Telling Deck: Fauna Deck

Inner Deck

The Fauna Deck is one of four minor, or “Inner,” decks.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

The Fauna Deck sports five animal cards, each with their own symbolic power and governance:

• Kkaxe, The Blackfeather  - Transformation of Community
• We'ts'a, The Snake  - Transformation of Self
• Wasa’i, The Bear - The unconscious, the dream truth, unintentional thresholds
• Bee - industriousness, labor, sustained practice and communal effort
• Spider - connection, cycle, wisdom

Significance

Rather than being tied to any one direction or to a linear narrative framework, instead these four decks as a whole engage the holistic balance of themes needed for well-roundedness.
As a structural mechanism, this deck contains themes of momentum and change in the circumstances of the Tole, leading some to associate the deck with the direction of Fern and its symbolic language of being "Hidden," "Wet," and "Covered." However, this is not necessarily standard Telling practice.

Item type

Religious / Ritualistic

Subtype / Model

Telling Deck

Used by

• Telling Deck : Kkaxe, The Blackfeather
• Telling Deck: Wasa’i, The Bear
• Telling Deck : We'ts'a, The Snake

Related Technologies

• Empowerments

Related ethnicities

• Northern Walkingfolk

Owning Organization

Teln

Related Condition

Seekin

Rarity

Common

Raw materials & Components

Telling Deck cards are usually made of a stiff, heavy paper, sometimes with a waxen coat to protect the images.