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===The Stars Suite===
Associated with the Serpent and the Element of Fire, the Stars Suite governs knowledge, power, magic and all things beyond the comprehension of mortals. Needless to say, it is heavily associated with [[Wizard]]s and other academics.

Ace (1): The [[Transmuter]]
::Standard: An unexpected and/or dangerous discovery, success at the expense of one's original goals or values, unhealthy obsession, obsessive love.
::Reversed: Happy failure, a beneficial and long-awaited ending to an endeavor.
::Imagery: A wiry, middle-aged man reads a book propped up on a table alongside a needle, scalpel and spool of thread, oblivious to the hulking figure whose hands are reaching for his throat from the darkness behind him.
::Note: This card is associated with the [[Darklord]] Dr. Mordenheim.

2: The [[Diviner]]
::Standard: Solid understanding of consequences, meticulous preparation, science, healing, benevolent magic, honesty, truth, one who seeks knowledge to benefit all.
::Reversed: Compassionate deception.
::Imagery: By the light of two stars, a young wizard with a small snake coiled around their throat kneels at the feet of an older wizard who wears a crown of flame, holding up a large, open white tome for the elder to read and watching the elder with open admiration.

3: The [[Enchanter]]
::Standard: Challenge in magic or research, eventual success, determination
::Reversed: Failure, being hopeful.
::Imagery: A wizard struggles to cross a narrow, arched bridge through a terrible windstorm to reach a small cottage, light shining from within. Three stars are visible in the slowly dispersing clouds above.

4: The [[Abjurer]]
::Standard: An investigator, fact checking, data analysis, the use of logic, warning against assumptions and hasty interpretations, the need to rethink and review.
::Reversed: Inspiration, sudden and/or intuitive understanding.
::Imagery: An elderly [[Vistani]] seer peers into a crystal ball, lit from within by four stars.

5: The [[Elementalist]]
::Standard: Nature, the power of nature, mastery over nature, good luck in natural endeavors.
::Reversed: A negative natural event.
::Imagery: A mage stands in a lush green field under a bright sun, a snake looking up between his feet at five stars spread in an arc between the mage's upstretched hands.

6: The [[Evoker]]
::Standard: Temptation leading to possible disaster, trespass into the forbidden, grave robbing, dark magical lore, an encounter with evil.
::Reversed: A return to sanity, the resisting of a nearly overwhelming yearning.
::Imagery: A redheaded young woman pensively peers through a partially open window adorned with six stars at a handsome [[vampire]] waiting outside.
::Note: This card is associated with Tatyana, the doomed victim sought by [[Count Strahd von Zarovich]].

7: The [[Illusionist]]
::Standard: Imminent deceit, trickery, information gathered by evil means, the focus may be sacrificed.
::Reversed: Secret societies both benign and malevolent.
::Imagery: A dark-robed mage performs arcane gestures over a blindfolded man trapped in a complex fiery diagram. Seven standing stones, each adorned with a star, are visible in the background.

8: The [[Necromancer]]
::Standard: Power turned against itself, someone sowing the seed of their own destruction, a keen and learned mind in pursuit of dark power, the undead.
::Reversed: Hope of turning against evil or defeating a powerful undead creature - especially through newly gained knowledge or intelligent and morally upstanding choices.
::Imagery: A hooded figure stands before eight open graves, each marked with a tombstone bearing a star, and makes arcane gestures, causing the dead within to reach out.

9: The [[Conjurer]]
::Standard: Evil knowledge being put to terrifying use, fiends and other malevolent beings from beyond, cultists, thralls to otherworldly powers.
::Reversed: Repression of truth, someone purposefully withholding vital information.
::Imagery: A beautiful woman, scantily clad, tattooed with nine stars and wearing a snake-shaped armband, writhes in a passionate dance with a shadowy fiend against a curtain of flame.

10: Master of Stars: 
::Standard: One who hungers for knowledge and/or mystical power, a sage or arcane magic user, riddles, a mystery, the supernatural, the unknown, the presence of secrets, hidden knowledge necessary for success
::Reversed: A misleading clue, a powerful and evil mage.
::Imagery: A dark figure, cast in shadow by the ten-starred hooded cloak he wears, save for the burning flames of his eyes, stares outward in desperate search.
::Note: This card is associated with the [[Darklord]] Azalin.