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Every foreign soul wakes in the Hallow remembering another life.

A blade passes through it as through fog, and nothing that strikes at the mind can reach it.

It fights hand to hand and holds where lighter soldiers break.

Hiring one costs geld, people and a little mana, and the Barracks organise the contract.

They are often mistaken for their wilder cousins, Wolf shifter.

All the restless dead borrow life.

It keeps no corpse across Turnings.

It looks like a scholar and strikes like a caster, but the natives lived without cores, and no native dead ever held one.

The bow is the first answer to a charge.

A Sealborn calls her with Summon brook maiden.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

It strikes first with raw power and then closes with a blade.

It has no recruitment price and asks no upkeep.

Mana sustains it, and its card sets a keep in geld as well.

It strikes with light, then hurls lightning from afar, and it strikes again before the enemy recovers.

The Sealborn say hunger is what binds it so deeply.

It still has the beauty, the wings and the healing touch of a celestial like High seraph.

Lumen mages who have faced it say it still has the beauty, the wings and the healing touch of a celestial like Seraph.

It keeps the beauty, the wings and the healing touch of a celestial like Throne seraph, and it spreads fear through the ranks it faces.

It cannot be dismissed, and no shortage of geld or mana sets it free.

The sea's depths it rises from are not Deopa's Deep, and it is not one of Deopa's creatures.

It strikes at the mind, and its blow is real enough.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

Pyre is the affinity of destruction, and cultivators sometimes ask why its rune-cutters heal.

They take their creed from Undon, the Unmaker, who agreed to seal the Hallow on one term only: no sealing lasts.

They nest on bare crags where nothing seems to grow.

A kingdom recruits elf bowmen through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people.

A kingdom recruits elf mages through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

They are fiercest against the winged hosts of Lumen, such as Seraph.

A kingdom recruits ember giants through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

Ordinary folk take it for what it seems: a wandering speaker who goes from village to village, preaching that a word once given must be kept.

The flock warden is a kind of Wanderer.

They are frail, but they are fast.

They fight weakly and clumsily, and the card shows how little they add.

The Sealborn say it rides up out of the Deep the way the dead once went down into it: fast and without pause.

Mana sustains it, and its card sets a keep in geld as well.

Mana alone sustains it, and it drinks a great deal.

Mana sustains it, like any summoned shape.

Mana alone keeps it burning, and a great deal of it.

It strikes with hands colder than ice, then breathes a blast of cold at its foes.

It strikes from afar with killing cold, and then strikes again.

The Welter can become anything, but it cannot keep a shape.

It fights with a blade that carries light.

In battle it stands back, throws light at the enemy and mends the wounds of its own side.

They are one reason Bloom lords train Greenmother's Call, the art of beasts that Virenna, the Greenmother teaches.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

The Flint lineage keeps a song about them.

Hiring one costs geld, a person and a little mana, and the Barracks organise the contract.

Like every called shape, it is held in the Hallow by mana.

A tracker shoots from range, looses a second volley after the first and aims true.

It fights hand to hand, with a blade that carries light and a great shield.

They fight hand to hand, shoulder to shoulder behind their shields.

The Sealborn count it among the Deep's smaller bargains, less costly in people than the great shapes.

It strikes first with raw power from its horn, then with its hooves, and it is fast.

This soldier serves the lineage's given word as well as its pay.

A Human lord builds works and walls, and their lineage's songs say that is where this service began.

The workshop copy takes the form and leaves the shard behind.

Every kingdom begins its Turning with a few of them already standing.

Reverie cultivators love to say that every Sealborn carries a world that now exists only in the mind: the life they remember from before they fell.

Unlike most of the Deep's creatures, it is not called by a spell.

It has one strange weakness for a Pyre beast: fire hurts it more than anything else.

The noble lines claim to be older than the Scar.

The grove-folk say each maiden belongs to one tree, and that the great tree-wardens who stand in the same grove, such as Tree guardian, are her elders.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks for a little geld, a little mana and a person.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks for a little geld, a little mana and a person.

Do not mistake it for Deopa's guest.

A kingdom recruits these little drakes through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A lesser work made with Tellan, the Keeper of Tallies's method holds no Seal-shard, but operating it can release a bound creature without anyone casting a spell.

The poisoners say their venom is a craft, not a spell.

Upkeep is paid mostly in geld, with a small mana cost to keep the venom potent.

On the field it lands an additional strike, finds its mark at range and spreads fear through the ranks.

