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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6125838" data-attributes="member: 92511">Just as a suggestion (and something I might just take on/adopt myself), if you decide you ARE going to disperse the Spirits into the other gods, you could go the "Tarot" symbolism route to help/have things move smoothly...at least as far as I'm thinking, off the top of my head. To whit:Earth = Pentacles, alternately pictured as Coins, and known as "Diamonds" in the standard playing card deck. Seems to be the "Spirit of Earth", right down to the connection with money and earthly prosperity belongs firmly to the Lady of Coin.Air = Swords and known in the standard playing card deck as "Spades". The freedom, (and sometimes fickleness), of Thought and Observation (i.e. Air, being everywhere, sees all. Seems natural why so many major earthly pantheon father-king deities became personified as Sky/Storm gods affiliated with the air). This could easily be connected to the Lord of Power, the power of the mind (Intelligence for mages) to go with the power of magic or associate it directly to the Scholar.There's 2 right there in the Balance already. Now, you could continue in this vein to carry over the "the spirits don't care" original premise to the Balance (who also, most of the time, don't care). OR, you could through the other remaining "Spirits" into the Ruled and the Unbound respectively, as makes sense.Fire = Wands, alternately "Staves" or "Rods", and known in standard playing cards [somewhat literally] as the "Club." Passion, Creativity, and the taking of Action! Sounds like the Spirit of Fire should find a solid home among the Unbound...the Aura of Joy comes to mind. Water = Cups, alternatively refferred to as "Chalices", and known in standard playing cards as the "Heart" for reasons that will become apparent right now. The Cups is the suit of Emotion, of Love, of Empathy (and thus feeling with/for others)...Now thing could go pretty much anywhere. You could give this to the Death god (caring about what happens to the souls?) but that places it back in the Balance...or the Spirit of Water is submerged within the Bloodletter? (Anger, wrath, the chaotic/fluid nature of water and emotions? Might be a stretch...but could work.) I don't see a smooth way to place this in the Rule of Order (to offset Fire being in the Unbound). Water is simply too...not ordered. lol.But that's ok. 2 spirits subsumed in the Balance, 2 into Unbound and the remaining 2, seem a fairly smooth fit into the Rule of Order:Nature...obviously, wanting to keep all things in their places and ordered...the Order of Balance, as it were. As opposed to the "sit back and watch" balance of the Balance, whoever gets this spirit makes sure things stay IN Balance, ordered. Lord of Sun, I guess? Ancestors, also, can go into the Rule of Order...at first glance, I'd say probably the goddess of Competition, Strategy and Strength as it seems Ancestors are most likely to be called on for those things.Or both Nature and Ancestors could be disceminated among all of the 4, no longer being directly "Spirits of X" but if you need Revenge, then (through the lord of Justice) call on your Vengeful Ancestors. If you want protection/safety, call on the Protector Ancestors (as watched over by the Lord of the Sun), etc...Anyway, just some thoughts that came. Good luck and have fun with it!--SD</blockquote>

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