Triggered Actions

Errata / Updates

Effect Rules

• Core game, Branch & Claw, Promo, Jagged Earth - all printings
  Errata / Clarification on which items are triggered actions -- Jagged Earth formalized how triggered actions work. The following earlier items are triggered actions ("after X, do Y") even though their wording doesn't use "after":

  • Vengeance of the Dead (Major Power, core game);
  • Ocean In Play (Ocean's Hungry Grasp special rule, core game);
  • Sworn to Victory¹ (Thunderspeaker special rule, core game);
  • Blazing Presence² (Heart of the Wildfire special rule, promo 1);
  • Constant Raiding (Dahan Insurrection Scenario rule, core game);
  • Military Response (Dahan Insurrection Scenario rule, core game).

  The following items are also triggered actions ("after X, do Y") even though their wording doesn't use "after" (but practically speaking it doesn't matter much):

  • Portents of Disaster (Minor Power - Branch & Claw);
  • Forbidden Ground³ (Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds special rule - Branch & Claw);
  • Deep Layers Exposed to the Surface (Stone's Unyielding Defiance special rule - Jagged Earth)

  ¹ = The trigger is "After a Ravage destroys 1 or more Dahan..." and does not involve Blight; see this FAQ entry for elaboration.
  ² = This rule used to say "When you add or move Presence...". More recent printings of the Spirit correctly say "After you add or move [Presence] after Setup...".
  ³ = Read as, "After one or more lands become a Sacred Site for you, Push all Dahan from those lands."
  

  See Summary of Action rules for more details on how triggered actions work in general.

  Adversary instructions saying "After Setup:" are not triggered actions, but just a specification of when that rule applies ("not during Setup"). We apologize for the wording overlap, and will be using "During Play:" or "Post-Setup:" moving forward.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Vengeance of the Dead, Portents of Disaster, Sworn to Victory (Thunderspeaker), 5 more...

Frequently Asked Questions

Adversaries

• If the Kingdom of Sweden Explores into a land with Escalation, can a triggered action like Call to Guard get rid of that Explorer before the Escalation checks if a Dahan will be replaced?
  Yes, but you can choose the opposite order if you want to lose the Dahan.

  This only works because Sweden's Swayed by the Invaders Escalation checks how many Invaders and Dahan are present when that triggered action finally resolves, not when the land is Explored. (The Escalation technically happens in every explored land; it just doesn't do anything if the Invader & Dahan condition isn't met.)
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Kingdom of Sweden, Call to Guard, Bargain of Coursing Paths, 2 more...

Aspects

• When does the Intensify Aspect spend Element Markers? Does it have to have Element Markers handy when it plays a Power during Spirit Phase?
  When it's actually performing the instruction it wants to boost. In the case of Powers, this generally means when using the Power in either Fast Phase or Slow Phase. However, if a Power creates Triggered Actions, the markers are spent when the Triggered Action actually happens, which might be at a later time.

  As an example, consider Infestation of Venomous Spiders. In the Fast Phase, Intensify can spend an Animal marker to add +1 Beasts and a Water marker to gather up to +1 Beasts. If it hits the threshold, it can also spend Fire each time the Damage triggers (usually in the Ravage Step, Build Step, or Explore Step) to increase that instance of Damage by 1.
  Tags: Timing, Element markers, Triggered Actions, Intensify Aspect (Shifting Memory of Ages), 0 more...
• What can the Intensify Aspect spend its Element markers on, aside from its Powers?
  Any other Spirit action that Shifting Memory of Ages is doing. However, almost all of the Spirit actions that the Intensify Aspect can usefully boost are either the use of one of their powers or a triggered action created by their powers (e.g., increasing the Damage from Vengeance of the Dead).

  They generally can't spend Element Markers to boost the Powers of other Spirits, even if those Powers involving Shifting Memory of Ages making choices, since using a Power is the action of the Spirit targeting the Power, not the Spirit being targeted.

