English Rulebook

Index
INDEX 2 Great Guardian
WELCOME TO FAERIELL 3 Attunement Movement 20
COMPONENTS 4 Solve a menace by a Hero
using Heirloom Herbs 20
GAME BOARD OVERVIEW 6
• CLAIMING ACHIEVEMENTS 20
GENERAL SETUP 8
Achievements conditions 21
TWO PLAYERS SETUP 12
Hero Achievements 21
THREE PLAYERS SETUP 12
Essence Achievements 21
MENACES SETUP 12
Terrain Achievements 21
MAIN CONCEPTS 13
Tribe Achievements 21
ROUNDS, TURNS, PHASES 13
The Pillar of Society 21
THE ESSENCES 13
• END OF THE ROUND 21
GAMEPLAY 14
THE POWER OF CORRUPTION 22
PLAYER TURN 14
CORRUPTION ESSENCES 22
• TRIBE PHASE 14
SOLVE A CORRUPTION EVENT 22
Dress a new Hero 14
TRIGGER A CORRUPTION
Level up a Hero 14 EVENT 22
Build a Settlement 14 ADVANCING THE DOOM
Build a Beacon 15 TOKEN 22
Control the Spiritual Totem 15 TRIBE CORRUPTION LEVEL 22
Gather a Heirloom Herb 15 THE RISE OF THE CORRUPTION
SOWER 22
Attune with a Great Guardian 15
PLAYING THE CORRUPTION
• EVENT PHASE 15 SOWER 23
Great Guardian Movement 15 END GAME CONDITIONS 23
Menace draft 15 THE SHADOWS 24
Solve a Corruption Event 16 THE DRIFTER 25
Havoc token 16 STARTING SCENARIO 26
Solve a Menace by Beacon or FULL COOP & SOLO PLAY 28
Spiritual Totem 16
ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS 29
Harvest 16
CARDS REFERENCE 30
• HERO PHASE 17
ESSENCES 30
Hero Actions 17
GREAT GUARDIANS 30
Movement 17
CARDS LAYOUT 31
Solve a Menace by a Hero 18
ATTUNEMENT CARDS 31
Go on a Quest 18
HEIRLOOM HERB CARDS 32
Solve a Quest 18
TILES REFERENCE 33
Perk Actions 18
HEROES’ INNATE ABILITY 33
Remove a Menace 18
HERO PERKS 33
Lore Actions 20
CORRUPTION SOWER PERKS 35

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 Welcome to
Faeriell!
In the verdant regions of Faeriell, inhabited by the most incredible and colorful variety of life, the eight Great Guar-
dians are watching over the balance of the lush nature since the dawn of time. These ancient and gigantic animals
are inherently bound to the roots of the land they strive to protect.
One day, a population of tiny humanoids called Weybits made their appearance, quickly learning how to live in
harmony with the environment. A sincere and spontaneous alliance was forged between the new and the older
Sons of Faeriell, and it turned out to be a blessing, for the harsh times that were about to come. All of a sudden,
Corruption started to spread, a dark force endangering the Great Guardians and nature under their custody.
Players guide different Tribes of Weybits in the pursuit of their many goals, while Corruption is rising, altering the
peace of their wondrous world. Weybits will get their chance to prove themselves: they are the only ones able to
fight back this silent enemy, but they can also succumb to its enticing bait.
The end of this story will be all in your hands.

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 Components

1 GAME BOARD 4 PLAYER BOARDS 80 ESSENCE CARDS 24 ADVANCEMENTS

16 X 5 colors 16 Heirloom Herb cards*
8 Attunement cards

20 HERO TILES 22 PERK TILES** 1 CORRUPTION 5 CORRUPTION

SOWER TILES SOWER PERK TILES***

12 PHASE TILES 8 TERRAIN TOKENS 1 FIRST PLAYER TOKEN 16 MENACE TOKENS

3 X player 4 X 4 colors

4 CORRUPTION 1 HAVOC TOKEN 1 DOOM TOKEN 1 HARVEST TOKEN

TOKENS

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24 ACHIEVEMENT TOKENS 16 TRACKING TOKENS 4 TRIBE CORRUPTION 8 GREAT GUARDIANS
6 X 4 colors 4 X 4 colors TOKENS MEEPLES
1 X player

24 SETTLEMENT MEEPLES 8 BEACON MEEPLES 1 SPIRITUAL TOTEM 12 WEYBIT MINIATURES

6 X 4 colors 2 X 4 colors MEEPLE 3 poses X 4 colors

20 TRIBE MASK 1 CORRUPTION 1 DRIFTER MINIATURE 1 DRIFTER TOKEN

MINIATURES SOWER MASK
4 X 5 colors MINIATURE

*The KS Edition contains

20 Heirloom Herbs
**The KS Edition contains
38 Hero Perk tiles
***The KS Edition contains
9 Corruption Sower
Perk tiles

38 ACTION GEMS 8 AID CARDS 1 EVENT BAG

2 X player

SONS OF FAERIELL IS A SEMI-COOPERATIVE, STRATEGIC

EUROGAME WITH MULTIPLE ENDINGS FOR 1 TO 4 PLAYERS.

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 Game board
The game board contains:

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The MAP OF FAERIELL is divided into
8 AREAS, each one belonging to one
Great Guardian Animal.
Each Area is divided into 4 REGIONS and
Each Region is characterized by a different
TYPE OF TERRAIN: Mountain, Meadow,
River and Forest.

2 The ESSENCE CARDS DECKS section: 5

slots for the Essence cards decks, which
represent the resources to be managed
during the game, and 5 more slots for their
relative discard pile.

3 The HARVEST WHEEL, which

determines which Regions will produce
the Essences.

4 The section dedicated to BEACONS and

the SPIRITUAL TOTEM, which can be
built and/or controlled during the game.
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5 The HEIRLOOM HERBS section,
containing 5 dedicated slots for deck,
discard pile and available Heirloom Herbs,
respectively.

6 The PERK TILES section, which are able

to level up the HEROES.

7 The TRIBE CORRUPTION TRACK,

where the tribe tokens will move forward
every time the player decides not to hinder the
Corruption.

8 The CORRUPTION SOWER section,

containing the dedicated slots for both
the Corruption Sower and its Perk tiles.

9 The DOOM TRACK, the cornerstone of

the game evolution, which keeps track
of how close Faeriell is to succumbing to
Corruption.
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10 ACHIEVEMENTS section: which the
player will need to collect in order to
win the game.

6 - SETUP
overview
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SETUP - 7
 General setup
For your very first game, it is recommended to use the “Starting Scenario & Tips”, page 26.

1 GAME BOARD These chosen Regions are now called HEARTLANDS

and acquire the Terrain Type depicted on the token.
Place the Game Board in the center of the table. The map
is composed of 8 MAIN AREAS, each one divided into
4 REGIONS.
3 HEIRLOOM HERBS
Shuffle the HEIRLOOM HERB CARDS and place
In each Area an Animal icon is depicted and it represents
them face down on the game board to form the
the Great Guardian belonging to it.
Heirloom Herbs deck on the appropriate slot,
then reveal 3 Heirloom Herb cards beside
the deck.

4 PERK TILES
Shuffle the Perk tiles face down and divide them into
four piles as evenly as possible. Then, flip each pile face
up on each Perk slot.
Example: the left side shows the snake’s Area,
while the right side shows one of the four Regions
related to the snake’s Area.

Each Region is outlined by PATHS and NODES. The

paths connect nodes. Two Regions that share one path
are considered adjacent.
Each Region is represented by a terrain type:
MOUNTAIN, MEADOW, RIVER and FOREST.

2 HEARTLANDS
For each Great Guardian Area, place one random
Terrain token in a random Region of that Area,
then place the related Great Guardian meeple on it. 5 SPIRITUAL TOTEM & BEACONS
Place the SPIRITUAL TOTEM and the BEACONS, two for
each type, on their appropriate slots.

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6 ATTUNEMENTS
Place each ATTUNEMENT CARD on the appropriate
slot of the map, on the corresponding Great Guardian
Region.
10 FIRST PLAYER
TOKEN
The player that most recently
touched a tree, takes the FIRST
PLAYER TOKEN and is the first
in order of play. Other players
follow clockwise.

