In addition to the Virtue cards, Ultima Forever’s lore and gameplay feature an expanded tarot set that includes sixteen Major Arcana cards, which Mythic have just publicized in a gallery on the Ultima Forever Facebook page. As with the Minor Arcana, Mythic went out of their way to create a full, gorgeously-illustrated tarot set for the Gypsy in the game, even though most players won’t get to see the Arcana art more than a handful of times.

These Major Arcana are featured during the character creation sequence at the start of the game:

The arcana, cast

Additionally, they have some effect on your character, in the form of bonuses and preferences for items of a certain colour:

Selecting a class

I’ve added the Major Arcana as a page on the Ultima Codex’s Ultima Forever portal, complete with descriptions of each card in turn. As well, the Arcana cards there are at a higher resolution than can be found on the Facebook page…a little gift to Codex readers from Mythic, that.