  To cover some of the more unusual cases:

  • Intensify can spend Element markers on actions granted to it by other Spirits to use at a later point in the turn, like adding a Disease with Scream Disease Into the Wind or doing Damage with Gift of the Sparking Sky.
  • Intensify can spend a Fire marker on a Ritual of Destroying Flame.
  • Intensify can't spend Element markers on benefits that aren't actions, like the ongoing defense from Bargains of Power and Protection.

  Tags: Action Modifiers, Element markers, Triggered Actions, Scream Disease Into the Wind, 4 more...
• When the Nourishing Aspect gains an extra Minor Power because it gained a Major Power, can it Forget the new Minor Power?
  No. Completely resolve the action that gained the Major Power, including Forgetting, before gaining the Minor Power.
  Tags: Forgetting, Triggered Actions, Gaining Power Cards, Timing, 1 more...
• How many Minor Powers does the Nourishing Aspect gain if Vital Strength of the Earth gains multiple Major Powers at once (e.g., from Entwined Power in solo)?
  Just one. As a triggered action, Flourish with Nature's Strength can only gain 1 Minor Power per action, no matter how many Major Powers are gained during that action.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Gaining Power Cards, Nourishing Aspect (Vital Strength of the Earth)

Definitions

• What are "your Actions"? (e.g., for Responsibilities to the Dead or Spread Tumult and Delusion)
  As a general guideline, anything done by your Spirit Panel or Power Cards, including any consequences directly following from the game rules (e.g., destroying Invaders/Dahan that have taken Damage equal to or greater than their Health, earning Fear from destroying Towns/Cities, destroying Presence / cascading when adding Blight).

  In particular, the following are your Actions.

  • Using one icon in a Growth option during the Spirit Phase [*]
  • Gaining Energy from your Presence track during the Spirit Phase
  • Playing and paying for all of your cards during the Spirit Phase
  • Using one Presence Track icon during the Spirit Phase [†]
  • Using one Power, whether the original use or repeating that Power (even if other Spirits make choices as part of resolving that Power)
  • Performing a triggered Action set up by one of your Powers (e.g., Vengeance of the Dead) or Special Rules (e.g., Ocean in Play)
  • Using a special rule that has an immediate, stand-alone effect (e.g., Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves replacing its Presence with Call Forth Predators)
  • Doing something a Power grants you the option to do later at your discretion (e.g., adding a Disease with Scream Disease Into the Wind, dealing Damage with the stone Beasts created by Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone)

  Note that some special rules refer to "your Powers", which is more restrictive than "your Actions".

  [*] If a Growth icon has an "xN" (e.g., for Fractured Days Split the Sky) it means that you have N copies of that Growth icon; each one is its own action. If a Growth icon does something in "each" land that meets a condition (e.g., for Ocean's Hungry Grasp), it's one action in each of those lands.

  [†] Passive bonuses on Presence tracks, like Elements and Range bonuses, are always available; there is no action to gain them.
  Tags: Actions, Presence track, Triggered Actions, Responsibilities to the Dead (Finder of Paths Unseen), 8 more...
• If the end of a Step or Phase triggers multiple Actions, are those Triggered Actions part of the same Action Tree?
  No, they each start their own Action Tree.

  This can matter if one Action Tree will win the game and another will lose the game — the players can choose which Action Tree resolves first and check for Victory after that one.

  For instance, the Triggered Actions from Russia Level 6 each start their own Action Tree, each potentially winning the game (e.g., with Call to Guard) or losing the game (e.g., combined with France or England).
  Tags: Action tree, Triggered Actions, Victory and Defeat, Visions Out of Time, 0 more...

Effect Rules

• If an Invader or Dahan is in a land where it has a Health bonus, takes Damage equal to its normal Health, and then gets moved into a land where it has no Health bonus, where is it actually destroyed? (E.g., for *Vengeance of the Dead*)
  The Invader/Dahan is destroyed in the destination land.

