L'Art Occulte: Ultra Arcana
A BNHA tarot zine
About
Enter the land of magic and mystery; discover the fate and knowledge that has eluded you for so long. In L’Art Occulte: Ultra Arcana your favorite Boku no Hero Academia characters will reveal their inner, most hidden selves in mystical writings, coupled with Major Arcana tarot cards that form a fanzine such as you have never seen before.
Our Interest Check is here! Check out the form and be ready to let us know your desires! Your answers can very well shake the foundations of destiny.
SCHEDULE
August 25 - September 20: Interest Check
Contributor applications : 10 October - 10 November
Contributor Applications Result: 15 November
Development Phase: : 18 November - 29 March
Preorders: April 15 - May 15
FAQ
What is L’Art Occulte: Ultra Arcana?
L’Art Occulte is a zine focusing on the concept of tarots in relation to BNHA characters.
Who are the Mods for this project?
Mods will be announced in the following weeks and we are excited for you to meet our amazing
team!
Will this zine be for profit or for charity?
We will announce whether the zine will be for profit or for charity when the interest check will close.
Do you plan on doing a full tarot deck for the zine?
At the moment, we aren’t planning to do a full 78 card deck due to how much it would cost producing one. However, we are planning to do - if there is a demand for it, of course! - a Major Arcana deck (meaning the first 22 cards depicting figures).
Would you also do runes for the zine?
That is certainly a great idea! If there is further feedback in regards to runes, perhaps we could consider integrating them in the project. Runes are great and we’d love to add them, but at the moment our main focus for this zine is tarots.
Are minors allowed to apply?
Yes, they are! Minors are welcome to apply to this zine since this will be a SFW project!
What characters will be portrayed in this zine?
As the point is to concentrate on creating a Tarot based project, the main focus of the zine will be trying to find the best character(s) fit for every card of the Major Arcana cards. Some cards might require to display several characters on them, but those will be open to discussion. Any characters are allowed to be represented on the cards, although not all BNHA characters might be included due to space constraints. We will try not to have characters 'repeat' themselves on the cards of the deck to include as many characters as possible.
Will ships be allowed in the zine?
As long as they are hinted and not outright explicit ship will be allowed. However, given the content focusing on tarots we highly doubt that there will be a lot of ships portrayed.
Are contributors allowed to collaborate? Can a writer collaborate with another writer or artist?
All kinds of collaborations between our contributors are welcomed. However, collaborations can only be established and discussed among contributors after they’ve been accepted into the zine and joined the project. Collaborations with people that have not been accepted to the zine are not allowed. More details on collaborations will be available to contributors once the application period ends.
Have a question that hasn't been answered yet? Feel free to ask over on our CuriousCat!
Mods
CONTRIBUTORS APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
The path leads you back to the main room, a place that earlier had been filled with dust and the barebones of furniture that had long lost its use. Now it looks clean, although unused, a solemn room with a long mahogany table and chairs wrapped in red velvet. The flames had been brought to life in the fireplace and an unfurled parchment lies beckoningly on the table, next to an ink pot and a quill. The parchment merely has a title etched on its yellow-white surface: CONTRIBUTOR APPLICATION. You need no more explanation than that; this is, after all, what you had come for.
You don’t have to step far for the cards to start twirling around you, a chaos of paper and colors almost impossible to catch unless you glance out of the corner of your eye. You try to count them, but it’s impossible, their whirl too frenzied for mortal comprehension. However, one of them breaks away from the group, a menacing figure standing atop a wheel, a duality you fail to comprehend. The card merely says “The Wheel of Fortune”. It is its back however, which gives you another glimpse in the mysteries of L’Art Occulte: Ultra Arcana.
You find the next card under the leg of a broken chair, half-obscured by splinters of mahogany and what seems to have once been silk. There is nothing else around it, nothing but the ashes of a circle burned into the wooden planks of the floor. Everything else is as mysterious as you have expected it to be; you pick up the card. It is upside-down as if it was meant to be thus; a figure that should have been falling from a tower, instead looking as if it is climbing it. The text is reversed as well, but even so you can understand the letters etched on it: “The Tower”. The back of the card gives you even more clues, as you have come to expect every such card to do. You move on; there is still so much more to discover.
The fireplace is the next place you visit, its flames doused by the time that passed. The fire poker lies discarded, with the passing of the last inhabitants of the half-ethereal place you are investigating. You decide to give it life one last use, a homage to the care and determination its craftsman had put into making it. The embers are dead as you expected, and yet they bring to life glossy cardboard and colors. The title does not surprise you, it’s etched plain to see in the image before your eyes: The Magician. You pick yourself up and move along before the card can finish disintegrating. This is one dance you know all too well
There is much to discover in the old, worn mansion. Your steps have been led so far by the trail of magic beckoning you to discover the arcane mysteries. The heavy, velvet drapery is just another stopping point, your fingers trailing softly over the musty surface before catching hold of the corner of cardboard sewn in the texture. The Hermit shines its light at you from the bold colors of the card, the back announcing brightly a new secret: Mod Mustard. You move on before the card has even finished disappearing.
You are too far into this mystery by now to even think of backing away. The staircase is next, its wood no longer giving any hint of the lustre it once held. The rail is cracked and broken, stubbornly clinging to existence. You are expecting to come across another card and yet you still almost miss it, barely sticking out from a crack between the stairs. It is dusty like none of the others had been, its shiny gloss hidden under a layer of grime. In your hands, it comes alight and the scene makes you laugh, the bright colors are contrast to the place you find yourself in. The Chariot, indeed. Amusing, yet intriguing nonetheless. You move on, there is much more to see.
The clock strikes midnight, the gong echoing in the empty chambers of the house. Part of you expects the magic to start unraveling at the seams, to see the colors blending into themselves and the walls shattering into nothingness. The other part knows that has yet to happen; the mysteries still afoot. You find another card inside the clock’s mechanisms, the gears still running despite the foreign presence placed between their pieces. Justice shines benevolently at you and the back of the card reveals another mystery: Mod Nagisa. You move on; surprises are still waiting for you.
The pendulum in the old ball room swings as another announcement rings in the hollow halls of the mansion. Magic dances in the air, small sparks blinking joyfully as a new guest embarks on our arcane journey, this time the wonderful artist Kuro!
The clock strikes midnight and a voice whispers in the mansion, the echo carrying the news across twisting corridors and inside hidden rooms. The first guest to embark upon a mystical journey of tarot and secrets is Karma, alongside his favorite character, the one and only Iida Tenya.