11 YOUR TRIBE
Choose a Tribe color and take the matching
PLAYER BOARD, tokens, meeples (6 ACHIEVEMENT
TOKENS, the TRIBE CORRUPTION TOKEN, 6
SETTLEMENT MEEPLES) and place them in front of you.

7 DOOM TOKENS & DOOM TRACK

Place the DOOM TOKEN on the first space of the
DOOM TRACK.

12 ACHIEVEMENT TOKENS
Place 5 ACHIEVEMENT TOKENS on your player board
in their slots.
8 CORRUPTION SOWER
Place the CORRUPTION SOWER TILE and its PERK
TILES on the appropriate slots next to the Doom track.
Place the CORRUPTION SOWER MASK on top of the
Corruption Sower tile.

Place the remaining Achievement token on the PURITY

ACHIEVEMENT slot of the game board.
9 ESSENCE CARDS
Sort the ESSENCE CARDS into decks by color.
Shuffle each deck separately, and place them on the
designated slots of the game board, keeping the Great
Guardian side face down.

Note: All players begin the game with

an Achievement token on the same
Achievement slot.

SETUP - 9
 13 TRIBE CORRUPTION TOKEN 16 TRACKING TOKENS
Place your TRIBE CORRUPTION TOKEN on the white Stack the 4 TRACKING TOKENS (1 Yellow,
slot of the Tribe Corruption track. 1 Blue, 1 Red and 1 Green, piled up in any order) on the
starting space of your player board track:

Note: All players begin the game with their Tribe

Corruption Tokens piled up on the same slot.

14 SETTLEMENTS 17 HERO TILES

In order of play, each player chooses a REGION and In the game there are 4 types of HEROES, each with its
places one of their own SETTLEMENT MEEPLES on it as related tile:
an owned Region.
Then, in reverse order of play, they repeat the same
again. Each player starts the game owning 2 Regions.
Settlements cannot be placed on Regions already
occupied by another one. ADVENTURER, bound to the Red Essence

Note: Settlements are more profitable if placed

on Heartlands.

Place the remaining 4 Settlement meeples on the

appropriate slots of the player board, filling the slots
from top to bottom. DRUID, bound to the Green Essence

SHAMAN,, bound to the Blue Essence

15 PHASE
CHIEFTAIN,, bound to the Yellow Essence
TILES
Place your three
Phase tiles on the Note: Each Hero
left of your player type owns an
board, face up. INNATE ABILITY
Sort them vertically of their specific color.
in this order, from
top to bottom: TRIBE (For more details
PHASE tile, EVENT about Heroes abilities
PHASE tile and see page 33).
HERO PHASE tile.

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In order of play, choose one HERO TYPE and place the
corresponding Hero tile on the right side of the player
board (active side), as shown in the picture:
Example: the orange player has chosen the
Druid, represented by the Green Hero tile.
Place each of the remaining three Hero tiles (inactive
side) on the left side of the player board, as shown in the
example above.
18 TRIBE MASK MINIATURES
Place each of the four TRIBE MASK MINIATURES on its
Hero tile.
19 WEYBIT MINIATURES
Gather the three Weybit miniatures close to your
player board.
20 ACTION GEMS
Place two ACTION GEMS on the active Hero tile.
21 DRESSING UP THE WEYBIT
MINIATURES
Each player picks one of their Weybit miniatures and
dresses it as a HERO with the Tribe Mask of the active
Hero tile.
Place the Hero miniature on a NODE of an owned Region.
22 ESSENCE POOL
In order of play, each player takes one ESSENCE CARD
for each owned Region; the color of the Essence card
must match the Terrain type.
In case the owned Region is a Heartland the player
must choose between the two Terrain types.
Put these cards on their appropriate slot on your player
board, with the Great Guardian side face down,
to form your ESSENCE POOL.
23 HARVEST WHEEL
Randomly place the HARVEST TOKEN on one slot
of the HARVEST WHEEL, either an animal icon or a
terrain type.
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 2 players 3 players
setup
For a 2 players game, after completing the
setup
For a 3 players game, after completing the
General Setup (page 8), continue with the following General Setup (page 8), continue with the following
additional steps: additional step:

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In order of play, each player takes one Settlement
meeple from the lowest slot of their player board
and places it on a Region without Settlements. Each
player starts the game owning 1 additional Region.
Each player takes one additional Essence
card according to the terrain type of the owned
Regions and adds it to their Essence Pool.

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In reverse order of play, each player
activates an additional Hero tile and
dresses a Weybit miniature as a second Hero.
Then, places the second Hero miniature on a free node of
an owned Region.

Menaces Setup
If the Great Guardian meeple already has a token
underneath, discard the drawn token. All the discarded
tokens must be gathered next to the Event Bag. Continue
To complete the game setup, put: until you have placed three tokens this way. Put the
discarded tokens back in the Event Bag.
• 4 RED MENACE TOKENS,
• 4 YELLOW MENACE TOKENS,
• 4 BLUE MENACE TOKENS and Note: Choose the difficulty level you want to play
• 4 GREEN MENACE TOKENS and place the number of Menace and Corruption
in the Event Bag. tokens shown in the table below:

DIFFICULTY MENACE CORRUPTION

LEVEL TOKENS TOKENS
Easy 3 0
Medium 4 0
Hard 3 1
Very Hard 3 2

Put the HAVOC TOKEN and the 4 CORRUPTION

TOKENS in the Event Bag.

Draw one token from The Event Bag, check the Great
Guardian icon depicted on top of it (the first side you After all setups are done, the game begins. The rounds
see: the player cannot choose) and put it under the are performed starting from the player with the
related Great Guardian meeple. First Player token.

12 - SETUP
 Main concepts
Rounds, Turns,
Phases
The game is divided into a series of ROUNDS, and
each round counts three TURNS per player (which are
performed clockwise). During a turn, a player must
perform a Phase.
There are three different kinds of Phases, which are
represented by the relative Phase tile:
TRIBE PHASE
The player can buy, build and improve
game elements.
EVENT PHASE
New Menaces are assigned and players
receive Essences.
HERO PHASE
The player can move Heroes through the
map and use their abilities.
In each turn, the active player has to choose one
face up Phase tile, turn it face down and resolve the
correspondent Phase.
Once a Phase has been resolved, the turn ends
(a previously initiated Phase can’t be chosen again from
the same player for the rest of the round).
When all the three Phases have been performed by all
players, the current round ends.
Then, the First Player token passes to the next player
clockwise.
The Essences
During the game, the players manage resources (Essences).
Each resource is represented by an ESSENCE CARD.
Each Essence card shows an ESSENCE on the front and
one GREAT GUARDIAN on the back.
Blue Essence side / Great Guardian side
There are 5 kinds of Essences:
RED ESSENCE
This Essence represents Vigor, the inherent
strength that makes living creatures overcome
the limits of fear and weakness to survive.
ADVENTURERS live and fight by this Essence.
Red Essence is produced by Mountains and other
actions related to the Red color.
YELLOW ESSENCE
This Essence represents Influence, the
power of command and leadership as well
as the moral resolve and determination.
CHIEFTAINS embody it the most.
Yellow Essence is produced by Meadows and other
actions related to the Yellow color.
BLUE ESSENCE
This Essence represents Spirit, the bond
between the Great Guardians and all
other living creatures on Faeriell.
SHAMANS are skilled in this Essence.
Blue Essence is produced by Rivers and other actions
related to the Blue color.
GREEN ESSENCE
This Essence represents Ley lines, the sources
of creative energy that pervade the land,
which can be used to heal animals and plants.
DRUIDS are specialized in channeling this essence and
use it to grow Herbs.
Green Essence is produced by Forests and other actions
related to the Green color.
CORRUPTION ESSENCE
This Essence represents Corruption, the
unbridled power of sheer evil, which can
make everything that touches express its full
potential, turning it to its worst. Beware its allure.
The Corruption Essences are mainly used by the
CORRUPTION SOWER.
Corruption Essence is not produced by any Terrain. You
can only gain it by embracing Corruption.
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 Gameplay Flip and move the tile from the left to the right

Player Turn
Choose one Phase:
side of your player board (active) and place two
Action gems on it.