  There's no “in between” state where it loses its Health bonus for being out of the first land, but hasn’t yet arrived in the second land; it’s either in the first land and has a Health bonus or in the second land and doesn’t have a Health bonus.

  Moving a damaged piece into a land where it has a Health penalty works similarly.
  Tags: Health, Damage, Triggered Actions, Durable, 16 more...
• Can triggered actions be triggered by the action that set them up?
  Yes, you check "did this action trigger anything?" after the action is complete. Lure of the Deep Wilderness' first innate does this, for instance.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Forsake Society to Chase After Dreams (Lure of the Deep Wilderness)

General Play

• What's the timing of ongoing effects expiring?
  All "this turn" effects wear off at the same time. For now, assume all normal Time Passes activity (discard, lose elements, clear damage, ongoing effects expire) is simultaneous. Cards like "Gift of Constancy" (which modify discarding Powers) or "Unquenchable Flames" work because they explicitly specify a timing.

  Rules for non-standard things that happen during Time Passes (like Shroud of Silent Mist's "Slow and Silent Death") can be done before or after effects wearing off unless otherwise specified.

  If it ever becomes clear that there really ought to be some sort of internal ordering to Time Passes, we'll call out that ordering in whatever expansion / FAQ it becomes relevant.
  Tags: Time Passes, Timing, Defend, Action Modifiers, 38 more...
• Can a triggered action trigger itself if it does so via an (nested) basic action? Eg: Wildfire adds Presence, triggering Blight. The Blight card flips and its immediate effects (a basic action) let Wildfire add more Presence. Does Blazing Presence trigger again?
  No. "Can't trigger themselves even indirectly" includes cases like this; otherwise infinite loops would be possible.
  Tags: Actions, Triggered Actions, Nested Actions, Blazing Presence (Heart of the Wildfire), 1 more...
• Can a single Action cause a trigger to happen multiple times? Eg, if Heart of the Wildfire's Presence moves to multiple lands in one action, or if The Kingdom of Scotland Level 5+ cascades Blight from one Coastal land to another?
  No. A single action invokes a triggered action exactly once or not at all. If the effects of a trigger are variable, it will say so in the trigger's effects (e.g., "Vengeance of the Dead" deals "1 Damage per (piece) destroyed" rather than a flat amount).

  If Finder of Paths Unseen moves Heart of the Wildfire's Presence to many different lands, "in the land it goes to" is ambiguous and Wildfire's player chooses which land its "Blazing Presence" special rule applies to. If a since Ravage action adds Blight to two Coastal lands (by cascading), "Runoff and Bilgewater" (The Kingdom of Scotland Level 5) adds a single blight is to that board's Ocean; if the two lands were on different boards, "that board's Ocean" is ambiguous and the players choose which it applies to.

  A single action can cause many separate triggers to fire, including separate triggers that come from the same Power Card — e.g., if "Vengeance of the Dead" is Repeated on a land, each use of the power sets up a separate trigger.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Blazing Presence (Heart of the Wildfire), Kingdom of Scotland, Vengeance of the Dead, 3 more...

Power Cards

• If you use Bargain of Coursing Paths twice, can you move pieces back and forth between the marked lands an unlimited number of times?
  No, the first bargain can't trigger itself, even indirectly. In almost all cases, the pieces can move once from the first bargain and once from the second bargain, but won't move a third time.

  Cleverly overlapping multiple bargains in the same land(s) can squeeze out more than one move per bargain, but this is usually a waste of a bargain, rarely results in extra movement that matters, and grows in complexity far faster than it grows in utility. It is mentioned here only to acknowledge the possibility of constructing a situation where the above answer is technically incorrect, just not in a way that matters >99% of the time.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Move, Bargain of Coursing Paths
• When does the target Spirit choose when to use the Damage bonus of Gift of Furious Might?
  At the moment they do Damage. They don't have to "lock in" which Power gets the bonus in advance.

