Entwined Power

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• What happens when the Mentor Aspect uses Entwined Power on another Spirit? How about if another Spirit targets Mentor?
  If Mentor targets another Spirit, then that Spirit gains a Power Card normally (drawing four and picking one) and Mentor gains two of the remaining three Power Cards. If another Spirit targets Mentor, then Mentor draws two Power Cards (4-2), gains two (1+1), and the other Spirit has no cards left to gain from.
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Entwined Power, Mentor Aspect (Shifting Memory of Ages)

Effect Rules

• 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 this Power to add Strife via Keening Spurs Grievances.
  Tags: Transferring Power Cards, Incarna, Entwined Power, Blazing Intimidation (Ember-Eyed Behemoth), 7 more...

General Play

• Can you Forget one Power Card to pay for multiple Forgetting requirements? (eg, a self-targeted Entwined Power in solo)
  No. Each Major Power gained must be paid for by Forgetting one Power Card, and that card can't be something you're Forgetting for some other benefit (like a different Major Power, or 3 Energy with Shape the Self Anew).
  Tags: Forgetting, Entwined Power, Starlight Seeks Its Form, Shape the Self Anew, 0 more...

Power Cards

• Does Entwined Power <i>(you and target Spirit may use each others’ Presence to target Powers)</i> also allow you to count the other spirit's presence for effects like Serpent Rouses in Anger or Threatening Flames?
  No. Those are effects of Powers; Entwined Power only helps targeting - i.e., "Where can you use this Power?"
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Targeting, Entwined Power
• If you gain a Major Power by non-standard means or from a place other than the Major Power deck, do you have to Forget a card? How about the "gifting" of Entwined Power's threshold or "taking" a Major Power?
  "Gifting" is a transfer and does not require Forgetting, and "taking" explicitly doesn't require Forgetting. But for any Gain of a Major Power, you must Forget unless the effect specifically exempts you.

  As usual, you may Forget the Major Power you just gained, if you'd prefer that to losing any of your other Power Cards.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Forgetting, Taking Power Cards, Transferring Power Cards, 6 more...
• If you Forget a Power Card partway through resolution, do you continue resolving it? (Eg: if you gain a Major Power with Entwined Power, and Forget Entwined Power.)
  Yes. The Power Card is no longer in play, so you no longer gain the benefits of its elements, and you cannot Repeat it, but you do finish the current use.
  Tags: Forgetting, Entwined Power, Draw Towards a Consuming Void, Unleash a Torrent of the Self's Own Essence, 0 more...
• If I have one Presence in a land, and I play Entwined Power on another Spirit who has one Presence there, do we have a Sacred Site?
  You may target Powers as if you had a Sacred Site there, and they may target Powers as if they had a Sacred Site there. But for all other purposes, no, because Entwined Power only lets you use each others' Presence for targeting Powers - not for anything else, including resolving Powers.

  For instance, Gift of Living Energy (a Minor Power) wouldn't count it towards "If you have at least 2 Sacred Sites...", nor would Fear of the Unseen (a Fear Card) treat it as a Sacred Site for scaring away Invaders.

  Note that if you Entwine with River Surges in Sunlight, their River's Domain Special Rule only applies to them (read it as "counts as your Sacred Site"). So for targeting, they would treat any Wetland where either of you have Presence as a Sacred Site, but you would still need 2+ Presence as usual.
  Tags: Sacred Sites, Presence, Entwined Power, River's Domain (River Surges in Sunlight), 6 more...
• If Entwined Power is used on Downpour Drenches the World and another Spirit: can lands with 2 of the other Spirit's Presence be treated as Downpour's Sacred Sites (and thus Wetlands) while the *other* Spirit is targeting?
  No, only while Downpour is targeting. Entwined Power is "each Spirit may use the other's Presence while it is targeting", not "both Spirits' Presence belongs to both of them while either is targeting".

