Assigning powers for my Magical Girl system

{Exactly What It Says on the Tin}. I have a system of magic in mind already for my story, but I’m not sure which powers to give each division.

In my story, there are two types of Magical Girls. Nobles are your normal Magical Girl, in service to the Dynasties of Light from beyond our dimension. Shadows are your Dark Magical Girl, in service to the Darklords also from beyond our dimension. The two sides don’t get along. In truth, the Darklords aren’t evil, it’s closer to an Order (Dynasties) vs. Chaos (Darklords) situation. Ever since one of their leaders was killed by the Dynasties, the cosmic balance broke, making their powers fundamentally The Corruption and the Dynasties’ powers fundamentally Addictive Magic, so Nobles mostly get good powers and Shadows mostly get evil powers.

Nobles each have a Suit (a Poker or Tarot suit, corresponding to Elemental Powers.), a Rank (one of the card ranks of the Minor Arcana, from Ace to King, corresponding to the results of their Transformation Sequence), and a Motif (one of the Major Arcana or the Joker, though there are more, and they grant more unique powers compared to Suits and Ranks). Shadows have a Vice (one of the Seven Deadly Sins, the counterpart to a Suit), a Void (a flaw or shortcoming of some sort, there are 14 to mirror the Ranks they are a counterpart to), and an Omen (a symbol of a specific fear or doom, the counterpart to a Motif).

So, I could use help with the following:

Coming up with specific Voids.

A power associated with each Suit, Vice, Rank, and Void.

Some sample Motifs and Omens, including powers for each.

Finally, there is the dead Darklord I mentioned earlier, who used to rule the eighth Vice of Acedia. Part of the plot involves finding the pieces of her on Earth to restore her, but the Nobles manage to take them and turn her into a new Brainwashed and Crazy Suit of Shields (don’t worry, she gets better). So, I was thinking maybe Acedia granted power over the dead, and Shields perverts this in some fashion? How would that be accomplished?

Edit: I’ve already come up with four Ranks: Kings can imbue other people and animals with their Suit, and Queens do the same with their Motif. Knights and Pages instead imbue objects with their Suit and Motif, respectively. Which four Voids would act as their counterparts, and how would they act differently?

Edited by Arcane101 on Feb 21st 2021 at 9:44:20 AM

Question: how do you not make the Vice redundant to the Void, as both are character flaws?

As a suggestion, perhaps the Voids could, instead of being flaws, be dark inversions of the Motifs.

So instead of, say, the Hermit, there's the Abandoner (or other, better name); instead of the Sun, there's the Styx; instead of the Wheel of Fortune, there's the Wheel of Suffering; and so on.

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Mar 1st 2021 at 12:31:01 PM

Vices are meant to be moral weaknesses, while Voids are mental weaknesses, such as self-doubt.

Omens are already counterparts to Motifs, but those are good ideas for Omens. The Styx, the Deserter, and the Breaking Wheel, perhaps?