Good (card) Suit names?

[Ry]

I'm making my Great Deck, which is something that's been brewing for awhile. The deck has 120 cards: 8 suits of 15 cards each.

I've got several very important factors worked out (some of the tarot-like properties of the cards), but I'm having a hard time thinking of suit names, which would really help.

So far all I've got are Stones and Songs, I also had Holes and Suns but I don't think those work as well. Really, I'm trying to divide the deck into 8 natural parts, so that if you look at it as a whole the whole world fits into it somewhere (kind of like a Zodiac if you go soft-focus). Any comments or ideas?

 

[Festivus]

Fire, Earth (Stones), Water, Wind, Joy (Song), Rage, Regret and Sorrow

 

[Roger]

Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Good, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral, Chaotic Evil.


Cheers,
Roger

 

[Rechan]

Celestial Bodies (Earl of Moons), Omens, Spirit, Heart (Heart of a Dragon, Heart of Stone), Mind, Elements (Matron of Rivers), Songs, Beasts (Son of Lions).

 

[BlueBlackRed]

To take a little from above (with their suit picture being somewhat obvious):
Wind, Rock, Flame, Water, Swords, Shields, Magic, Hearts

 

[Whisper72]

Just some suggestions:

'elements' (fire, earth, water, air, ice, positive, negative, electricity, sound)
'powers' (good, evil, law, chaos, nature, death, birth, time, space)
'gods' (death, life, war, magic, love, weather, sea, the wild)
'planes' (hell, abyss, mount celestia etc.)
'races' (tie the suits to the 8 'primal' races: dragons, elves, giants, illithid, aboleth, ogres, humans, dwarves)
'magic orders' (necromancy, abjuration, conjuration, etc. should be 8 I think)

 

[Whisper72]

Oh, to add to my previous post, you could combine them, such that a certain suit is linked to all aspects, i.e. one suit is at once: negative energy, death, necromancy, hell, god of death etc., so a single suit is aspected on multiple levels.

Maybe the suit of death has the God of death as the 'king', the Necromancer as the Magi, Negative energy plane as the Land etc.

 

[XCorvis]

Perhaps the I Ching will help...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

 

[Ry]

I had no idea the I Ching was broken down into 8 symbols...

interesting.

VERY interesting.

 

[Merkuri]

You can start off with the traditional tarot suits and just add four more, but unless you make up four more elements, which is hard to do, or have two suits for each element you'll lose the elemental connection.

The original tarot suits are: cups (water), coins/pentacles (earth), wands/staves (fire), and swords (air)

If you just want to create four more suits for the same four elements you can use something like: bowls (water), horseshoes (earth), orbs (fire) and shields (air)...