I think we'll have to ask kissa to check out her King of Pents on the Universal...but I think his foot is usually raised...what about the Marseilles? Is his foot raised there?
Also, for those with the Icon, look at this. Today I was sorting thru it as the kids watch cartoons, separating out the Majors to set up the journal and I noticed...whoa, there is a striking correlation between the Death card and the knights....as if the knights are somehow related to Death.
Of course the knights are all on horseback, as is Death in the RWCS, but so is the Sun child and...of all the pips- the six of Wands.
Now the knights would have been a sort of helper for Death because well, knights did a lot of killing right? And the knight of swords seems to be the active principle of Death, with him charging in with his sword drawn.
Also, of all the knights, the Sword knight is charging to the left of the card, toward the past, as does the knight of Wands, and the others sit their horse facing forward, to the future...
Both knights, swords and wands are on horses that are more active, depicting movement, but towards the past. It could be argued that as the knights of fire and air they are connected so they are more involved with creating Death than their watery and earthy counterparts....
I have no idea why all of these cards suddenly looked like a group, the horseriders, with Death and the Sun the two Majors...
AS for the Sun, if I sort of keep to this thinking and think of the baby on the horse as a male child, he would be the pre-knight, pre-death weilder. But the life force of the sun, opposite of Death...I need more time to process this, but this was an exciting discovery for me!