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The final half of the full @crownedinmarigolds/@thesixthplaneteer's VTM Canon Tarot deck for Fangfest 2024! That was so awesome and I'm so pleased I could get this all done! It's a bit messy but it's alright, I love it!! Thank you everybody for liking my work and thank you to all who participated and made Fangfest fun and special! Thank you to @fuckyeahlabynight for organizing this!!

Fangfest 2024 - Day Twenty-Two - The World

The World card in Tarot represents achievement, fulfillment, possibilities and happy endings. An ending to a cycle before the next beginning comes where another fool takes a hero's journey. A finale. I drew three complete groups together, enjoying their peace. It may be temporary, but they are all whole units. The Followers of Set - Harrakhty, his wife Parvati, and their daughter Kahanni. The Setites taking pride and true joy with their little godling. Nythanel and Noa, two halves of the same soul that have clawed their way to the top, together - and it will always be so. The Stakebait Coterie, a bunch of Thinbloods who wouldn't have picked this life but now they wouldn't trade each other for the world. Thank you all so much for letting me indulge and draw our characters for the Fangfest! This was so awesome and I was jazzed to do it the whole time! And of course, the biggest thank you to @thesixthplaneteer who contributed inspiration and a lot of the characters to this line up. <3

Fangfest 2024 - Day Twenty-One - Judgement Sydney Arya was Embraced in the early 90s while working as a university librarian in Reno, NV in the United States. An English transplant with nowhere to go and with no clue about what he was, by some stroke of fate he met the first Dusk Angel while starving in some random back alley. He was given guidance, given a new purpose, and fell deeply in love with the Dusk Angel and formed a special relationship that still haunts him to modern nights. When the news hit that the first Dusk Angel was supposedly killed by a hunter and Reno was falling to chaos between rival vampire sects, Sydney took on the mantle of Dusk Angel and fled into the night to re-establish the resistance elsewhere. Eventually landing in Atlanta, a hotseat of activity with a sudden boom of new Thinbloods being shovel-headed, Sydney now tries to lead the confused new blood into a new age, trying to maintain his own humanity in the process. Judgement represents an awakening, redemption, renewal and transition. When a period comes to an end to make way for a new beginning. The Dusk Angel once again stands at a precipice, riding the knife's edge between becoming what he may fear the most, or becoming something greater.

Fangfest 2024 - Day Twenty - The Sun

It's almost funny when arguably one of the worst days of your life is the best thing that ever happened to you.

Ralph never considered himself lucky - just another awkward military brat who grew up trying to join the army counter intelligence program who then proceeded to lose his leg on his first deployment who then became an Instagram thot to avoid the horrors of fighting for his benefits as a disabled veteran. It was only after he was spite-Embraced by an incel Nosferatu and came out a waterblood that things started looking up. Now he didn't have to engage often with people who didn't understand his weird way of thinking, met the bestest friends he's ever had, was offered community (even if he rejected it in the end) from the fullblood Nosferatu, and of course met his beloved Khloworm.

The Sun card in tarot represents enlightment, joy, success and material happiness, even marriage. Ralph faces his life head-on because he has a purpose that motivates him, and also because he is surrounded by the immutable love of his entire coterie.

(Not canon YET but they are definitely going to drink the Formulae that gives you the ability to tattoo. Every member of Stakebait gets the staked heart tattoo, and Ralph of course wants ink of his lover covering up the mottled mess of his former tatts his Embrace messed up! Still a little messed up unfortunately, damn low-tier Nos Curse. Fear not viewer, Khloe designed and drew it herself.)

Fangfest 2024 - Day Nineteen - The Moon Embraced during her slumber some time ago, Lyubov has existed mentally only within her dreams - and after some practice and time, others' dreams - for decades. An experiment that supposedly was testing guerilla training tactics performed by her sire, the Tremere Atticus, who only at the turn of the millennia decided to free her from her endless and chaotic sleep. Now awake and walking around these modern nights, nothing feels completely real to her anymore. Or it all simply feels so mundane that it makes her bored beyond belief to walk around within the strict laws of physics. She is a relative master of the path of Morpheus, but at the cost of feeling anything, especially with the dulled physical senses that come with being Kindred. She craves extreme sensations, dangerous situations, ruthless people - even if the consequences are severely stacked against her. The Moon represents deception, illusions, hidden things and confusion. Lu sits by a waterfall of blood within her dream-plane, gazing at the onlooker and daring them to come and play.

