Tarot Cards from Heroes of Might and Magic Complete Edition.
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Complete Edition – it’s very rare for publishers to release a game in such a successful package. All five parts of the game with all existing official expansions, soundtracks for each part on separate discs, a beautiful, high-quality hardcover artbook, a t-shirt (one of the few "gaming" shirts that actually fit me), a poster, and a Tarot card deck styled after Heroes. This post will specifically talk about it.

To start, a little history. Tarot cards refer to a set of 78 cards. There is a belief that modern playing cards evolved from Tarot, but this belief is easier to disprove than to prove. There is no clear consensus on this matter. Tarot has been used since about the mid-15th century primarily in Italy and France for various card games. In English-speaking countries, Tarot cards were mainly used for predicting the future. European occultists believe that Tarot cards originated in ancient Egypt. There is also a theory that Tarot is related to the Kabbalah and originated in 300 BC (the date of the writing of "Sefer Yetzirah" - a fundamental Kabbalistic work).

Tarot cards consist of two types of cards:

Major Arcana – the "trump cards", usually 22 in total.

Minor Arcana – 4 suits (coins, cups, swords, and wands). Usually 56 cards total with 14 cards in each suit – ace, cards from 2 to 10, page (sometimes prince, meaning "knight in training"), knight, king, and queen.

There are many different Tarot decks. Depending on the deck, the design, names of the cards, and even the number of cards can vary.

I scanned the deck from my copy of Heroes of Might and Magic: Complete Edition. I apologize for the not-so-great scanning quality – the cards have a glossy surface, so I had to reduce the brightness of the image and increase the contrast.

Minor Arcana:

Wands – Wands, Staves, Rods, or Batons

Coins – Coins or Pentacles

Swords – Swords

Cups – Cups or Chalices

Major Arcana:

To the left is the traditional name, to the right is the name in the Heroes of Might and Magic deck.

0 - The Fool – The Rebel

1 – The Magician, The Mountebank or The Juggler – The Sorceress

2 – The High Priestess – The Priestess

3 – The Empress – The Lady

4 – The Emperor – The Lord

5 – The Hierophant – The Priest

6 – The Lovers – The Temptress

7 – The Chariot – The Tamer of the Beasts

8 or 11 – Strength – Strength

9 – The Hermit – The Wanderer

10 – Wheel of Fortune – The Wheel of Chaos

11 or 8 – Justice – Justice

12 – The Hanged Man or The Traitor – The Vampire

13 – Death or The Trump with No Name – Death

14 – Temperance – Temperance

15 – The Devil – The Demon

16 – The Tower – The Burning Tower

17 – The Star – The Star

18 – The Moon – The Moon

19 – The Sun – The Sun

20 – Judgment – Judgment

21 – The World – The Dragon

Information taken from Wikipedia. I started to become interested in Tarot thanks to the game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3: FES.

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