Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine

Errata / Updates

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Nature Incarnate - 1st printing, 2nd printing
  **Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine** -- When multiple pieces Escape the Endless Dark, they may go to different lands.

  (The relevant sentence in Terror Stalks the Land should read, "When pieces Escape, Move them to non-Ocean lands with your Presence/Incarna; if they have no legal lands to move to, you lose.")
  Tags: Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine)

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• On the off chance that Intensify Aspect gets gifted a Unique Power from Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine (or vice versa), which Element Marker boosts Actions that directly Abduct pieces, like "Swallowed by an Endless Dark"?
  Water. Abduct is a form of movement, just to a location pieces can't normally move to.
  Tags: Element markers, Transferring Power Cards, Reach from the Infinite Darkness (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Swallowed by an Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 3 more...

Definitions

• Can you "move" pieces from a land to that same land (e.g., with "Wrap in Wings of Sunlight")? If so, is it considered a move?
  Yes and yes, assuming the instructions don't restrict where you're allowed to move, the way that Push and Gather do. ("Wrap in Wings of Sunlight" doesn't.)

  Thematically, pieces moved to the land they're already in are moving around within that land.
  Tags: Move, Push, Gather, Wrap in Wings of Sunlight, 11 more...
• When does destroying a Town or City cause Fear?
  Always, regardless of how it's destroyed: directly via a Power that says to destroy one, from damage done by a Power, from damage done by Dahan counterattacking, due to a Spirit's special rules, from a Fear or Event card, etc. [p. 18]

  Fear from destruction is independent of any explicit Fear the Power does – e.g., Lightning's "Shatter Homesteads" reads "1 Fear. Destroy 1 Town." usually generates 2 Fear: 1 explicitly, and 1 for destroying a Town.

  Note that when you remove or replace a Town or City, it does NOT cause any automatic Fear. Removing Invaders happens most frequently via Fear Cards, and usually represents the Invaders fleeing, which doesn't make them any more afraid. Replacing an Invader represents some sort of transformation or change; if it's a scary change, the effect will explicitly specify how much Fear to do.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Destroy, Fear, Dahan, Ravage, 51 more...

Effect Rules

• If both a Beasts and something that counts as a Beasts (e.g., a sacred site of Many Minds Move as One) are in the same land and something destroys a Beasts there, can you choose which one is destroyed?
  Yes. Even if there are two ordinary Beasts tokens in a land, players get to choose which one gets destroyed – it just doesn't usually matter which one you pick.

  Similarly, if a Presence and an Incarna are both in a land and something would destroy Presence there, the Spirit can choose whether to destroy the Presence or the Incarna.
  Tags: Counts As, Incarna, Many Minds Move as One, A Joining of Swarms and Flocks (Many Minds Move as One), 8 more...
• If a Power deals Damage in multiple lands, can Damage in one of those lands be increased by Badlands in one of the other lands?
  No, Badlands only increase Damage in the land they are in.
  Tags: Badlands, Explosive Eruption (Volcano Looming High), Volcano Looming High, Leave a Trail of Deathly Silence (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 1 more...
• If an Action deals Damage multiple times, can it benefit from Badlands each time?
  Only if one time is to Invaders and the other time is to Dahan – a single Badlands token can't increase Damage more than once against a given piece type in a single action. Most of the time, it doesn't matter which instance of Damage is increased by a given Badlands, even if a single action damages Invaders more than once.

  Some of the rare cases where it can matter:

  • When using the first two threshold "Leave a Trail of Deathly Silence" in a land with 1 Badlands and 2 Towns, applying the Badlands to the first threshold destroys one of the Towns, allowing the second threshold to abduct the now-lone Town. On the other hand, saving the Badlands for the second threshold means that neither Town is ever alone, leaving the second Town damaged instead of abducted.
  • When using "Walls of Rock and Thorn" with threshold against the Tsardom of Russia Level 2+ in a land that has 1 Badlands, 1 Town, and 3 Explorers, the timing of the Badlands determines if one of the Explorers must be saved from the damage. If the Badlands bonus is applied to the initial 2 Damage, then at least one of the resulting 3 Damage must apply to Explorers, pushing it. On the other hand, if the Badlands bonus is deferred until later, the initial 2 Damage can destroy just the Town, saving all of the Damage to Explorers until after the land is Isolated and there's no way for any of the Explorers to flee.
    Tags: Badlands, Damage, Ordering, Leave a Trail of Deathly Silence (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 3 more...
• If a Spirit has a Growth Action that adds or moves its Incarna, can it just leave its Incarna in place (whether on the island or in the supply)?
  No, the Growth Action isn't optional: if the Incarna is in the supply, it must be added; if it's on the island already, it must be moved.

