title: “Temperance”
lang: en
source: “Templanza”
source_hash: “d82095c984ac”
category: artifact
chronicle: “ciudades”
era: “1494”
location: “the deck”
cuaderno: “C69”
imagen: Imagenes_Tier1/Templanza.png
aliases:
- “Templanza”
- “la Templanza”
- “XIV La Templanza”
- “The Temperance card”
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Temperance (XIV La Templanza) is a card of the trump deck in the Invisible Cities chronicle, where the cards are played for real. It saves only the one who holds it. Its meanings are Economy, Moderation, Frugality, Administration and Adaptation.
| Type | Artifact (tarot card) |
| Era | 1494 |
| Spanish entry | Templanza |
Sisi draws it and reads it as written: “Se jodan todos, a mí sola no me afecta” (“Screw everyone, it doesn’t affect me alone”). Caught by the monarch’s Wild Gaze between paralysis and pursuit, she uses it to escape the blow and falls into Bowie’s arms.
Afterward she receives another card, the Vizir’s, which reveals the answer to a dilemma.
See also
- Filippo, who invented the trump games