Rota Taro
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| Title: | Rota Taro |
| Author(s): | Stayka |
| Date(s): | 1999, 2007, 2008 |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Saint Seiya |
| External Links: | Rota Taro (Archive Link) In French (Archive Link) Translated by Pandora |
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Rota Taro is a project that combines fanart and fanfiction by Stayka. It is an Abandoned WIP. The project consists on a Fanart Tarot deck of which only the Major Arcana are completed and twenty-one oneshots, one for each major arcana, of which only two are written. It combines astrology, tarot symbology and Ancient Greek Mythology. In Kuri-Chan's Pages Saint Seiya archive, Rota Taro is listed as a story about the Saints having to master the tests of the Arcana which cannot be overcome by power, they have to overcome their weaknesses and failings.
Rota Taro Stories
Stayka explained in the Author's Notes that she was into tarot and astrology and, as the Zodiac Signs are prominently featured in Saint Seiya, she wanted to use that to create a story that combined both. She also added some notes about symbology, for those who were not familiar with the subject. There were also a few poems scattered throughout the story, written by Stayka herself. The titles of each one-shot were all decided but never written.
Prologue: Follow me down the Rainbow Path (11K) - added 1999/03/05
Arcanum 0: Ikki - Mirror of the Fool (14K) - added 1999/11/05
Arcanum 1: Shiryu - The Helplessness of Mages (14K) - added 2000/02/21
Arcanum 2: Shaka - The Fate of the High Priestess
Arcanum 3: Hyoga - For the Love of the Empress
Arcanum 4: Athena - Challenge the Emperor
Arcanum 5: Shura - The Face of the Pope
Arcanum 6: Shaina - Lovers' Quarrel
Arcanum 7: Camus - To Steer the Chariot
Arcanum 8: Marin - Discover Your Force
Arcanum 9: Mu - To Follow the Hermit's Path
Arcanum 10: Dohko - Who Can Stop The Wheel of Fate?
Arcanum 11: DeathMask - The Power of Justice
Arcanum 12: Kanon - The Wisdom of the Hanged Man
Arcanum 13: Milo - Living to Court Death
Arcanum 14: Saga - And Temperance...
Arcanum 15: Shun - Chains of the Devil
Arcanum 16: Aiolia - The Tower's Maze
Arcanum 17: Aldebaran - Under the Light of the Star
Arcanum 18: Aphrodite - Silver Moon Dreams
Arcanum 19: Jabu - A Piece of the Sun
Arcanum 20: Aiolos - Another Kind of Judgement
Arcanum 21: Seiya - Dancing the World
Epilogue: Living a Boy's Adventure Tale
"Cave of a Million Dreams" a poem included in Rota Taro's prologue by Stayka
Rota Taro's Deck
Stayka made a table featuring all her plans for her deck and which character she would use. Only Major Arcana are linked, along with the explanation about the design of each card.
Example Cards
X: The Wheel of Fortune
XVIII: The Moon
XIX: The Sun
Other Stories in the Rota Taro verse
Dancing in the Shadows
Stayka was planning to write a Rota Taro sequel taking place after the Hades Chapter. All the Saints that were killed would be alive again. The reason why was going to be explained in Rota Taro. Dancing in the Shadows would have been an epic in ancient tradition that sees the advent of a new powerful adversary (Persephoneia and her Shadow Knights) who has all reason to take revenge on Zeus's favourite daughter and her Warrior Saints. Only three chapter and the proem (mixture of prologue and poem) were completed.
Proem - 13/11/2000
Chapter 1: A message Boding Ill - 13/11/2000
Chapter 2: Journey Through the Twillight World 18/03/2007
Chapter 3: No Boom Tomorrow - Boom Today 05/04/2007
Chapters 4 and 5 were marked as "in progress" but never updated.
Aftermath - Path into the Light
This one, written in 2007 and completed in 2008, is a Cancer Deathmask/Ophiuchus Shaina epilogue consisting in four one shots that focus on their relationship. Some of them contain smut.
- Realisation 12/12/2007
- Exploration 12/12/2007
- Reflexion 12/12/2007
- Revelation 02/01/2008