  This could be much later in the turn than the original Power use if the Power sets up a later condition for doing Damage (e.g., Vengeance of the Dead).
  Tags: Damage, Triggered Actions, Gift of Furious Might (Devouring Teeth Lurk Underfoot), Devouring Teeth Lurk Underfoot, 0 more...
• What happens if one Action adds or moves pieces into two lands that were marked by Bargain of Coursing Paths?
  They all move together to the same land, since that Action only triggers Bargain of Coursing Paths once.

  In the less common case that you move pieces into lands marked by different uses of Bargain of Coursing Paths, it'll trigger each of those bargains separately. Each bargain can then move pieces to a different destination land.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Move, Bargain of Coursing Paths
• For Vengeance of the Dead, what counts as an "effect"? If a Power has multiple instructions that damage/destroy things, are those separate "effects"?
  No. Using a Power is a single action ("effect" means "action"; terminology introduced in Jagged Earth), so Vengeance of the Dead is triggered (or not) after the whole thing resolves.

  See the Summary of Action rules for more details.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Actions, Triggered Actions, Vengeance of the Dead
• If you Repeat Infestation of Venomous Spiders with threshold, does the "this Power" in the threshold refer to all uses of the Power that turn, granting Damage twice from each skip?
  No, when you check what "this Power" does, it refers to one use of the Power, not every use that turn. Any Action skipped by one use of Infestation of Venomous Spiders will only cause Damage from that use's threshold, not from any Repeats.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Repeat, Infestation of Venomous Spiders, Focus the Land's Anguish, 8 more...
• Can Vengeance of the Dead trigger itself? How about if it's Repeated?
  It can't trigger itself. But if it's Repeated, the two different triggers can set each other off.

  Example 1: You use Vengeance of the Dead on a land with many Towns which have each taken 1 Damage. If a Dahan dies there, Vengeance of the Dead will trigger and deal 1 damage (destroying a Town), but will not trigger further because it can't trigger itself.

  Example 2: Same situation, but you've used Vengeance of the Dead twice via a Repeat. This sets up two triggered actions, call them A and B. If a Dahan dies there, trigger A will go off, destroying a Town (triggering B, destroying a Town), then trigger B will go off, destroying a Town (triggering A, destroying a Town). Neither branch can go further because triggers cannot trigger themselves, even indirectly.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Triggered Actions, Vengeance of the Dead
• Can Bargain of Coursing Paths move pieces back into one of the marked lands?
  Yes. The pieces are still considered moved for the purpose of effects that check for that.

  This won't normally trigger Bargain of Coursing Paths again, since it can't trigger itself.
  Tags: Move, Triggered Actions, Bargain of Coursing Paths
• When exactly do you have to pay a "cost to use" on a Power Card?
  Before targeting it - "using" / "resolving" a Power includes choosing a target land and verifying that it's legal.

  This can be relevant for cards like Scream Disease Into the Wind, which set up a triggered action after a Power is used on a land.
  Tags: Cost To Use, Triggered Actions, Scream Disease Into the Wind, Mists Shift and Flow (Shroud of Silent Mist), 4 more...
• How does "+1 Damage with Damage-dealing Powers" (e.g., Flame's Fury) work? What exactly does it increase?
  For every power that does Damage, it increases one part of that Damage by 1.

  For instance, if a power does "1 damage to each Invader", Flame's Fury would let you do 2 damage to one of those Invaders. If a power does "1 Damage to each Town/City", Flame's Fury would let you do 2 damage to one of the Towns or Cities. If a power does "1 Damage to 1 Town/City", then Flame's Fury would let you do 2 Damage to 1 Town/City. If a power does "1 damage" and then (with another condition) another "1 damage", then you deal a total of 3 damage. If a power does damage in multiple different lands, you only get the bonus in one of the lands. If a power ends up doing no damage at all for some reason, then you do not get a damage bonus.

  You only get the bonus once per use of a damage-dealing power. If you use a Power multiple times by Repeating it, or if a Power sets up a triggered action that is triggered more than once, the bonus applies each time.
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Badlands, Triggered Actions, Heart of the Wildfire, 7 more...

