Shadows Flicker Like Flame
- Shadows Flicker Like Flame
- Shadows Flicker Like Flame Lore
- Shadows Flicker Like Flame Cards
- Shadows Flicker Like Flame Strategy
SETUP
Put 3 
on your starting board: 2 in the highest-numbered Jungle and 1 in land #5
PLAY STYLE
Good at causing Fear and picking off lone Explorers and Towns, containing the Invaders. Not so good at massive damage - may need to rely on allies to handle thoroughly colonized lands.
The ability to boost Range gives more flexibility to Range 0 Powers, and can be important in larger games.
COMPLEXITY
| LOW |
|---|
Shadows Flicker Like Flame Official FAQ Entries
Part of the Core Set.
 Reclaim Cards  Gain Power Card |
Gain Power Card +
1  Add Presence |
+ 3 Add Presence  Gain 3 Energy |
 Energy/Turn  1  3  4  5  6
|
 Card Plays  2  3 3  4  5
|
SPECIAL POWERS
SHADOWS OF THE DAHAN
WHenever you use a Power, you may pay 1 Energy to target a land with 
regardless of the Power's Range. (Power Cards or your Innate Powers.)
DARKNESS SWALLOWS THE UNWARY
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
|
|
ANY |
2 
1 
Gather 1 
.
3 2 Destroy up to 2 . 1 
per destroyed.
4 3 2 
3 Damage. 1 per Invaders destroyed by this Damage.
SUMMARY OF POWERS
| Offense | Control | Fear | Defense | Utility |
|---|
Lore
A spirit of darkness and fire, of the alien and unnatural just out of vision around the corner. Its mindset is even more non-human than most Spirits', and it's somewhat dangerous just to be around; the only reason the Dahan have anything to do with it is out of a sense of reciprocity for a great favor it did them some generations ago. Its darkness works in ways not intuitive to humans; it may engulf a single person or an entire city, and it can act at great distance by reaching through the shadows of the Dahan. While not a spirit of fear, all of its Powers cause some amount of Fear due to their unnerving effects.
Spirits corresponding directly to natural features make instinctive sense to human minds: "the spirit of this river here", or "a spirit of stormy wind" are straightforward and easy to grasp. Some spirits are more inscrutiable, such as the Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds, or harder to perceive, such as the Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island. And then there are others still whose nature simply does not mesh well with humanity's view of the universe, such as Shadows Flicker Like Flame.
It is the shadow of a candleflame; a fire that withers what it touches rather than igniting it; the dark silhouette of a tree cast across the ground which, when you step on it, turns out to be a pit of ink-black otherspace. Its form is as fluid as as smoke, rising up from any shadow lying on the ground.
Shadows Flicker Like Flame does not seem to represent any natural phenomenon known outside of itself, but is associated with shade, transformation, shadows given life, unnatural spaces, and engulfing dark. While it is not a spirit of terror per se, it evokes a primal fear in humans, both due to its associations and the alienness of its nature. It seems to honor its bargains, but it thinks along strange lines... and when it's near, you're never entirely sure that you won't just vanish.
Other Spirits do not seem to find Shadows Flicker Like Flame the least bit unnatural, however; perhaps humanity's view of nature is not perfectly complete.
From the Playmat
The Dahan say, "If the long shadows of sunset stretching beside you being to shift and flicker like tongues of hungry fire, do not run. That will only feed your fear, and whet the shadows' appetite."
This spirit invokes an instinctive fear in humans, perhaps because it doesn't think at all like humans do - it's more alien-minded than most. Until a few generations ago, the Dahan careful propitiated it only at a distance, steering as clear as they could. But during the Years of The Relentless Sun, it shaded large swaths of the Island, averting catastrophe; since th en, many Dahan have been willing to carefully - and cautiously - heed its words, feeling they have a debt they out to try to replay.
Starting Cards
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
|
|
0
|
ANY |
. take no damage from Ravaging Invaders this turn.
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
|
1
|
ANY |
.If Invaders are present and
now outnumber then, 3 .
More to Come!