  That being said, you can count an Incarna on the island as Presence for the purpose of checking where it moves. So, e.g., Wandering Voice Keens Delirium can count its Incarna as the Presence it's moving the Incarna to, thereby moving the Incarna to the land it's already in (which would then add Strife with Spread Tumult and Delusion).

  Similarly, with its empowering growth option Ember-Eyed Behemoth can choose to move its Incarna to any land within range 1, including the land it's already in.
  Tags: Move, Counts As, Incarna, Wandering Voice Keens Delirium, 3 more...
• Can Blight/Event/Fear Card effects add or move pieces to locations that aren't lands if those locations are in play (e.g., adding pieces to the Ocean if Ocean's Hungry Grasp is in play)?
  Generally no, pieces can only be added to a non-land location if explicitly allowed by whatever puts that location into play or temporarily lets that location be treated as a land. So, for example, an Event can add Blight to an Ocean if Ocean's Hungry Grasp has Presence on that board or the Kingdom of Scotland is the Adversary, since both of those let the Ocean be a land for the purpose of Blight. However, an Event can't add or move an Invader into an Ocean, even if an Ocean otherwise met the qualifications on adding that Invader, since the "Ocean in Play" special rule doesn't make the Ocean a land for Events in general.

  However, Ocean's Hungry Grasp can add or move Presence to an Ocean via a Blight/Event/Fear Card despite that Ocean not being a land for such effects, since "Ocean in Play" lets Ocean's Hungry Grasp add and move Presence into Oceans. So for example, Ocean's Hungry Grasp:

  • Can move Presence into an Ocean on a board where they have Presence during the "Clever Cooperation" Event or if they choose to leave behind that which restrains them during the "The Struggles of Growth" Event; and
  • Can add destroyed Presence to an Ocean with their Presence when choosing to focus their will towards wholeness during the "Dissolution Threatens" Event, or as part of flipping the "Burn Brightest Before the End" or "Unnatural Proliferation" Blighted Island Cards.

  On the other hand, even if another Spirit legally gets Presence into such an Ocean, they can't take advantage of these Event and Blight Cards, since they have no ability to bypass the Ocean not being a land for those Actions. (And similarly, these Event and Blight Cards can't add Presence to The Endless Dark, even if a Spirit has Presence there, since no Spirit is granted the ability to do so.)
  Tags: Ocean In Play (Ocean's Hungry Grasp), Ocean's Hungry Grasp, Kingdom of Scotland, The Struggles of Growth, 6 more...
• What happens if a Power that references an Incarna is used by a Spirit that doesn't have that Incarna (e.g., if it's transferred via "Entwined Power")?
  Resolve the Power exactly as written. Though an Incarna is associated with a particular Spirit, it's still a piece that other Spirits can interact with — they just don't normally have a way to do so.
  

  Depending on the Power and Incarna in question, this may be weaker than when used by the original Spirit. For example, while "Frightful Keening" can still push the Incarna of Wandering Voice Keens Delirium, and still generates Fear if pushing into a land with Invaders, only Wandering Voice Keens Delirium can use that Power to add Strife via "Keening Spurs Grievances."
  Tags: Transferring Power Cards, Incarna, Entwined Power, Blazing Intimidation (Ember-Eyed Behemoth), 7 more...
• If your Incarna and 1 of your Presence are in the same land, is that land a Sacred Site for you?
  Yes, if you choose to count your Incarna as Presence for that action.
  Tags: Sacred Sites, Counts As, Incarna, Ember-Eyed Behemoth, 4 more...
• Can effects that change a Power’s Speed also change the Speed of other Actions taken in specific Phases? (e.g., dealing Damage with the Beasts token marked by "Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone")
  No. Speed changes apply to the original use of a Power, not to delayed effects of a Power (as in this case) nor to non-Power Actions (like Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine abducting pieces at its Incarna).
  Tags: Speed (Fast/Slow), Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 9 more...
• If multiple pieces would be upgraded or downgraded simultaneously (e.g., with the Lair Aspect), is it possible to upgrade or downgrade the same piece multiple times?
  No. Pick all of the pieces you want to replace first, then upgrade/downgrade them all at the same time.