Scenarios

• How does the Transforming Aspect interact with the Dahan Insurrection Scenario?
  The Transform Rather Than Consume Special Rule saves Towns/Cities from destruction and Replaces them instead, so it will not trigger Military Response.

  Constant Raiding is a triggered Scenario Action, so it doesn't interact with Transform Rather Than Consume at all. The Dahan will do Damage normally and potentially trigger Military Response.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Saved From Destruction, Dahan Insurrection, Transforming Aspect (Heart of the Wildfire), 0 more...
• In the Dahan Insurrection Scenario, what is the timing of Coordinated Insurrection (the uprising instead of a terror victory)? Can the Insurrection trigger actions - eg, Vengeance of the Dead?
  The Insurrection replaces the normal Terror Victory, so happens after the first action where you reach Terror Level 4. Yes, the Insurrection can trigger actions, which can can help fulfill victory conditions.

  The new wording would be "When you would win a Terror Victory (Level 4), instead: in each land with Dahan, Dahan deal damage as if fighting back after a Ravage. After completing these actions (and any triggered actions), if you do not meet the Scenario victory conditions, you lose."
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Victory and Defeat, Dahan Insurrection, Vengeance of the Dead, 0 more...
• In the Dahan Insurrection scenario, what's the timing and ordering of Constant Raiding and Military Response? If a Power both moves Dahan and deals damage *(eg, Vigor of the Breaking Dawn)*, which happens first?
  Constant Raiding (Dahan that moved deal damage) triggers after each action that moves Dahan. Military Response (add Towns/Explorers for Cities/Towns destroyed) triggers after each action that destroys Towns/Cities. If both trigger, Constant Raiding happens first; this means that newly added Invaders won't be damaged by the Dahan that moved.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Triggered Actions, Dahan Insurrection

Spirits and Innate Powers

• If Finder of Paths Unseen uses Infestation of Venomous Spiders with threshold, when does it have to pay for Responsibilities of the Dead?
  Each time an action is skipped and 1 or more Invaders are destroyed by the Damage (from the resulting triggered action).
  Tags: Timing, Triggered Actions, Skipping Actions, Responsibilities to the Dead (Finder of Paths Unseen), 1 more...
• When does the damage from the 2nd level of Let Them Break Themselves Against the Stone happen?
  At the same time - as part of the same triggered action - as the damage from the first level. (So, e.g., Badlands only boosts the damage once.)

  It's phrased the way it is because If it also used the wording, "After Invaders deal 1 or more Damage to target land...", it would set up a separate triggered action.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Let Them Break Themselves Against the Stone (Stone's Unyielding Defiance)
• What happens if 1 or more Invaders/Dahan moved into the Ocean aren't successfully destroyed by the Ocean in Play special rule?
  Push them to non-Ocean lands (as part of the same action). If the Push also fails somehow (perhaps due to Isolate), the pieces will be left in an illegal state and cleaned up to the nearest land after all triggered actions complete – human pieces cannot remain in the Ocean between "action trees" (a primary action and all other actions following from it). Regardless, Ocean's Hungry Grasp does not get Energy for them.

  This isn't formally specified on Ocean's panel because it's virtually never relevant with just the core game, and spelling it out would both take up a lot of space and needlessly increase complexity / confusion-potential for players who only have the base game. However, it becomes very relevant when playing vs. The Habsburg Monarchy Lvl 4+ (Jagged Earth), which blunts "Destroy Town" effects; see this FAQ if you need details.

  The fact that the Push is part of the triggered action means that it can trigger further actions – e.g., Melt Earth Into Quicksand or Call to Guard in the land Pushed to – which cleaning up illegally placed pieces does not do.