It consumes minds to sustain its own thought.

The Sealborn who have fought beside it call it a wall that walks.

Riders strike hand to hand, but they arrive first.

In the Age of Odrin, Odrin Half-Core laid his affinity over such ground.

Mana alone keeps it standing, and a great deal of it.

That, the artisans say, is where the bolts come from.

Sealborn who command them say the lizard-folk keep time strangely.

Bloom cultivators tell a story about the scream.

Every foreign soul wakes in the Hallow remembering another life.

Do not mistake one for a Wanderer.

Lumen is the affinity of order and protection, and Umbra lies across the ring from it.

She strikes with her coils and with lightning, and she aims true.

It does not come as a shape out of the Welter or up from the Deep.

No native has a Seal-shard, and only a shard can cast a spell.

A Sealborn's wards consume mana, and when mana runs short they drop.

It throws stones from far behind the line, and in a siege it breaks walls.

The Welter is raw power that can become anything and keep nothing.

Ordinary folk, who settle a kingdom's ground and grow its food, have their own name for them.

What the spear does in battle is shown on the card.

The Human lineages sing that it is the shade of someone who died with something unfinished.

Ordinary folk say these listeners hear things beneath the ground.

It strikes from a distance, first with raw power and then with lightning, and it moves quickly.

The guild artisans tell how it began.

Its gaze holds the living still.

Made things are Plain, but the card counts this one as Umbra.

The ivy lashes at whatever stands within its reach and drinks the life of what it strikes, and in battle it grows back from what the blades cut away.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

It fights hand to hand behind a great shield, throws light from a distance and mends the wounds of those beside it.

The Human lords fear it more than its strength deserves.

Heaven weighs every kingdom, and Weight counts armies.

Lords value them most against walls.

It strikes from afar, drowning and choking what it reaches, and it lasts a long time in battle.

It has no recruitment price and asks no upkeep.

The treefolk hold a proud belief.

Pyre cultivators like to read their affinity in it.

The Sealborn say its people dig toward the places where the Deep's threshold presses close to the ground, and that the dark there knits their wounds.

Its bond is shallow, and its master can release its borrowed life and dismiss it.

Hiring one is costly: a great deal of geld, a little mana and several people.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks for geld, a little mana and people.

Pyre cultivators often set them beside Bloodkiln drake, which eats a kingdom's people to sustain its body.

It flies over walls and lines and fights with hoof and teeth.

In battle it fights hand to hand with a first blow and a follow-up blow, and presses in with a further strike besides.

Such folk believe they fight in Daegred, the Sunward's light.

Before the fighting, it calls Temptress fiend up out of the Deep to fight for the caster.

Lumen cultivators call it a kingdom's great ward folded small enough to fit one company.

It is among the simpler spells, so a mage of any affinity can learn it, though across the ring it costs more, fails more easily and lays a thinner skin.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is among the simpler spells, so even a mage whose core woke across the ring can learn it.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Newcomers of that affinity say it is among the first spells they recover.

Each side brings one battle spell.

For the length of a battle, every company the caster fields strikes harder.

Sometimes it gives nothing at all.

The gain grows as the caster's realm deepens toward full mastery of the spell, and the card shows how far.

Sealborn of Pyre call it the sister of Fire dart.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

This is a spell that belongs to its own affinity.

Like every battle spell, it must get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Bloom artisans say a made thing is only borrowed from the ground, and the ground always asks for it back.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

The blade-singers are scornful of it.

Lumen cultivators say the flash is pure order, too clear for the eye to find a mark through.

Umbra cultivators describe it from the inside.

Before the fighting, the spell rolls over a single company.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Sealborn of Pyre date it to the Age of the Given Word.

Where it is enabled, it calls up celestials descended into the Deep: celestial beings who went down into Deopa's Deep at the Breaking and now count among his creatures.

It is a gamble with a heavy stake.

In the Age of the Given Word, a broken alliance showed Flint D. Rook where the kingdom of Ysme of Lumen was thin, and he struck there.

It shows one rival kingdom's army, and a kingdom's protections against scouting can turn it aside.

They carry no affinity of their own, so fire can ride their arrows without changing what they are.

Sealborn of Pyre call it Kindle grown large: the same spark, fed by a deeper core until it will not fit in a hand.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Each side brings only one battle spell, and this one must still get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Bloom cultivators say the gale is the ground calling back what has left it.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Its ancient rank does not override the ring.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Umbra cultivators explain it simply.

