features the most spectacular illustrations from Rackham's body of work, welcoming you to make a whimsical journey into the realm of the wee folk where unforeseen insights and motivation await. The buddy booklets for many Lo Scarabeo decks are in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German. Share This Website so everyone else can enjoy it too. is a self-published deck by Doug Thornsjo through his business, Duck Soup Productions. It's one of numerous in his Playroom Oracles series. The oracle deck is conceived by Thornsjo using public domain prints of Arthur Rackham's illustrations. Arthur Rackham was an English illustrator with a creative design that is now considered renowned of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. You see this exact same impact in the illustrations of Pamela Colman Smith( who highlighted the RWS deck by A. E. Waite ).
Many of Rackham's art appeared in illustrated fairy tale books, from Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1900, republished 1909), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1908), and Peer Gynt(1936), which were 3 books that Thornsjo took many of the imagery for this oracle deck from. I enjoy the keywords, the italicized captions, the layout style for the cards, the picked Rackham illustrations, and the balanced levels of intelligence and creative artistry. The oracle cards came to me in minimalist product packaging, shrink-wrapped by itself, with simply those two details cards you see in the first photo above, no little white booklet, no operating handbook of any kind to speak of, no box, no drawstring bag, and I don't even recall seeing a packaging slip. Now, that's not a horrible thing and it is a shallow gripe on my part, but the bar has actually been set rather high by other self-published deck developers that I now concern anticipate an experience when I unbox a self-published deck, particularly provided the price I'm paying for these decks. It's simply the cards. That's it. Right to the point. No frills, no extras, no bonuses, minimal description. I admit being a bit upset. Offseting that, however
, is the cool fact that I get to select a customized card back. There are 7 choices to select from. I went with Choice C but it was a hard call. The order of cards here are randomized and are not in the very same order the deck can be found in. I've been playing with the deck(and caring every minute of it ).