  However, it is possible to upgrade/downgrade a piece multiple times if they are replaced as part of different instructions (e.g., downgrading the same Invader with two different thresholds of Lost in the Endless Dark) or with two different actions (e.g., different players downgrading pieces in the same land with Trade Suffers at Terror Level III). Also, the special rule granted by Serene Waters explicitly allows choosing the same piece twice even if the timing is ambiguous.
  Tags: Timing, Upgrade, Downgrade, Replace, 7 more...

Elements and Elemental Thresholds

• Can you use the threshold effects of Innate Powers, even if you can't use the effects above them?
  Yes, each line is evaluated independently, depending on the Elements you activate the power with.

  (You are allowed to pretend you have fewer Elements than you actually have, but need to be consistent for the whole power.)
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Elements, Sparking Aspect (Lightning's Swift Strike), Haven Aspect (River Surges in Sunlight), Foreboding Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), 54 more...

General Play

• If you damage an Invader/Dahan and then replace it with another Invader/Dahan, does the new piece enter the game damaged?
  Yes. (Rulebook p. 18) When you replace a piece with another piece, the new piece comes in with whatever Damage the original piece had.
  

  For example, if you deal 2 Damage to a City and then replace it with a Town, that Town is immediately destroyed.

  If you replace a damaged piece with two or more pieces (as when "Dissolve the Bonds of Kinship" replaces a City with two Explorers), the damage gets divided between the new pieces as you choose (limited by the amount of Health each of the new pieces has). Similarly, if the piece had Strife tokens attached to it, the Strife tokens get divided between the new pieces as you choose.

  Note that if a piece is replaced as part of being saved from destruction (as is done by the Transforming Aspect), then Damage is cleared before the piece is replaced, so there's no Damage to divide. (Strife tokens are still divided normally, if relevant.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Replace, Strife, Crops Wither and Fade (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), 22 more...
• If you create a land with no adjacent lands, how do things like Blight cascades or Push work? Can you target it from lands Range 2+ away?
  

  • There are no adjacent lands to add Blight to, so cascades don't add Blight in an adjacent land. (Anything that replaces cascades, like Habsburg Mining Expedition's Level 1 "Avarice Rewarded" effect, still happen.)
  • You can't Push/Gather anything (unless you can Push to a land 2 away / Gather from a land 2 away – e.g., Many Minds Move as One – and there's a land 2 away, see below).
  • Whether you can target the land depends on whether you can measure Range from your Presence to it. If you made a disjoint land via the combination of "Cast Down into the Briny Deep" and "Absolute Stasis", yes, because the land is Range 2 from other lands. But if you completely wall off a land by Repeating "Absolute Stasis," then there's no way to measure Range to it, so the only way to target Powers there would be to either have Presence in the land or the ability to ignore range (e.g., Finder of Paths Unseen).

  Note that Isolate is NOT usually sufficient to generate any of these situations, since it only affects adjacency for Invader pieces (JE rules, p. 10).
  Tags: Island Boards, Push, Range, Targeting, 9 more...
• Can Strife move independently of the Invader piece it is attached to?
  No, the Strife only moves with that Invader and stays attached the entire way.

  For instance, Strife can not be divided separately from the Invader it's attached to when Weave Together the Fabric of Place expires, nor can it be moved independently by Bargain of Coursing Paths.
  Tags: Strife, Weave Together the Fabric of Place, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Bargain of Coursing Paths, 1 more...
• If a Spirit's Presence counts as Beasts (say, due to "Settle Into Hunting-Grounds"), and a "destroy Beasts" effect destroys their Presence, is it still considered destroyed Presence? More generally, if Piece A also counts as Piece B, and a "destroy/remove Piece B" effect destroys/removes it, does it go to the supply for A or B?
  It's considered destroyed Presence. When a piece is removed from the board, it goes to the supply (or other destination) for that physical type of piece.
  Tags: Presence, Pieces, Counts As, Beasts, 15 more...

Play Options

• When playing without Events, what type of Action is Commanding Beasts? Can you use your special rules to modify what the Beasts do?
  It is a separate Event Action for each land with Beasts (JE p. 20). A Spirit's special rules generally don't apply, since they usually only affect their Powers in particular or their Spirit Actions in general.

