Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island)

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• If the Locus Aspect lets a Spirit Repeat a Power Card at its Incarna, what happens if that Spirit uses the Power Card again (e.g., via Powerstorm)? Can they Repeat the Power Card at the Incarna again?
  Yes, but only if the Spirit has enough absorbed Presence. Each Repeat granted by Strength of the Waking Island counts against the total number of Repeats it grants that Spirit that turn.
  Tags: Repeat, Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island)

Blighted Island cards

• Can you Repeat the Power Card granted by Aid from Lesser Spirits?
  Yes, but with some restrictions.

  • Anything that checks the cost of the Power Card checks its printed cost, which may be 1 Energy.
  • It's not one of your Power Cards in play, so you can't Repeat it with Gift of Twinned Days (but it doesn't stop you from repeating a more expensive Power Card).

  Triggered Repeats, like those from Relentless Punishment, also work normally.
  Tags: Repeat, Aid from Lesser Spirits, Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, 5 more...

Effect Rules

• When Blight is added to a land with Vitality, does it destroy Presence?
  Not if there's enough Vitality to prevent all of the Blight from being added.

  Sufficient Vitality will also prevent extra effects of Blight being added, including those from Mining Rush (The Kingdom of Sweden Level 5), Irreparable Damage (The Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony) Additional Loss Condition), Runoff and Bilgewater (The Kingdom of Scotland Level 5), Fragile Sands (Varied Terrains), and All Things Weaken (Blight Card).
  Tags: Blight, Vitality, Habsburg Monarchy (Livestock Colony), Kingdom of Sweden, 7 more...
• How does Vitality interact with effects that add two or more Blight at once (e.g., Kingdom of Sweden Level 1)?
  Each Vitality prevents 1 Blight. Depending on the number of Vitality relative to the number of Blight added, this may or may not prevent all of the Blight.
  Tags: Blight, Vitality, Kingdom of Sweden, Towering Roots of the Jungle, 3 more...
• If your Incarna and 1 of your Presence are in the same land, is that land a Sacred Site for you?
  Yes, if you choose to count your Incarna as Presence for that action.
  Tags: Sacred Sites, Counts As, Incarna, Ember-Eyed Behemoth, 4 more...
• 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 instead of the usual Range and Target restrictions (p. 19) even if the land would normally be untargetable. 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...
• Can a triggered Repeat (like from "Relentless Punishment") repeat Powers resolved at an unusual time, such during the Invader Phase via the "Ethereal Conjunction" Event?
  Yes. It repeats the Power Card immediately, before moving on to the rest of the Event.
  Tags: Repeat, Timing, Resolving Powers, Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), 6 more...
• If both a Beasts and something that counts as a Beasts (e.g., a sacred site of Many Minds Move as One) are in the same land and something destroys a Beasts there, can you choose which one is destroyed?
  Yes. Even if there are two ordinary Beasts tokens in a land, players get to choose which one gets destroyed – it just doesn't usually matter which one you pick.

  Similarly, if a Presence and an Incarna are both in a land and something would destroy Presence there, the Spirit can choose whether to destroy the Presence or the Incarna.
  Tags: Counts As, Incarna, Many Minds Move as One, A Joining of Swarms and Flocks (Many Minds Move as One), 8 more...
• What does Vitality do in lands with Blight?
  Nothing, aside from existing for effects that check how many Vitality tokens are in a land, like Heart-Tree Guards the Land. If the Blight is later moved or removed, the Vitality can be used for its normal function.
  Tags: Blight, Vitality, Towering Roots of the Jungle, Enduring Vitality (Towering Roots of the Jungle), 2 more...

Elements and Elemental Thresholds

• Can you use the threshold effects of Innate Powers, even if you can't use the effects above them?
  Yes, each line is evaluated independently, depending on the Elements you activate the power with.

  (You are allowed to pretend you have fewer Elements than you actually have, but need to be consistent for the whole power.)
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Elements, Sparking Aspect (Lightning's Swift Strike), Haven Aspect (River Surges in Sunlight), Foreboding Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), 54 more...

Event Cards

• Can "Tell the Old Stories" restore Powers forgotten or replaced prior to the start of play? (e.g, Boon of Vigor with the Sunshine Aspect)
  No.
  Tags: Forgetting, Tell the Old Stories, Sunshine Aspect (River Surges in Sunlight), Solidify Echoes of Majesty Past, 5 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 a Spirit's Presence counts as Beasts (say, due to Settle Into Hunting-Grounds), and a "destroy Beasts" effect destroys their Presence, is it still considered destroyed Presence? More generally, if Piece A also counts as Piece B, and a "destroy/remove Piece B" effect destroys/removes it, does it go to the supply for A or B?
  It's considered destroyed Presence. When a piece is removed from the board, it goes to the supply (or other destination) for that physical type of piece.
  Tags: Presence, Pieces, Counts As, Beasts, 14 more...

Power Cards

• 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)
• 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, 5 more...
• If the text of Strong and Constant Currents is resolved in an inland land (e.g., due to Let's See What Happens), can it move Dahan?
  Yes.

  "One other Coastal land" doesn't re-check if the target land is Coastal — it just means "a Coastal land that is not target land."
  Tags: Strong and Constant Currents, Let's See What Happens (Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble), Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble, Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), 0 more...
• 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...
• When an Aspect starts the game with a Minor Power in its hand, does that Minor Power count as a Unique Power (e.g., for Tell the Old Stories)?
  No, it's still a Minor Power.

  The type of a card never changes, no matter where it starts the game. If you're ever unsure which type a Power Card is, check the back of the card.
  Tags: Tell the Old Stories, Dark Fire Aspect (Shadows Flicker Like Flames), Violence Aspect (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), Warrior Aspect (Thunderspeaker), 4 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can Relentless Gaze of the Sun usefully Repeat a Power Card with Relentless Punishment if the first use makes the land untargetable for the second use? (e.g., if Lure of the Unknown Gathers a Town into a land, preventing that land from being a land without Invaders.)
  Yes. When the source of a Repeat specifies which land it affects, ignore the normal Range and Target requirements. In this case, the second use of Lure of the Unknown can Gather an additional Explorer/Town, since the "no Invaders" targeting condition is ignored.

  This won't let you get around any conditional requirements in the Power's effects though. For example, if Sear Anger Into the Wild Lands destroys the last Invader in a land, a Relentless Punishment Repeat of the Power can no longer meet the "if Wilds and Invaders are present" condition in the Power's effect to add more Fear.
  Tags: Repeat, Targeting, Shadows of the Burning Forest, Lure of the Unknown, 8 more...