Destroyed Presence

Frequently Asked Questions

Presence and Sacred Sites

• What happens to Presence when it gets removed or replaced?
  If it is replaced during play, it goes to the destroyed Presence pile in the supply unless the particular effect says to put it elsewhere. From there, it can be restored by any effect that returns destroyed Presence to the island.

  Anything replaced during setup is out of the game.

  As of the release of Nature Incarnate, only four Presence-removing/replacing effects send the Presence somewhere special: "Transform to a Murderous Darkness," "Call Forth Predators" (Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves special rule), and both Bargains remove replaced Presence from the game. (Though Bargains put the Presence on reminder cards, this is just to help players track how many times they made the Bargain; Bargains scale with the number of times they are made, not the number of Presence on the reminder card.)
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• In Growth, can Relentless Gaze of the Sun add fewer than 3 Destroyed Presence or move fewer than 3 Presence?
  Yes.

  Thematically, Relentless Gaze of the Sun should have to restore as many Destroyed Presence as possible (max. 3), but enforcing this in the few cases it matters (e.g., preventing "Blazing Renewal" combos) wasn’t worth the trouble of players thinking that they could only take that Growth Action if they could return exactly 3 Destroyed Presence, or in extreme cases, that they couldn’t even choose that Growth Option — and its critical Reclaim All Power Cards Growth Action – unless they had at least 3 Destroyed Presence.
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