Welcome to Archetypical, a site featuring tarot decks conceived by and created by Nendil and Elwen. Currently we have Nendil's Harry Potter Tarot deck and Elwen's X Tarot deck. Choose one from the left or learn about the site at the bottom. Enjoy your stay.

          Updates
06.14.10 - Harry Potter: The thumbnail sketches for all the Major Arcana are done!  Now it's time to start working on the actual illustrations!  - Nendil

08.24.09 - Harry Potter: Completion! ...Of all the card descriptions, anyway.  The card illustrations are in the works, but will take much longer.  I took down all the old illustrations from the card main pages, but fear not, you can still see them (and some other interesting things) in the "Bonus Material" section at the bottom of each card's individual page, where applicable.  I've also updated my bio; you can check out the blurb under "Background" in the site section.  - Nendil

08.03.09 - Harry Potter: Wow, has it really been a year?  The groundwork for this project has finally been fully laid and it's progressing full steam ahead (so far).  I've put up most of the card descriptions for the Minor Arcana, with the last few soon to come.  More importantly, though, please visit my journal to see the on-going sketches and thumbnails I'm putting up for the cards, as well as the thought processes behind them.  - Nendil

01.09.08 - Harry Potter: And that's the rest of the descriptions for the Major Arcana!  Also put up a FAQ in the Site section about the deck.  - Nendil

11.16.07 - Harry Potter: Card descriptions are up for over half of the Major Arcana!  More to come, of course.  - Nendil

11.07.07 - Harry Potter: The seventh book is done, and the deck is finalized!  Seeing how I'm now a busy CG student, I don't know when I'd be able to work on the illustrations more, but this project is definitely not forgotten.  You can now see the finalized list in the HP section.  Most of the descriptions aren't ready yet, but I'm working as fast as I can to get the complete deck up for you - keep watching this space!  - Nendil

04.03.03 - Harry Potter: Whoa... I return!  I haven't abandoned the deck, just took a break from it for lack of artistic inspiration.  However, now my art skills have been honed quite a bit more, and I've updated all the old cards with better, improved artwork.  Enjoy!  Oh, there are also a few new card interpretations up, though no new illustrations yet.  - Nendil

03.12.03 - X: Added some more minors -- all but one of the ones I originally had, now rescanned and with the new designs.  I'll get to the Majors eventually... it's just hard to fathom what CLAMP was thinking sometimes.  - Elwen

02.22.03 - X: Started redoing the cards, added two card back designs.  A bunch of the old cards were taken down, but there are some new ones, too.  My primary goal was to get up one Minor from each suit, so you can see the suit designs.  Next, I'm going to try to finish interpreting the existing Majors.  - Elwen

02.17.03 - No, we're actually not dead!  I'm back into my tarot obsession, and I've redesigned the X cards and will be working on them.  In the meantime, a bit of site reoganization -- namely, the Middle Earth deck is gone, because I don't think I'll be able to do anything with it anytime soon -- and there's a new thing for spreads in the site section, which will also someday be part of the aforementioned separate site, hopefully.  - Elwen