  For example, Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves can move their Presence with the commanded Beasts, since their "Ally of the Beasts" special rule apply when Beasts move for any reason. On the other hand, Many Minds Move as One can't Push Beasts to lands 2 away, since their "Fly Fast as Thought" special rule only applies when they move the Beasts with Spirit Actions, not when Events move Beasts.
  Tags: Actions, Playing Without Events, Beasts, Sharp Fangs behind the Leaves, 13 more...

Power Cards

• If a Spirit with an Incarna uses Settle Into Hunting Grounds, can the Incarna still move that turn?
  Yes, but only if you choose not to count it as Presence for that action (and therefore not count it as Badlands or Beasts with Settle Into Hunting Grounds either).

  For instance, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine using Leave a Trail of Deathly Silence can't get the Badlands bonus if they choose to Push the Incarna.
  Tags: Counts As, Incarna, Settle Into Hunting-Grounds, Leave a Trail of Deathly Silence (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 1 more...
• What happens if you use Entwined Power to give another Spirit a card with Spirit-specific effects? (E.g., Absorb Essence, Swallow the Land-Dwellers)
  As usual, do as much as you legally can, skipping instructions you can't perform. However, Special Rules can define new types of effect (like "Drown") usable by anyone with a Power referencing it.

  More specifically:

  • "Absorb Essence" effectively becomes "Gain 3 Energy. Target Spirit gains Any Element and 1 Energy." (You cannot follow the instruction "Move 1 of target Spirit's Presence to your 'Deep Slumber' track", because you do not have a Deep Slumber track.)
  • Ocean's Special Rules define what "Drown" means: "Destroy Drowned pieces, placing Drowned Invaders here [on Ocean's playmat]." So if another Spirit Drowns an Invader, it is Destroyed (by that Spirit), then goes onto Ocean's playmat. Similarly, since "Terror Stalks the Land" defines what "Abduct" means, abducted pieces go to The Endless Dark whether or not Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine is the one using the Power.
  • "Elemental Teachings" lets other Spirits prepare Element Markers, but what what they can do with them depends on whether or not Shifting Memory of Ages is using an Aspect.
  • Powers that reference specific Incarna can still interact with that Incarna, but may be less effective.
  • While any Spirit could perform the effects of many of Fractured Days' Unique Powers, they can't pay the time cost to use them in the first place.
    Tags: Transferring Power Cards, Drowning (Ocean's Hungry Grasp), Entwined Power, Swallow the Land-Dwellers (Ocean's Hungry Grasp), 8 more...
• If Pent-Up Calamity removes a Spirit's Presence to deal damage (via that Presence counting as, e.g., Beasts): can the threshold replace that Presence?
  No, it will replace an actual token of the type you chose to remove.

  When a piece is removed from the board, it goes to the supply (or other destination) for that physical type of piece, it doesn't "remember" what it was while on the island.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Pieces, Counts As, Incarna, Pent-Up Calamity, 4 more...
• If you've used "Settle into Hunting-Grounds" (your Presence counts as Beasts and Badlands), and draw the "Beasts Prey on the Injured" Event (Beasts count as Badlands), does your Presence now count as 2 Badlands each?
  No. "Piece A counts as Piece B" changes (roughly) "what does this physical object represent"; applying it multiple times has no effect.
  Tags: Counts As, Badlands, Beasts, Settle Into Hunting-Grounds, 5 more...
• When using a land-targeting Power with Range "—," which land is the origin land?
  In the rather rare case that it matters, you can choose any land with your Presence to be the origin of the Power.

  If you don't have any Presence to use as the origin (e.g., because all of your Presence is under Absolute Stasis or in the Endless Dark), you can't use the Power.
  Tags: Range, Absolute Stasis (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Emerge from the Dread Night Wind (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Frightful Keening (Wandering Voice Keens Delirium), 7 more...

Presence and Sacred Sites

• When Blight is moved into a land, does it destroy Presence or cause cascades?
  No, Blight only destroys Presence when it is added to the board, not when it is moved from one land to another. Likewise, moving Blight does not cause cascades. [B&C p. 15, JE p. 28]
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Presence, Blight, Absorb Corruption, Flow Like Water, Reach Like Air, 8 more...

