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It flies, and it is quick.

A blade passes through it as through fog, and nothing that strikes at the mind can reach it.

It fights hand to hand and holds where lighter soldiers break.

Hiring one costs geld, people and a little mana, and the Barracks organise the contract.

A Sealborn calls them with Summon bear shifter.

All the restless dead borrow life.

Its bond is shallow.

It looks like a scholar and strikes like a caster, but the natives lived without cores, and no native dead ever held one.

The bow is the first answer to a charge.

A Sealborn calls her with Summon brook maiden.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

It strikes first with raw power and then closes with a blade.

It has no recruitment price and asks no upkeep.

Mana sustains it, and its card sets a keep in geld as well.

It strikes with light, then hurls lightning from afar, and it strikes again before the enemy recovers.

Its bond is deep.

It is not recruited.

It is not recruited.

It is not recruited.

A Sealborn calls it with Summon crimson drake, and pays for it in more than mana.

The sea's depths it rises from are not Deopa's Deep, and it is not one of Deopa's creatures.

It strikes at the mind, and its blow is real enough.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A Sealborn calls them with Summon dwarf runecaster.

A Sealborn calls them with Summon dwarf zealot.

A Sealborn calls these beasts with Summon eagle lion.

A kingdom recruits elf bowmen through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people.

A kingdom recruits elf mages through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A Sealborn calls blade-singers with Summon elf swordsinger, or calls a company of them with Summon elf swordsinger dup.

A kingdom recruits ember giants through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

It hardly fights.

The flock warden is a kind of Wanderer.

They are frail, but they are fast.

War makes such folk.

A mage calls it with Summon fiend rider; no barracks can train one.

Mana sustains it, and its card sets a keep in geld as well.

Cultivators call it the ring of affinities in a single body.

Mana sustains it, like any summoned shape.

Mana alone keeps it burning, and a great deal of it.

It strikes with hands colder than ice, then breathes a blast of cold at its foes.

It strikes from afar with killing cold, and then strikes again.

It is enormous and fast.

It fights with a blade that carries light.

In battle it stands back, throws light at the enemy and mends the wounds of its own side.

A Sealborn calls these beasts with Beast summoning, the Bloom call to the beasts of the woods.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

They answer no drum.

Hiring one costs geld, a person and a little mana, and the Barracks organise the contract.

Like every called shape, it is held in the Hallow by mana.

A tracker shoots from range, looses a second volley after the first and aims true.

It fights hand to hand, with a blade that carries light and a great shield.

They fight hand to hand, shoulder to shoulder behind their shields.

A mage calls it with Summon horned fiend.

It strikes first with raw power from its horn, then with its hooves, and it is fast.

This soldier serves the lineage's given word as well as its pay.

A Human lord builds works and walls, and their lineage's songs say that is where this service began.

The workshop copy takes the form and leaves the shard behind.

Every kingdom begins its Turning with a few of them already standing.

Each is frail and quick.

Unlike most of the Deep's creatures, it is not called by a spell.

A Sealborn calls the serpent with Summon multi serpent.

A Sealborn calls them with Summon noble elf.

A Sealborn calls them with Summon oak maiden.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks for a little geld, a little mana and a person.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks for a little geld, a little mana and a person.

It is not recruited.

A kingdom recruits these little drakes through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

A lesser work made with Tellan, the Keeper of Tallies's method holds no Seal-shard, but operating it can release a bound creature without anyone casting a spell.

The poisoners say their venom is a craft, not a spell.

What divides them is a story.

A mage calls it with Summon profane reaper.

It consumes minds to sustain its own thought.

No barracks trains it.

Riders strike hand to hand, but they arrive first.

In the Age of Odrin, Odrin Half-Core laid his affinity over such ground.

Mana alone keeps it standing, and a great deal of it.

That, the artisans say, is where the bolts come from.

A Sealborn calls them with Summon saurian.

Bloom cultivators tell a story about the scream.

It fights by singing.

Do not mistake one for a Wanderer.

Mana keeps it there.

She strikes with her coils and with lightning, and she aims true.

It does not come as a shape out of the Welter or up from the Deep.

No native has a Seal-shard, and only a shard can cast a spell.

A Sealborn's wards consume mana, and when mana runs short they drop.

It throws stones from far behind the line, and in a siege it breaks walls.

It flies.

A Sealborn calls these plants with Summon snap plant.

The folk say the spear began in the fields.

Its bond is deep.

It is frail.

It strikes from a distance, first with raw power and then with lightning, and it moves quickly.

The guild artisans tell how it began.