  As a very specific edge-case, if the Ocean is also a normal land due to Weave Together the Fabric of Place, humans can hang out there without trouble (until end of turn when the effect expires).
  Tags: Illegally placed pieces, Triggered Actions, Push, Durable, 5 more...
• When Oceans are in play, can Invader or Dahan pieces remain in the Ocean if they avoid Drowning?
  No, Invaders and Dahan are not allowed to exist in the Ocean long-term. If one manages to get there without being Drowned, move them to the closest legal land after finishing resolution of whatever got them there.

  In the base game, the edge-case where this can happen is if Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares uses Vengeance of the Dead (with threshold) on the Ocean itself. A Town/City/Dahan is moved to the Ocean, triggering Ocean In Play which Drowns it. Drowning (destroying) it triggers Vengeance of the Dead. If Bringer deals VotD's "damage" in an adjacent land to "destroy" a Town or Explorer and Push it into the Ocean, Ocean In Play can't trigger again, because actions can't trigger themselves, even indirectly. So the Town/Explorer isn't Drowned.

  In theory it can also happen if you use Infinite Vitality (with threshold) on the Ocean then Push Dahan into the Ocean, though that's usually a pointless play.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Pieces, Drowning (Ocean's Hungry Grasp), Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, 2 more...
• If Finder of Paths Unseen causes Heart of the Wildfire to place Presence, destroying Invaders, does Finder need to pay for Responsibilities to the Dead? What if Finder destroys some of Volcano's Presence?
  No for Wildfire. Yes for Volcano, assuming the damage from destroying Volcano's Presence destroys 1 or more Invaders/Dahan.

  When placing Wildfire's Presence, Finder's action itself did not cause any destruction. It "directly triggers" the destruction (via Wildfire's special rule), but it did so by adding Presence, not by moving Dahan or Invaders. (Earlier printings of Wildfire incorrectly said "when" instead of "after" for the Special Rule; see the errata / clarifications on triggered actions.)

  Collapse in a Blast of Lava and Steam is phrased as a modifier - when Volcano's Presence is destroyed, it modifies the current action to also do 1 Damage. If that action is Finder's, it's Finder dealing the damage. (This would have worked more thematically if Collapse in a Blast of Lava and Steam had been a triggered action, since then it would have been Volcano dealing the damage.)
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Triggered Actions, Finder of Paths Unseen, Responsibilities to the Dead (Finder of Paths Unseen), Blazing Presence (Heart of the Wildfire), 3 more...
• When exactly do you have to pay for Finder's rule Responsibilities to the Dead when you move something?
  There are two cases where Finder of Paths Unseen must pay:

  • When it moves a piece in a way that decreases the Health of a damaged Dahan or Invader so it has now taken lethal Damage (one of many ways Finder's action can destroy the Dahan/Invaders with its own action);
  • When it moves an Invader/Dahan in a way that directly triggers their destruction by another action (Finder directly triggering their destruction by moving them).

  The first case can happen by causing a Health penalty (e.g., Pushing a damaged Town/City into a Sacred Site of Rising Heat of Stone and Sand) or removing a Health bonus (e.g., Pushing damaged Dahan out of a land with Infinite Vitality or Gathering a Blight into a land with a damaged Durable Town against Habsburg Monarchy Livestock Colony Level 4).

  The second case most commonly occurs in conjunction with Powers like Melt Earth Into Quicksand and Call to Guard and when teaming up with Ocean's Hungry Grasp to Push Invaders into the Ocean (but not when moving Heart of the Wildfire's Presence, since moving the Invaders/Dahan isn't what triggers Blazing Presence).