Range and Targeting

• Does Shadows of the Dahan <i>("...you may pay 1 Energy to target a land with Dahan regardless of the Power's Range")</i> let you ignore other targeting requirements?
  No. Only Range - the number of lands distant - is ignored.

  All other targeting requirements still apply. This includes source restrictions, so if, e.g., a Power must be targeted from a Sacred Site and you have none, Shadows of the Dahan won't let you use it, or if it needs to be targeted from a Jungle, you need Presence in a Jungle to use it. The same applies for target restrictions other than Range, like lands with Invaders, unblighted lands, or restrictions on the target terrain; these must also be obeyed.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Range, Targeting, Shadows of the Dahan (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), Finder of Paths Unseen, 3 more...
• When a special rule grants a Range boost specifically for targeting lands with specific traits/contents, like "Shadows of the Dahan," does that apply to Range arrows within a Power's text?
  No, that bonus is specifically for choosing the target of a land-targeting Power.

  Use the Power as though the number in the "Range" box were increased or completely ignored (depending on the Range boost in question) and the extra target requirement were included in the "Target Land" box. In the case of Shadows of the Dahan, this means ignoring the Range number entirely (but not anything else in the "Range" box!) and adding "Dahan" to whatever else is already in the "Target Land" box.

  This differs from general-purpose Range boosts, which apply to all Range arrows.

  Though early printings of "Sky Stretches to Shore" use the word "targeting," the text of that Power has been revised to work like other Range-boosing Powers and is not subject to this restriction.
  Tags: Range Boosts, Shadows of the Dahan (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), Shadows Flicker Like Flame, Encircle Aspect (Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves), 8 more...

Scenarios

• In the Dahan Insurrection scenario, if Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares moves Dahan do they do real damage or shadow damage?
  They deal real damage.

  It is the scenario that is causing the damage, not Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, so its special rule does not apply.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, Dahan Insurrection, To Dream a Thousand Deaths (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), Transforming Aspect (Heart of the Wildfire), 2 more...
• Is it possible to add an Incarna that was never in the game in the first place (e.g., if a Power Card that adds an Incarna is carried over in Second Wave)?
  No, Incarna for Spirits not in the game are left in the box.

  All other effects of the Power Card still work normally.
  Tags: Incarna, Second Wave, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, Emerge from the Dread Night Wind (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 0 more...

Setup

• When setting up a Spirit, what happens if the setup instructions are impossible (e.g., adding Presence to a land with Blight when that board has no Blight).
  Either don't start that Spirit on that board or follow the instructions as best as you can, choosing freely when no lands meet the criteria given. [Jagged Earth Rulebook p. 6]

  When choosing freely, use theme as your guide — if you're in this situation, you're likely playing on the thematic map, after all!
  Tags: Thematic map, Spirit setup, Vengeance as a Burning Plague, Starlight Seeks Its Form, 7 more...

Spirit Phase

• Do I have to do everything shown in a Growth option I pick?
  Yes. You must do everything shown if possible, though you can do it in any order.

  Usually, there's no downside: Reclaiming, gaining Energy/Power Cards, and adding Presence are almost strictly good. (You can always reposition a Presence already on the island when adding Presence [p. 14], so "running out" isn't a concern.) Spirits with "Move a Presence up to Range N" Growth effects can Move it 0. However, a few Spirits do include things you'll have to work around, including:

  • Ocean's Hungry Grasp often requires you to Push or Gather Presence;
  • Heart of the Wildfire often adds Blight along with Presence, so being required to add Presence can be dangerous;
  • Downpour Drenches the World and Ember-Eyed Behemoth both discard Power Cards as part of one of their Growth options;
  • Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine must let pieces escape the Endless Dark.
  • Several Spirits have Growth options that add Presence to particular land types, which could force Presence outside of that land type to be repositioned accordingly in the unlikely case where the Spirit has no Presence left on Presence tracks and no Presence on the island is already in that land type (else it could be repositioned into the land it's already in). Note that "a land with your Presence" can't cause this problem, since that allows any Presence to be repositioned into a land its already in.

  If you can't do something in a Growth option, do as much as you can and skip the rest – you're free to pick Growth options where you can't successfully complete all of the instructions. (E.g., if you Push Presence from each Ocean, and there's a board where none of your Presence is in the Ocean, you simply don't Push Presence on that board.)

