Table of Contents

• Design Principles
• The Cards
  • Notation
  • Color: Direction
  • Suit: Narrative Texture & Thematic Domain
  • Rank: The Roles
  • The Jokers: Chaos & Permission
• The Draw
  • The Rules
  • Asking the Oracle
    • The Aperture Principle
  • The Drawing of the Three
  • The Shuffle
  • Positional Reading
    • Consecutive Card Rule
  • The Hail Mary
• Resolution Mechanics
  • When to Invoke Resolution
  • Hooks in Resolution
  • Luck Tokens in Oracle Play
  • Diceless Resolution
  • Setting Opposition from the Draw
  • All Face Cards: The Vote
  • The Resolution Roll
  • Oracle and Resolution Working Together
  • Token Resolution - Pure Oracle Combat & Conflict
  • Running Out of Numbers
• Card Spreads
  • Question Framing for Spreads
  • The Quaerant's Mirror
  • The Three Card Spreads
  • The Relationship Spread
  • The Quaerant's Tower
• The Card Lexicon
• Play Examples
  • Session One: Ashfen
  • Session Two: The Road from Ashfen
  • Calder - Sample Character
• The Deck - all 54 cards