Suspicious Hound
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Visions • Swans • Blades • Water
Meanings: Doubt, suspicion, lack of clarity, judgment, decisions
The hound stands sentinel, and you approach. But you don’t want the Suspicious Hound to be focused on you. Snarling and glaring, the hound isn’t certain of its enemies, but once it decides you are a danger, that’s almost certainly a bad thing. However, the hound is also the representative of our own doubts and difficult decisions. In many ways, we are the Suspicious Hound, or at least we ought to be.
Divination: A negative card to turn, the Suspicious Hound typically suggests that one is plagued with doubt and indecision. Or it might just suggest that one doesn’t have enough information to make a good decision yet. Judgment must be passed and a decision must be made, but there’s no clarity yet. If one is looking for an answer, that answer is, “too difficult to tell, try again later.”
Game Narrative: An NPC grows suspicious. An NPC makes a decision based on little evidence. A PC is faced with a difficult decision.
Joy: An NPC’s poor judgment works to the benefit of the PC. A nefarious NPC is revealed to be quite suspicious.
Despair: An NPC doubts the PC. An NPC’s ill-considered decision works against the PC.
No good can come from rousing the hound’s suspicions.