From the sources

Insights

Philippine folklore is fragmentary, and the recorded versions disagree with each other. That is the interesting part, so these posts keep it visible: what the text actually says, who wrote it down, and which pieces are honestly uncertain. The cards illustrate the stories they were built from.

Most retellings you will find online run a few paragraphs and cite nothing. These go to the recorded text instead - Mabel Cook Cole's Philippine Folk Tales of 1916, the collectors whose work she reprinted, and the later versions that disagree with both - and say plainly where each piece comes from. Where a name appears only in a later telling, that is written down rather than smoothed over.

The posts are grouped by archipelago, the same three the game is built on: Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. Mindanao comes first, because the Indarapatra and Sulayman cycle is the best recorded of the three and the easiest to check. Two posts a week, Monday and Friday.

A note on the pictures: the card art is ours and it is an interpretation. A figure may be attested in a source; the painting of them never is. Those two things are kept apart on purpose.