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Gameplay

On your turn, you must do these actions in order:

Plot at Court (Optional)

• At the beginning of your turn, you may choose to pay one Pearl to add a Lord to the furthest empty space away from the Lord deck in the Court.
• You may perform this action as many times as you want (as long as you can pay and there are empty spaces).
• If there are no empty spaces at Court or if the Lord deck is empty, you may not Plot at Court.

Take an Action

You must perform one of the actions below:

Explore the Depths

• Reveal cards of the Exploration deck one by one and place them on the Exploration Track, starting with the space next to the deck and to the right.
• If the revealed card is an Ally, offer the other players the opportunity to buy this Ally.
• Ask each player in turn, going clockwise. Each player can either pass or purchase the Ally.
• The first player who purchases the card pays its cost to you and adds the Ally card to their hand.
• The cost to purchase an Ally increases during your turn. The first purchased costs 1 Pearl, the second costs 2 Pearls, and so on.
• It doesn’t matter which player purchases the Allies, but each opponent can only purchase an Ally during your turn.
• If nobody wants to buy an Ally, you either add it to your hand and ends your turn, or reveal the next card and sale it, and so on.
• If all the spaces on the Exploration Track are filled with Allies, and none of your opponents wants to buy the last Ally you revealed, you must add that Ally to your hand and gain a Pearl.
• If the revealed card is a Monster, you must either fight or keep exploring.
• If you decide to fight, discard the Monster and gain the reward shown on the Threat Track.
• After defeating the monster, return the Threat token to the first space of the Threat Track and ends your turn.
• If you decide to keep exploring, move the Threat token one space up the track and continue revealing cards.
• When a Monster is revealed on the last space of the Exploration Track, you must fight it and receive one extra Pearl.
• After you Explore the Depths, put all remaining Allies to the Council and discard any Monsters.

Request Support from the Council

Take all of the cards from one stack in the Council without looking at them beforehand and add them to your hand.

Recruit a Lord

• Choose a Lord avaliable at Court and play the exact number of Allies from your hand needed to buy it.
• The total value of the Allies you play may be more than what is required, but the extra Ally points are lost.
• If the sum of the card values is not high enough, you can spend one Pearl for each missing point.
• After recruiting a Lord, put the lowest Ally of your choice in front of you and discard the rest.
• If there are at least 3 Lords left, the Lord is not replaced. Otherwise, gain 2 Pearls and Refill all spaces.

Control Locations

• If you have 3 or more keys, you must immediately take an avaliable Location or draw 1-4 Locations, choose one and put the rest face up.
• Any Lords used to control that Location lose all their Powers for the rest of the game, but still has their influnce points.
• Any Keys used are discarded.

After these actions are taken, your turn is over. The player to your left takes his turn.

End of Game

• The game ends when there are not enough Lords to refill the Court or a player recruits his seventh lord.
• In either case, the active player completes his turn and each opponent gets a final turn.
• Finally, each player places the lowest value Ally of each race from their hand and discard the rest.
• The player with the highest influnce wins. In case of a tie, the player with the most Pearls wins. If they are still tied, the player with the highest-value Lord wins.