Note: One Player can activate a maximum of

• Tribe Phase; 3 Heroes.
• Event Phase;
• Hero Phase.
Each Phase has its specific actions. Remember that once 2. LEVEL UP A HERO
any action of a Phase is initiated, resolve it before
performing another one. COST: per actual level + 1.

A Hero level is equal to the sum of tiles, counting Hero

TRIBE
PHASE
You may buy or use any number of ADVANCEMENTS.
When you spend Essences, discard them with the
Great Guardian side face up on the correspondent
discard piles.
and Perk tiles. The level of an active Hero with no Perk
tiles is 1.
The amount of Essences needed to Level up a
Hero is equal to their actual level plus one.
All of the Essences you spend to level up a Hero must be
of the same color.
I II III IV
+
Example: The Druid has two Perk tiles, the next
Level up will cost four Blue or Red Essences.

Choose one of the available face up Perks from the four

piles on the game board and place it next to the tile of
the leveling up Hero (or alongside their already existing
Perks).
Then discard another face up Perk tile and put it at the
Choose which Tribe actions to perform in any order: bottom of its own pile.
1. Dress up a New Hero When a Hero reaches the fourth level, place one
2. Level Up a Hero additional Action gem on the Hero tile.
3. Build a Settlement 3. BUILD A SETTLEMENT
4. Build a Beacon
5. Control the Spiritual Totem COST: per currently owned Settlement
6. Gather a Heirloom Herb
The amount
7. Attune with a Great Guardian
of Essences
When done performing the chosen actions, or decided required to build
to do none, pass the turn to the next player. a new Settlement
is equal to the
1. DRESS UP A NEW HERO number of
Settlements you
COST: already own.
All of the Essences
Pick one of your Weybit miniatures and dress it up with you spend to add
the chosen TRIBE MASK that is on an inactive Hero tile. a Settlement must
Then, place the miniature on a node of one of your be of the same
owned Regions. color.

14 - GAMEPLAY
Take the first available SETTLEMENT from the bottom
slot of your player board and place it on a Region that
is either:
• adjacent to one of your owned Regions,
OR
• next to a node occupied by one of your Hero
miniatures.
You cannot add a Settlement to an already owned
Region.
4. BUILD A BEACON
COST:
Choose one of the available BEACONS on the game
board and place it on one of your owned Regions.
Note: A Region that already has a Beacon
cannot hold a second one.
5. CONTROL THE SPIRITUAL TOTEM
COST: + the number of on the
Spiritual totem space.
Place the SPIRITUAL TOTEM in one of your owned
Regions with a Beacon on it.
During the game any player can take control of the
Spiritual Totem by spending the appropriate cost.
Every time a player takes control of the Spiritual Totem,
they place one of the spent Yellow Essences on the
Spiritual Totem slot on the game board.
The next controller will pay the Spiritual Totem cost
increased by the amount of Yellow Essences in that
slot, then they can move it to one of their Regions.
6. GATHER A HEIRLOOM HERB
COST:
Take one of the three available face up HEIRLOOM
HERB CARDS and place it next to your player board.
Then discard one of the remaining face up Heirloom
Herb cards and refill the empty slots with new face up
Heirloom Herb cards.
7. ATTUNE WITH A GREAT GUARDIAN
COST: discounting any Essence
per Settlement in that specific Great Guardian Area.
Take a Great Guardian ATTUNEMENT CARD from the
game board and place it next to your player board.
Its cost is reduced by one Essence of your choice
for each of your Settlements in that Great
Guardian’s Area.
EVENT
PHASE
Perform the Event Phase actions in the following order:
1. Great Guardian Movement (optional)
2. Menace Draft
3. Solve a Menace by Beacon or
Spiritual Totem (optional)
4. Harvest
You may perform the Great Guardian Movement,
then you have to perform the Menace Draft and lastly
the Harvest.
Afterwards, pass the turn to the next player.
1. GREAT GUARDIAN MOVEMENT
You can perform a Great Guardian movement once
per Event Phase and you can do it as long as the card
of the Great Guardian you want to move is in your
Essence Pool.
Show the other players the chosen card revealing the
Great Guardian side and put it back into your Essence
Pool. Then, move the matching Great Guardian meeple
to any Region within its own Area.
Note: Any Menace or Corruption token underneath a Gre-
at Guardian meeple moves along with it to the new Region.
2. MENACE DRAFT
Check the current position of the Doom token.
If the Doom token is on a space from:
• 0 - 4: draw 1 token from the Event Bag;
• 5 - 9: draw up to 2 tokens from the Event Bag;
• 10 - 14: draw up to 3 tokens from the Event Bag;
Draw one token at a time and perform the following
actions depending on the token type:
a. Menace tokens
Place the drawn Menace tokens under the
corresponding Great Guardian meeples.
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 If the corresponding Great Guardian meeple
has already a Menace underneath, discard the
drawn token and move the Doom token one
space forward on its track.
All the discarded tokens must be gathered next to
the Event Bag.
b. Corruption tokens
Solve a CORRUPTION EVENT.
Once the Corruption Event is solved, if the Doom
track is on a space from 5 to 14, you don’t draw any
further tokens.
SOLVE A CORRUPTION EVENT
Note: this is a very recurring rule.
To solve a Corruption Event, choose one of the
following options:
• YIELD TO CORRUPTION: draw a Corruption
Essence card and add it to your Essence Pool.
Move your Tribe Corruption token one space
forward on the Tribe Corruption tra ck.
• IGNORE CORRUPTION: move the Doom
token one space forward on the Doom track.
• CLEANSE YOUR TRIBE: spend one Essence of
the color related to one of your active Heroes.
Move your Tribe Corruption token one space
backward on the Tribe Corruption track.
• CLEANSE CORRUPTION: spend one Essence
of the color related to one of your active Heroes.
Move the Doom token one space backward on
the Doom track or discard a Corruption token
from underneath a Corrupted Great Guardian.
If you chose to Ignore Corruption, place the
Corruption token underneath the corresponding
Great Guardian meeple, discarding any other
Menace token underneath, if present.
All the discarded tokens must be gathered next to
the Event Bag.
c. Havoc token
Move the Doom token one
space forward. Then put this
and all the other discarded
tokens back into the
Event bag.
If the Doom track is on a space from 5 to 14, you
don’t draw any further tokens.
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3. SOLVE A MENACE BY BEACON
OR SPIRITUAL TOTEM
If the player owns any BEACONS, they may solve one
Menace for each one of them.
Choose one of your Beacons. The chosen Beacon may
solve one Menace of the corresponding color
anywhere within the Area where it is placed.
Follow these steps:
1. Discard the Menace token from the game board
and put it next to the Event Bag;
2. Draw one Essence card corresponding to the color
of the solved Menace and add it to your Essence Pool;
3. Move the tracking token of the corresponding
color one space forward on your player board track.
If in the same Region you control both a BEACON and the
SPIRITUAL TOTEM, you can solve a Menace according
to the color of the Beacon anywhere in the whole map
instead.
ADVANCED RULE - TIE BREAK
If your token is already on the 5th space of your
player board track (five solved Menaces of that
type), choose one of the other players. That
player moves the corresponding tracking token
one space backward on their player board track.
4. HARVEST
Advance the Harvest token on the HARVEST WHEEL
clockwise. Choose a number of steps from one up to the
number shown in the top empty Settlement slot on
your player board.
Example:
the player owns
3 Settlements,
therefore they 1
can move the
Harvest token 2
up to 4 steps.
4 3
The HARVEST TOKEN can stop either on animal icons or
terrain type icons.
A. Harvest token is on a Great Guardian icon.
For that Great Guardian’s Area, each player takes
one Essence card per owned Region according
to one of its terrain types. If the player has a Beacon
on a Heartland, they take two Essence cards:
one according to the terrain type depicted on the Region,
one according to the terrain type depicted on the token.
 If the corresponding Great Guardian meeple has HERO ACTIONS
a Menace token underneath, consider the GREAT
Each Hero may perform up to two Hero Actions. If they
GUARDIAN and the REGION where it is currently
have reached the fourth level, they may perform up to
located as THREATENED. The player owning a
three Hero Actions.
Threatened Region cannot take any Essence card
related to that Region.
If the corresponding Great Guardian meeple has
a Corruption token underneath, consider the
GREAT GUARDIAN and the REGION where it is
currently located as CORRUPTED. The player owning
a Corrupted Region cannot take any Essence card
related to that Region and triggers a CORRUPTION
EVENT (see “Solve a Corruption Event”, page 22).
B. Harvest token is on a terrain type icon.
Each Player has to choose one owned Region
of the corresponding terrain type. Each player
who chose a Region which is not THREATENED Use the ACTION GEMS on your Hero tiles to keep track
nor CORRUPTED takes the corresponding of the available actions left for each of your Heroes,
Essence card. removing the Action gem from the tile once every new
Some of the effects of the Heirloom Herbs increase the action is performed.
number of cards that can be taken this way (see “Gather Each Hero may perform the same action more than once.
a Heirloom Herb”, page 15).
The Hero Actions are:
If the chosen Region is THREATENED, the player owning
that Region cannot take any Essence card. 1. Movement
2. Solve a Menace by a Hero
If the chosen Region is Corrupted, the player owning 3. Go on a Quest
that Region cannot take any Essence card and triggers 4. Solve a Quest
a CORRUPTION EVENT (see “Solve a Corruption
Event”, page 22). 1. Movement
Heroes can only move along paths; they cannot enter
Note: If the Corruption Event is triggered for more
into Regions.
than one player, you must solve the Corruption
Event in order of play. Move your Hero a number of nodes up to that Hero’s
level. Your Hero can move through a node occupied by
another Hero, but cannot stop on it.

