The Name of the Wind Playing Cards is a 52-card deck of playing cards by Albino Dragon. Its production was funded via a Kickstarter campaign that became the number one most successful graphic design Kickstarter project.[1]
Description[]
There are three sets of playing cards available:
- the Standard Edition deck (red back)
- the Limited Edition deck (green back)
- Taborlin the Great's Magician's deck (this is a marked deck, and it comes with an additional card that explains how to read them)
The decks contain custom court and pip cards for characters in The Kingkiller Chronicle. Author Patrick Rothfuss collaborated with the artist, Shane Tyree, to get the details right in the illustrations.[2] In the table below, showing cards and their pictures, repeated images are in bold.
| ♠ Spades[3] | ♥ Hearts[4] | ♦ Diamonds[5] | ♣ Clubs[6] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ace | Folly | Talent pipes | Kilvin's lamps | Arliden's lute |
| King | Kvothe | Stanchion/Deoch | Kilvin | Arliden |
| Queen | Denna | Fela | Devi | Laurian |
| Jack | Bast | Simmon | Ambrose | Young Kvothe |
| 10 | Quill, inkwell and paper | Folly | Coin | Kvothe's sympathy lamp on a book |
| 9 | Greystone | Clouds in front of moon | Folly | Trouper's lute |
| 8 | Pile of books | Falling leaf and resting leaf | Trouper's lute | Quill, inkwell and paper |
| 7 | Candle in a saucer | Little plant with drifting leaves | Little plant with drifting leaves | Three iron drabs |
| 6 | Kvothe's sympathy lamp on a book | Quill, inkwell and paper | Quill, inkwell and paper | Pile of books |
| 5 | Folly | Trouper's lute | Three iron drabs | Candle in a saucer |
| 4 | Tehlin wheel and grass | Candle in a saucer | Crescent moon behind Greystone | Kvothe's sympathy lamp on a book |
| 3 | Edema Ruh wagon under a tree | Kvothe's sympathy lamp on a book | Pile of books | Little plant with drifting leaves |
| 2 | Falling leaf and resting leaf | Crescent moon behind Greystone | Falling leaf and resting leaf | Falling leaf and resting leaf |
There are two jokers, featuring Auri (based on Felicia Day) and Elodin (based on Neil Gaiman) respectively, and two gaff cards featuring Wilem and Lorren.
Card images[]
King of Spades
King of Hearts
King of Diamonds
King of Clubs
Queen of Spades
Queen of Hearts
Queen of Diamonds
Queen of Clubs
.jpg "Playing Cards poster Bast (edited).jpg (615 KB)")
Jack of Spades
Jack of Hearts
Jack of Diamonds
Jack of Clubs
Ace of Spades
Ace of Hearts
Ace of Diamonds
Joker
Joker
.png "Playing Cards poster Wilem (edited).png (906 KB)")
Gaff Card
Gaff Card
Bookplate
Card backs
Box image
Deck seal
Main flap
References[]
- ↑ Inspirationfeed. 10 Most Successful Graphic Design Kickstarter Projects (August 2, 2013)
- ↑ Worlbuilders. Name of the Wind Playing Cards
- ↑ https://www.tor.com/2014/05/08/rothfuss-reread-what-can-we-learn-from-the-name-of-the-wind-playing-cards-part-2/
- ↑ https://www.tor.com/2014/05/08/rothfuss-reread-what-can-we-learn-from-the-name-of-the-wind-playing-cards-part-2/
- ↑ https://www.tor.com/2014/05/15/rothfuss-reread-what-can-we-learn-from-the-name-of-the-wind-playing-cards-part-3/
- ↑ https://www.tor.com/2014/05/15/rothfuss-reread-what-can-we-learn-from-the-name-of-the-wind-playing-cards-part-3/
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