Card deck concept-Menagerie

This post is an expansion of one of the concepts from the Menagerie Thumbnailing stage

(sketches will be added as an update)

4 horsemen of the apocalypse:

• The red horse, War, the suit color is red, symbol is the sword
• The white horse, Conquest, the suit color is white, symbol is the Bow and arrow
• The black horse, Famine, the suit color is black, symbol is scales
• The pale horse, Death (not sure on color), symbol is scythe

Story of the cards:

Original suits were cups, swords, coins and polo sticks (German version had acorns and leaves). The suit symbols changed for every culture and often represented what was important to the people. French were the ones that came up with the two color suit system with the symbols; hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs.

For my deck the suits would be Swords, Scales, Scythes and Bow(arrows).

There will be the 3 royals, the King, Queens and Jacks/Nave in my deck. Death cards will have a more western interpreted 'grim reaper' like character mixed in with Day of the Dead makeup. War cards maybe more spartan inspired. Conquest cards, having bows and arrows could go either a European way or possibly Japanese route, currently undecided. Also I'm playing with the idea that Famine cards would be based on Marie Antoinette and Louis Quatorze.

Some screen shots of a gamut color palette picker. These are not final but rough ideas of where the palettes might be for each suit. I will also have to consider color continuity between the suits to make it a unified set. Perhaps this could be accomplished by patterned boarders?
Gamut Mask Palette Maker (Here is the site I used)

Conquest

Famine

War

Death