HERO 2 1
PHASE Example: during the Hero Phase, Michael wants
to move his third level Shaman (Blue). He wants
There are three types of ACTIONS to perform during the to reach the Wolf that is only three nodes away.
Hero Phase: Unfortunately, there is already another Hero
• Hero Actions on that node, and Michael cannot move past it
• Perk Actions according to the level of the Shaman, so he decides
to move his Hero of only two nodes.
• Lore Actions
Perform any of the Hero Actions, Perk Actions and Lore
Actions in any order or decide to do none and pass the
turn to the next player.

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 2. Solve a Menace by a Hero
As highlighted by the color of their TRIBE MASKS,
Adventurers can solve Red Menaces; Chieftains
can solve Yellow Menaces; Shamans can solve Blue
Menaces and Druids can solve Green Menaces.
Heroes may perform this action only if they are on a
node of a THREATENED REGION.
When a Hero solves a Menace, follow these steps:
a. discard that Menace token from the game board.
Menaces discarded from the game board are not
placed back into the Event bag, they are set aside
with other discarded tokens instead;
b. draw one Essence card corresponding to the color
of that Menace and add it to your Essence Pool;
c. move the tracking token of the same color one
space forward in your player board track.
Note: you may apply the Tie break advanced rule (see
“Solve a Menace by Beacon or Spiritual Totem”, page. 16).
a. b.
A Quest pool can host a number of Quest cards up to
that Hero level.
That Hero can ‘go on a Quest‘ as many times they like.
When they exceed the limit they have to discard one card
from their Quest Pool.
4. Solve a Quest
Choose a card from your Quest pool and check the current
position of the Great Guardian depicted on its hidden side. To
solve a Quest, a Hero must be on a node of the Region where
the Great Guardian meeple is currently located.
A Hero can solve a Quest only if their type matches the color
of the chosen card:
• Yellow for Chieftains,
• Blue for Shamans,
• Green for Druids;
• Red for Adventurers;
• Black for any Hero type.
To solve a Quest, follow these steps:
1. check the position of the Great Guardian showing
on the chosen Essence card and reach a node of that
Region;
2. show the chosen card to the other players;
3. if it is a Corruption Essence card, discard it, and
resolve a Corruption Event (see “Solve a Corruption
Event”, page 22), otherwise add it to your Essence Pool.

c.
PERK ACTIONS
There are three types of Perks:
Some Perks provide the Hero new ways to use their
ACTION GEMS or ESSENCE CARDS.

The first Perk tile

(from top to bottom) provides
3. Go on a Quest the ability to remove
According to the Hero type, draw a card from the Menaces by spending
appropriate Essence Deck: one of your Action gems.
• Yellow for Chieftains;
The second Perk tile provides
• Blue for Shamans;
the ability to gain one
• Green for Druids; Action gem by spending
• Red for Adventurers; one Green Essence.
• Black for any Hero type.
Secretly look at its Great Guardian side, keep it hidden
and place that card face down next to the Hero Perks of
your acting Hero to form their QUEST POOL.
Note: “REMOVE A MENACE” is different from
“SOLVE A MENACE”.
To remove a Menace, the player takes the
corresponding Menace token from the game board
and sets it aside. The player moves one space forward
the tracking token on their player board but gains no
Essence cards.

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Some Perks provide the Hero with a SPECIAL ACTION they
may perform once per Hero Phase. Thanks to their Perks, the player can do more:
by using their third PERK ABILITY, the Druid
This special Action is represented by an additional Action
spends the Green Essence to gain one Hero
gem to be placed on the Perk tile. Action.
Keep track of a Perk Action
following the same rules
of the Hero Actions: use
its gem only to use the
ability of the Perk.
This Perk provides the Hero
an extra movement along
paths adjacent to a River The Druid now spends its gained Hero gem to
Region as a Perk Action. move to a node of a River Region. The Druid can
now activate the ability of their first Perk: by
Some Perks provide the Hero SPECIAL ABILITIES that using the last Hero Action gem, the Druid removes
produce effects each time the requirements are met. a Blue Menace.

This Perk provides the Hero

the ability to move one
node whenever they solve a
Menace, once per Hero Phase.

See “Perks Glossary”

for more detailed
Finally, the Druid performs the Perk action
descriptions of every of its second Perk to convert one of its
Perk tile. Green Essences into a Blue one. The player
removes the Perk Action gem from the Perk tile.

Example: a 4th level Druid has the following Perks.

The Druid performs one of its HERO ACTIONS

and moves three nodes to reach a Threatened
Region. The player removes the first ACTION
GEM from the Hero tile.

Then, performing the second action, the

Druid solves the Green Menace threatening a
Great Guardian, adding a Green Essence to
the player Essence Pool. The player removes
the second Action gem from the Hero tile.