  Nevertheless, you can't skip paying an explicit "cost" for a Growth option, which must be paid in full order to pick that option and perform the associated actions.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Repositioning Presence, Ocean's Hungry Grasp, Heart of the Wildfire, 15 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine use Damage bonuses (from Badlands or other sources) to abduct Invaders?
  Generally no. Damage bonuses increase an existing instance of Damage rather than creating a new one. Either:

  • Breath is dealing Damage to an Invader that is already alone and thus abducts it independent of the Damage bonus; or
  • Breath is dealing Damage to Invaders that are not alone, so no amount of extra Damage can result in abductions.

  That being said, if a Power can freely allocate Damage across multiple lands (e.g., "Rumbling Earthquakes"), a bonus that applies the Power as a whole (e.g., "Flame's Fury") can be used to spread Damage across more lands (in this example, dealing Damage in 7 lands rather than 6 lands), which could give Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine a chance to abduct Invaders in more places. This doesn't work for Damage bonuses that only apply in lands where you're already dealing Damage (e.g., Badlands and the Fire Markers of the Intensify Aspect) for the same reason that such bonuses don't help for Powers that deal Damage in only one land.

  Note that the "+" before Damage in Power thresholds (e.g., on "Accelerated Rot") is non-functional; that's a separate Damage instruction from the one in the main Power effect, and does give you a second chance to abduct Invaders.
  Tags: Badlands, Damage, Timing, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 6 more...
• If Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares uses "Mists of Oblivion," do they get the Power Card's bonus fear for destroying Towns/Cities? (Relatedly, can they trigger "Vengeance of the Dead"?)
  No. No Towns/Cities are actually destroyed, so "Mists of Oblivion" grants no bonus Fear. And similarly, "Vengeance of the Dead" doesn't deal any Damage.

  "To Dream a Thousand Deaths" only changes what happens when Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares would destroy/damage Invaders. It doesn't change what happens if an effect checks whether or not Invaders actually got destroyed.
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Fear, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, Mists of Oblivion, To Dream a Thousand Deaths (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), 5 more...
• Does Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine need to do lethal Damage to a lone Invader to abduct it?
  No, any positive amount of Damage will do.
  Tags: Damage, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Leave a Trail of Deathly Silence (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, 0 more...
• When does Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine check if a piece is alone for the purpose of abducting it?
  Just before resolving the sentence with the Damage/Destroy instruction.

  The "+" before Damage in Power thresholds (e.g., on "Accelerated Rot") is non-functional; that's a separate Damage instruction from the one in the main Power effect.
  Tags: Damage, Destroy, Timing, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, 2 more...
• If Many Minds Move as One uses "Settle Into Hunting-Grounds," do the two "may count as Beasts" rules stack?
  No. A land with 2 of their Presence could count as 1 Beasts (via their Special Rule) or 2 Beasts (via the Major Power), but not 3.
  Tags: Counts As, Many Minds Move as One, Settle Into Hunting-Grounds, A Joining of Swarms and Flocks (Many Minds Move as One), 3 more...
• Does Grinning Trickster's rightmost Growth Option just use the Card Plays revealed on the Presence Track, or does it include modifiers (e.g., "Back Against the Wall," or Invader benefit 4 in Powers Long Forgotten)?
  The printed number on the Plays track. In general, effects that scale via the Energy/Plays/Elements on Presence tracks use the printed numbers rather than the amount of Energy, Plays, or Elements actually usable during a given Spirit Phase, whether or not they explicitly say so.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Elements, Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble, Back Against the Wall, 11 more...
• When Breath of Darkness Down your Spine targets The Endless Dark with a Power, which effects don't work there?
  Effects that can't resolve:

  • Anything that interacts with adjacent lands, including Push and Gather (since there are no adjacent lands);
  • Invader Actions;
  • Anything conditional on having a particular terrain or being Coastal;
  • Anything that references the board that target land is on.

  Effects that do resolve, but generally not in a useful way:

  • Defend and other Damage penalties to Invaders;
  • Isolate;
  • Skipping Invader Actions.

  All other standard effects (Fear, Damage, Destroy, Remove, Replace, Add, Upgrade, Downgrade) work as they normally would, albeit with the exception that adding Blight doesn't destroy Presence or cascade, since the Endless Dark isn't a land. (Thematically, there isn't a real ecosystem to damage.)