Cast on another kingdom, it tears open a furrow through that kingdom's stores and drains its mana.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Each side brings one battle spell.

Each side brings only one battle spell, and this one must still get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

While it stands, the lord raises their recruits faster.

The card prices it as research.

The card prices it as research.

On the ring of affinities, dreams die, so Reverie feeds Umbra.

A mage who has cultivated the core deeply enough can tighten the hold further, and a mage of Reverie can also make a company act later.

It does nothing for anyone but elves.

It is a battle spell, and each side brings only one.

In a shard that woke in Pyre, the spell does a little more.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul who remembers being somewhere else.

For the length of a battle, every company the caster fields takes life from the enemies it strikes.

Sealborn of Pyre say the Law of Equals binds this fire.

The spell must still pass the enemy's ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

A shard woken in Lumen mends a little even at its shallowest realm.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

A deeper realm thickens the mist.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is still magic, so it must pass the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Each side brings one battle spell.

Lumen cultivators say light is easiest to hold along an edge, and that it will not follow a thing once it leaves the hand.

Lumen cultivators say the spell was first pressed in the Age of Odrin.

Every raising answers Odrin Half-Core.

Umbra cultivators have an explanation.

These are not the bodies the dead once had.

It never comes back with a relic.

What breaks is lost for the Turning.

For all its reach, it never takes a relic.

Lumen cultivators call it the deeper form of Silver palm mending, pressed by those who wanted the light to reach further down.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Lumen cultivators say the word commands only what has no right to stand.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is a small spell and a low in cost one, among the simpler spells, so a mage of any affinity can learn it, though across the ring it costs more and fails more easily.

Lumen cultivators are careful about what this is.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Aefenna, the Lamplighter, who holds Reverie, also holds the Third Seal, which keeps back a night without ending.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Before the fighting starts, the spell falls on a single enemy company.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is still a simple spell, yet it asks for more turns than the smallest summonings of its affinity.

The bear-folk are proud that they carry Bloom.

Ordinary folk say these are the dead who learned to take their borrowed life by mouth, from enemies as well as from the kingdom that keeps them.

Umbra cultivators say these are the dead who kept the most of their old shape while they waited, and that something of what they knew in life comes up with them.

Bloom's neighbours, Pyre and Lumen, can reach it, though outside Bloom it costs more, fails more easily and calls fewer.

Lumen cultivators tie these judges to the Law of Equals.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Summoned things are shapes a spell calls out of the Welter, and mana keeps them standing.

Dragons are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Before anything existed there was only the Welter, raw power with no lasting shape, until seven beings found shapes that held and became the gods.

Fire-folk are among the affinity-born peoples, native life where an affinity runs strong.

Fire-folk are among the affinity-born peoples: native life where an affinity runs strong.

They nest on bare crags where nothing seems to grow.

The blade-singers call themselves the Greenmother's pruning knife.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul, and every one remembers being somewhere else.

The Human lineages have a song about them.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

It lies beyond the complex spells a neighbour can reach, so only a Sealborn whose core woke in Bloom can master it.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, the raw power that can become anything but keep nothing.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, and elementals are among them.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul who remembers being somewhere else.

The Sealborn who cast it do not agree on what the warriors are, but the Human lineages have a song about them.

The affinity-born peoples are native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Lumen cultivators tell the high ones' story with care.

Deopa's creatures are not all the same kind of thing.

Lumen cultivators remember these steeds in the story of Ysme of Lumen.

Casting it spends mana and turns.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

The noble lines believe they are older than the Scar, and that the Greenmother remembers her own.

The grove-folk say each maiden belongs to one tree, and that the great tree-wardens called by Summon tree guardian are her elders.

Umbra cultivators say the reapers are the Deep's answer to the Unmaker.

The price does not stop there.

Umbra cultivators have a story for it.

It lies beyond the complex spells a neighbour can reach, so only a Sealborn whose core woke in Bloom can master it.

The affinity-born peoples are native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Bloom cultivators tell where the scream came from.

Casting it spends mana and turns.

Where Lumen runs strong, the Hallow has celestial peoples among its affinity-born life.

Newcomers are often surprised to find serpents answering a call of light.

Elves are among the affinity-born peoples, the native life of the Hallow that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Casting it spends mana and turns.

Farmers have their own name for them.

Ordinary folk tell a story about them.

More answer as the caster's realm deepens; the card shows how many.

