Advance on Barbarian Knowledge Track: Advance one
step on the Knowledge Track and/or place one of your
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a. Restore activated Gods and Warchiefs.
b. Gain resources from buildings. The number of
buildings you can activate corresponds to your
position on the Production Knowledge track.
Each placement must be directly linked to the sector your
previously placed Champion occupies.
Turn order might change in between placing 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
Champion.
In turn order according to the Honor track players place;
a) first Champion on the volcano (central ring)
b) second Champion on the volcano (intermediate ring)
c) third Champion on the volcano (external ring)
d) Players that are allowed to, place their fourth Champion
(peripheral sectors on external ring)
Pray to a God or Sacrifice a Warchief:
During your turn, before or after placing a Champion, you may
pray to one of your Gods OR to sacrifice one of your Warchiefs.
If praying or sacrificing after you have placed your Champion: First
resolve the entire action that your placed Champion activated ie.
you can’t pray or sacrifice during the action.
Rotate your activated God/Warchief card horizontally after
resolving the effect.
Gain resources as depicted on the Action space (Food,
Wood, Iron, Stone and/or Gold). Remember to take
into account your position on the Economy Knowledge
Track.
Erect a building: Buy one of the Buildings from the
display. If you now have more than 4 building cards,
you must immediately discard one to the bottom of
the Building deck.
Invoke one God: Choose one God from the display and
pay 1 resource of your choice as indicated in the top
left corner. Gain the Domination Points as indicated in
the top right corner. If you now have more than 3 God cards, you
must discard on to the bottom of the Gods deck without resolving
any effect.
Invoke one Warchief: Choose one Warchief from the
display and pay 2 Gold as indicated in the top left
corner. Advance on honor track as indicated by the
number of crowns in the top right corner. If you now have more
than 3 Warchief cards, you must discard one to the bottom of the
Warchiefs deck without resolving any effect.
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Knowledge discs on the leftmost space of a track
where you are not present. Bonus to 1st and 2nd player reaching
the last space on each track.
Discovery Track: Extends the range of islands you can
attack.
Bonus: 1st player gains Domination points = number of faction
tokens they have collected x2. 2nd player multiplies by one (x1).
Defense Track: Avoid penalties from losing ONE battle
during a single war.
Bonus: 1st player gains Domination points = Number of milestones
they have reached x2. 2nd player multiplies by one (x1).
Economy Track: For every step on this track you gain more
resources when you perform actions on the volcano. First
step, gain 1 additional food every time you gain at least
one food. Second step, you also gain 1 additional wood
every time you gain at least one wood from an action etc.
Bonus: 1st player gains Domination points = Every different triplet
of Food, Wood and Iron they have x2. 2nd player multiplies with
one (x1).
Production Track: Indicates how many different buildings
you can activate during the Maintenance Phase.
Bonus: 1st player gains Domination points = number of Building
cards in front of them x2. 2nd player multiplies with one (x1).
Advance on Tactics Knowledge Track: Advance one
step on the Knowledge Track and/or place one of your
Knowledge discs on the leftmost space of a track
where you are not present. Bonus to 1st and 2nd player reaching
the last space on each track.
Nefriar faction
Bonus: 1st player – recruit 3 troops of their choice AND
gain 3 Domination points. 2nd player – choose either one
of the bonuses.
Shan faction
Bonus: 1st player - Gain 4 resources of their choice AND
gain 3 Domination points. 2nd player choose either one of
the bonuses.
Aspidian faction
Bonus: 1st player - Advance 2 steps on the Honor track
AND gain 3 Domination points. 2nd player choose either
one of the bonuses.
Varg faction
Bonus: 1st player – Pick the top most card from either the
God deck or the Warchiefs deck without paying the cost
AND gain 3 Domination points. 2nd player choose either
one of the bonuses.
Gain a fourth Champion to use this Era: The fourth
Champions is later placed on the fourth ring.
On your next turn you may perform up to two times
the effect of the action space where you place your
third Champion.