  The Endless Dark counts as "target land" for the purpose of resolving any of the Power's effects, since that's meant to refer to the place you are targeting rather than being an additional check if that place is a land.
  Tags: Blight, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Shadow-Touched Realm (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 0 more...
• When Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine targets The Endless Dark, which targeting restrictions can The Endless Dark meet?
  Breath's Power can target The Endless Dark if they do any of the following:

  • Have no targeting restrictions;
  • Only target Inland lands (e.g., "Here There Be Monsters"), since the Endless Dark is not adjacent to the Ocean;
  • Targets all lands except a specific terrain (e.g., "Dry Wood Explodes in Smoldering Splinters"), since the Endless Dark has no terrain;
  • Check for pieces that are currently in The Endless Dark (e.g., "Territorial Strife" targeting The Endless Dark if a City is present there); or
  • Specifically target The Endless Dark (e.g., "Lost in the Endless Dark").

  Breath can't target The Endless Dark with Powers that target specific terrains or Coastal lands, check for pieces that aren't currently in The Endless Dark, or that have origin requirements that Breath doesn't satisfy (e.g., "The Jungle Hungers" if Breath has no Presence in Jungles).
  Tags: Targeting, Terrain, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 2 more...
• If Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine uses a land-targeting Power that resolves an effect in a land other than “target land” (e.g., removing an Invader in "2 lands with 4 or more Invaders" with "Vanish Softly Away, Forgotten by All") can it choose The Endless Dark as one of those lands?
  No, The Endless Dark is only a land for Breath targeting it with a Power. It isn’t “your land” or “a land with 4 or more Invaders” even if it’s still “target land.”
  Tags: Targeting, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Shadow-Touched Realm (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, 4 more...
• What happens when Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine abducts Presence belonging to Heart of the Wildfire?
  While Abducting Wildfire’s Presence does move it, The Endless Dark isn’t a land for Blazing Presence. On the other hand, Blazing Presence will trigger when the Presence eventually escapes.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Move, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 4 more...
• If Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares does shadow damage to a damaged Town, causing Fear and Pushing it, does the damage get healed?
  No, Towns and Cities remain at whatever Damage they had taken before Bringer of Dreams and Nightmare used its power.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, To Dream a Thousand Deaths (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 1 more...
• When Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine faces the Tsardom of Russia Level 2+, can Breath abuct lone Explorers by doing Damage to them or directly destroying them?
  Yes, it can and must, even if it'd rather let the Explorer flee to get 1 Fear.

  Terror Stalks the Land abducts lone Invaders if Breath would attempt to damage or destroy them, while A Sense for Impending Disaster only makes an Explorer flee if that Explorer would actually otherwise be destroyed.
  Tags: Action Modifiers, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Tsardom of Russia, 0 more...
• Can Fear/Event actions destroy Invaders in The Endless Dark?
  Yes. While Event and Fear Card actions generate Fear rather than removing Invaders, those actions are free to destroy, damage, replace, or otherwise harm the Invaders in any way that doesn't use the keyword "Remove" (other than downgrading Explorers, since that's defined as removing them).

  Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine has no such restrictions with its own Powers, and is free to Remove Invaders or Downgrade Explorers like normal.
  Tags: Remove, Replace, Damage, Destroy, 3 more...
• Are pieces in The Endless Dark still on the island?
  Yes, they are still on the island for all purposes, even though they aren't in a land or on a board.

  In particular:

  • Invaders in The Endless Dark block a Terror Level victory.
  • Presence in The Endless Dark prevents loss from Spirit elimination.
  • Beasts in The Endless Dark count towards preventing a loss against the Tsardom of Russia.
  • Towns in The Endless Dark count towards a loss against the Kingdom of France.
  • Presence in The Endless Dark can be destroyed by Events and Blight Cards that destroy Presence from each Spirit (but not those that destroy Presence from specific boards).

  However, it is not a land, and thus:

  • The Endless Dark does not count for loss conditions that are based on contents of a particular land, like Habsburg Mining Colony or the Kingdom of England.

