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The Queen of Hearts


Each suit that you find in the deck was meant, from it's very conception to hold a certain meaning, or a certain means of exerting power. Hearts, it is said represents the pilgrimage of virtue and the institution of the Church, Clubs are the networks, fraternities and knowledge, Diamonds are wealth and influence, and Spades the power of force and brutality. In all of those wizardries, who should come up trumps as one of the most enduring archetypes of myth and fairy tails? The Queen Hearts is a fair princess of fair complexion and blue eyes. Her robes are scarlet and her head adorned with a gold crown. As with the age hold standard, she holds a flower in her left hand in the remnants of her herring-bone amulet can be seen below the neckline of her dress. NEXT »

Queen of Hearts
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