The Raven's Prophecy Tarot

Scarlet Woodland

Hiya, just found this deck when scouting the Llewellyn website but haven't been able to find anything on it here. Has anyone seen, touched, liked, despised this?

https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738747439

Here's a piccy of some of the majors: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EpR8kRAUN...4k/s1600/tumblr_nf1blrlObT1rk5a9yo1_12802.jpg

and the swords: http://40.media.tumblr.com/0313ae649cf2aa0dfa8cc36e8d24a08a/tumblr_nlq5xy172k1rk5a9yo1_1280.jpg

Quite intrigued as by Maggie Stiefvater of the Shiver, Linger etc books. Hmmm, what do you guys think?
 

bonebeach

Hmmm, this looks weird. Yes. Pleasingly strange. I like the Death card. Really, I've bought decks just for how a few of the majors look...depends on how it's priced. I think I really like tarot decks with black backgrounds.

The Lovers card is also nice, and the Chariot...

Maaaybe. I see the info page says something about being inspired by a book series--do I need to know anything about the books? I hope not. Some of these are quite pretty.
 

Arimaya

I've had my eye on this one since the catalogue came out. Really excited to get ahold of it on release.
 

Mirra

Maggie Stiefvater

I love Maggie's writing and The Raven Cycle series is my favorite of hers. The mais character lives amongst psychics and her mother is a tarot reader.

I don't think you need to read the books to use the deck, but the books are really worthy ;)
 

Scarlet Woodland

I do like me a raven :)

Would like to see some scans of the finished product when we can as, might be wrong here, but it looks like the ones available so far are all pics of Maggie's own hand cut deck.

Love the backs and borders, the minimalist representations are really interesting and I do like a dark background... but as always the question will be can I read with it.
 

Scarlet Woodland

Mirra said:
I love Maggie's writing and The Raven Cycle series is my favorite of hers. The mais character lives amongst psychics and her mother is a tarot reader.

I don't think you need to read the books to use the deck, but the books are really worthy ;)
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Have just ordered the books :)
 

Myrrha

These look great! Nice to see something so different from the usual. Many of the Major Arcana images make me feel something when I view them, some of them less so. The very sparse imagery in the Swords suit -- that could be so interesting in readings! There aren't many decks that make me really curious about what it would be like to read with them.

The Lovers was a bit confusing to me, don't only male deer have horns?
 

Scarlet Woodland

Myrrha said:
The Lovers was a bit confusing to me, don't only male deer have horns?
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Maybe they decided to stop fighting over the girls and just snuggle :D
 
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