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 LORE ACTIONS
Only some Attunements and Heirloom Herbs allow
Heroes to perform LORE ACTIONS.
Any Lore Action can be performed once per Hero Phase.
Great Guardian Attunement
Movement
1. Choose and use one of your Great Guardian
Attunements. Once used, rotate the card on a side
to keep track of it;
2. Choose one of your Heroes on a node of that Great
Guardian’s Area;
3. Move the chosen Hero to any unoccupied node of
that Great Guardian’s Area.
Julie chooses to perform a Hero Phase. She has
two Heroes on different nodes of a Region in the
Snake Area, whose Attunement she owns.
First of all, she decides to use that Attunement to
move one of those Heroes to another unoccupied
node of a Region in the Snake Area, then she
performs other Hero Actions as usual. She cannot
use the Snake Attunement again until the next
Hero Phase.
Solve a Menace by a Hero using
Heirloom Herbs
Some HEIRLOOM HERBS allow the Heroes to
solve Menaces.
1. Choose and use one of your Heirloom Herbs. Once
used, rotate the card on a side to keep track of it;
2. Any of your Heroes on a node of a Threatened
Region solves a Menace on that Region, according to
the chosen Heirloom Herb.
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Alex has the Spirit
Heirloom Herb, which
allows one of his Heroes to
solve one Blue Menace
once per Hero Phase.
His Chieftain is one node
away from the Turtle which
is threatened by a Blue
Menace.
During his Hero Phase, Alex decides to use one
Hero Action to move the Chieftain on the node of
the threatened Region. Now, the Chieftain can use the
Spirit Heirloom Herb to solve the Blue Menace.
He still has one Action gem left.
CLAIMING
ACHIEVEMENTS
The goal of the game is to claim the most ACHIEVEMENTS,
which are tracked on the appropriate space on the game
board.
Achievements must always be claimed as soon as a
player meets the requirements. These requirements are
given by the Achievement conditions.
To claim an ACHIEVEMENT, you have to take one of
your Achievement tokens from the player board and
place it on the corresponding Achievement slot on the
game board.
Claiming Achievements cost one Essence card. When
you take an Achievement token from the player board to
claim an Achievement, the related Essence color to spend is
shown on the empty slot.
You may choose not to spend the Essence, or you might
not be able to spend it: place the chosen Achievement
token anyway and move the Doom token one space
forward on the Doom track.
Achievements must always be removed as soon as a
player loses the requirements.
When a player loses the requirements, they move the
Achievement token to the designed area of the game board.
All of the Achievement tokens in this area can be used to claim
future Achievements without spending any additional Essence.
Note: this case does not affect the Doom token.
The same Achievement slot can host more than one
player’s Achievement token. When more than one player
claim the same Achievement, as soon as one of them reaches
a higher score, they remove all the other players’ tokens as if
they lost their requirements, moving them to the designated
area of the game board.
ACHIEVEMENT CONDITIONS
Hero Achievements
ADVENTURER ACHIEVEMENT
Highest Level Adventurer Hero, minimum 4th.
SHAMAN ACHIEVEMENT
Highest Level Shaman Hero, minimum 4th.
DRUID ACHIEVEMENT
Highest Level Druid Hero, minimum 4th.
CHIEFTAIN ACHIEVEMENT
Highest Level Chieftain Hero, minimum 4th.
Essence Achievements
VIGOR ACHIEVEMENT
Most Red Menaces solved, minimum 4
SPIRIT ACHIEVEMENT
Most Blue Menaces solved, minimum 4.
LEY LINES ACHIEVEMENT
Most Green Menaces solved, minimum 4.
INFLUENCE ACHIEVEMENT
Most Yellow Menaces solved, minimum 4.
Terrain Achievements
MOUNTAINS ACHIEVEMENT
Most owned mountain Regions, minimum 4.
RIVERS ACHIEVEMENT
Most owned river Regions, minimum 4.
FORESTS ACHIEVEMENT
Most owned forest Regions, minimum 4.
MEADOWS ACHIEVEMENT
Most owned meadow Regions, minimum 4.
Tribe Achievements
FELLOWSHIP ACHIEVEMENT
Most total Hero Perks with 3 active Heroes.
HEIRLOOM HERBS ACHIEVEMENT
Most Heirloom Herbs gathered, minimum 3.
ATTUNEMENTS ACHIEVEMENT
Most Attunements owned, minimum 3.
BEACON ACHIEVEMENT
Most Beacons owned, minimum 3.
The Pillar of Society
SPIRITUAL TOTEM ACHIEVEMENT
owning the Spiritual Totem.
Note: only the current controller of the Spiritual Totem is
entitled to claim this Achievement. As a player loses control
of the Spiritual Totem, they lose the Achievement too.
SHIRE ACHIEVEMENT
Most contiguous Regions owned, minimum 4.
PURITY ACHIEVEMENT
With zero Tribe Corruption (white space on Tribe
Corruption track).
CORRUPTION CLEANSER ACHIEVEMENT
When solving a Corruption Event, the player
whose TRIBE CORRUPTION level is zero (white
space) chooses to Cleanse Corruption (see “Solve a
Corruption Event”, page 22). As a player chooses to Yield to
Corruption or to Ignore Corruption during a Corruption
Event, they lose this Achievement.
Example: Michael, Julie and Alex have all claimed the
Purity Achievement. In the next turn, Julie’s Tribe has been
corrupted, so she has to remove her Achievement token from
the Purity Achievement slot. Then, she claims the Heirloom
Herbs Achievement by using the discarded Achievement
token, and she ties with Michael, since they both have
gathered 3 Heirloom Herbs. Once Julie gathers the 4th
Heirloom Herb, Michael has to remove his Achievement
token from the Heirloom Herbs slot and places that token on
one of the two designated areas in the Achievements section.
END OF THE ROUND
Once all players have performed all Phases, the round is over.
At the end of each round, turn all Phase tiles face up, Restore all
Attunements, Heirloom Herbs and Actions gems, then pass the
First Player token to the next player clockwise.
Now a new round begins.
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 The Power of
Corruption
CORRUPTION is a key element of Sons of Faeriell. Players can either yield to it, ignore it or cleanse it, therefore the choices they make
about it will determine the evolution of the game. The destiny of Faeriell is up to you.
CORRUPTION ESSENCES
CORRUPTION ESSENCES are wild cards which can be
spent in place of any other Essence when paying for any
Advancement.
Note: There is no limit on the number of Corruption
Essences that you can spend this way.
Note: Corruption Essence cards cannot be spent in
place of other Essences when using a Hero Perk and/
or to solve a Corruption Event (Cleanse your Tribe or
Cleanse Corruption).
The only way to obtain Corruption Essences is by Solving
a Corruption Event.
SOLVE A CORRUPTION EVENT
To solve a Corruption Event, choose one of the
following options:
• YIELD TO CORRUPTION: draw a Corruption
Essence card and add it to your Essence Pool. Move
your Tribe Corruption token one space forward on
the Tribe Corruption track.
• IGNORE CORRUPTION: move the Doom token
one space forward on the Doom track.
• CLEANSE YOUR TRIBE: spend one Essence of the
color related to one of your active Heroes. Move
your Tribe Corruption token one space backward
on the Tribe Corruption track.
• CLEANSE CORRUPTION: spend one Essence of the
color according to one of your active Heroes. Then,
either move the Doom token one space backward
on the Doom track or discard a Corruption token
from underneath a Corrupted Great Guardian.
22 - THE POWER OF CORRUPTION
TRIGGER A
CORRUPTION EVENT
Corruption Events are triggered when:
• A CORRUPTION TOKEN is drawn during the Menace
Draft step of the Event Phase. This Corruption Event
must be solved by the active player.
• A Hero solves a Quest for a CORRUPTION ESSENCE.
This Corruption Event must be solved by the active player.
• During the Harvest step of the Event Phase, a player
is the owner of a Corrupted Region matching the
Harvest token position (see “Harvest”, page 16).
This Corruption Event must be solved by the player who
owns the Corrupted Region.
ADVANCING THE DOOM TOKEN
The further the DOOM TOKEN advances on the Doom
track, the more Faeriell is in danger.
Move The Doom token one space forward on the Doom
track when:
• a player claims an Achievement without paying
the required cost (this only applies in the case a cost is
required);
• an already Threatened Great Guardian is
assigned to another Menace during the Menace
Draft step of the Event Phase;
• a player chooses to IGNORE CORRUPTION during
a Corruption Event;
• the HAVOC TOKEN is drawn from the Event bag
during the Menace Draft step of the Event Phase.
TRIBE CORRUPTION LEVEL & THE
RISE OF THE CORRUPTION SOWER
Your Tribe Corruption level rises each time you choose to
YIELD TO CORRUPTION during a Corruption Event,
while it lowers when you choose to CLEANSE YOUR TRIBE.
Players lose the PURITY ACHIEVEMENT as soon as their
Tribe Corruption level rises, although they can claim it
again if their Tribe Corruption drops back to 0 (white slot)
later on in the game.
 At the end of any turn, if any player has reached the fifth Tribe
Corruption level (black slot), one of the following can happen:
• Corruption Sower Rising: the player gains the
CORRUPTION SOWER, if no other player has gained it
yet (see “Playing the Corruption Sower” in the chapter
below). This is mandatory.
Note: If multiple players reach the fifth Tribe Corruption
level on the same turn, the player gaining the Corruption
Sower is the first one in order of play.
• Lost to Corruption: If a player has already gained
the Corruption Sower, any other player reaching the
fifth Tribe Corruption level moves the Doom token
2 spaces forward on the Doom track.
When you gain the Corruption Sower, choose one of your
Heroes to become the Corruption Sower.
Put both the Hero tile and the Tribe Mask of that Hero back
in the game box and replace them with the Corruption
Sower ones.
Then, you may replace any number of their already
acquired Perk tiles with any Corruption Sower ones.
Any discarded tile is placed back in the game box.
Note: If you claimed a “Hero Achievement”
counting that Hero, you lose that Achievement.
Your other Heroes still count as usual.
The Corruption Sower can solve Quests only for
Corruption Essences, and cannot solve Menaces
normally.

