The Black Hearts are a Deck based around goals and achievements.
united, trusting, loyal, understanding, goal-oriented, hungry, needy
cool colors, black, mixed designs
black seekers - excellent searchers, can find any physical thing they need
they live in a forest clearing, building their nests out of wood and foliage
THE BLACK HEARTS
The Deck of Black, The Black Deck, or the Black Hearts, are a group of cats that built themselves around goals. They were the odd ones out when the founders were originally forming all of their groups, the ones that didn't have an idea of who they were or how they wanted to live. Because of this, they became a very united group of completely different cats, accepting of others and particularly understanding to anyone not already a part of their group. They're goal-oriented and trusting, and tend to act as a mediator between the other Decks when tensions and political issues arise. Due to them being such a diverse group, there's no super typical way they look--though their fur is often full of leaves and flowers from the forest they live in. The cats of Black tend to focus on the nature around them, appreciating the way the world works and how different animals all make up their ecosystem without them ever trying to destroy or change any of it. They're always super respectful of this nature, and find it important to live in harmony with it all, rather than use it all up or damage it. They live in the southeastern part of the Plain of Revelation, taking camp in a clearing in the forest, surrounded by dense foliage and trees, with the constant hum of other forest life surrounding them.
DAILY LIFE:
An explanation of all the things that the cats in this Deck might do in their everyday lives, including the times they wake up, patrols, training, and so on.
DECK STANDARDS:
An explanation of the appearance, personality, and other standards of cats that are in this Deck. This also includes Titles, and what typically earned Titles within the Deck might be, and what the Deck has as their special Thing (secrets/vows/goals/symbols).
TRAINING
SPECIAL ROLES
The Black Deck's special role is called the Black Searchers. This role is given to cats who can hunt prey with ease, as well as detect the cause of any smell on the territory. Typically, searchers are used for when a cat goes missing in the Overgrowth Forest, or when something seems amiss among the Decks. They can find hidden clues where no one else seems to look, and always seem to know the best answers to any problem you could potentially give them, to an almost supernatural degree.
The rules of this Special Role are as follows:
1. As with every Special Role, you cannot tell anyone about the work you do besides the Face of the Deck. Due to the nature of this role, Jokers and Mirrors are allowed to know as well.
2. Every half moon, when the sun is at its highest, you must go on a patrol with your fellow Searchers and explore the Overgrowth Forest. The animals inside will lead you to the clues your peers have missed.
3. Speak with the birds and the squirrels before you kill them, ask them for guidance every hunt, and you will be blessed with luck.
MIRROR TASKS
This section is for all the different tasks that the Mirrors of this specific Deck performs. This includes their divination tactics, how they live their lives, what their everyday routine is, and so on.
HAND TASKS
This section is for all the different tasks that the Hands of this specific Deck performs. This includes what they need to build, manage, and have upkeep work done on, as well as their specific training and nursery skills.
PIP + CHIP TRAINING
The Black Deck teaches its pips and chips to know their limits. They need to take breaks often, and they aren't in a rush to finish their goals. They're taught patience, spending time near the entrance of the Overgrowth Forest as a form of training, just meditating. Listening to nature and the world around them, and how the world moves even without them doing anything at all.
SKILLSETS
The Black are known for their hunting skills. They're the best at knowing where to find any type of prey, whether or not they're typically on that kind of territory or not. They're excellent at hiding among foliage, as well as spotting hidden cats and animals.
The Black know how to make traps using what they find in the woods, specifically for hunting. To set a trap against the other Decks is illegal.
FIGHTING STYLES
This section is an explanation of how the cats of this Deck fight, and what you're likely to expect when going against them in battle, or just what they're trained to attack like.
RELIGION
RELIGIOUS DEVOTIONS
This section explains how the Deck behaves religiously, and what sorts of rituals or prayers and shit they do. As well as just how strongly they believe in their religion of choice, and what exactly it is.
THE BLACK HEART
This is an explanation of the major Deity of the Deck, and how they act about it, and how the Deity seems to act with the cats of the Deck themselves.
The ???
The ??? is one of the Black's closest Calamity Gods.
Of ???
Of ??? is one of the Black's closest Serenity Gods.
The ???
The ??? is one of the Black's closest Calamity Gods.
Of ???
Of ??? is one of the Black's closest Serenity Gods.
TABOOS
This section is for any taboos that the Deck has, and anything they perceive as taboo in comparison to the other Decks.
GOOD LUCK
This section is for anything that the Deck sees as good luck.
SACRED
This section is for any sort of sacred objects or things that the Deck has, and anything they perceive as somehow holy in comparison to the other Decks.
BAD LUCK
This section is for anything that the Deck sees as bad luck.
CULTURE
TRADITIONS
Although there are certain traditions the Black Deck sticks to, they actually enjoy having some change in tradition every once in a while. They invite new beliefs very easily, and like trying new things whenever they can. They tend to think highly of their food and the nature around them, which is about the only thing that couldn't change about them and their way of living. Otherwise, anything else is just about fair game.
BIRTHS
After any birth happens in the Deck, there's a huge feast to celebrate the addition of life. If there's multiple pregnant cats at once, all with different due-dates, they try to make one cumulative feast near the end of when the majority of the births have happened.
RELATIONSHIPS
This section is for any sort of relationships that a cat might have, such as family, friends, or a mate, and how they might handle each of them, including those from other Decks.
DEATHS
After a member of the Black dies, they bury their body in the Overgrowth Forest, when the sun is at its highest that day. After the burial, the Black have a fast for one week to test their limits and harden their resolve, and then a feast after, to show they're worthy of life.
WEDDINGS
This section is for how the Deck celebrates two cats deciding to marry, and how divorces work as well.
HOLIDAYS + CELEBRATIONS
This section is for any specific holidays or celebrations that the Deck has that aren't explained anywhere else in this category of the page.
DECK MEETINGS
This section goes over how Deck meetings are performed by the Faces, or what things might cause a meeting to be called for the entire Deck.
RANK CEREMONIES
This Deck goes over any sort of rank ceremonies, such as Joker, Mirror, Suit, and Face ceremonies.
The Black's Face ceremonies are done in the afternoon after the previous Full Moon, when the sun is at its highest. The Face-to-be must fast the previous day and night, and then that morning as well. Once afternoon hits, they're brought to Overgrowth Forest, where they enter alone. If they can make their way through it, they'll come out as the Face of the Black. No one knows what happens inside, and the Faces are forbidden from talking about their experiences. If the Face-to-be doesn't come out by the next afternoon, a new Face-to-be will be chosen to go into the Forest--and the cycle repeats.
OTHER
FOR FUN
This is a section for what a Deck might do for fun in their free time.
CRIMES
This section is for anything a Deck might consider to be a crime that the rest of the Decks don't, or something that they would criminalize or exile for if a cat within the Deck committed.
PREJUDICES
The cats of Black aren't very fond of waste, and tend to eat all of their prey before it has the chance to go bad. If the other Decks let anything go to waste, they typically talk bad about that Deck for a while--or even if it was just one cat in particular, prepare to get shit-talked.
BLACK DECK CODE
This section will go over the rules that this Deck has in place, in addition to the existing general code that the entire Decks follow.