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Frequently Asked Questions

Adversaries

• Against France Level 6, can Fear cards destroy Explorers?
  Yes.

  The Persistent Explorers effect only says it prevents Explorers from being "removed", so Fear cards that "destroy" Explorers work as usual.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Remove, Destroy, Kingdom of France

Aspects

• Can the Intensify Aspect spend Moon to increase the amount of [thing not on the island] removed by an Action?
  No, Intensify can only affect the number of pieces removed from the island by the Remove keyword. It has no effect on actions that remove pieces from other locations (e.g., removing Presence from Presence tracks with Bargains or Transformative Sacrifice ).
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Definitions

• When does destroying a Town or City cause Fear?
  Always, regardless of how it's destroyed: directly via a Power that says to destroy one, from damage done by a Power, from damage done by Dahan counterattacking, due to a Spirit's special rules, from a Fear or Event card, etc. [p. 18]

  Fear from destruction is independent of any explicit Fear the Power does - e.g., Lightning's Shatter Homesteads reads "1 Fear. Destroy 1 Town." It will usually generate 2 Fear: 1 explicitly, and 1 for destroying a Town.

  Note that when you remove or replace a Town or City, it does NOT cause any automatic Fear. Removing Invaders happens most frequently via Fear Cards, and usually represents the Invaders fleeing, which doesn't make them any more afraid. Replacing an Invader represents some sort of transformation or change; if it's a scary change, the effect will explicitly specify how much Fear to do.
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• If an effect tells you to, eg, "remove 2 Invaders" (Twisted Flowers Murmur Ultimatums), can you just remove 2 Cities?
  Yes. "An Invader" may refer to an Explorer, Town, or City. (p. 30)

  Some Fear Cards remove Invaders based on Health rather than quantity. Those consider all modifiers to current Health (from, e.g., England Level 5, or an Event/Fear card) - but not Damage, as Damage does not reduce Health. (Health is simply how much Damage it takes to destroy something.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Invaders, Remove, Health, Isolation (Fear card), 1 more...

Effect Rules

• Is it possible to Remove, Replace, or Destroy an Incarna that is counting only at itself?
  Yes, with either Fragments of Yesteryear or thresholded Cast Down Into the Briny Deep. If you don’t have an easy way to get your Incarna back, using either of those Powers near your Incarna is not recommended.
  Tags: Destroy, Remove, Replace, Incarna, 2 more...
• Unlike for other Incarna, there is no way to bring back the Incarna of the Lair and Warrior Aspects. What happens if those Incarna get Destroyed/Removed/Replaced?
  They usually remain in the Incarna supply for the rest of the game, since there's normally no way to bring them back[†]. Letting this happen is generally not a good idea. Fortunately, it is effectively impossible to Destroy, Remove, or Replace an Incarna without deliberately trying to do so, since the owner can choose to count the Incarna as no piece other than itself, and very few effects Destroy, Remove, or Replace pieces in general.

  [†] As of the release of Nature Incarnate, the only way to restore these Incarna is via the optional high-tracking rules for Fragments of Yesteryear.
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Event Cards

• For the "Wavering Resolve" Event, if you have N Power Cards that add Fear, do you have to choose to Remove a set of Invaders that have exactly N Health between them?
  In most cases, yes. Keep picking more Invaders to remove until it's impossible to pick another without going over N Health. This will usually just be picking the ones you actually want off the island and then using miscellaneous Explorers to get all the way to N.

  In the rare case that it's impossible to exactly hit N Health with the pieces you want to remove, just get as close as you can with the remaining pieces. For example, if the Spirits have 4 relevant Power Cards and the island has 3 Explorers and 2 Cities, then the players can choose to remove just the 3 Explorers (3 total Health) – while this isn't exactly 4 Health worth of Invaders, it's impossible to get closer by choosing another Invader. On the other hand, the players couldn't remove just 1 City (also 3 total Health) – there's a way to get closer to 4 Health by also removing one of the Explorers.
  Tags: Health, Remove, Wavering Resolve

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...

Presence and Sacred Sites

• What happens to Presence when it gets removed or replaced?
  If it is removed or replaced during play, it goes to the destroyed Presence pile in the supply unless the particular effect says to put it elsewhere. From there, it can be restored by any effect that returns destroyed Presence to the island.

  Anything removed or replaced during setup is out of the game.

  As of the release of Nature Incarnate, only four Presence-removing/replacing effects send the Presence somewhere special: "Transform to a Murderous Darkness," "Call Forth Predators" (Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves special rule), and both Bargains remove replaced Presence from the game. (Though Bargains put the Presence on reminder cards, this is just to help players track how many times they made the Bargain; Bargains scale with the number of times they are made, not the number of Presence on the reminder card.)
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can Fear/Event actions destroy Invaders in The Endless Dark?
  Yes. While Event and Fear Card actions generate Fear rather than removing Invaders, those actions are free to destroy, damage, replace, or otherwise harm the Invaders in any way that doesn't use the keyword "Remove" (other than downgrading Explorers, since that's defined as removing them).

  Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine has no such restrictions with its own Powers, and is free to Remove Invaders or Downgrade Explorers like normal.
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