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Sep. 3rd, 2005 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aberrantangelsWelp, I've heard back from three of the four people who took the Paths of Fate quiz. (Seriously, Hoop, if you had too much of a life to take the test or even let me know you didn't have the time, why'd you raise a brother's hopes by asking me to send it to you in the first damn place?) Only one of those three has agreed, however, to let her results be posted, so I'm not going to post any of them just yet. Rather, I'm going to post the results I got from taking it, in character, as each of my three RP pups, with my comments on how it could have gone differently.
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good_or_awesome's Virtue (make your own jokes, I'm a busy man) is Prudence (at least, that's what the cards say) and his Vice is Pride. That would make the Queen of Swords his card: "Your place is not wielding the rod of authority, but sitting beside the one who does. Balanced between prudence and pride, you can be a schemer, a usurper or a slave to ruthless ambition. But your better place is as counselor, cautioner and mediator. Accept that your rewards must come from a higher authority, and you will support that authority well. Envy your master, and you can become the most poisonous of traitors."
(Out of the cards within one row/column of that one on the chart* that cross-references Virtue and Vice, his behavior strikes me as more in tune with Trump XX, the Last Judgment, the card of Justice and Pride: "Even before the trumpet of heaven and the gates of hell, you show no doubt. Questioning your judgment is the most perilous thing you can do, far worse than actually being wrong. You must never doubt yourself, any more than you would tolerate the doubt of others.")
last_master's Virtue is Charity, and his Vice, surprisingly, turns out to be Sloth. (Well, Sloth or Greed, but when the two came into direct conflict, Sloth prevailed.) That means his card is the Six of Cups: "You are not one to set forth and strive to change the world, but rather one who is well able to change herself to fit the world as he finds it and — perhaps more importantly — to help others change themselves to be more fit as well. Indeed, your greatest triumphs are likely to be those you achieve through others."
(If it'd been Greed, his card would be Trump IV, the Emperor, so I'm sure he's glad it flipped the other way, despite how that card is described: "For every hundred people who claim that they are gathering funds for their righteous cause, there is one person who is genuinely doing so. You can be that person. When you labor to improve the lot of yourself and others, you are at your strongest. When you are conflicted between helping others and your own comfort or security, you are at your weakest.")
md_donighal's Virtue is also Charity, but his Vice is Pride. His card is Trump XII, the Hanged Man: "Wealth, indulgence, the pleasures of the flesh — these are nothing to you compared to the rare nectar of adoration. You can suffer any indignity for a chance to show your quality. Be bold, make no small plans and prepare yourself to endure for others what they cannot. You can survive anything except insignificance."
(That works, arguably, but I also think he fits, perhaps a little better, with Trump XIX, the Sun, the card of Faith and Pride: "The glory of the cause is your glory — whatever cause you choose. You have the heart of a true believer, but you will never be content to labor in humble obscurity. Be the paragon of your creed, or your soul will starve. Be a saint or a great sinner, but never permit yourself to be eclipsed.")
* On p.89 of the Ordo Dracul covenant-book.
** Edited September 14 to add trump numbers.
good_or_awesome's Virtue (make your own jokes, I'm a busy man) is Prudence (at least, that's what the cards say) and his Vice is Pride. That would make the Queen of Swords his card: "Your place is not wielding the rod of authority, but sitting beside the one who does. Balanced between prudence and pride, you can be a schemer, a usurper or a slave to ruthless ambition. But your better place is as counselor, cautioner and mediator. Accept that your rewards must come from a higher authority, and you will support that authority well. Envy your master, and you can become the most poisonous of traitors."(Out of the cards within one row/column of that one on the chart* that cross-references Virtue and Vice, his behavior strikes me as more in tune with Trump XX, the Last Judgment, the card of Justice and Pride: "Even before the trumpet of heaven and the gates of hell, you show no doubt. Questioning your judgment is the most perilous thing you can do, far worse than actually being wrong. You must never doubt yourself, any more than you would tolerate the doubt of others.")
last_master's Virtue is Charity, and his Vice, surprisingly, turns out to be Sloth. (Well, Sloth or Greed, but when the two came into direct conflict, Sloth prevailed.) That means his card is the Six of Cups: "You are not one to set forth and strive to change the world, but rather one who is well able to change herself to fit the world as he finds it and — perhaps more importantly — to help others change themselves to be more fit as well. Indeed, your greatest triumphs are likely to be those you achieve through others."(If it'd been Greed, his card would be Trump IV, the Emperor, so I'm sure he's glad it flipped the other way, despite how that card is described: "For every hundred people who claim that they are gathering funds for their righteous cause, there is one person who is genuinely doing so. You can be that person. When you labor to improve the lot of yourself and others, you are at your strongest. When you are conflicted between helping others and your own comfort or security, you are at your weakest.")
md_donighal's Virtue is also Charity, but his Vice is Pride. His card is Trump XII, the Hanged Man: "Wealth, indulgence, the pleasures of the flesh — these are nothing to you compared to the rare nectar of adoration. You can suffer any indignity for a chance to show your quality. Be bold, make no small plans and prepare yourself to endure for others what they cannot. You can survive anything except insignificance."(That works, arguably, but I also think he fits, perhaps a little better, with Trump XIX, the Sun, the card of Faith and Pride: "The glory of the cause is your glory — whatever cause you choose. You have the heart of a true believer, but you will never be content to labor in humble obscurity. Be the paragon of your creed, or your soul will starve. Be a saint or a great sinner, but never permit yourself to be eclipsed.")
* On p.89 of the Ordo Dracul covenant-book.
** Edited September 14 to add trump numbers.