  There is no formal definition of "using another Spirit's Presence"; informally consider it "treat it as yours for anything related to the act of targeting".
  Tags: Targeting, Sacred Sites, Downpour Drenches the World, Entwined Power, 0 more...
• What happens if you play Entwined Power in a solo game?
  As usual, you can use it on yourself. As the power is worded, you can gain two powers and, if you hit the threshold, gain 6 Energy.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Solo games, Entwined Power
• With Entwined Power, can Shroud of Silent Mist Gather another Spirit's Presence?
  Yes. When Shroud of Silent Mist targets a Power (which its Presence-Gather is part of) it treats the other Spirit's Presence as also being its Presence.

  If the effects of the special rule didn't have anything to do with targeting the Power, it might be more ambiguous (since Entwined Power is only supposed to affect targeting), but Mists Shift and Flow is very explicit that it can be used to target Powers.
  Tags: Targeting, Move, Shroud of Silent Mist, Mists Shift and Flow (Shroud of Silent Mist), 2 more...
• With an Archipelago, can Entwined Power's 'target via each others Presence' let you avoid paying 1 Energy to target a Spirit you don't otherwise share an islet with?
  Yes. The check for "Do you share an islet with the Spirit you're targeting?" (and 1-Energy cost if not) is part of targeting the Power.
  Tags: Archipelago, Entwined Power, Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island)
• 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 a Unique Power Card is transferred to another Spirit and then Forgotten, which Spirit is eligible to get it back via an effect that re-gains Forgotten Unique Powers, like *Tell the Old Stories*?
  Any Spirit that has had that Unique Power Card (whether in hand, in play, or in discard) at some point during play. This may mean that multiple Spirits are eligible to re-gain a particular Unique Power Card.
  Tags: Forgetting, Transferring Power Cards, Entwined Power, Tell the Old Stories, 2 more...
• If I use the "forget this Power" option on Call on Midnight's Dreams, can I still Repeat the Power Card? <i>(With, e.g., Powerstorm, or Gift of Strength.)</i>
  No.
  

  The Power Card leaves play when you Forget it, so is no longer available to be Repeated.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Entwined Power, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), Call on Midnight's Dreams (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), 0 more...

Scenarios

• How does Entwined Power work in Destiny Unfolds?
  If Target Spirit still has cards in their Destiny, they gain one of them and you gain another one if any remain. (If there was only one card in their Destiny, you won't get a card.)

  If their Destiny was already empty before resolving Entwined Power, resolve it like normal.

  You don't gain a card from your own Destiny, since “the Power Cards they did not keep” is their Destiny and not one of the decks.
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Entwined Power, Destiny Unfolds

Spirits and Innate Powers

• If Rising Heat of Stone and Sand has a Sacred Site in a land for targeting purposes due to *Entwined Power*, do Invaders there have -1 Health from the Special Rule?
  No, the Spirits can use each other's Presence for targeting only, not for any other purpose (even in the period of targeting).

  To expand on the situation, in a land, Rising Heat of Stone and Sand has one Presence, another Spirit has one Presence, and there is a Town with 1 Damage. Entwined Power is used between the two Spirits, and then Rising Heat uses a Power that requires a Sacred Site there for targeting. Even though targeting the Power is legal by Entwined Power, the land only counts as a Sacred Site for Targeting, not for the Special Rule Blistering Heat.
  Tags: Counts As, Rising Heat of Stone and Sand, Blistering Heat (Rising Heat of Stone and Sand), Entwined Power, 0 more...
• When using Spreading and Dreadful Mire, does it matter if you don't have a Sacred Site in the origin land when you resolve the first threshold (e.g., because you targeted via Entwined Power)?
  No, "the origin sacred site" is just land you picked as the origin back when targeting the Power. There isn't a second check for if that land is still your sacred site.

  This only matters if you still have Presence in that land (e.g., because you and the Spirit you're entwined with each had exactly 1 Presence there); if none of the Presence there is yours, there is no Presence you can move.
  Tags: Sacred Sites, Spreading and Dreadful Mire (Fathomless Mud of the Swamp), Fathomless Mud of the Swamp, Entwined Power, 0 more...
• If Fractured Days gives away its Unique Powers (eg, with Entwined Power), can other Spirits play them?
  Other Spirits can play them but not use them, since they would have to pay Time and have no way of gaining it.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Cost To Use, Fractured Days Split the Sky, Entwined Power