Fangfest 2024 - Day Seventeen - The Tower

Raymond Mulder, former detective turned hunter after more than enough rough run-ins with the Supernatural. Got a Kinfolk girlfriend and soon her abusive Garou ex attacked and permanently scarred him, his former boss forced to commit suicide in front of him after it was revealed that the vampire shadow government was running the Chicago PD. Formally the most normal normie you could meet, he tried to at least face the dark as nobly and as rationally as he could. Monsters were monsters - hell, a lot of "regular" humans fit this category too - but not every single one needed to be met with a violent hand.

The Tower is a card that represents an almost violent upheaval, a change in situation, destruction, catastrophe. Raymond's existence was forever changed the second he had made the decision to rid the world of just two more Kindred...

Fangfest 2024 - Day Sixteen - The Devil Harrakhty Hamdi, hierophant to the Temple of Relentless Pleasures, Elder Setite and proud grand-Childe to Set. Husband to her elegance lady Parvati and true-blood father to Set Reborn. Blessed by the Father himself with many gifts, he lives lavishly and lovingly for his followers. Born in the dirt and having lived in squalor, he now exists in his immortal unlife entombed in gold, as is his right. The Devil card represents sexuality, bondage to mortal pleasures and materialism. Despite living unchained to the Aeons, Harri is just like the flock he shepherds - shackled mercilessly the pleasures and gifts of the material realm.

Half of the full @crownedinmarigolds/@thesixthplaneteer's VTM Canon Tarot deck for Fangfest 2024! We're over halfway there and I'm very happy with the work done! Thank you everyone for liking my stuff and of course thank you to all participants who are giving us the GOOD STUFF. Lets finish off strong! (I'm excited)

Fangfest 2024 - Day Fifteen - Temperance Xandi's entire life has been a fight of some kind. Born to a white mother and a black father during the 1930s American South, she's struggled to find her place and to maintain her dignity and pride for as long as she can remember. Forced to be tough and grow up early, the clever maneuverability and skills she acquired aided her in eventually getting a job as a CIA operative during the height of the Cold War. Despite constantly proving herself, it was still always a fight. Someone had a problem with her, someone got it better than her. It felt like she was always fighting against the current just because she existed. She met Zubayr Agha early when she crossed the pond. Someone who finally saw her as talented and important. Useful. It made her feel good to be seen as reliable and deserving of respect. He was an Assamite, a noble assassin with a taste for blood in the more literal sense, and he ghouled her with the promise of her always having a purpose and place in their society. After serving her time training and helping lay down the foundation for the fall of the Soviets, she was Embraced and then trained further into becoming the perfect weapon to serve the clan. In modern nights, things are changing and her place is shaky. She is so tired of being a warrior, of the fight. She wants to rest - she wants peace and to belong. Not as a tool, but as a person. Temperance is a card of balance, moderation and patience. Xandi wants to be gentle, to go with the flow rather than to strike like a dagger. One day, maybe she'll get to know true balance.

Fangfest 2024 - Day Fourteen - Death Joaquin "Quino" Alvarro Hidalgo-Giovanni is the maker of his own fate. Born into a clan of vampires, a heritage soaked in blood, he has fought tooth and nail against his family the second his father came back from the dead. He could see it, how wrong it was, how he and his baby sister were being used, but it wasn't until she was chosen for the Embrace when he finally did something about it. He slipped to the Tenochtitlan Sabbat the location of the Hidalgo family compound, and during the family get together they were descended upon. But it was too late, Noa Hidalgo was already dead, and Quino was prevented from even gathering her body before the Sabbat decided they weren't keen on playing nice with mortals. After escaping capture, Quino went to America heartbroken and completely alone, but not without fervor. He would use all the information during his ghouled years within the Giovanni clan to fight back against the Supernatural. A bloody and merciless hunter of all things that prey in the night: this shit shouldn't exist. Maybe his father would've died honorably. Maybe his sister would be alive and well. Maybe he could've been normal. Death is a card that represents endings, transformation, change. Joaquin's life is a series of upheavals, but he knows before his own ending, he'll be delivering yours.

Fangfest 2024 - Day Thirteen - The Hanged Man

The holy diver, the bitter taste, the anarchist soothsayer and dive bar busker. Daimund! The Hanged Man, a card that represents surrender and sacrifice. Giving in and letting go and taking time to reflect. Daimund was Embraced in the middle of an overdose by some unknown Malk drifter and hardly ever comes down from his perpetual high. He's @thesixthplaneteer's first VTM character and a personal favorite. He speaks nearly entirely in lyrics, but everyone takes these references way too seriously. How truthful are his words? That's for someone to eventually find out. For a different concept of Daimund a few years ago we assigned the Devil tarot to him... things have changed but I'll post that WIP below the cut!

