I don't have a specifically steampunk deck, so I'll draw cards from several decks for you.
The first is the Fool, reversed, from the Londa Tarot. The image is a very slender young man with feathers in his blue hair. His clothes are torn (I can't tell if that's due to misadventure or fashion), and he holds a short staff (or perhaps one of those walking sticks that opens to reveal a sword at need) in his hands. He is accompanied by a raven, and one of the feathers from his hair has fallen to his feet. He looks sullen and somewhat sneaky at the moment, but being the fool he is doubtless impulsive and perhaps over-confident. He follows his own heart and is always up for adventure. He is more into experiencing all of life than solving mysteries. He could be a sidekick or antagonist, I suppose, or just someone who knows the deceased and is involved with a number of the suspects in one way or another. A free spirit, and perhaps a magical one as well.
The second is the Warrior of Water from the Shapeshifter Tarot, also reversed. This is this deck's equivalent of the Knight of cups. Like the first card, the primary colors are white, blue, and black. This card shows a young person of indeterminate gender who is, at the moment, more bird than human, wings raised and looking up into a starry sky. A swirl is above zir head, perhaps the Aurora, or a galaxy, or a dimensional portal. Their wings are upraised, and they are rising out of a cauldron, with water (or perhaps feathers) splashing out dramatically around their knees. In front of the cauldron is an enormous white rose, with ripples in the water around both, as well as smoke or vapor rising, like incense. The cauldron, like the sky, is covered with stars. This person might be a shapeshifter or mage, or even possibly the spirit of the deceased. The white rose is a symbol of respect, so I would expect that respect is important to this character. Ze is a dreamer as well as a warrior, though zir's tools in the fight are as likely a pen or a musical instrument as anything more traditionally war-like. I suspect ze is more interested in winning people's hearts than controlling their wealth or their swords.
Finally, from The Manga Tarot, I drew The World, also reversed. This card's main colors are white, blue, and gold. Your mystery has turned things upside down, and it's affecting more than just the people of your world. The image of the card shows a young woman with a staff, in a circle of greenery with the sun and moon to her sides, and golden images of a human, a hawk, a bull, an a lion in the four corners. That it shows up reversed means that things have been pushed out of the natural order, and there will be pressures on your main character (or on your world's police, it being a cozy) (or on both) to get this thing solved pronto. The circle behind the character in this card shows twilight, where the sky outside the circle is simple blue with white clouds, which could also suggest a dimensional portal of some sort. (Though the possibility of a portal could, I suppose, be a red herring. Or the gun on the wall in act one.)
I will also note that The World, card 21, is the end of the metaphysical journey that starts with Card 0, The Fool, if using the major arcana as a meditation tool. It is interesting that your reading starts at the beginning and ends at the end.
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The Fool, the Warrior of Water, and The World
Date: 2024-01-17 12:43 am (UTC)I don't have a specifically steampunk deck, so I'll draw cards from several decks for you.
The first is the Fool, reversed, from the Londa Tarot. The image is a very slender young man with feathers in his blue hair. His clothes are torn (I can't tell if that's due to misadventure or fashion), and he holds a short staff (or perhaps one of those walking sticks that opens to reveal a sword at need) in his hands. He is accompanied by a raven, and one of the feathers from his hair has fallen to his feet. He looks sullen and somewhat sneaky at the moment, but being the fool he is doubtless impulsive and perhaps over-confident. He follows his own heart and is always up for adventure. He is more into experiencing all of life than solving mysteries. He could be a sidekick or antagonist, I suppose, or just someone who knows the deceased and is involved with a number of the suspects in one way or another. A free spirit, and perhaps a magical one as well.
The second is the Warrior of Water from the Shapeshifter Tarot, also reversed. This is this deck's equivalent of the Knight of cups. Like the first card, the primary colors are white, blue, and black. This card shows a young person of indeterminate gender who is, at the moment, more bird than human, wings raised and looking up into a starry sky. A swirl is above zir head, perhaps the Aurora, or a galaxy, or a dimensional portal. Their wings are upraised, and they are rising out of a cauldron, with water (or perhaps feathers) splashing out dramatically around their knees. In front of the cauldron is an enormous white rose, with ripples in the water around both, as well as smoke or vapor rising, like incense. The cauldron, like the sky, is covered with stars. This person might be a shapeshifter or mage, or even possibly the spirit of the deceased. The white rose is a symbol of respect, so I would expect that respect is important to this character. Ze is a dreamer as well as a warrior, though zir's tools in the fight are as likely a pen or a musical instrument as anything more traditionally war-like. I suspect ze is more interested in winning people's hearts than controlling their wealth or their swords.
Finally, from The Manga Tarot, I drew The World, also reversed. This card's main colors are white, blue, and gold. Your mystery has turned things upside down, and it's affecting more than just the people of your world. The image of the card shows a young woman with a staff, in a circle of greenery with the sun and moon to her sides, and golden images of a human, a hawk, a bull, an a lion in the four corners. That it shows up reversed means that things have been pushed out of the natural order, and there will be pressures on your main character (or on your world's police, it being a cozy) (or on both) to get this thing solved pronto. The circle behind the character in this card shows twilight, where the sky outside the circle is simple blue with white clouds, which could also suggest a dimensional portal of some sort. (Though the possibility of a portal could, I suppose, be a red herring. Or the gun on the wall in act one.)
I will also note that The World, card 21, is the end of the metaphysical journey that starts with Card 0, The Fool, if using the major arcana as a meditation tool. It is interesting that your reading starts at the beginning and ends at the end.
I hope these cards provide good inspiration!