Note: Only some Corruption Sower Perks allow

PLAYING THE CORRUPTION
SOWER
When one of the players gains the Corruption Sower, their
winning conditions change: they can no longer win by
Achievements.
Their goal is to make the Doom token reach the 15th space
of the Doom track and ensure that Faeriell is doomed.
the Corruption Sower to solve Menaces (see
“Corruption Sower’s Perks” descriptions, page 35).
Note: Even though the player with the Corruption
Sower can’t win by Achievements, that player can still
claim them.

Endgame conditions
The game ends when one of these following conditions is met.
1. If the Doom track reaches the 15th space and no player has the Corruption Sower, Faeriell is doomed: the game ends
immediately and all players lose to Corruption.
2. If the Doom track reaches the 15th space and a player has the Corruption Sower, Faeriell is doomed: the game ends
immediately and that player wins the game.
The victory rank for the other players is based on their personal Tribe Corruption Level: the player with the highest level of Tribe
Corruption is second, the next one is third, and the player with the lowest Tribe Corruption level is fourth in ranking position.
3. When a player claims five or more Achievements, Faeriell can still be saved and the game will end at the end of the round.
The player with the most Achievements wins the game (even if, by any means, their Achievements end up being less than five).
The victory rank for the other players is based on the number of their Achievements: the second player who claimed the highest number of
Achievements is second, the next one is third, and the player with the lowest number of Achievements is fourth in ranking position.

Note: in case of a tie the player with the Corruption Cleanser Achievement wins the game. If no one of the players has claimed
it, the one with the Purity Achievement wins. If no one of the players has claimed it either, the first one in turn order wins.

4. When a player claims five or more Achievements, Faeriell can still be saved and the game will end at the end of the round.
All the players without the Corruption Sower have claimed 5 or more Achievements, including the Purity Achievement, they can
aim to win by defeating Corruption together. To do so, they must share the same number of Achievements claimed.
If a player claims the 7th Achievement the game ends immediately and that player wins.

AN OPTIONAL RULE TO AVOID CORRUPTION:

When a player claims five or more Achievements and no player has the Corruption Sower, the ending condition
determined by the Doom track reaching 15th cannot be triggered.

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 ADDITIONAL RULES:
The Shado
Shadows
ws
The SHADOW is a new Hero Type, represented by an
additional dark Mask for each Tribe.
Weybits who take the path of the Shadow learn how to
interact with Corruption, but their fate is unpredictable.
Being able to master this dark force, they can either be
overwhelmed by its power or decide to cooperate with
their Tribe to defeat it.
SETUP
During the general setup of the game, before the
“17. Hero tiles” step, each player takes the SHADOW
HERO TILE and the matching mask together with the rest
of their setup components.
Note: Players cannot choose the Shadow as a
starting Hero.
24 - THE SHADOWS
GAMEPLAY
Just like all the other Heroes, the Shadow shares a bond
with a specific Essence: the Corruption Essence.
• Shadows can only take Black Quests.
• Players with an active Shadow can spend a Corruption
Essence to solve a CORRUPTION EVENT (Cleanse
your Tribe or Cleanse Corruption options).
• Corruption Tokens on the game board are
considered as Menaces and can be solved:
when this occurs, instead of providing an Essence
as a reward, a Corruption Event is triggered.
Once the Corruption Event is solved, as a reward,
the player can move any tracking token one space
forward on their player board.
• The Shadows’ innate ability
is “Move with the shadows”:
as free action, discard a Corruption
Essence and move to any node on the
game board.
Use this ability once per your Hero Phase.
 ADDITIONAL RULES:
The Drifter
At the beginning of the game you may choose to put in play
the Drifter, an optional character which comes with its own
miniature and token. The Drifter is a dark Weybit whose
appearance has changed for mysterious reasons, which
might be somehow connected to Corruption. He belongs to
no Tribe and he wanders relentlessly in the wilderness. Weybit
Tribes are afraid of the trouble he can cause, but at the same
time, somehow they find a way to benefit from his aid.
SETUP
During the general setup of the game, immediately after
the “21. Dressing up the Weybit miniatures” step, the
first player randomly places the Drifter miniature on a
free node of the game board.
The Drifter token goes to the player sitting on the right of
the first player (owning the First player token).
GAMEPLAY
The player with the Drifter token controls the Drifter
during their Hero phase. After all Heroes have taken
their actions, the Drifter can perform the two actions
below in any order:
1. MOVEMENT: the DRIFTER moves just like a
Hero, up to a number of nodes equal to the Tribe
Corruption level of the active player, plus 2.
2. MENACE SHIFT: remove a Menace or a
Corruption token from underneath a Great
Guardian on a Region adjacent to the Drifter
and place it under any other Great Guardian that
does not already have one.
When this occurs, a Corruption Event is triggered.
At the end of each round, the player owning the Drifter
token passes it to the player on their right.
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 ADDITIONAL RULES:

Starting Scenario
Setup & tips
It is recommended to use this setup for your very first game, in order to help you avoid any resource shortage.

For some decades now the four tribes of Weybits Longfeather, Berrywort, Stoneroot and Cedarmoon have settled in the
fertile land of Faeriell. They have collaborated in harmony since the beginning, helping each other and, for this reason,
every new village was built within walking distance from the previous one, even when it belonged to another tribe. In the
evening, when the Weybits gathered around the fire to tell stories of past times, they told stories of heroes of other tribes
as well.
Soon the time of the Great Toad came and all Faeriell heard about Ugo’s story and the way Kuri helped the Weybit.
Nonetheless everyone knew it no one ever got tired of listening to it yet: the adventure in which the tribe of Berrywort
pushed the Great Guardian towards Ugo who, returning from the mountain pass, would never have been saved otherwise.
An adventure that reminded them how Weybits’ strength increases when they are together, avoiding rivalry and vanity
between the tribes.
Those feelings were not part of the Weybits in the ancient times, but after settling in Faeriell they emerged somehow in their
souls. Village elders suggest that these behaviors are related to the appearance of those strange, twisted and corrupted
plants recently discovered, but no one is sure.
What is certain is that Faeriell is a lush land that requires all the attention of the tribes to remain so.

FIRST GAME SETUP Player 3 – Take the cyan color, the Stoneroot tribe
player board, and the other matching components;
During the “General setup” of the game (page 8), follow
the tips below. Player 4 – Take the lime color, the Cedarmoon tribe
player board, and the other matching components.
2 HEARTLANDS
Place the Terrain tokens on the game board as shown in 14 SETTLEMENTS
the picture below.
Player 1 – Place your first 2 Settlements in the Heartland
of the Owl and Toad Areas;
Player 2 – Place your first 2 Settlements in the Heartland
of the Wolf and the Boar Areas;
Player 3 – Place your first 2 Settlements in the Heartland
of the Snake and the Turtle Areas;
Player 4 – Place your first 2 Settlements in the Heartland
of the Bear and the Stag Areas.

