While today was going to be a guidebook cover reveal, we are delaying that to next week to swap spots with the dice... because the dice symbols are complete and we have 3d renders, courtesy of Enoch!
And there they are with the dice from the Hot Housewives Tarot's deluxe edition as well! If you love those but don't have them yet, don't worry, you'll be able to get them in the Oracle Dice project launching May 1st! Enoch Duncan did a ton of work on our behalf to make these dice possible to be seen, it was not a simple process it turns out! I even tried my hand at some 3-d rendering and adjusted the composition from the first image to the second one, and it was confusing and took my computer 12 minutes to turn the positioned models into an image haha. So let's take a look at the dice symbols and a little of what they mean! First though, we owe a huge thanks to Amy Smith who designed the dice symbols off my prompts. Some I had ideas of how they should look, others I gave the idea and asked Amy to realize it. (And yeah, Maroon will be too dark, we will adjust!)
The Black Lantern Dice Set for the Misery Tarot
These will be a set of 5 black dice that are glow in the dark resin.
With Grey ink, we have the Weapons Die.
Meat hook - A meat hook is cruelty, and it means to harm you and not let go. Hanger-ons of pain.
Nails - Pinpoint pain. This will be swift and targeted.
Blade - Sharp cuts, this is danger and shock, something so small with such harmful potential.
Tenderizer - All the subtlety of a tenderizer, this will hurt you, spread you thin, but it isn't trying to kill. Weakened you'll be all the easier to use.
Syringe - A poison-- this can be addiction, but it can also be a malicious and dastardly venom.
Icon - Using faith, belief as a weapon. This can be religious, but it can also be the faith you have in another, betraying someone's trust.
With Maroon ink, we have the Grief die.
Shock/denial - As it sounds, something that shows you are in the pain stage, unaware of what this will do. It's bigger than you.
Upward Turn/Hope - Hope is a wing, and blood in our deck is about that hope. With this wing you will rise.
Rebuilding - The hammer and nail, constructing something new. You will come out of this remade.
Guilt - When we flog ourselves, we give in to our own damnation. This benefits no one.
Sorrow - A crushing sadness and depression, this is the time when you do nothing because you feel you can do nothing.
Bargaining - Trading your heart away, we will bargain repeatedly until nothing can occur.
With Beige ink, we have the Creatures die. (there are two Tempters here on accident- our bad!)
The Trashman - This is a being who will bear your burdens, carry your weight.
Tempter - The doll, painted on makeup, eye shadow, lips. When you claim you were tricked into something, tempted. Rarely is it their fault, but ours for giving in easily to our desires or wants.
The Demagogue - The featureless face shouting its sermon from the pulpit. People who tell us what we should be, do, how to act, live.
Betrayer - Someone you trusted who hurts you, tricks you, fools you. a two faced creature, one human, one monstrous in shadow.
Hunter - Someone who hunts you, hurts you, targets you. Probably a stranger or a known enemy. Wolf head, snarling.
The Weaver - A delicate spider web between them. A sign of someone fooling you, leading you astray, manipulating you.
With Yellow ink, we have the Fears die.
Irrational - Snakes and spiders-- our irrational fears of things that override our minds even when we know better.
Anxiety - Teeth falling to the ground, general fear of what could happen.
Ourselves - Wild open eyes looking nervously as the crooked dagger in our own hands, afraid of what we might do with it. How do we live with our own capabilities?
Abandonment - The fear that we are left behind, alone.
The Other - To be watched, hunted, needed. Other people are hell and all that.
Endings - How things come to a close, who are we without facets in our lives?
With Orange ink, we have the Pillars die.
Friends - Two people side by side, holding hands, or hugging. People can find reasons to keep going when they have supportive friends, family, lovers.
Will - A person's head with a third eye on their forehead perhaps, or a face with a fist beside it-- showing someone's willpower to live for themselves, their own reasons, simply because, stubbornness.
Goals - Hope and goals, the idea that you live to see tomorrow. A person reaching up for a star, something unattainable but desirable.
Routine - Some find support in their life routine, work, hobby, games, etc. It is a pillar to keep them moving.
Faith - As much as faith can traumatize, for so many it gives meaning to life. A figure on their knees praying. Can be faith in things or ideals as well.
Dependents - Some people live for those that depend on them, children, pets, friends. The needs of others give some reason to press forward through difficulty.
See you next week for our regularly scheduled reveals, starting with the guidebook! And if the dice got you fired up, be prepared for the May launch of the ORACLE DICE!
