Tosgivite Playing Cards

Within Tosgiv, card games and card sets are seen all around the Empire as ways of bringing together families and even host gambling events. It is not uncommon to hear of games being played in the evening within family members or even gambling games found in taverns and during festivals and feasts. These card games use two decks, different games being played depending on the number of cards in the deck.

The two sets themselves feature forty to forty-eight cards in total. There are four ‘suits’ including coins (ori/oros), clubs (bastos/bastoni), cups (copas/coppe), and swords (espadas/spade). The last three remaining cards of every deck also features face cards including a knave (sota/fante), knight (caballero/cavallo), and an emperor (emperador/imperatore). The forty card deck is more detailed in the art and loses the ‘suit’ cards for numbers eight and nine. Instead, they are replaced with the last three face cards, making the knave, knight, and emperor- eight, nine, and ten respectively, for number values. This deck of forty cards originates from Abfall, being the main deck of cards used in the region. Despite this, the other card deck can also be found throughout Abfall and the games associated with them. The forty eight card deck is a little more simple, however features the same suits as the deck from Abfall. This deck originated in Belar and also enjoys popularity in Feroz, but the other deck can be found in these regions as well. This deck contains the number eight and nine cards, making the number values for the knave, knight, and emperor- ten, eleven, and twelve respectively.

Both decks have a number of games associated with them, two large games are: Scopa, featuring the forty card deck and Presidente, featuring the forty eight card deck.