Hati's Rille Spread

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Both major and minor cards appear in any position.

The center card is called The River, also called The Witch's Pyre. It provides an ambiance with a simplicity of theme, like a scent.

Above it is a set of three cards, The Chorus, also called The Howling. Their order is contextual; Sometimes reading from left to right indicates time, or perhaps there is a fork which includes a middle path, but they are like a Greek chorus in that they are giving a set of viewpoints, a set of commentaries which can either unite to speak from the audience's perspective or else perform a skit to illustrate a typified choice of viewpoints. Allies and foil characters often appear here, but so can a villain who doesn't dominate the theme from the position of The Chain.

Below and to the right of the River are two cards, one below the other: The Chain, or The Chain and Anchor, also called The Debt. They name the matter at hand most directly, produced in the story between the two cards.

The reader must identify a narrative element connecting the cards in The Chain, using The River as a lens. The Chorus then opens this crux to exposition. Any position is valid for metaphors for real things.

The party has yet to be told any Fables about this spread's terms. Eepiy performed it on each of the PCs in Episode 8 using the Sköll's Grief Tarot.