11 YOUR TRIBE
Player 1 – Take the orange color, the Longfeather
tribe player board, and the other matching components;
Player 2 – Take the purple color, the Berrywort tribe
player board, and the other matching components;

26 - STARTING SCENARIO
21 DRESS UP THE WEYBIT MINIATURES 23 HARVEST WHEEL
Player 1 – Dress up one of Place the Harvest token on the Bear animal icon on the
your Hero miniatures with Harvest Wheel.
the Yellow mask of the
Chieftain, and place it on
any node close to one of your
Settlements. Your starting
Essences are one Red and
one Yellow Essence;

Player 2 – Dress up one of

your Hero miniatures with the
Blue mask of the Shaman,
and place it on any node close
to one of your Settlements.
Your starting Essences are
one Green and one Blue
essences; FIRST TRIBE PHASE TIPS
Player 1 – During your first Tribe phase, you
Player 3 – Dress up one of
can choose to already spend your Essences to
your Hero miniatures with the
build a Beacon, using the Essence discount
Green mask of the Druid,
from your Hero’s innate ability;
and place it on any node close
to one of your Settlements. Player 2 – During your first Tribe phase,
Your starting Essences are you can choose to spend your Essences to
one Red and one Green attune with the Bear, using the Essence
Essences; discount from your Hero’s innate ability;

Player 4 – Dress up one Player 3 – During your first Tribe phase,

of your Hero miniatures
with the Red mask of the
Adventurer, and place it
on any node close to one of
your Settlements. Your starting
Essences are one Red and
one Blue Essences.
you can choose to spend your Essences to
gather a Heirloom Herb, using the Essence
discount from your Hero’s innate ability;
Player 4 – During your first Tribe phase,
you can choose to spend your Essences to
level up your Hero, using the Essence
discount from your Hero’s innate ability.

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 ADDITIONAL RULES:

Full Coop &

Solo Play Modes
Full Coop and Solo Play are alternative game modes that players can choose before the game begins.
In the Full Coop mode, all players team up to stop Corruption and their goal is to win together against the game, while in
the Solo Play mode the player’s aim is to defeat Corruption all alone. Both modes follow the same setup and gameplay
rules, whereas the winning conditions may vary based on the number of players.

SETUP
Before the general setup of the game, each player
randomly chooses an Essence deck:
1-2 Players: each player draws 4 cards from the
chosen deck. Then each one randomly chooses one of CORRUPTION SOWER: when a player reaches the
their Hero tiles and puts it aside. 4th slot on the Tribe Corruption track, they cannot
3-4 Players: each player draws 3 cards from the choose the option “Yield to Corruption” anymore to
chosen deck. Then each one randomly chooses two of solve a Corruption Event.
their Hero tiles and puts it aside.
Then, setup the game just like a base game, with the
following additions: WINNING IN THE SOLO PLAY MODE
• During the general setup of the game, skip the ‘8. To achieve victory in the Solo Play mode, the player must
Corruption Sower’ step. claim 6 Achievements.
• When players have to place their starting Settlements
they must reveal and discard one of the Essence cards
drawn, and place the Settlement on a Region of the
corresponding Great Guardian.
WINNING IN THE FULL COOP MODE
• Players cannot choose their starting Heroes among At the end of a turn players can win in two different ways:
those previously set aside. • By claiming together a specific total number of
Achievements (see the table below),
At the end of the setup, put back on the left of the player
board all the Hero tiles previously set aside, discard OR
any remaining Essence cards drawn and shuffle back all • By placing together a specific total number
discarded cards into their Essence decks. of Achievement tokens on the game board
(see the table below).

The winning conditions depend on the number of players,

GAMEPLAY as specified in the following table:
Play the game as usual, with the following variations: Number of Achievements Achievement
players claimed tokens placed
EVENT PHASE: when the player performs the Harvest
action, if the Harvest token is on a terrain type icon, only 2 10 12
the active player chooses a Region and may take the 3 14 17
corresponding Essence card. 4 17 21
5 20 24
Note: the Heirloom Herb cards that harvest
additional Essences work as usual.
WINNING SCORE
AUTOMATIC DOOM: at the end of every round, after To check each player’s victory rank follow the reference below:
checking the winning conditions, move the Doom token
X placed
forward a number of spaces equal to the number of
Menaces depicted on the Doom track according to the
Achievement
tokens * 2 - Level of Tribe
Corruption
token position.

28 - FULL COOP & SOLO MODE

 ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO:

The Twins
Despite being twins, Tash and Wido grew up very differently, pursuing different life paths and following different beliefs. The arrival of the
Corruption has just been the final event that has shown how different they have become.
Tash firmly believes that everything about it is pure evil, and its influence on the land of Faeriell needs to be fought in every possible way. Wido
believes it is one more expression of nature itself, worth investigating even as a possible evolution of the whole world into something different
and new. Each of them persuaded some of the tribes to follow their ideas. The games are set, only one of them will be able to fulfil their vision.

SECOND PLAYER - Wido

SETUP
Instead of the standard 2 player setup, follow the
instructions below.
After completing the General Setup (page 5), continue
with the following additional steps:
1. In order of play, each player takes one Settlement
meeple from the lowest slot of their player board
and places it on a Region without Settlements.
Then, they add one Essence card to their Essence pool,
according to the Terrain type of that Region.
2. In reverse order of play, each player levels up their Hero
without paying any cost following the core rules (page 14).
3. Move the Doom token two spaces forward on the Doom
track.
FIRST PLAYER - Tash
Claim the “Corruption Cleanser” Achievement using
any of your Achievement tokens. You do not have to
pay the required Essence cost. The Doom token does not
move any space forward.
Move your Tribe Corruption token two spaces forward
on the track. Discard up to two Essences from your Essence
Pool and draw an equivalent number of Corruption Essences.
GAMEPLAY
FIRST PLAYER - Tash
New Ability: if you choose the option Cleanse Corruption
when solving a Corruption Event, you can both Move the
Doom token one space backward on the Doom track
and discard a Corruption token from underneath a
Corrupted Great Guardian.
SECOND PLAYER - Wido
New Ability: every time you level up a Hero (including
the first one activated during the Setup), you can choose
to randomly draw a Corruption Sower perk instead of
choosing one from those available on the Perk tile section of
the game board.

ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO:

Winter’s grasp
The arrival of the Corruption completely changed the seasons on Faeriell. Cold winds started blowing from the North, freezing rivers
and covering the land under ice and snow. Animals and Weybits are fleeing towards the southern sea, but even that area won’t last
long if the Corruption is not defeated before it’s too late.

At the end of every turn, place an extra Action gem where

SETUP the Harvest token is. If that space already has an Action
gem on it, place the new Action gem on the next space of
Before the General Setup, EASY 1 the Wheel, clockwise.
randomly select a number
NORMAL 2 ADDITIONAL ADVANCEMENT: Tribes on the Move
of Great Guardians
HARD 3 During the Tribe Phase, players may spend either one Green
according to the chosen
difficulty level: VERY HARD 5 or one Yellow Essence to move one of their Settlements into
Place an Action gem for each selected Great Guardian an adjacent Region with no Settlements on it. Any Beacons
on their correspondent icon on the Harvest Wheel. or Totem in that Region move along with the Settlement.

Note: This action can only be performed once per

Tribe phase.
GAMEPLAY
During the Event phase, if the Harvest token is on a Great ADDITIONAL END GAME CONDITION
Guardian icon with an Action gem on it, do not resolve the When all the spaces on the Harvest Wheel have an Action gem
Harvest action. on them, the game ends immediately and all players lose.

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 Cards reference
Essences

Blue Essence, Spirit Red Essence , Vigor Yellow Essence, Influence

Green Essence, Ley Lines Corruption Essence, Doom

Great Guardians

Koos, the golden stag Kuri, the rumbling boar Jagapi, the dreamer owl

Lanu, the quiet wolf Rhudo, the wandering bear

Rablo, the cunning toad Suba, the singing snake Noka, the nodding turtle

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 Cards layout
ATTUNEMENT CARD

ONLY
DURING ESSENCE
THIS PHASE CARDS COST

MAIN SECONDARY
ABILITY ABILITY

HEIRLOOM HERB CARD

Some cards can only be played during a specific phase:

TRIBE EVENT HERO

PHASE PHASE PHASE

Attunement cards
Rotate: move one Hero from any node
to any other only within the Bear Area.
It counts as one additional Level for the
Shaman for the Hero Achievements
claim.
Rotate: move one Hero from any node
to any other only within the Stag Area.
It counts as one additional Level for
the Druid for the Hero Achievements
claim.