  If something prevents the destruction, then Finder does not need to pay. If one triggered action triggers another triggered action that causes destruction (like moving pieces into another Spirit's Bargain of Coursing Paths, which then moves those pieces into another Spirit's Melt Earth Into Quicksand), this does not count as "directly triggering" the destruction.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Triggered Actions, Durable, Health, Responsibilities to the Dead (Finder of Paths Unseen), 8 more...
• What happens when Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine abducts Presence belonging to Heart of the Wildfire?
  While Abducting Wildfire’s Presence does move it, The Endless Dark isn’t a land for Blazing Presence. On the other hand, Blazing Presence will trigger when the Presence eventually escapes.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Move, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, The Endless Dark (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 4 more...
• For Shifting Memory of Ages' innate which lets them prepare element markers: if a single power changes a bunch of things in the target land, can I get multiple element markers?
  No. You can only earn 1 Element Marker per Action, no matter how many changes that Action makes to the land. (Because the rule is phrased as “After X do Y “, it triggers exactly once after each qualifying Action.)
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Actions, Element markers, Prepare, 2 more...
• If a Dahan is killed in a ravage but no blight is added (from say, Infinite Vitality) does Sworn to Victory (Thunderspeaker's special rule) still activate?
  Yes. The wording of Sworn to Victory is purely meant to specify that the Presence loss happens after any Presence loss from Blight. (It predates the more precise Jagged Earth terminology.)

  If written today, the wording would be "After a Ravage action destroys 1 or more Dahan, for each Dahan destroyed, destroy 1 of your presence within (range 1)"
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Triggered Actions, Sworn to Victory (Thunderspeaker)
• Does Mud’s Offer No Firm Foundations special rule do anything useful against The Kingdom of France Level 2+?
  Yes, it still has two uses:

  • Since Slave Labor only triggers in lands that had 2+ Explorers before Building, the Explorers built via No Firm Foundations won't trigger that ability (though they would still be upgraded if the land already had 2+ Explorers).
  • At some points in the game, preventing new Cities from being built can be worth adding extra Towns. This is particularly true against Level 4+, when a City that causes Triangle Trade would add another Town anyway.
    Tags: Triggered Actions, Offer No Firm Foundations (Fathomless Mud of the Swamp), Fathomless Mud of the Swamp, Kingdom of France, 0 more...
• If Hearth-Vigil repeats Keep Watch for New Incursions on the same land, do they have to apply the Damage from the two uses in response to the same added/moved Invaders?
  No. It can use both instances of Damage at the same time or at different times, depending on what's more helpful that turn.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Keep Watch for New Incursions (Hearth-Vigil), Hearth-Vigil
• If Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares uses Infestation of Venomous Spiders and meets the threshold, does it deal real Damage?
  No. The threshold is a triggered action from Bringer's Power, so obeys To Dream a Thousand Deaths.
  Tags: Triggered Actions, Infestation of Venomous Spiders, To Dream a Thousand Deaths (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares)
• If Finder of Paths Unseen has an action which both directly destroys Invaders, and *also* triggers their destruction by moving them, does it lose Presence twice from Responsibilities to the Dead? What's the timing?
  As written, no — it's a single triggered action, so can only be invoked once per other action. It can just be invoked by two different things.

  Responsibilities to the Dead is weird in that it's a triggered action which checks consequences of other triggers on the same action — it would be much cleaner if the game never did this, but just checked all triggers exactly once at the completion of each action. For now, we're going to roll with it as written, but if it proves a problem it'll need to be tweaked.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Triggered Actions, Rulings Under Examination, Responsibilities to the Dead (Finder of Paths Unseen)
• 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...
• For Shifting Memory of Ages' innate which lets them prepare element markers, if the pieces in the land change during an Action but end up the same as they were, do you get an Element marker?
  Yes. The pieces in the land change, so the effect triggers.

  The word "After" just signals that you only get the Elements after the first power finishes.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Triggered Actions, Element markers, Prepare, Observe the Ever-Changing World (Shifting Memory of Ages), 1 more...
• What is the timing of specifying a new Presence-track Element for Starlight?
  As soon as it's revealed, even mid-action. Its panel should read "When you reveal a (star)", not "After you reveal a (star)". This rarely matters, but is also more consistent with how other Presence-track elements work.

  (Technically as written, if you revealed multiple stars in the same action, you would only cover one of them, which is why the change above matters.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Elements, Timing, Triggered Actions, Action Modifiers, 2 more...