Fangfest 2024 - Day Twelve - Justice Once a proud soldier serving in the name of his lord, once a proud pack member serving in the name of the Archbishop, now Sheriff of Atlanta serving in the name of the Prince. Godwynn may have changed hands across the centuries, but there is only one true master he covets above all else: the satisfaction of his bloodlust - which has long existed even before he became Kindred. If whoever holds his leash can give him what he wants - then Justice will always be given. The tarot card of Justice represents fairness, truth, cause and effect and the law - which Godwynn idealizes above all things. He is not mindless, he is a creature of "honor." His battles must be hard-won and face-to-face, otherwise they are not enough. Ennui is the killer of all immortals.

Fangfest 2024 - Day Eleven - Wheel of Fortune

It's midnight, so it's day eleven! Kolya is your friendly neighborhood Banu Haqim salesman, a fence who has just about everything you need in the back of his truck... and if he doesn't then he could absolutely get it for you. For the correct price of course, he isn't running a charity shop. To see Kolya in town is to know big things are moving beneath the surface, something amongst the higher ups wherever you may be is going down. Destiny comes, Kindred! The Wheel of Fortune card represents good luck, a turning point that is positive.

We are officially back in town, and hopefully I can get back to more detailed and symbolic drawings of our characters as tarot. So happy to be back!

Fangfest 2024 - Day Ten - The Hermit

Clive Robinson is a genuine old west cowboy and a bonafide shit kicker. Starting trouble young in life, he's always searched for his own truth and has found himself at knife point, gun point, and in the thick of conflict more times than he has fingers to count on. In modern nights, he isn't sure if he's running toward or away from something, but along the way he tries to share the little bit of wisdom he's learned the hard way.

Clive represents the Hermit card. He rides alone though by choice to discover his own truths. His light guides the way and carries his "staff" as a symbol of power and authority over the pups that think they can take on the old Brujah.

((DEFINITELY one I'm coming back to! Happy pride to this old boy....))

Fangfest 2024 - Day Nine - Strength

Kyle Johnson seems to be the most down to earth and "normal" of the Stakebait Coterie, but he tries to maintain this because he holds a dark secret: he has a Beast. One of the "lucky" Thinbloods to have one, the thing that usually is what separates a Fullblood and a Duskborn. Thanks to having a Beast, he keeps a lot of things at an arms distance. He's friendly, he cares deeply, but he's always afraid that one wrong move will destroy his resolve and get someone he loves hurt.

Strength depicts an individual confronting and taming a lion, a beast. Through inner strength and resilience, animal instinct and raw passions can be maintained. Kyle stands here staring a representation of his Beast head on, the hands of his coterie at his back to give him support.

Fangfest 2024 - Day Eight - The Chariot

Christian Octavio is the muscle of the Stakebait coterie, former Sabbat shovelhead (a Gangrel Thinblood) who before that was a runaway from a powerful family. Christian wasn't the name his family gave him, but it's the name he picked out and the name his friends call him. He's also the day-drinker, able to move in sunlight without fear of death, though at the cost of being completely exhausted at the end of the evening when his friends are all awake.

Christian is the Chariot, a card that depicts a brave warrior inside of a vehicle. He attempts to maintain control through his will, and is determined to find success in his actions. Christian despite his grumpy demeanor and distant attitude loves his coterie and is staunchly pro-Thinbloods, and with the kick in the pants the new blood Khloe has given the team, he is more determined than ever for the successful upheaval of the Camarilla.

Fangfest 2024 - Day Seven - The Lovers Lyre the Salubri and Blaire the Silverfang, lovers who found each other as Tremere were attempting to kidnap and move Lyre through Blaire's turf in the Rocky Mountain range in Colorado. In his wolf form Blaire saved Lyre, but this mess of a thing latched onto him and they're not getting rid of each other, much to the chagrin of Blaire's pack. They're both a bit dumb and ditzy and completely unaware of the greater politics around them, which is probably for the best! The Lovers card represents harmony and relationships and passion, a divine union. These two in a way are like Adam and Eve in the garden, innocent and only involved with the other, unaware of the bad things that would tear something like them apart.