Trade Actions
Pay 2 food to advance 1 Space on both Knowledge
Tracks and the Honor Track.
Pay 2 wood to draw the top card of the Building deck
without paying the cost.
Pay 2 iron to draw the top card of the Warchief OR
God deck without paying its cost.
Pay 2 stone to gain 3 troops of your choice.
Pay 2 gold to perform a War action. If you win the war,
double the Domination points (VP) on the Faction
token you gain.
1. Recruit the number of troops you want and can pay for. You
can never have more than 6 troops of each kind.
2. Declare war on an eligible region;
a. The region is adjacent to an already conquered
region (by you or another player).
b. Your Discovery Knowledge is sufficient to explore
the island where that region is located.
c. The region has a faction token on it.
3. Shuffle the corresponding Region deck and take a number of
cards face down. The number of cards is determined by your
Tactics Knowledge of the faction token present in that
region. If you have no Tactics Knowledge of the
attacked faction you must face 6 battles. This is the
number of battles you must fight to win the war.
4. Reveal one card to see how many, and which type, of troops
you need to pay to win that battle. If you pay the number of
troops you win the battle and reveal the next card.
Call on a Warchief: Instead of paying troops from your player
board, you can rotate a Warchief card into the horizontal position
to use the troop indicated in the bottom left corner of the
Warchief card.
If you don’t want to, or cannot, pay the troops required to win the
battle, you immediately suffer a penalty, which depends on the
faction you are facing. Then reveal next card.
Remember to use your eventual defense to avoid ONE
penalty, from losing a battle.
Nefriar faction
Penalty: Pay 1 troop of any kind and lose 1 Domination
point. If you cannot pay a troop, you lose 1 additional
Domination point.
Shan faction
Penalty: Pay 1 gold and 1 stone. For each resource you
cannot pay, you lose 1 Domination point.
Aspidian faction
Penalty: Move your Honor counter back 2 steps. When
your counter is on the “0” space of the Honor track, you
lose 1 Domination point for each step you cannot take.
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Varg faction
Penalty: Rotate 2 cards in front of you, either Gods or
Warchiefs, to a horizontal position. For each card you
cannot rotate like this, you lose 1 Domination point.
Overkill (troops highlighted in red on battle card): Optional.
Immediately gain the Domination points in the bottom right
corner.
Rewards: Some cards have rewards indicated in the bottom left
corner. At the end of the war you gain the rewards of the battles
you won.
RESULT OF THE WAR
After facing all the battles, two outcomes are possible:
a) You won at least half of the battles, rounded up:
• Take the faction token of that region and put in front of
you and place one of your Banners in that region.
• Score Domination points = Faction token + Island. If you
are the first player to conquer a region on that island you
also take the First Conquer tile of that island to score 3
additional Domination points.
b) You didn’t win at least half of the total battles, you do not
conquer that region, but you still gain eventual rewards for
the battles you won.
1. Recover Champions from volcano
2. In turn order: Resolve the effect of the leftmost face-up card
of the timeline (Demon or Feast), then flip card face down.
3. Discard all face-up Building, God and Warchief cards in the
display area. Reveal 4 new Building cards, 2 new God cards
and 2 new Warchief cards.
4. Rotate the Volcano as indicated on the board.
5. Start a new Era.
The game can end in three different ways:
• At the end of the sixth Era.
• If a player reaches 100 Domination points; keep playing
until the end of that Era.
• All the faction tokens on the map have been
conquered; keep playing until the end of that Era.
Score Buildings - one of five different criteria’s shown on each
Building card:
• 2 Domination points for each Faction token you have collected.
• 2 Domination points for each different type (according to
artwork) of Building you erected.
• 2 Domination points for each Knowledge track where your disc
reached the last space.
• 2 Domination points for each God card in front of you.
• 2 Domination points for each leftover resource you have, in the
type indicated.
Score Banners – points for each group of regions conquered
Regions in a group: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Domination points: 0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49