Empress



The Empress Arcana represents motherhood, fertility, comfort, and beauty. This is often given to characters who represents female authority, or actual mothers. Personas of this arcana often excel in ice magic, while possessing healing magic. This is also one of the two arcana that is heavily favored towards one gender (female).

Tarot Card Analysis
People are naturally attracted to beautiful objects and actions. The Empress is the epitome of that beauty. Not only is she herself beautiful, but she also lives in a world of comfort and protection. She holds the power of creation and fertility, though none of these are of the spiritual or mental plane. Rather, it's of the physical plane.

The Empress is the closest one would get to physical pleasure. Though, to purely focus on that would misrepresent the love that the Empress holds for all. After all, she loves everyone unconditionally and treats them all fairly, as her only wish is to keep the people of her realm safe and happy. Similar to a mother, she nurtures and raises anyone who would choose to be close to her.

One must stay vigilant however, as while the Empress is truly a sight to behold, she knows nothing of reality and shuns it. Reality is a cruel and ugly place, and she desires nothing from it, except for others who choose to step into her world and bask in her beauty.

Reversed Meaning
Instead of comfort, one feels tension. The Empress, while still beautiful in her own way, uses that beauty to harm her children. In the tarot card, it shows a woman within a garden, watching her plants grow. When reversed, those plants are not longer growing, but rather withering away. One must remember that the Empress is not a perfect being, and the real world cannot be shunned, for there is beauty upon that world too.

Arcana Advantages

 * Innate Abilities: Minor Ice Boost
 * Stat Boosts: +2 MAG, +1 END
 * Skill Boosts: +5 to Affection-based Skills