The Hallow's affinity-born life includes astral peoples, and Lumen cultivators count these casters among them.

The Welter can become anything, but it can keep nothing.

The Welter can become anything, but it can keep nothing.

Bloom cultivators teach it beside the story of Odrin Half-Core.

A Sealborn reaches no further than the complex spells of neighbouring affinities, so this spell belongs to cores that woke in Lumen.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, the raw power beyond the Covenant.

The treefolk hold a proud belief.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Umbra cultivators say the shades are the thinnest of the stranded dead: remnants worn so far down that the spell can give them little more than a darkness to stand in.

Dragons are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Newcomers who fell through the Scar tell a story about these steeds.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

The spell does a second thing, and many commanders value it more.

In a shard that woke in Pyre, the bolt also breaks the strike of an enemy company for the battle.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Cast by anyone else, it does nothing at all.

It lies beyond the complex spells a neighbour can reach, so only a Sealborn whose core woke in Bloom can master it.

Undon, the Unmaker, who holds this affinity, sealed on one term: no sealing lasts.

In any other hands it does nothing at all.

Lumen cultivators explain it plainly.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Its cultivators say a wound is only ground waiting to grow back over.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Lumen cultivators count it the last of three spells for the fallen, after Silver palm mending and Restore fallen.

It is served before battle, as the work its side brings.

Unrolled before the fighting, it shelters the whole army at once.

Beasts are among the Hallow's own native life, found where an affinity runs strong.

It is cast loose before the fighting starts.

It is rolled out before the fighting and set off among the enemy.

It is thrown before the fighting starts.

What lies inside is one of the restless dead, the natives' dead stranded at the threshold of Deopa, the Deep's Deep since the Breaking.

Reading it stands up a company of Workshop ox in the holder's kingdom.

It is shared out to the whole army before the fighting.

It is lit before the fighting, upwind of the enemy.

Thrown over the enemy before the fighting, it settles on every company there.

The jars are smashed over the enemy before the fighting.

It is read aloud before the fighting.

Opened before the fighting, it pours out a fog that covers the whole field.

It is thrown among the enemy before the fighting and shatters.

It is unwrapped before the fighting and held up to the enemy.

The chart claims to lead to the five sacred cups, the relic Sacred cup stained gold among them.

It is not a weapon for the battlefield.

It does its work during the fighting and after it.

It is used against another kingdom, not on a battlefield.

The stationers, who sell lesser works at posted prices, sell coffers sealed and never say what is in them.

Breaking it pours mana into its holder's own kingdom.

It is loosed on another kingdom, not on a battlefield.

The drums are beaten as the armies close.

Each side may bring a work of its own into battle, and this one strikes first.

Open it in your own kingdom and it releases what is bound inside: a company of Toad or a company of Chipmunk, whichever chance decides.

It is the work its owner brings to a battle.

Set it out in your own kingdom and a troop of Great ape arrives.

Brought as the work its side carries into battle, it breaks open before the armies meet.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Some lesser works attempt a theft, and this is one of them.

Some lesser works gamble, and this one gambles on what it takes.

It is the work its side brings to a battle, and it does nothing until the fighting stops.

Turn it on a rival and it shows two things: the rival's army and the geld in its stores.

Read it in your own kingdom and new folk arrive to settle there, all at once.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Read it in your own kingdom and the newest hostile enchantment laid on that kingdom lifts.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Sent to a rival, the rations are eaten, and they kill.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Pour it in your own kingdom and the households grow.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Beyond every kingdom's settled centre lies the Mist, ground the Covenant has not yet fixed.

Spend it in your own kingdom and geld fills the treasury at once.

No one knows who made it.

A commander may bring a work of their own into each battle, and this relic fills that place.

Tellan records no maker, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and no one knows where its shard lay before.

Tellan records no maker, and where the shard lay before its binding is unknown.

Its maker is not recorded, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and no one knows where the shard lay before.

Tellan names no maker, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where the shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan records no maker, and where the shard lay before its binding is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan names no maker, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

That is its hunger: a gamble, and the deck takes as readily as it gives.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

A kingdom with no fortress is lost for the Turning.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Whatever lives in it, it keeps one bargain.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Whatever their origin, they still remember flight.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

The Ox still works the same way.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where the shard lay before is unknown.

It shows only in what follows.

The Fourth Seal lets power hold the form of a spell.

While it is held, the heroes in its holder's service learn more from every battle.