  Tags: Victory and Defeat, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Tsardom of Russia, 15 more...
• Can Invader Actions happen in a place that isn't a land (e.g., in The Endless Dark)?
  No. If a Power would cause an Invader Action there (e.g., Manifest Incarnation causing a Ravage), skip that instruction because it can't be resolved.
  Tags: Ravage, Build, Blur the Arc of Years (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Manifest Incarnation, 4 more...
• When Roiling Waters Bleeding adds a non-Beasts piece that counts as a Beasts token (e.g., the Presence of a Spirit under "Settle Into Hunting-Grounds"), does it deal Damage?
  Generally, no. "Lands of Blood and Savagery" checks if the piece that's being added is already a Beasts, not if it will be a Beasts once it arrives.

  Nevertheless, Roiling Waters Bleeding deals Damage if repositioning a piece on the island that already counts as a Beasts, whether that's the Incarna of Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, the Presence of a Spirit under "Settle Into Hunting Grounds", or a Sacred Site belonging to Many Minds Move as One.
  Tags: Counts As, Repositioning Presence, Roiling Waters (Wounded Waters Bleeding), Wounded Waters Bleeding, 5 more...
• When Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine uses a Power that has a Range arrow in its effect text (e.g., "Unleash a Torrent of the Self's Own Essence"), can it ignore Range to choose The Endless Dark?
  No, Breath can only ignore Range or the Range arrow in the “Range” box of a Power.

  However, Range arrows in the effect text of land-targeting Powers can measure Range from The Endless Dark to itself (e.g., to add extra tokens with the threshold of "Utter a Curse of Dread and Bone").
  Tags: Range, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Shadow-Touched Realm (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 1 more...
• Can Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine add Presence to The Endless Dark in Growth?
  No, Growth actions aren't Powers.
  Tags: Growth, Adding Presence, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 1 more...
• Can Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine choose Strife as one of the pieces escaping the Endless Dark?
  No, because Strife can't move independently of the Invader it's attached to. If you must choose two pieces to let escape, they must both be non-Strife pieces.

  Strife tokens will escape with the Invader they are attached to, but do not count towards the number of pieces escaping.
  Tags: Move, Strife, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 1 more...
• If an effect changes the Health of all pieces that meet a particular condition, does that affect pieces in The Endless Dark?
  Yes, so long as it checks the traits of the piece itself (e.g., what type it is, how much Strife it has) rather than the traits of the land it’s in (e.g., if Blight is present, if at least 3+ Invaders are present).
  Tags: Health, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Kingdom of England, 9 more...
• Can Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine abduct pieces that can't move (e.g., because they're at the Lair Incarna)?
  No, abduct is a special form of movement and prevented by things that prevent movement.

  Similarly, escape is a special form of movement and is affected by things like Bargain of Coursing Paths.
  Tags: Move, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Lair Aspect (Lure of the Deep Wilderness), 3 more...
• When is the Range bonus of Reach from the Infinite Darkness determined?
  When measuring Range for a Power. Count up your Presence in The Endless Dark to determine your bonus Range at that moment.

  This could be different than the amount of Presence that was in The Endless Dark when Reach from the Infinite Darkness was used earlier in the turn!
  Tags: Timing, Range Boosts, Reach from the Infinite Darkness (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 1 more...
• Is The Endless Dark a land for Spirit-targeting Powers?
  No, no matter which Spirit uses the Power or is the target of the Power, the Power isn’t targeting The Endless Dark.
  Tags: Targeting, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Shadow-Touched Realm (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 0 more...
• When playing on an archipelago, do two Spirits with Presence in The Endless Dark count as being on the same islet?
  Not unless they were already sharing an islet anyway. The Endless Dark isn't on any island board, so it's not part of any islet.
  Tags: Archipelago, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine
• How does Reach from the Infinite Darkness work with Presence from Spirits with restrictions on where they can move Presence?
  Since Reach from the Infinite Darkness ignores these restrictions, Presence from those Spirits can be abducted without any issue. However, that Presence can only escape to lands that it could normally be moved to, whether Coastal lands (Ocean’s Hungry Grasp), Inland lands (Lure of the Deep Wilderness), or Mountains (Volcano Looming High). If Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine doesn’t have Presence or its Incarna in any legal lands, you must choose to let a different piece escape or lose the game.

  Every Growth option has a way to add or move Presence or the Incarna into a new land, so this generally won't be a loss threat unless multiple such Spirits have their Presence abducted and Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine is unusually low on Presence.
  Tags: Move, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, Reach from the Infinite Darkness (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 7 more...