Hey Don. Thank you for your interest in my deck and the story behind it. I am creating a new fantasy world and IP that I will be using on as many platforms as I can. I am working on a card game and board game featuring some of the pivotal characters from the golden age of my fantasy world. I realized that playing cards were turning a profit for quite a few people and I already had enough characters painted to make a deck of playing cards. I also realized that the traditional suit icons fit four of my factions nicely: Spades for dwarves, leaves for elves and hearts and diamonds for my other two factions. feel free to ask more if interested.
If I might offer a suggestion or two...
Your indices are very large, but they're not located very close to the corner of the card. This means that a player using them would have to spread his hand further in order to read all the indices in their hand, risking that an opponent might catch a glimpse of some of their cards.
The convention for modern faces is that the index is pushed as far into the corner as possible, that the suit is located below the value and is half the height, and that the indices are all of a uniform height and width. Of course, no one forces anyone to conform to this convention just as no one forces the King of Hearts to always be the "suicide king," but when breaking a design convention, it's better to have a reason for it that serves the design rather than for no special reason or because you didn't know.
I would strongly recommend making your backers aware of the fact that this is simply the first product in a line of products containing the story of your Kingdom. Pencil-and-paper RPG gamers do love to collect the various "artifacts" of their favorite games and you might be able to create some brand loyalty and generate more sales. To that end, when the game finally does come out, I recommend you adopt an existing game system - the cross-compatibility of products and ease of using a system that's already known to them will make gamers more receptive to trying it out. The d20 open license is pretty popular, and I'm sure you know of others.
For the calendars - they look awfully stark with just the character on a white background. Perhaps placing the characters into a scene would help?
Another item worth consideration: create a short story that introduces at least a portion of your world. Then give it away FOR FREE everywhere you possibly can in the form of a PDF file. Think of this as the breadcrumbs on the path leading to your fantasy setting of Erden! If writing isn't your strong point, a cost effective tactic might be to hire on a popular fanfic writer whose known for working in such settings. It's the kind of thing some people would simply do for free, and if you make them aware that you're giving it away to as wide an audience you can find, they might accept the exposure as payment enough. Oh, and perhaps some decks of cards! The sooner you can do this, the better for your fantasy world's current and future products.
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