Rotate: move one Hero from any Rotate: move one Hero from any
node to any other only within the node to any other only within the
Toad Area. Owl Area.
It counts as a River terrain type for the It counts as a Forest terrain type for the
Achievements claim. Achievements claim.

Rotate: move one Hero from any node Rotate: move one Hero from any node
to any other only within the Boar Area. to any other only within the Wolf Area.
It counts as a Meadow terrain type for It counts as a Mountain terrain type for
the Achievements claim. the Achievements claim.

Rotate: move one Hero from any node
to any other only within the Turtle
Area.
It counts as one additional Level for the
Chieftain for the Hero Achievements
claim.
Rotate: move one Hero from any
node to any other only within the
Snake Area.
It counts as one additional Level for the
Adventurer for the Hero Achievements
claim.

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 Heirloom Herb cards
Rotate: it discounts a Yellow Essence
from an Advancement cost.
Rotate: it discounts a Green Essence from
an Advancement cost.
Rotate: it discounts a Red Essence from
an Advancement cost.
Rotate: it discounts a Blue Essence from
an Advancement cost.
Rotate: the Chieftain gains one
Action gem.
It counts as one additional Level
for the Chieftain for the Hero
Achievement claim.
Rotate: the Druid gains one
Action gem.
It counts as one additional Level for
the Druid for the Hero Achievement
claim.
Harvest one additional Yellow
Essence when the Harvest token is on
the Meadow icon.
It counts as a Meadow terrain type
for the Achievements claim.
Harvest one additional Green
Essence when the Harvest token is on
the Forest icon.
It counts as a Forest terrain type for
the Achievements claim.
KS EXCLUSIVE HEIRLOOM HERB CARDS
It adds 3 to the number of slots to move
on the Harvest Wheel, only to reach the
Snake or the Wolf Great Guardian.
It adds 3 to the number of slots to move
on the Harvest Wheel, only to reach the
Bear or the Toad Great Guardian.
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Solve one Yellow Menace (take the
rewards and move one space the
correspondent track as usual).
Solve one Green Menace (take the
rewards and move one space the
correspondent track as usual).
Solve one Red Menace (take the rewards
and move one space the correspondent
track as usual).
Solve one Blue Menace (take the rewards
and move one space the correspondent
track as usual).
Rotate: the Adventurer gains one
Action gem.
It counts as one additional Level
for the Adventurer for the Hero
Achievement claim.
Rotate: the Shaman gains one
Action gem.
It counts as one additional Level for
the Shaman for the Hero Achievement
claim.
Harvest one additional Red Essence
when the Harvest token is on the
Monuntain icon.
It counts as a Mountain terrain type
for the Achievements claim.
Harvest one additional Blue Essence
when the Harvest token is on the
River icon.
It counts as a River terrain type for the
Achievements claim.
It adds 3 to the number of slots to move
on the Harvest Wheel, only to reach the
Owl or the Stag Great Guardian.
It adds 3 to the number of slots to move
on the Harvest Wheel, only to reach the
Turtle or the Boar Great Guardian.
 Tiles reference
Heroes’ innate abilities
Use these abilities once per Tribe Phase.

When buying an When buying a Heirloom When buying a Beacon, it When leveling up, it
Attunement, it discounts Herb, it discounts 1 Green discounts 1 Yellow Essence discounts 1 Red Essence
1 Blue Essence from its cost. Essence from its cost. from its cost. from its cost.
Use this ability only for the
Adventurer.

Hero Perks
Perk Action: convert one Yellow Essence Perk Action: convert one Green Essence
into a Blue Essence, or one Blue Essence into a Blue Essence, or one Blue Essence
into a Yellow Essence. into a Green Essence.

Perk Action: convert one Red Essence Perk Action: convert one Green Essence
into a Blue Essence, or one Blue Essence into a Red Essence, or one Red Essence
into a Red Essence. into a Green Essence.

Perk Action: convert one Yellow Essence Perk Action: convert one Yellow Essence
into a Green Essence, or one Green into a Red Essence, or one Red Essence
Essence into a Yellow Essence. into a Yellow Essence.

Perk Action: move one node along Standard Action: Remove any
paths of any River Region. Menace on a River Region.

Perk Action: move one node along Standard Action: Remove any
paths of any Mountain Region. Menace on a Mountain Region.

Perk Action: move one node along Standard Action: Remove any
paths of any Forest Region. Menace on a Forest Region.

Perk Action: move one node along Standard Action: Remove any
paths of any Meadow Region. Menace on a Meadow Region.

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 Blue Essence: gain one Action gem in Yellow Essence: gain one Action gem
this phase. in this phase.

Red Essence: gain one Action gem in Green Essence: gain one Action gem
this phase. in this phase.

Can use any Essence to solve a

Can go on a Quest and solve
Corruption Event (Cleanse your
one Quest of any color.
Tribe or Cleanse Corruption).

After solving a Menace, you may

Can move one additional node.
move one node.

KS EXCLUSIVE HERO PERKS

Perk Action: move the Snake or the Standard action: move the Turtle and the
Wolf to an adjacent Region. Snake to any Region of their own Area.

Perk Action: move the Bear or the Standard action: move the Bear and the
Toad to an adjacent Region. Stag to any Region of their own Area.

Perk Action: move the Boar or the Standard action: move the Toad and the
Turtle to an adjacent Region. Owl to any Region of their own Area.

Perk Action: move the Owl or the Standard action: move the Boar and the
Stag to an adjacent Region. Wolf to any Region of their own Area.

When solving a Quest, gain one Can solve any Menace on an

Action gem. owned Region.

When gaining a new Perk (this

included), move any tracking token Perk Action: spend a non-Corruption
one space forward on your player Essence to move 2 nodes.
board track.

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 Perk Action: spend a Blue Essence to Perk Action: spend a Yellow Essence
trigger a Corruption Event. to trigger a Corruption Event.

Perk Action: spend a Red Essence to Perk Action: spend a Green Essence
trigger a Corruption Event. to trigger a Corruption Event.

Corruption Sower Perks

1 Corruption Essence: move
Standard Action: remove from the
the Tribe Corruption track of 1
game board any Menace and move
opponent (with at least 1 Tribe
the Doom track one space forward.
Corruption) one space forward.

When the Doom track moves one

When gaining this perk, permanently
space forward, gain one Corruption
remove one of the Hero Actions.
Essence.

Corruption Essence: gain Two non-Corruption Essences: move

two Actions. the Doom track one space forward.

KS EXCLUSIVE CORRUPTION SOWER PERKS

Perk Action: discard a non-Corruption
2 Corruption Essences: perform
Essence, take one Corruption Essence
a Menace draft.
from each other player.

During the Harvest phase, Perk Action: convert 2 Corruption

gain 1 Corruption Essence for each Essences into 3 Essences, each of
Corruption token in play. any color.

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 Glossary
BEAR TOAD BOAR TURTLE STAG OWL WOLF SNAKE

TRIBE PHASE EVENT PHASE HERO PHASE

PERK ACTIVATED TRIGGERED ONGOING HERO 3RD LEVEL

ACTION ACTION ACTION ACTION ACTION HERO ACTION

ACHIEVEMENT QUEST HEIRLOOM ATTUNEMENT BEACON HERO TILE HERO LEVEL

HERB (sum of all the
Perk tiles and
the Hero tile)

REGION SOLVE REMOVE EVENT PROHIBITION EQUAL TO

MENACE CORRUPTION TRIBE TRACK ONE SPACE ONE SPACE MOVE FROM A
CORRUPTION FORWARD BACKWARD REGION TO
ANOTHER ONE

MENACE TELEPORTATION MOVE GREAT OPPONENTS

IN PLAY GUARDIAN

GAME DESIGN: Christian Zoli

ARTWORKS: Andrea Butera, Thibaut Denise, Maxime Morin
SPECIAL THANKS: Dávid Turczi, Federico Latini (game design ideas),
the Quintet club (playtest)

A very special thanks goes to our family, friends & playtesters.

And a warm thank you to all 2,718 backers who made this adventure possible!