Winds of Rust and Atrophy

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• When the Intensify Aspect spends a Moon Marker when replacing a piece of type A with a piece of type B (e.g., replacing 1 Explorer with 1 Dahan with Call of the Dahan Ways), how many piece of type B will there be?
  One per piece of type A that was replaced. So in this case, if there were two Explorers present, there would then be two Dahan.
  Tags: Replace, Upgrade, Downgrade, Intensify Aspect (Shifting Memory of Ages), 7 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, ignoring the original Range and Target restrictions (p. 19). 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...

General Play

• If you damage an Invader/Dahan and then replace it with another Invader/Dahan, does the new piece enter the game damaged?
  Yes. (Rulebook p. 18) When you replace a piece with another piece, the new piece comes in with whatever Damage the original piece had.
  

  For example, if you deal 2 Damage to a City and then replace it with a Town, that Town is immediately destroyed.

  If you replace a damaged piece with two or more pieces (as when "Dissolve the Bonds of Kinship" replaces a City with two Explorers), the damage get divided between the new pieces as you choose. Similarly, if the piece had Strife tokens attached to it, the Strife tokens get divided between the new pieces as you choose.

  Note that if a piece is replaced as part of being saved from destruction (as is done by the Transforming Aspect), then Damage is cleared before the piece is replaced, so there's no Damage to divide. (Strife tokens are still divided normally, if relevant.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Replace, Strife, Crops Wither and Fade (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), 22 more...

Power Cards

• If you repeat a Power, can you use another Power in between the two uses, or do the two uses have to go right after each other?
  That depends on what's letting you Repeat the Power.

  • If you can Repeat the Power "this turn" (e.g., from "Powestorm" or "Gift of Strength"), then you may use another Power between the two uses of the repeated Power.
  • If the Power repeats itself (e.g., "Creepers Tear into Mortar" or "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain") or you are granted the option to Repeat a Power "After" using it the first time (e.g., from "Relentless Punishment" or "Strength of the Waking Island"), then resolve the Power and anything else it triggers (e.g., "Vengeance of the Dead") before immediately Repeating it – you don't have a chance to use another Power first.
    (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, 20 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• How does Relentless Punishment work with Power Cards that Repeat themselves (e.g., "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain")?
  In order:

  • The initial use of the Power targets a land and resolves (along with any non-Repeat actions it triggers).
  • This triggers both "Relentless Punishment" on that land and the Power's own Repeat instruction. Since the order is ambiguous, you choose which one happens first.
  • After the Power Repeats itself, "Relentless Punishment" triggers again on the second land targeted.

  Because "Relentless Punishment" counts all prior uses of the Power, using that special rule a second time can get quite expensive (Power's Energy Cost + 1 Energy for the first use + 1 Energy per initial "Relentless Punishment" use + 1 Energy for the self-Repeat use)!

  The Locus Aspect works similarly, but instead of the cost increasing each time, each Repeat counts against the number of Repeats that Spirit gets from "Strength of the Waking Island."
  Tags: Repeat, Triggered Actions, Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun, 12 more...