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HoosierDaddy, on 28 January 2011 - 12:46 AM, said:
Consort of Dark/Suzerain of Dark/King of Night stuff gets into Darujhistan also being a card in the Deck. Though, I tend to think of Draconus card' popping up in RotCG more akin to Knight of Shadow randomly making it's way into T'amber's Deck in The Bonehunters. I.e., an emergence or reemergence of a power once present, e.g. House of Chains and House of Shadow.
Ah yes, the Blue City card or whatever it was for Darujhistan, along with The Tyrant. That goes into the whole Deck being flexible thing, with local variations and bigger or smaller decks and such. We see so few Decks and readings, most of them from the same 3 characters, so it's hard to really say, but it definitely seems like new cards can spring out of the Deck. Now there could be a lot of reasons for this, such as:
-none of the existing cards match the person/concept well enough
-the thing is of such power that it forces out its own card where it has influence (there's a mention somewhere of powerful forces taking over weaker cards in Decks)
-the Talent controlling this particular Deck has added their own cards (ie: local cards added in 7C {see HoC} or Tiserra adding Darujhistan and the Tyrant, she didn't seem very surprised when they came out of the Deck...)
-Ganoes Paran decides to add a card (ie: Guardians of the Dead)
some of these reasons might be true, they might not. I really don't know, it's just speculation at this point. Generally I think the High Houses plus Unaligned make for a useful default scheme for the Deck but it isn't really compelled to use or not use any particular card, nor prohibited from making up new cards or really anything. And above all, we really just don't plain know the power of the Deck. Can you really say that the Knight of Shadow card came up in tBH because ST was recognizing Trull in that role, or is it the other way around...?
