Insatiable Hunger of the Swarm

Errata / Updates

Power Cards

• Branch & Claw - 3rd printing
  Errata for Major Power "Insatiable Hunger of the Swarm" -- The line starting "Each deal 1 (Fear), ..." should read "Each (Beasts) does 1 (Fear)..."

  A corrected version is planned for Errata Pack (Core 4th/5th, B&C 3rd).
  Tags: Insatiable Hunger of the Swarm

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• When instructed to "Repeat this Power", do you have to obey the range/target land restrictions?
  Only if it doesn't tell you where to Repeat it. If a Repeat specifies where to use it, you obey those instructions, ignoring the original Range and Target restrictions (p. 19). In the rare case that the origin land matters when instructed to Repeat a Power in a specific land, it's the same origin land as the original power use.

  For example, "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain" could be Repeated on an adjacent land without Blight.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Targeting, Range, The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain, 19 more...

Power Cards

• If you have a choice between destroying a normal Beasts token and a Beasts token marked by Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone, can you pick the marked Beasts? If so, what happens?
  Yes, you can pick the marked Beasts, and it's generally advantageous to do so: if it would be destroyed, removed, or replaced, skip those effects.

  It won't count as destroyed, removed, or replaced for effects that scale off the number of Beasts that leave the board, like A Dreadful Tide of Scurrying Flesh or Pent-Up Calamity.
  Tags: Destroy, Remove, Replace, Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone, 12 more...
• If you repeat a Power, can you use another Power in between the two uses, or do the two uses have to go right after each other?
  That depends on what's letting you Repeat the Power.

  • If you can Repeat the Power "this turn" (e.g., from "Powestorm" or "Gift of Strength"), then you may use another Power between the two uses of the repeated Power.
  • If the Power repeats itself (e.g., "Creepers Tear into Mortar" or "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain") or you are granted the option to Repeat a Power "After" using it the first time (e.g., from "Relentless Punishment" or "Strength of the Waking Island"), then resolve the Power and anything else it triggers (e.g., "Vengeance of the Dead") before immediately Repeating it – you don't have a chance to use another Power first.
    (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, 20 more...

Scenarios

• What is prevented by the Invader benefit #8 of Powers Long Forgotten?
  The land cannot be selected as a target for Powers (Cards or Innate). There are no other restrictions.

  For instance, you could target an adjacent land and Gather Invaders there, or you could place Presence there as part of Growth. However, you cannot use a "Repeat this on an adjacent land" threshold to target the land, since that's still targeting the land with a Power even if it's not using the normal Range and Target requirements.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Powers Long Forgotten, Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain, Sweep into the Sea, 2 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares do real damage (destroying cities, etc) with Power X?
  The answer, in general, is 'no'. If the Power says "damage" or "destroy", it doesn't matter if it also says that Dahan, Beasts, Invaders, or anything else are doing that damage, the source is still ultimately Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares and is only nightmare damage.

  This applies even if the power has some other spirit doing something (eg, Blazing Renewal). If Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares played the power, it cannot do real damage.

  But: note that Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares can "remove" or "replace" Invaders without restriction, can trigger Invader Actions (ie, cause a Ravage, which will involve real damage), can modify how Invader actions work, and can usefully add Defense (without changing how the Dahan deal their retaliation damage in the Ravage).
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Veil the Night's Hunt, Manifestation of Power and Glory (Thunderspeaker), Instruments of their Own Ruin, Insatiable Hunger of the Swarm, 6 more...
• How does Relentless Punishment work with Power Cards that Repeat themselves (e.g., "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain")?
  In order:

  • The initial use of the Power targets a land and resolves (along with any non-Repeat actions it triggers).
  • This triggers both "Relentless Punishment" on that land and the Power's own Repeat instruction. Since the order is ambiguous, you choose which one happens first.
  • After the Power Repeats itself, "Relentless Punishment" triggers again on the second land targeted.

  Because "Relentless Punishment" counts all prior uses of the Power, using that special rule a second time can get quite expensive (Power's Energy Cost + 1 Energy for the first use + 1 Energy per initial "Relentless Punishment" use + 1 Energy for the self-Repeat use)!

  The Locus Aspect works similarly, but instead of the cost increasing each time, each Repeat counts against the number of Repeats that Spirit gets from "Strength of the Waking Island."
  Tags: Repeat, Triggered Actions, Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun, 12 more...
• If Many Minds Moves as One gathers multiple Sacred Sites into one land with an action, do they still count as separate Beasts for the rest of that action?
  Yes, while Many Minds can only use A Joining of Swarms and Flocks on one pair of Presence in each of its Sacred Sites (Jagged Earth, page 29), those Presence-pairs-as-Beasts remain Beasts for the rest of the action even if they move to new lands. In particular, Many Minds can use The Teeming Host Arrives to gather Presence pairs from three different lands with the middle threshold and then Push each of those Presence pairs with the final threshold.

  This doesn't let Many Minds gather multiple pairs of Presence from the same land with a single Gather instruction, so The Teeming Host Arrives can't gather more than two Presence from one land.
  Tags: Counts As, A Joining of Swarms and Flocks (Many Minds Move as One), The Teeming Host Arrives (Many Minds Move as One), Tigers Hunting, 5 more...