Sophie-David
The Legend Ten of Swords is a grim card indeed, an image of Arthur's final battle at Camlann, resulting in the death of both adversaries and the end of the age of Camelot. The card's imagery is very chaotic and melancholy, the forms of the horses and men broken and disorderly as they hack away at each other, friends against friends. Note that the colours in the card are much more subdued than those depicted in the scan.
The focus of the scene is the fallen knight at the front, his body twisted, and his head inverted with respect to the viewer, like a tormented hanged man. A vicious dog, his heart enraged by the blood lust of the battle, growls at the man, even though he may be already dead. This card is in quite a different category from the overblown and unreal imagery of the RWS Ten of Swords, this Legend card looks all too real, the Armageddon which irrovocably disintegrated the noble brotherhood of knights.
The focus of the scene is the fallen knight at the front, his body twisted, and his head inverted with respect to the viewer, like a tormented hanged man. A vicious dog, his heart enraged by the blood lust of the battle, growls at the man, even though he may be already dead. This card is in quite a different category from the overblown and unreal imagery of the RWS Ten of Swords, this Legend card looks all too real, the Armageddon which irrovocably disintegrated the noble brotherhood of knights.