(09-15-2015, 12:00 PM)Attis Wrote: Lala:"Oh great star wizard, what is in store for my future?"
A:"You will travel to Limsa Lominsa and become very poor very fast. It will take a great adventure to recover what is lost."
Lala:"What!? How?"
A:"You must look within yourself to find the answer. Unless you have cash on you now."
Lala:*dumps coins on the table*
A:"A rogue is gonna snatch your coin bag. I'd tell you to go to a bank but we both know you're too lazy to go."
Lala:"True. One more question...how do I get it back?"
I did a fair deal of research on tarot before I started seriously playing Eliane, and got kind of a quick and dirty course from a guy experienced in doing readings RL as well. It may be worth noting that with RL tarot readings, you can't really divine specific stuff like this. Rather, tarot readings examine a person's current course, and lay out a possible, generalized future before them. It is then up to the person the reading is being done for to decide whether or not they want to follow that path. For example, if you're doing a reading and the Hierophant comes up, he could be a sign that you need to follow the rules -- but he cannot tell you what rules to follow, and where. It's kind of like a more advanced horoscope.
...then again, it could be fun to have an AST character who is a total hack, and gives phony readings just to make easy money and mess with people. *laughs*
The Eorzean deck is different, of course, but there's a lot of parallels -- such as The Spire probably matching the RL tarot's Tower. The AST quests do suggest that ASTs have very limited control over someone's future, but it's a pretty vague explanation and it's mostly just used to justify the "Shuffle" ability. XD I don't know that it's strong enough to base RP off of.
You need to do what's fun and what feels best to you, of course. Using an AST to stir up RP with fortune-telling is a wonderful idea and is definitely one of the things that drew me to the class. If you want to go with a more specific form of fortune-telling, you probably can -- I mean, hell, why limit yourself to stars and cards? Sharlayans love to experiment and perhaps there's some deviations from the Sharlayan school of Astromancy. After all, at one point late in the AST quests,
Eliane Dufresne
The Dufresne Bellworks
The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
The Dufresne Bellworks
The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
