Dark Fire Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flames)

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• When the Dark Fire Aspect is playing a Scenario that cares about the Elements of cards you own, can it count Fire as Moon and vice versa?
  Yes. Though the Aspect only explicitly refers to Elements in play and to choice Events, it's also intended to work with scenarios like Rituals of the Destroying Flame and Elemental Invocation.
  Tags: Elements, Dark Fire Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flames), Rituals of the Destroying Flame, Elemental Invocation, 1 more...
• When Dark Fire gains a Moon/Fire for only a single action (e.g., when playing Elemental Invocation), can it treat that Element as the other?
  Yes. That is an Element available to you, even if it's only available for a limited purpose.

  This also applies in the rare case that Dark Fire is gifted Elemental Teachings and spends a prepared Element marker to have a Element for a single action. But it doesn't let Dark Fire use Moon markers as Fire markers or vice versa (either to spend with Elemental Teachings or if Shifting Memory is using the Intensify Aspect).
  Tags: Elements, Element markers, Elemental Invocation, Dark Fire Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flames), 2 more...
• When Dark Fire counts Moon as Fire (or vice versa), is that in addition to still being Moon?
  No. A Moon that counts as Fire no longer counts as Moon for that action (but may count as Moon again for a future action).

  Dark Fire essentially tracks only seven Elements: Sun, Darkfire, Air, Water, Earth, Plant, and Animal. As far as it's concerned, a Power in play with both Moon and Fire on it has 2 Darkfire symbols on it, and a 4 Moon 2 Fire threshold is a 6 Darkfire threshold.
  Tags: Elements, Dark Fire Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flames)
• When the Dark Fire Aspect discards a card with both Moon and Fire to pay for a choice event, how much Energy does that count towards the cost? How about if it forgets the power card isntead?
  2 Energy and 4 Energy, respectively. The discard and forget options for Choice Events check if a card has a relevant Element, not how many of that Element is on the card.
  Tags: Choice Events, Elements, Sacred Sites under Threat, New Species Spread, 2 more...

Effect Rules

• Does "you can't destroy the same Invader twice in one action" also apply to Presence destruction?
  Yes — a single action can't destroy the same Presence more than once.

  This can happen with Flowing and Silent Forms Dart by in concert with anything that adds Blight one after another in multiple lands, like cascades or Volcano's Explosive Eruption.
  Tags: Destroy, Saved From Destruction, Blight, Presence, 4 more...

General Play

• When you return presence to your tracks, can you cover one of the leftmost solid-circle spaces that start the game without presence?
  No, the leftmost spaces with solid circles cannot be covered by presence.

  Similarly, "Bonus" spaces, which start uncovered, can never be covered.
  Tags: Presence track, Bonus Spaces, Volcano Looming High, Fractured Days Split the Sky, 5 more...

Power Cards

• When an Aspect starts the game with a Minor Power in its hand, does that Minor Power count as a Unique Power (e.g., for Tell the Old Stories)?
  No, it's still a Minor Power.

  The type of a card never changes, no matter where it starts the game. If you're ever unsure which type a Power Card is, check the back of the card.
  Tags: Tell the Old Stories, Dark Fire Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flames), Violence Aspect (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), Warrior Aspect (Thunderspeaker), 4 more...

Spirit Phase

• When your Presence track gives you "Any" element, when do you have to choose what element that is? Can you change what it is during the turn?
  You can wait until the middle of your turn to choose what it is, but once you've set it for a turn, it can't change that turn [base rulebook p. 14, last item under Presence Tracks]

  This holds true even if you're restricted on which Elements you can choose (e.g., Wounded Waters Bleeding having a "Water / Animal" space instead of a full "Any"). [Nature Incarnate rulebook p. 9]

  This contrasts with the timing of choosing flexible Elements gained from different sources.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Elements, "Any" element, Timing, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, 10 more...