Of Ash and Iron
The enemy's turn is not a cutscene. Keep one Ember unspent, and you can strike back in the middle of their attack.
Three Ember a turn. Up to two carry over.
Unspent Ember does not vanish in Kindlefall. Up to two carry over as Residual Ember, and a Reaction card can spend them while the enemy is mid-swing. The Forge Wraith has 17 health left and is winding up a Wailing Strike for 12. You have 3 Ember and four cards. Put it down before the blow lands.
Forge Wraith
Try it again, and end your turn with one Ember still lit.
The winning line is Sear, Sear, end your turn, then Counter Blaze.
Same Wraith, same Wailing Strike, one banked Ember. Pick a faction and see what its Reaction does with it.
Your health
Banked
Ore 0
Every card you win, buy or start with carries two temper paths, and the card that comes out belongs to your run. Pick a path and strike the anvil three times.
Choose a path.
Put another card on the anvil
Each shrine does one temper, and then its work is done. The Flame a shrine takes is the same Forge Flame that holds the map together, and each time it falls below 75, 50 and 25, the outermost ring crumbles.
The Kindlevault is a hex map, and you are not alone on it. The Ashen charge straight for the Forge, the Wardens step around ground the other rivals hold, the Shapers push inward and grab empty hexes on the way, and the Veilbound shadow whoever leads the race, you included. A band that ends its move beside you can cut you off and make you fight. Take a step and watch them answer.
0 of 6 steps
Forge Flame 100 of 100
Win 2 fights in the outer ring to open the middle ring.
Here, every fight you step into counts as won. Scouting costs 5 Forge Flame and shows every hex within 2 steps. The rivals move while you look.
| Faction | Hex | Ring | Hexes held | Distance to the Forge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wardens | Warden Approach | Outer ring | 14 | 6 |
| Ashen (you) | Ashen Approach | Outer ring | 14 | 6 |
| Shapers | Shaper Approach | Outer ring | 14 | 6 |
| Veilbound | Veilbound Approach | Outer ring | 14 | 6 |
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Preserve the Forge
The Forge is the heartbeat of the world. If it dies, everything dies with it. Guard the flame at any cost.
Defensive, attrition-based. Outlast your enemies through Block and healing. Retribution gains Block equal to the damage it deals.
Reaction Brace
You gain 1 Aegis when your Block stops a whole attack and 1 when an attack gets through. At the start of your turn, if you hold 5 Aegis or more, you spend 5 to gain 10 Block.
Destroy the Forge
The Forge is a corruption, a wound in reality that should have closed long ago. Burn it all and let the world heal.
Hyper-aggressive, self-destructive. Cards exhaust for massive effects. Health is a resource. Ash Harvest exhausts a card you choose from your hand and gains 2 Ash.
Reaction Counter Blaze
You gain 1 Ash each time you damage yourself and 1 each time a card is exhausted. At the start of your turn, if you hold 5 Ash or more, you spend 5 to deal 8 damage to all enemies.
Build with the Forge
The Forge is a tool, the greatest ever made. Don't waste it. Build something that transcends what came before.
Scaling, construction-based. Start slow, become unstoppable. Their Powers work again every turn. Spark Anvil summons a Construct that deals 2 damage each turn and soaks the blows your Block misses.
Reaction Emergency Repair
You gain 1 Ore each time you play a Construct. At the start of your turn, if you hold 5 Ore or more, you spend 5 to gain 2 Ember and draw 2 cards.
Control the Forge
Power exists to be wielded. The Forge doesn't need saving or destroying. It needs a master.
Manipulation, disruption. Stack Weak on every enemy to soften each blow, and turn every Weak into Dominion. Curse of Binding hexes an enemy for its next 3 actions. Each time it acts, it takes 2 damage and gains 1 Weak.
Reaction Redirect
You gain 1 Dominion for each enemy you Weaken and 1 for each enemy you Burn. At the start of your turn, if you hold 5 Dominion or more, you spend 5 to apply 2 Weak to all enemies and deal 4 damage to all enemies.
The Eternal Forge has burned since before memory. Every civilization that has risen in its light has claimed to understand it, and every one of them has been wrong. Now the flame gutters, and four factions march on the Kindlevault, each certain they alone know what must be done.
The Kindlevault is not a building. It is a wound in the earth. The pilgrimage has become an invasion, and no one asks what the Forge thinks about any of this.
You came to preserve it.You came to end it.You came to build with it.You came to master it.
