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{{Spirit
|gamebox=Jagged Earth
|setup=Put 3 {{presence}} on your starting board: 2 in land #8, and 1 in land #7. Add 1 {{beast}} to land #8.
|playstyle=Very focused on the interior - its best options for coastal lands are "draw the Invaders inland" or "turn {{Invader|town}}/{{Invader|city}} into {{Invader|explorer}}, then draw them inland". Likes the interior to be dangerous, full of {{badlands}}, {{beast}}, {{disease}}, and {{wild}}, ideally where its {{presence}} is.

Has better-than-average potential for containing Invaders and setting up a zone safe from Explores, but the coasts may get messy while doing so.
|complexity=moderate
|f-innate=FORSAKE SOCIETY TO CHASE AFTER DREAMS
|f-innatetarget={{Targeting|turn=slow|range=1|target=invaders}}
''After this Power replaces pieces with {{invader|explorer}}: Gather any number of those {{invader|explorer}} into your lands. If target land has any {{invader|town}}/{{invader|city}} remaining, 1 {{fear}}.''
|f-innate1='''2'''{{element|moon}} Replace 1 {{invader|explorer}} with one {{invader|explorer}}.
|f-innate2='''2'''{{element|moon}}'''1'''{{element|air}} Instead, replace 1 {{invader|town}} with 2 {{invader|explorer}}.
|f-innate3='''3'''{{element|moon}}'''2'''{{element|air}}'''1'''{{element|animal}} Instead, replace 1 {{invader|city}} with 3 {{invader|explorer}}.
|f-innate4='''4'''{{element|air}} Repeat this Power.
|s-innate=NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN
|s-innatetarget={{Targeting|turn=slow|range=0|target=inland}}
''If this Power destroys any {{invader|explorer}}, 1 {{fear}}. If this Power destroys 5 or more {{invader|explorer}}, +1 {{fear}}.''
|s-innate1='''1'''{{element|fire}}'''3'''{{element|plant}} Add 1 {{badlands}}
|s-innate2='''2'''{{element|plant}} Destroy up to 2 {{invader|explorer}} per {{badlands}}/{{beast}}/{{disease}}/{{wild}}.
|s-innate3='''4'''{{element|plant}}'''1'''{{element|animal}} 2 Damage.
|s-innate4='''6'''{{element|plant}} Repeat this Power.
|special='''''Home of the Island's Heart'''''<br>Your {{presence}} may only be added/moved to lands that are Inland.

'''''Enthrall the Foreign Explorers'''''<br>For each of your {{presence}} in a land, ignore up to 2 {{invader|explorer}} during the Ravage Step and any Ravage Actions.
|growthtype=oneandone
|growth1={{Growth|first=reclaim|second=energy1}}
|growth2={{Growth|first=pres4}}
|growth3={{Growth|first=moonairplant|second=energy2}}
|growth4={{Growth|first=gain1p}}
|presence1={{PresenceT|energy1|energy2|moon|energy3|energy4|energy5}}
|presence2={{PresenceT|card1|card2|animal|card3|card4|card5reclaim1}}
|psummary={{Powersummary|offense=4|control=4|fear=4|defense=2|utility=1}}
|loresection=lure
|cardcost1=1
|cardtitle1=Perils of the Deepest Island
|cardelements1={{element|moon}}{{element|plant}}{{element|animal}}
|cardtargeting1={{Targeting|turn=slow|range=0|target=inland}}
|cardtext1=1 {{fear}}. Add 1 {{badlands}}.<br>Add 1 {{beast}} within {{Range|1}}.<br>Push up to 2 {{dahan}}.
|cardcost2=2
|cardtitle2=Softly Beckon Ever Inward
|cardelements2={{element|moon}}{{element|air}}
|cardtargeting2={{Targeting|turn=slow|range=0|target=inland}}
|cardtext2=Gather up to 2 {{Invader|explorer}}.<br>Gather up to 2 {{Invader|town}}.<br>Gather up to 2 {{beast}}.<br>Gather up to 2 {{dahan}}.
|cardcost3=0
|cardtitle3=Gift of the Untamed Wild
|cardelements3={{element|moon}}{{element|fire}}{{element|air}}{{element|animal}}
|cardtargeting3={{Targeting|turn=slow|target=anyspirit}}
|cardtext3=Target Spirit chooses to either:<br>Add 1 {{wild}} to one of their lands.<br>'''''OR'''''<br>Replace 1 of their {{presence}} with 1 {{Disease}}.
|cardcost4=1
|cardfast4=Yes
|cardtitle4=Swallowed by the Wilderness
|cardelements4={{element|fire}}{{element|air}}{{element|plant}}{{element|animal}}
|cardtargeting4={{Targeting|turn=fast|range=0|target=inland}}
|cardtext4=2 {{fear}}.<br>1 Damage per {{beast}}/{{disease}}/{{wild}}/{{badlands}}.<br>(Count max. 5 tokens.)
|strategy=Wiki Text Acceptable. Link to Forum Posts, or new Strategy Pages

|design_and_extras=Lure of the Deep Wilderness has several different roots. The most obvious one is "if Ocean focuses on the coast, what Spirit focuses inland?", but bits of its concept grew out of a very old playtest Spirit (called Deep Heart of the Island, which largely morphed into Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island). It may or may not have had some origin in the desire to make a Spirit that used more than one type of token: with Jagged Earth I knew I could do that, but I can't recall my own motivations well enough to know whether I actively attempted to do so, or whether I just noticed that that it would be a good fit for this Spirit and then ran with it.

Initial concepts played fairly well pretty much right from the get-go, but development on the details and (especially) balance took a long time to iron out. From the early days, Lure of the Deep Wilderness has done a couple of key mechanical things: Gathered Explorers, and broken Towns/Cities up into Explorers (representing the fragmentation of society as individuals and small groups picked up and moved out). For a long time, it actively benefited from having Explorers hang out in its lands - usually through some sort of Energy boost - but this proved difficult to balance, fiddly to keep track of, and created feel-bad moments when it inevitably had to wipe out the Explorers. (While that feel-bad was admittedly somewhat thematically apropos for the Spirit, it was still a point against the mechanic.)

It's primarily a Spirit of Air (journeying, distance, whispers in the mind / on the breeze) + Moon (dreams, visions, transformation) + Plant (the wilderness, connection, greenery), with secondary elements of Animal (dangerous beasts) and Fire (action/motion, violence).

==Spirit Spotlight==

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