Sacred Sites

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• 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.
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General Play

• Is there a stacking limit to how many Presence can be in a land? Can a large stack count as more than one Sacred Site?
  No, you can have as many Presence disks as you want in a land, but it can only count as one Sacred Site.

  More generally, there is no stacking limit for any piece in the game unless an Adversary or Scenario adds one. (However, there is usually no benefit to having more than 2 Presence in a land, unless you expect to lose some of it shortly.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Presence, Sacred Sites, Stacking Limit, Earth's Vitality (Vital Strength of the Earth), 1 more...

Power Cards

• If I have one Presence in a land, and I play Entwined Power on another Spirit who has one Presence there, do we have a Sacred Site?
  You may target Powers as if you had a Sacred Site there, and they may target Powers as if they had a Sacred Site there. But for all other purposes, no, because Entwined Power only lets you use each others' Presence for targeting Powers - not for anything else, including resolving Powers.

  For instance, Gift of Living Energy (a Minor Power) wouldn't count it towards "If you have at least 2 Sacred Sites...", nor would Fear of the Unseen (a Fear Card) treat it as a Sacred Site for scaring away Invaders.

  Note that if you Entwine with River Surges in Sunlight, their River's Domain Special Rule only applies to them (read it as "counts as your Sacred Site"). So for targeting, they would treat any Wetland where either of you have Presence as a Sacred Site, but you would still need 2+ Presence as usual.
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• 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".
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• Playing Many Minds Move as One: if I treat my Sacred Site as Beasts in order to move it, do I have to move both Presence to the same land?
  Yes.
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• When a Spirit uses a special rule to make a sacred site with only one Presence (e.g., River Surges in Sunlight using River's Domain in a Wetland), do they count as having two Presence there?
  No, they still just count as having as many Presence as they have disks in the land.

  Similarly, when an Incarna counts as a Sacred Site, it's still just counts as one Presence.

  While two Presence is enough to make a land a Sacred Site (as suggested by the iconography), the reverse is not true.
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• When using Spreading and Dreadful Mire, does it matter if you don't have a Sacred Site in the origin land when you resolve the first threshold (e.g., because you targeted via Entwined Power)?
  No, "the origin sacred site" is just land you picked as the origin back when targeting the Power. There isn't a second check for if that land is still your sacred site.

  This only matters if you still have Presence in that land (e.g., because you and the Spirit you're entwined with each had exactly 1 Presence there); if none of the Presence there is yours, there is no Presence you can move.
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• Can Mists Shift and Flow let you meet origin land targeting requirements? (E.g., targeting from a Jungle, or from a Sacred Site)
  Yes. (JE, p. 31)
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• Moving (or otherwise affecting) "a Sacred Site" usually affects 2 Presence from that Spirit. What about River Surges in Sunlight when it has Presence in a Wetland?
  The player may choose whether 1 or 2 Presence are affected.
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• What counts as "creating a Sacred Site" for the special rule of Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds?
  Any time a land that wasn't Keeper's Sacred Site becomes its Sacred Site, treat it as creating one, regardless of the details.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Sacred Sites, Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds, Forbidden Ground (Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds)