-cool-at-all half wave. ) And I'm Clary. I know I've talked to some of you before, especially about the branded and what they're up to. And... there's seriously no good way to say this, but we have some updates on that.

They were involved in the attack last month, and probably the famine, too. At least, the monster that killed me had that same brand. [ And the whole 'it killed me' business is as good of a segue as any to the topic of Death itself. ]

I was brought back by Death. It told me that the branded had something to do with Temperance. Death used to have her soul, but it was stolen a few months ago.


Which is probably around when the branded started showing up during harvest. ( The takeover between them is smoother than it has any right to be; an easy back and forth as the information is shared. ) As some of you know, a few of us got blank tarot cards from a guy named Vuzor after he said 'balance comes for us all'. Well- ( Clary holds up her tarot card. Temperance is displayed across the front in all its glory with gold writing over it saying TEMPERANCE RETURNS. ) Temperance stands for balance, usually. Keeping it. Which is sort of the theme that the branded have been running with. ( As though needing another ominous piece, Clary turns the card around to the back where a countdown is happening. ) And now we might have a deadline.

Death says we need to prepare ourselves and from the sound of things, it was dead serious. [ Okay, he covers his mouth to stifle a laugh. He didn't mean to make a death pun, really. This is very important information. ] So we've got less than a month to get our shit together, find out what we can, and either try to stop this from happening or get ready to face something that makes everything else we've fought so far look easy.

So if you know anything, or find anything, you better cough it up. [ He stands with his fists clenched like he's about to steal everyone's lunch money, before he clears his throat and his stance relaxes a little. Maybe threats weren't the best way to go about this. He's still getting used to being nice. ] I mean, shit, this doesn't sound like something any of us can face on our own, so it'll be better if we work together.


( And Clary has to turn away from the screen to hide her dumb smile at the bad joke, gaining her composure back in time for Billy to finish. ) Which we've all been doing a lot already, so we should be getting pretty good at it! But like Billy said, if you know anything we haven't mentioned, or find anything out, please let everyone know.

( With that, Clary will reach forward in order to turn the video feed off. )
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-04 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
It exists where I'm from, but it's clearly part of this world, too, given Clary's card.
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[personal profile] chronosynthesis 2019-11-04 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
I see. [At least, over voice, nobody else can see him pinching the bridge of his nose.]

It doesn't exist in Tyria, so I'm unfamiliar with that they represent. If the gods of Fellden are suspiciously coincidental to this tarot, then the more you can tell us about it, the more prepared we can be to recognize clues from it.

[A pause.] You or anyone else who is knowledgeable of them.
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-04 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Decks as we know them were created approximately a hundred years ago. They're split into Minor Arcana - Wands, Pentacles, Swords, and Cups - and Major Arcana - the cards which correspond to the deities.

The High Priestess and Emperor both have their own cards, as does Death. The Warlock is likely the Magician. There are cards for the Moon and the Star as well. And, of course, Temperance. Each card is meant to symbolize something in cartomancy. The Priestess represents intuition and the divine feminine. The Emperor, authority and structure.
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[personal profile] chronosynthesis 2019-11-06 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
And Temperance is balance.

How many major arcana are there?
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-07 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
22.

In addition to the ones we know already, there's the Fool, the Lovers, the Chariot, Strength, the Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, the Hanged Man, the Devil, the Tower, Judgement, and the World. The Empress and the Hierophant are the opposite-gender counterparts to the Emperor and High Priestess, so they're likely their spouses.
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[personal profile] chronosynthesis 2019-11-07 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Twenty-two gods... [That's way too many.]

We have only heard of four still walking Fellden until now. Some of them must be dead... that all of the others would have expired sounds like a massacre. Have you heard any stories of gods who simply left, like the Emperor plans to?
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-08 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Judgement and Justice have disappeared, but if they've left, we don't know where to. It's possible they're still here, just somehow hidden.