Lesser Spirits Imperiled

Frequently Asked Questions

Definitions

• When instructed to discard a card, which cards can you choose from? Where do those cards go?
  "Discard a card" without any other qualifiers means "put a Power Card from your hand into your discard pile." This most commonly occurs as part of paying for a Choice Event, but can also appear as a cost or detrimental effect.

  Some effects (most notably, the standard effects of Time Passes) discard Power Cards from play because they interact with a specific card that's in play or with cards in play in general. In that case, put the Power Card(s) from play into your discard pile. You can't discard a Power Card from play unless otherwise instructed to do so.

  If instructed to discard a card not controlled by a player, the card goes to that deck's discard pile. This most commonly occurs when gaining a Power Card, discarding the top card of the Event Deck on Turn 1, and when discarding a Minor Power as a randomizer.
  Tags: Discarding Powers as a randomizer, Choice Events, Turmoil's Touch (Wandering Voice Keens Delirium), Wandering Voice Keens Delirium, 19 more...

Event Cards

• When Event cards ask you to discard the top major or minor power and do something on each board, do you discard just one card overall or one per board?
  You discard one card for each board and follow the instructions on that board.

  This affects 'Missionaries Arrive', 'New Species Spread', 'War Touches the Island's Shores', and 'Years of Little Rain'.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Missionaries Arrive, New Species Spread, War Touches the Island's Shores, Years of Little Rain, 2 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Are pieces in The Endless Dark still on the island?
  Yes, they are still on the island for all purposes, even though they aren't in a land or on a board.

  In particular:

  • Invaders in The Endless Dark block a Terror Level victory.
  • Presence in The Endless Dark prevents loss from Spirit elimination.
  • Beasts in The Endless Dark count towards preventing a loss against the Tsardom of Russia.
  • Towns in The Endless Dark count towards a loss against the Kingdom of France.
  • Presence in The Endless Dark can be destroyed by Events and Blight Cards that destroy Presence from each Spirit (but not those that destroy Presence from specific boards).

  However, it is not a land, and thus:

  • The Endless Dark does not count for loss conditions that are based on contents of a particular land, like Habsburg Mining Colony or the Kingdom of England.

  Tags: Victory and Defeat, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Tsardom of Russia, 14 more...