Chapter 1

Setup

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Setting Up the Map

The map is Triskell shaped.

  1. Locate the Capital Tile. Place it at the center of the table.
  2. Locate the Bandit Tiles. Place them around the Capital Tile. Bandit Tiles flee toward the Capital Tile.
  3. Locate the remaining Wolf Tiles. They should be placed so that the Valley Tile allows fleeing toward the Wolf Faction ’s Bandit Tile and the Cordillera Tile toward the Valley Tile.
  4. Locate the remaining Cat Tiles. They should be placed so that the Meadow Tile allows fleeing toward the Cat Faction ’s Bandit Tile and the Farmland Tile toward the Meadow Tile.
  5. Locate the remaining Fox Tiles. They should be placed so that the Thicket Tile allows fleeing toward the Fox Faction ’s Bandit Tile and the Timberland Tile toward the Thicket Tile.
  6. Place the Location of Interest marker on a random Bandit Tile.

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Setting Up the Bandits

  1. Place 1 Attribute Board next to each Bandit Tile. These are the Bandit Attribute Board.
  2. Place 1 Bandit on each Bandit Tile.
  3. Add another Bandit to the Bandit Tile with the Location of Interest marker.
  4. Place 1 Bandit Cube on the left-most spot of each Bandit Attribute Board’s Attribute tracker.
  5. Place the Bandit Upgrade Cards deck close to the map, face down. Shuffle it.
  6. Place the Bandit Battlecards deck close to the map, face down.
  7. Draw 1 Bandit Upgrade Card for each Bandit Attribute Board and improve their Attributes accordingly.

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Setting Up Shared Components

  1. Place the Hourglass Board somewhere on the table.
  2. Place the Commoner Workplaces, Artisan Workplaces, and Noble Workplaces decks somewhere on the table, face down. Shuffle them.
  3. Place the Laws deck somewhere on the table, face down. Shuffle it. Reveal the 3 first Laws cards and place them, face up, somewhere visible to all players.
  4. Place the Sovereign Workplace (Coronation Ceremony) face up somewhere visible to all players.
  5. Place the Player Turn Order board somewhere visible to all players.
  6. Place a Bandit Cube on the bottom left spot.
  7. Optionally, place helper cards next to the component they are relevant to.

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Setting Up Players

Each player:

  1. Takes their Player Cube .
  2. Places a Resources Board in front of them.
  3. Places a Attribute Board next to it.
  4. Takes their Knight .
  5. Takes their Battlecards. These are kept face down.
  6. Places one of their Cubes on the left-most track of each of their Attributes.
  7. Places one of their Cubes on the left-most track of each of their Attributes.

Players have to be able to own 9 Workplace cards, arranged in a 3x3 grid, without confusion about who owns the cards.

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Starting

Randomly choose the Player Turn Order, denoted by each player having their Cube in that order on the left track. Perform the Workplace drafting step. Each player gains 1 Worker of their choice.

The first Season is now starting.

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