Starlight Seeks Its Form

SETUP

Put 1 on your starting board, in a land with .

PLAY STYLE

A build-your-own-Spirit, capable of going in many different directions based on Elements picked, Growth choices selected, and Power Cards kept. Has a very high personal/visual complexity and a huge number of early-game options, but doesn't alter play much for other players at the table.

As it commits to choices, it loses versatility - not all paths will be good (or even possible) at all things. It especially wants a measure of adaptation to early Power Cards, rather than trying to pre-select a strategy.

COMPLEXITY

VERY HIGH

Starlight Seeks Its Form Official FAQ Entries

Part of the Jagged Earth Expansion.

GROWTH (PICK THREE)

Reclaim One

+

0

Add a Presence

Gain 1 Energy

3

Move a Presence

PRESENCE

Reclaim Half (round up)

Gain Power Card

1

Move a Presence

Gain Energy

+1 Card Play this turn

2

Move a Presence

Element

Reclaim Cards

Gain Power Card

Gain Energy

0

2 Damage at Range 0

+1 Card Play this turn

One of your Powers is Fast

Energy/Turn

2

Element

4

Card Plays

Element

3

SPECIAL RULES

GROWTH BEGETS GROWTH
You have 6 tracks. (As usual, you may add from any track.) 4 of the tracks are next to rows of Growth choices: these choices start unavailable. Upon emptying a Growth track, pick one of its two Growth choices to be immediately available. The other stays unavailable for the rest of the game (cover with a spare piece).
After you add from a space marked , gain 1 Energy.

SLOWLY COALESCING NATURE
After revealing an , place 1 Element Marker of your choice on it. That element is permanent and is constantly available (As if pre-printed on the track.)

AIR MOVES, EARTH ENDURES

SPEED

RANGE

TARGET LAND

1

ANY

3

Push up to 2

or 1

.

3

Defend 5.

FIRE BURNS, WATER SOOTHES

SPEED

RANGE

TARGET LAND

1

ANY

3

1

. 2 Damage.

3

Remove 1

.

WOOD SEEKS GROWTH, HUMANS SEEK FREEDOM

SPEED

RANGE

TARGET LAND

2

ANY

3

Choose a Spirit with

in target land. They gain a Power Card.

3

1 Damage per

OR Push up to 3

.

SIDEREAL GUIDANCE

SPEED

RANGE

TARGET LAND

1

ANY

2

Gather up to 1

/

.

3

Instead, Gather up to 3

.

STARS BLAZE IN THE DAYTIME SKY

SPEED

RANGE

TARGET

YOURSELF

4

3

. Gain 1 Energy. Reclaim up to 1 Power Card from play or your discard pile.

SUMMARY OF POWERS

Offense	Control	Fear	Defense	Utility

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From the Spirit Panel

Every once and again, where starlight falls to ground there arises a new Spirit. Its essence is initially that of the stars and nighttime sky, but from the moment it touches the island it begins to change, adapting and reimagining itself for its new home. Only a few of the island's Spirits came to be in this fashion, but many of them have been memorable.

This one arrived after the Invaders started to spread, striking the earth where they had cleared land for farming. Fragile and new, it was saved from dissolution by Stone's Unyielding Defiance, and in gratitude fights the Invaders even as it seeks to define itself.

Design Lore

The natural world is not static, and neither are the Spirits. Individuals among them grow and change, both reflective-of and reflecting-into the parts of the world that they embody. Spirits can cease to exist, either slowly fading away, being severed from the vital life of nature, or through the cessation of portions of the world they cannot do without. They can transform, their nature fundamentally shifting. And new Spirits can come into being, either coalescing around the existing, or via the genesis of the new.

Usually, when Spirits arise, they embody or represent something right from the get-go. There is, however, something different and unusual about the light of stars. While there do certainly exist Spirits of the night and nighttime sky, when starlight itself falls to earth (common) and brings a Spirit (much rarer), that Spirit arises unattached to any facet of nature, other than a lingering and fading connection to the stars above. Over its first hours, months, years of its existence, it transforms, forming connections to local places and aspects of nature, becoming something altogether new.

Are the stars themselves immense Spirits, slower-moving than any on the island, but so powerful they create children from across the vast reach of sky? By the time starlight-Spirits understand this question being posed to them, they no longer remember whether it is true.

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Important note: If playing as Starlight Seeks Its Form, you start the game with these Unique Power Cards in your hand.