Relentless Gaze of the Sun

Frequently Asked Questions

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 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...

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...

Power Cards

• If you hit the threshold of Blinding Glare, does the "Instead" apply to just the Fear option or to the entire threshold?
  The entire threshold. To use either of the threshold options, you must give up the base effect.
  Tags: Blinding Glare (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• For Powers that let you skip some # of Invader Actions, how/when do you decide which Invader Actions to skip?
  You decide when they come up.

  You can skip as many as you want, up to the limit given. You are not obliged to use all skips to which you are entitled (you could always be saving them for a future Invader Action caused by something unusual). Unused skips do not carry over to the next turn (as normal for effects that don't change pieces).
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Skipping Actions, A Dreadful Tide of Scurrying Flesh (Many Minds Move as One), Infestation of Venomous Spiders, Exaltation of the Incandescent Sky, 5 more...

Spirit Phase

• With the growth of A Spread of Rampant Green, can I gain a power card and then choose where to use the first (non-optional) growth option?
  Yes, you can choose where to place your Jungle/Wetlands presence based on a power card you gain that turn.

  This is more explicit in the Branch & Claw rulebook, where there are more spirits with multiple growth choices.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Ordering, A Spread of Rampant Green, Relentless Gaze of the Sun, 0 more...
• When your Presence track gives you "Any" element, when do you have to choose what element that is? Can you change what it is during the turn?
  You can wait until the middle of your turn to choose what it is, but once you've set it for a turn, it can't change that turn [base rulebook p. 14, last item under Presence Tracks]

  This holds true even if you're restricted on which Elements you can choose (e.g., Wounded Waters Bleeding having a "Water / Animal" space instead of a full "Any"). [Nature Incarnate rulebook p. 9]

  This contrasts with the timing of choosing flexible Elements gained from different sources.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Elements, "Any" element, Timing, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, 10 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• When Relentless Gaze of the Sun chooses another Spirit with "Consider a Harmonious Nature," must that Spirit have Destroyed Presence?
  No, Relentless Gaze of the Sun is free to choose any Spirit other than itself; the 3 Sun 1 Plant threshold just doesn’t do anything other than choosing a Spirit if the chosen Spirit has no Destroyed Presence.

  The chosen Spirit can still receive Energy from the final threshold.
  Tags: Consider a Harmonious Nature (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• When using Relentless Punishment to repeat a Power Card, what counts as a previous use?
  Any time you have resolved the Power, including:

  • The original use of the Power;
  • Any time Relentless Punishment repeated that Power;
  • Any time that Power repeated itself (e.g., Winds of Rust and Atrophy repeating itself with its threshold); and
  • Any time something else repeated that Power (e.g., Powerstorm)

  Thus, if at all possible, you want to target the land where you're going to use Relentless Punishment before you use any other Repeats.
  Tags: Repeat, Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• In Growth, can Relentless Gaze of the Sun add fewer than 3 Destroyed Presence or move fewer than 3 Presence?
  Yes.

  Thematically, Gaze should have to restore as many Destroyed Presence as possible (max. 3), but enforcing this in the few cases it matters (e.g., preventing Blazing Renewal combos) wasn’t worth the trouble of players thinking that they could only take that Growth Action if they could return exactly 3 Destroyed Presence, or in extreme cases, that they couldn’t choose that Growth Option — and its critical Reclaim All Power Cards Growth Action — unless they had at least 3 Destroyed Presence.
  Tags: Growth, Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• When does Relentless Punishment check how many of your Presence are in the origin land?
  When you target the land with the original use of the Power, before resolving any of its effects. This most commonly matters for Focus the Sun’s Rays, but it can also matter if Presence is destroyed/removed/replaced as part of Power resolution.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Timing, Focus the Sun’s Rays (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), 1 more...
• When Relentless Gaze of the Sun uses Consider a Harmonious Nature to destroy Presence instead of adding Blight, which Presence can it pick?
  It can destroy any of its own Presence anywhere on the island, which includes Presence in The Endless Dark.

  Gaze can't destroy Presence that's not on the island, including:

  • On its Presence Tracks
  • Removed from the game, e.g., by a Bargain
  • Under the effects of Absolute Stasis
  • On Serpent's Deep Slumber Track
    Tags: Destroy, Absolute Stasis (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Deep Slumber (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), Consider a Harmonious Nature (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), 2 more...
• When Relentless Gaze of the Sun uses its Growth Action to move up to 3 Presence, must those Presence come from the same land?
  Yes.

  "Move X Together" means "X must be together for the entire movement," not "X must move in a way that they are all together at the end of the movement."
  Tags: Move, Growth, Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• Can Relentless Gaze of the Sun use Relentless Punishment to repeat Spirit-targeting Powers?
  No, a Spirit-targeting Power doesn't have an origin land.

  (Some Spirit-targeting Powers technically have origin lands for specific Range checks in their effects, like for the Damage in Unleash a Torrent of the Self's Own Essence, but the Power as a whole still doesn't have an origin for Relentless Punishment to count Presence in.)
  Tags: Range, Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun, Unleash a Torrent of the Self's Own Essence, 3 more...
• On the last Growth option of Relentless Gaze of the Sun, when do you gain the extra Energy?
  In the rare case that this matters, gain this Energy when you gain Energy normally during the second part of the Spirit Phase.

  Doing it this way, you are not penalized if you need to move Presence with this Growth Option before you add Presence off the top Presence track with the first Growth Option.
  Tags: Growth, Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• Does Grinning Trickster's rightmost Growth Option just use the Card Plays revealed on the Presence Track, or does it include modifiers *(eg, Back Against the Wall, or Invader benefit 4 in Powers Long Forgotten)*?
  The printed number on the Plays track. In general, effects that scale via the Energy/Plays on Presence tracks use the printed numbers rather than the amount of Energy or Plays actually usable during a given Spirit Phase, whether or not they explicitly say so.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble, Back Against the Wall, Powers Long Forgotten, 5 more...
• When Relentless Gaze of the Sun uses its final Growth option, does it also double the Elements it gains from its top Presence Track?
  No. That Growth option only doubles Energy gained, not all benefits from the Energy/turn track.
  Tags: Elements, Energy, Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• When Relentless Gaze of the Sun is the only Spirit in the game, can it choose itself for the Plant thresholds of Consider a Harmonious Nature?
  No, the "another Spirit" exception in solo play only applies to the "Target" box, not the effects of the Power. The last two thresholds will simply fail to do anything, since choosing another Spirit is impossible.
  Tags: Solo games, Consider a Harmonious Nature (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun
• 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...