Relentless Punishment (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...

Power Cards

• When using a land-targeting Power with Range "—," which land is the origin land?
  In the rather rare case that it matters, you can choose any land with your Presence to be the origin of the Power.

  If you don't have any Presence to use as the origin (e.g., because all of your Presence is under Absolute Stasis or in the Endless Dark), you can't use the Power.
  Tags: Range, Absolute Stasis (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Emerge from the Dread Night Wind (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), Frightful Keening (Wandering Voice Keens Delirium), 7 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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