Fractured Days Split the Sky

Frequently Asked Questions

Adversaries

• Can the Salt Deposits Invader Card be removed or discarded from the Invader Deck?
  No, the only way it can leave the Invader Deck is by being advanced out of the Explore Space into the Build Space at the end of the Invader Phase in which it was revealed.

  In particular:

  • If you would Accelerate it out of the deck, instead discard the next Stage II card underneath it (or the top-most Stage III card if there are no Stage II cards left).
  • Visions of a Shifting Future can't bury it to the bottom of the deck (since it's specially placed during Setup), but can shuffle it to take a chance at delaying it.
  • The Past Returns Again can't swap it with a card in the Invader discard.
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Elements and Elemental Thresholds

• If I gain an Element in the middle of resolving a Power, may I use that Element to gain a later threshold?
  Yes, you may.

  This can happen, e.g., if the first part of Indomitable Claim reveals an Element on a Presence track, or if the land gets Blighted and the card is Aid from Lesser Spirits.

  Likewise if you lose Elements in the middle of resolving the Power, you may lose further thresholds.

  Note that any parts of the power that have already happened cannot be modified — those thresholds are either already hit or already missed. In particular, any thresholds that modify Speed or Range are checked first (before the rest of the power), and ~or~ choices are made before resolving either option.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Elements, Unrelenting Growth, Indomitable Claim, Slip the Flow of Time (Fractured Days Split the Sky), 5 more...
• If you gain Elements from a Growth option, do they go away at the end of the turn?
  Yes. (Core rulebook, p. 10)
  Tags: Elements, Growth, Fractured Days Split the Sky, Lure of the Deep Wilderness, 1 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...
• If an effect says that you may X to Y (e.g., paying Energy to gain a Power Card, Destroying Presence to skip an Event on a board), are you allowed to get the second half for free if you can't do the first half?
  No, the second half is gated behind paying the cost in the first half. Similarly, "you may Y by X" requires paying the cost in the second half to get the effect in the first half.

  While this tends to be pretty obvious when the cost is paying Energy, it's less clear if the cost is performing some other effect, like discarding a card or removing Presence.

  While you must be able to pay the cost in order to get the bonus, ongoing effects can alter the final result of the cost being paid. For example, you can successfully pay the cost of "Destroy 2 Presence" even if Flowing and Silent Forms Dart By will end up saving that Presence from destruction if you do so. On the other hand, you can't attempt to pay the cost with Presence under Absolute Stasis, since that Presence only exists for Victory/Defeat – it doesn't exist as far as the Event is concerned.
  Tags: Action Modifiers, Flowing and Silent Forms Dart By, Absolute Stasis (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Turmoil's Touch (Wandering Voice Keens Delirium), 11 more...
• When an effect lets you play a card, does that count against your allowed number of card plays?
  No. The number of card plays on your Presence track only effects how many cards you can play during the Spirit Phase. Cards played after that are in addition to those limits.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Playing Power Cards, Spur on with Words of Fire, Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power, Gift of the Primordial Deeps (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), 10 more...

Power Cards

• If a Power on a Power Card has been modified, do those modifiers persist if the Power Card leaves play?
  No, any modifiers to a Power in play, whether modifying Speed, Range, Target, or Effect, are to the Power in play, not to the Power Card itself. If the Power Card leaves play, it does not retain those modifications, nor does it automatically re-gain them if it is played again that turn.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Action Modifiers, Speed (Fast/Slow), Range Boosts, Slip the Flow of Time (Fractured Days Split the Sky), 1 more...
• 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...

Scenarios

• When Fractured Days Splits the Sky plays Destiny Unfolds and gains a card from their Destiny, do they also put a card in Days that Never Were?
  Yes, and they can usually put any card they could have picked from their Destiny into Days that Never Were; they don't have to pick a Power Card of the same type as the one they gained unless the gain effect had a restriction.
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Setup

• When setting a Spirit on a the thematic map, 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 — you're playing on the thematic map, after all!
  Tags: Thematic map, Spirit setup, Vengeance as a Burning Plague, Starlight Seeks Its Form, 6 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• What Invader cards are "specially placed during Setup" for Visions of a Shifting Future or Rising Interest in the Island?
  Any card that was moved by Adversary or Scenario instructions.

  As of the release of Nature Incarnate, this includes:

  • The early Stage III card of Kingdom of Brandenburg-Prussia Level 2.
  • The early Stage II cards and Coastal card of Kingdom of Scotland Level 2, and the early Stage III card of Scotland Level 4.
  • The interleaved Stage III cards of Tsardom of Russia Level 4 (but not the Stage II cards they alternate with).
  • The Salt Deposits card of Habsburg Mining Expedition Level 4.

  The only Event that is currently specially placed is France's Slave Rebellion.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Invader deck, Visions of a Shifting Future (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Fractured Days Split the Sky, Kingdom of Scotland, 4 more...
• What do the "x2" and "x3" mean in the Growth choices for Fractured Days Split the Sky?
  They represent 2 (or 3) separate choices: N times, choose either (option A) or (option B).

  Each is a separate action, if that ever becomes relevant.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Fractured Days Split the Sky
• 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.
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• What happens if Fractured Days Split the Sky uses Visions of a Shifting Future on the Invader deck, and there is a reminder card right below the top card?
  Set aside the reminder card, look at the top Invader Card, and shuffle the top two Invader Cards (one of which was previously below the reminder card). Then put the cards back on top of the deck, with the reminder card below the top card.

  Unless otherwise specified, Reminder Cards mark a position in the deck. They are not Invader Cards.
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• Can a Spirit like Finder get its Presence in an in-play Ocean using "Move 1 Presence" on a growth track?
  No, because that is not a Power or Blight.

  The same applies to Presence placement during Growth or Growth options allowing movement.

  You can use Mists Shift and Flow to move Presence into the Ocean, as that happens as part of the targeting of a Power.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Move, Finder of Paths Unseen, Ocean's Hungry Grasp, 8 more...