Whispering Lover
Value: 1
Visions • Swans • Blades • Water
Meanings: Love, romance, partnership, loved ones, relationships
Love represents the strongest of bonds: romance, family, and deep friendship. The intimacy inherent in the whispers of a lover is rare and valuable. We seek love, and once we have it, we fight to keep it. The Whispering Lover represents those people in our lives that are most important to us. It doesn’t have to suggest romance—there are many kinds of positive relationships one can have in their life.
Divination: The Whispering Lover always suggests a bond in place or one that will form very soon, but it can be a positive one or a negative one. Depending on other cards played, this might suggest that the relationship in question remains strong, ends, faces a challenge, and so on. This card turn essentially just brings the relationship into play.
Game Narrative: A relationship forms. NPCs fall in love. Two NPCs unexpectedly have an existing relationship.
Joy: An NPC, due to their relationship with the PC, provides great help to the PC.
Despair: An NPC rejects the PC, or ends a relationship. Someone the PC loves is in danger.
Moments with those we love are fleeting, and yet carry the most power.