On the ring of affinities, Umbra and Lumen lie across from each other and repel.

This relic's hunger is plain to see.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Bloom.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, but only if the holder's core woke in Lumen.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Reverie.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Umbra.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Pyre.

Its bargain is written openly in the accounts.

Heaven counts the tress in its holder's Weight, so the Law of Equals sets that kingdom among heavier rivals, and a conqueror can carry it off as spoils.

Written in it is The Sunward Enclosure, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

Heaven counts the standard in its holder's Weight, so the Law of Equals sets that kingdom among heavier rivals, and a conqueror can carry it off as spoils.

It is thrown once, at another kingdom, and it burns that kingdom's Nodes.

Turned on another kingdom, the bowl shows everything that matters there: its army, its geld and mana, its people, its buildings and the enchantments standing over it.

Written on it is The Deepward Step, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

Some protective relics depend on the Covenant's shelter and stop working on the last day, after the final Seal opens.

The pipes do not make their holder's army stronger.

While it is held, every attempt to spy out what lies in its holder's kingdom is turned aside.

While it is held, its holder's kingdom resists spells of every affinity more strongly.

While it burns in its holder's kingdom, the holder's spells cost less mana, dispelling costs less, and casting fails less often.

It gives order to two things at once.

It favours Deopa's creatures, the shapes that belong to the Deep.

Cut into those leaves is The Ash Furrow, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

The sword belongs to the storm.

It is used once, against another kingdom, and it takes a hero from that kingdom's service into its holder's.

The maul strikes the ground, and everything standing on it feels the blow.

It is laid once on a hero in the holder's service.

On the ring of affinities, Lumen feeds Reverie: order dreams.

Written in it is Greenmother's Unbinding, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

While it is worn, its holder's spells cost less mana and fail less often, whatever their affinity.

It does not depend on how many Nodes the kingdom has raised.

Bone callers name Odrin Half-Core their first teacher, though none of them claims to have met him.

A casting mage calls summoned things out of the Welter with a spell and pays mana to keep them standing.

Its kind serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war that Undon, the Unmaker holds.

It serves in Umbra, the affinity of death and its aftermath.

Its kind serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war that Undon, the Unmaker holds.

The Deep lies inside the god, beneath the Hallow's remade ground and outside it.

It serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war that Undon, the Unmaker holds.

Umbra raises the restless dead on life borrowed from the living, and the kingdom pays in people.

It serves in Bloom, the affinity of growth, beasts and living ground.

Its kind serves in Bloom, the affinity of growth, beasts and living ground, which Virenna, the Greenmother holds.

Tellan, the Keeper of Tallies keeps the Mnemoliths outside the world and records every art and every first discovery.

It serves in Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind that Aefenna, the Lamplighter holds.

It serves in Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind that Aefenna, the Lamplighter holds.

Wanderers keep their memories from world to world.

The champions tell the history of their kind through Wen Sarai.

It serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war.

It serves in Bloom, the affinity of growth, beasts and living ground.

It strikes with magic from a distance.

It fights hand to hand, and it grows stronger and harder to kill the longer it serves.

A kingdom's Workshops set the pace of construction.

It is not one of the creatures of Deopa, the Deep, but it works for them.

It serves in Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind that Aefenna, the Lamplighter holds.

It strikes with holy light from a distance, and it grows stronger and harder to kill the longer it serves.

Those dead are the natives' dead.

Once it has served long enough, it brings its employer a steady sum of geld every turn, and the sum grows the longer it stays.

A kingdom runs on two currencies: mana, the raw power a core or a node draws, and geld, the coin ordinary folk pay.

Its quarry is the restless dead: the natives' dead, stranded at the threshold of the Deep since the Breaking.

It serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war.

Every recruit is one of the kingdom's own people, and recruiting one costs geld and a person.

When a spell comes against a kingdom, the ward is the first thing it must get past.

The people who work them are ordinary folk: coreless, Plain, needing no Core to live on the ground.

Lose every Fortress, and the kingdom is lost for the Turning.

It makes lesser works: items made with the method of Tellan, the Keeper of Tallies, holding no Seal-shard, usually used up in use.

A Sealborn's core draws mana of its own, but a Node gathers it from the ground itself, and it is not only for mages.

The people inside are ordinary folk.

Beyond a kingdom's settled centre lies the Mist, ground the Covenant has not yet fixed.

This is also where constructs are made: soldiers built rather than born, each with its own listed costs.