Today, we can track our Amazon deliveries on the spot. But back then, I don't need to tell you that things weren't half as easy.

So when a wife wanted to know when her husband would return home from business, or when a ship would reach port, and perhaps when the gentleman a lady likes would come to call on her... they would go to a fortuneteller.

And when that fortuneteller has a Sibilla deck, she would shuffle it while asking her customer's question. Then she would take the card at the top, or at the bottom, and declare her prediction:

January

Donna maritata: January 4-10

Mercante: January 11-20

Messaggiere: January 21-31

L’Amante: January 29 to February 13

February

Gran Signore: February 11-20

Il Nemico: February 21 to March 6

March

La Nemica: March 7-13

Sacerdote: March 14-20

Imeneo: March 21-27

La Superbia: March 28 to April 2

April

Viaggio: April 3-8

L’Amica: April 9-14

Fortuna: April 15-20

Stanza: April 21-27

La Lettera: April 28 to May 2

May

Casa: May 2 to June 2

La Donna di Servizio: May 3-8

Falsita: May 8-14

Malinconia: May 15-20

La Conversazione: May 21-27

June

Belvedere: June 3-8

Amore: June 9-14

Allegrezza al cuore: June 15-20

Dispiacere: June 21-27

La Vecchia Signora: June 28 to July 2

July

Il Vedovo: July 3-8

Ammalato: July 9-14

Morte: July 15-20

Consolante sorpresa: July 21-27

Gran consolazione: July 28 to August 1

August

La Riunione: August 2-7

L’Allegria: August 8-14

La Leggerezza: August 15-20

Il Pensiero: August 21-27

Bambino: August 28 to September 2

September

Presente di pietre preziose: September 2-7

I Deliranti: September 8-14

Il Ladro: September 15-20

Denari: September 21-27

Letterato: September 28 to October 2

October

Speranza: October 2-7

La Fedelta: October 8-14

La Costanza: October 15-20

Sospiri: October 21-27

Disgrazia: October 28 to November 1

November

Disperato per gelosia: November 2-7

Prigione: November 8-14

Militare: November 15-20

Domestico: November 21 to December 3

December

Giovine Fanciulla: December 4-10

Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860-1932), ''Sibilla; poema drammatico in quattro atti'' (Sibyl. Dramatic poem in four acts), 1922 Source

currently mastering a homebrew version of CoS and I had my party get into Barovia through a horror carnival, twbtw style! If you're familiar with canon d&d lore, it's Isolde's carnival. Except I had Isolde die and my ocs take over because I hate her as written sorry not sorry lololol

There are more original characters, but I'm starting to post these in case you enjoy them so you can bully me into sharing more! In order:

the 4 plague doctors of the carnival, my players only really met 2. Dr Crimson, Cordovan, PB (short for Peste Bubbonica, Bubonic Plague) and Lunedì (Monday). They're adoptive sisters! And not really licensed medical professional but shush. They have a maskless design I swear haha

Funesta Pathos-Lepiota, the new artistic director of the Carnival, and her wife Sibilla Ardelean. A drow and a wood elf, basically Gomez and Morticia Addams if they were roaring 20s elder lesbians. Funesta is also a dhampire but that's like the most normal thing about her so no one notices. Sibilla is a disciple of the Raven Queen, and a native Barovian. Also the adoptive mothers of the plague doctors and the krampus! (see below)

Toblach and Bruneck, the carnival's krampus and security personnel. They're very sweet, eccentric 10ft tall dudes who enjoy scaring folks and play-kidnapping misbehaving children, although this usually backfires because most kids break a rule just to get their attention and an instant high-speed ride in their baskets. They're blood brothers and adoptive kids of Funesta and Sibilla, thus also siblings of the plague doctors. One big happy family! Can you tell found family is my favourite trope ever also SHOUTOUT to my pal @milich96 for bearing with me appropriating alpine culture and for suggesting names!! You're basically their godparent now

Silessa, one of the few npcs who are actually from the original setting, although I changed so much about her I might claim her as an oc at this point asdfghjk. Heavily inspired by Kalbelia dancers (from a real life tribe of Rajasthani snake charmers), she performs with her beloved snakes, her favourite being a 15ft long python named Sir Hissington, whom she affectionately refers to as "uncle". She's actually a giant venomous snake polymorphed into a human, but first of all, a sweetheart who loves sharing stories. I should really do her justice and clean her artwork.

Un fumettino che avevo disegnato qualche mese fa. È la storia del Guerrin Meschino dalla Sibilla Appenninica (o da Alcina in alcune versioni). Spesso, gli viene dato uno scudiero come spalla comica, quindi ho usato Anuello, che nel romanzo originale gli fa da guida a Norcia.

Ein kleiner Comic, den ich vor einigen Monaten gezeichnet hatte. Es ist die Geschichte von Guerrino Meschino (der Wicht) bei der Feenkönigin Sibylle (auch Alzina genannt). Falls euch das interessiert, hier ist eine gekürzte Version auf Deutsch. In vielen Neuerzählungen, wird ihm ein Knappe gegeben, der Witze macht, also hab ich hier Anuello benutzt, der im Roman ihn durch Norcia führt.

A little comic, that I drew some months ago. It's the story of Guerrino Meschino (the Wretch) with the Appennine Sibyl (or the fairy Alcina). It's from an old italian chivalric romance. There are many retellings where he's given a squire sidekick for comic relief, so here I used Anuello, who guided him through Norcia in the original novel.

The title of Cumaean Sibyl was actually from the high Italic priestess, who presided over the oracle of Apollo, and Hecate. located in the Magna Graecia city of Cuma . She carried out her oracular activity near Lake Avernus , in a cave known as the " Cave of the Sibyl " where the priestess, inspired by the divinity, transcribed her prophecies in hexameters on palm leaves which, at the end of the prediction, were mixed by the winds coming from the hundred openings of the cave, making the prophecies "sibylline", that is, difficult and uncertain to interpret. Her importance in the Italic world was equal to that of the famous oracle of Apollo of Delphi in Greece .

These Sibyls were young virgins, who were thought to be able to live longer than ordinary mortals (which is why they are sometimes depicted as decrepit old women), who performed divinatory activities , entering a state of trance ( furor ).

The etymology of the Italian Sibilla derives from the Latin Sibylla , which in turn refers to the ancient Greek Σῐ́βυλλᾰ ( Síbulla ). Although the hypothesis remains uncertain, going back to the Doric Σίοβολλα ( Síobolla ), it is hypothesized that its meaning can be found in the Attic Θεοβούλη ( Theoboúlē ), that is, “divine will”.

So here is a drawing for now