Card Trivia:The Seal of Orichalcos
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- The runes around the rim of the seal is Enochian (it spells "Oreichalcos" twice). This language was supposedly from the angels who passed this to John Dee, although skeptics believe it man-made. Enochian is better known as "the language of the angels."
- The geometric figure, a unicursal hexagram, on the card is the same symbol of modern Thelema.
- In the Japanese anime, the lore on the other Orichalcos cards are also written in Enochian. The lore on "The Seal of Orichalchos" seems to be made of random characters (based on translating the first several runes into letters--any direction...right-left, left-right, up-down, down-up--which do not translate into any known words according to any Enochian dictionary), thus the other lore texts are assumed to be likewise (references to be provided soon).
- In the Japanese anime, there is a discrepancy between the number of runes spelling the word "Orichalcos" for the card title (10) and on the Seal of Orichalcos itself (11; the word "Orichalcos" is on the rim twice). The added rune is called "graph" (the added letter is "e"). The spelling of the card title is actually "Orichalcon" and the runes on the seal itself spell "oreichalcos."
- This card does exist. There are only 15 copies in existence, all in the possession of members of Upper Deck Entertainment's R&D division and one in the hands of someone else, who used them in the Decks they played in the Orichalcos "Duel the Master" side event at previous National Tournaments. The current status of these card's are unknown, as they haven't been used since Konami reclaimed distribution and organization rights. On August 24, A bidder on ebay put one of the 15 official orichalcos cards up for auction.
- There are other cards like this that are kept from the everyday person. "Power Balance" is rumored to be one, as is a copy of "The Winged Dragon of Ra" with the Hieratic text in place of the flavor text.[citation needed]
