You know the Queen of Passage looks like a younger version of the Faery Godmother to me. Which I like, find it intriguing. Also, I have never liked the Death card in the FO, really I have had to stop myself just ripping it up and getting it out of the whole pack. As such, it pretty much never comes up for me at all. It must sense my dissatisfaction with it. But the Queen of Passage and of course the Faery Godmother Hmmm, they are linked in some way for me and I'm just going on the scans.
(Course FGM has been my Death card in the FO for some time now, but not only Death....other things too.)
I may be alone in this but the FO titles have been perhaps my favorite titles of any deck ever. The new titles are a little too big for me, and I always liked that in the FO the titles seem to verging on unreadable, as if they are morphing in and out of known language, about to be reclaimed by the forest.
I like that the Fae in the scans are being shown in activities, as if they have lives that are not just about swarming together in some kind of hive consciousness like you see in the FO troop cards. Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind the swarms of Fae, I quite love them, I just always wonder what is going on that they would have to be so layered and on top of each other.
One of the reasons I like the Dark Lady card so much is that she is shown in different moods, different postures, so that you see her across a spectrum of feeling states. When I used the idea from the book that each Faery had a job that linked it to human kind, and that it had to somehow fulfill that job with us, I really took to the idea of the Fae as our partners in our development.
In the new system I see that Froud is trying for something a bit deeper but almost shows the Fae as hybrids in a way....as if they are being shown as closer to us rather than as so different and apart. I can't wait to get the deck.