Journal of the Arcana

*"I'm doing this for funsies sake, you know. And besides, real or not, it never hurts to believe in magic- it kinda makes people feel young again. A girl can dream." - Indirah to Kellan about the journal and the deck*

## ⚝ General Information

### Aliases

Arcana Journal, Ira's Journal/Diary, General Mathematics Book

### Function(s)

Contains information regarding tarot and lenormand, Arcana deck holder

## ⚝ Production Information

### Appearances

Scintillate

The **Journal of the Arcana**, sometimes referred to as the **Arcana Journal**, is an item belonging to Indirah Alnazar, and it serves as the "container" of the **tarot cards**. Indirah uses the journal to learn card readings and *lenormands* as an interest- although Illias mentions she doesn't take it seriously and just wants to learn it. She uses the journal everyday and would joke around her friends, mainly targeting Kellan Xalvador and getting under the nerves of Sapphire Chauvera.

## **Tarot Cards**

Indirah's tarot cards are the main pieces in order to tell the past, present, and future of the person she's trying to read. A tarot deck has 78 cards- 22 major arcana numbered from 0 to 21, and the rest are minor.

As of Indirah's tarot deck, she's only interested with the major arcana.

From left to right: the **Fool**, the **Magician**, the **High Priestess**, the **Empress**, the **Emperor**, the **Hierophant**, the **Lovers**, the **Chariot**, **Strength**, the **Hermit**, **Wheel of Fortune**, **Justice**, the **Hanged Man**, **Death**, **Temperance**, the **Devil**, the **Tower**, the **Star**, the **Moon**, the **Sun**, **Judgement**, the **World**

## **Appearance**

The notebook is rather small in size with thick leaves- it's dark ochre in color with slightly brown colored pages. It also has a thin brown thread sewed into the spine of the leather covering, with its end sporting a dark gold key that Indirah mentions "doesn't go anywhere nor unlocks anything".

Indirah made the tarot deck herself, designing each card based on what she believed best represent each archetype- each of the major arcana has a unique animal figure as the subject, associating them through zodiac signs and animal symbolism.

## **Trivias**

* Indirah Alnazar was the one who created the journal, which also applies in real life. **Amree Aguinaldo** has the same notebook full of wiccan topics, mostly arcana. In fact, it was that very same notebook that inspired the writers to include it to the story.
	+ Amree's notebook only has the arcana in it, not lenormands. For some reason, Indirah is learning them but not Amree herself.
* Indirah drew on the cards, and Illias was most likely the one who colored them in.
* The journal had been with Indirah ever since she turned 13, supported by the fact that she mentions to Sapphire, "I made them after I turned into a tweenager, thank you very much".
* Both the journal and the tarot deck were the reasons how Scintillate was supposed to be a fantasy story, which would also be the first fantasy franchise in both HM and Chrysalis. This was changed because the writers thought it'd be too soon to incorporate fantasy into the line-up.
* Each character represents one of the cards as their patron arcana, although not all 22 of them:
	+ Kellan Xalvador is the Fool (0); he's the protagonist of the story who needs to go on a journey about finding more about himself and the kingdom, meeting "teachers" and help along the way.
	+ Indirah Alnazar is the Magician (I); taken from the fact that she's the only one in the entire franchise who has prior knowledge to
* Most of the writings in the journal is written in a made-up script by Amree and **Parker Trinh**, called *Astraea*, which was used earlier for the short film Fraulein.
	+ The Astraean script is based on zodiac signs, and the letter D, M, N, O, T, U, and V are the most noticeable. The letter D is Libra's scales, M and N look like Scorpio and Capricorn respectively, The letter O is Taurus, T is Sagittarius, U looks like Ophiuchus, and V is Aries.
* Scintillate's chapters are named after the first 10 major arcana cards, starting with the prologue named as the Fool, the first chapter being the Magician, third chapter is the High Priestess, and so on.
	+ Since the Fool's card number is 0, Amree assigned it as the name for the prologue instead of having "prologue" as the chapter title.
* At one point of the story, Indirah admits that she still hasn't memorized all 22 major arcana yet and which number a card is, but she memorized its symbolism and overall meaning.