Its gaze holds the living still.

Made things are Plain, but the card counts this one as Umbra.

The ivy lashes at whatever stands within its reach and drinks the life of what it strikes, and in battle it grows back from what the blades cut away.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana.

It fights hand to hand behind a great shield, throws light from a distance and mends the wounds of those beside it.

It is not recruited.

It flies.

A Sealborn calls thunder giants with Summon thunder giant.

It strikes from afar, drowning and choking what it reaches, and it lasts a long time in battle.

It has no recruitment price and asks no upkeep.

A Sealborn calls tree guardians with Summon tree guardian.

A Sealborn calls the beast with Summon tri beast.

The Sealborn say its people dig toward the places where the Deep's threshold presses close to the ground, and that the dark there knits their wounds.

Its bond is shallow, and its master can release its borrowed life and dismiss it.

Hiring one is costly: a great deal of geld, a little mana and several people.

A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks for geld, a little mana and people.

A Sealborn calls these drakes with Summon wing drake.

It flies over walls and lines and fights with hoof and teeth.

The folk say shifters are born among those who live at the edge of the Mist, where the Covenant has not yet fixed the ground.

Such folk believe they fight in Daegred, the Sunward's light.

Before the fighting, it calls Temptress fiend up out of the Deep to fight for the caster.

Lumen cultivators call it a kingdom's great ward folded small enough to fit one company.

It is among the simpler spells, so a mage of any affinity can learn it, though across the ring it costs more, fails more easily and lays a thinner skin.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Research presses the spell into a Seal-shard, and like every learned spell it perishes at the Unsealing.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Newcomers of that affinity say it is among the first spells they recover.

Cultivators of Reverie say a wall holds only while those who face it believe it is there.

For the length of a battle, every company the caster fields strikes harder.

Sometimes it gives nothing at all.

The gain grows as the caster's realm deepens toward full mastery of the spell, and the card shows how far.

Sealborn of Pyre call it the sister of Fire dart.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

This is a spell that belongs to its own affinity.

Like every battle spell, it must get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Bloom artisans say a made thing is only borrowed from the ground, and the ground always asks for it back.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Some already have it.

Lumen cultivators say the flash is pure order, too clear for the eye to find a mark through.

Umbra cultivators describe it from the inside.

Before the fighting, the spell rolls over a single company.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is a battle spell, so it takes the side's one battle-spell place, and anything it does to an enemy must get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Its age grants no privilege.

Nor does all of it arrive.

In the Age of the Given Word, a broken alliance showed Flint D.

It shows one rival kingdom's army, and a kingdom's protections against scouting can turn it aside.

They carry no affinity of their own, so fire can ride their arrows without changing what they are.

Sealborn of Pyre call it Kindle grown large: the same spark, fed by a deeper core until it will not fit in a hand.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Each side brings only one battle spell, and this one must still get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

It is a costly spell to bring, and each side brings only one battle spell, so a Bloom lord saves it for a foe whose strength is in the air: winged hosts, wing-beasts, anything that means to strike from above before the line can close.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Its ancient rank does not override the ring.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Umbra cultivators explain it simply.

Cast on another kingdom, it tears open a furrow through that kingdom's stores and drains its mana.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Cultivators of Reverie say the spell sends the enemy a brief dream of loving the soldiers in front of them, and it is hard to strike what you have dreamed of loving.

Each side brings only one battle spell, and this one must still get past the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

While it stands, the lord raises their recruits faster.

The card prices it as research.

The card prices it as research.

On the ring of affinities, dreams die, so Reverie feeds Umbra.

Cultivators of Reverie say almost everyone knows this spell already, from the inside.

It does nothing for anyone but elves.

It is a battle spell, and each side brings only one.

In a shard that woke in Pyre, the spell does a little more.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul who remembers being somewhere else.

For the length of a battle, every company the caster fields takes life from the enemies it strikes.

Sealborn of Pyre say the Law of Equals binds this fire.

It is a spoken ill-wish.

A shard woken in Lumen mends a little even at its shallowest realm.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

The old story is that small kingdoms used it during the devouring, in the Age of the First Sealborn, because a great army that cannot see fights no more effectively than a small one.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is still magic, so it must pass the ward, the resistance of its affinity and the creature's own resistance.

Cultivators of Reverie say a dream can make a moment as long as the dreamer needs, and this spell lends a company that stretched moment.

Lumen cultivators say light is easiest to hold along an edge, and that it will not follow a thing once it leaves the hand.

Lumen cultivators say the spell was first pressed in the Age of Odrin.

Every raising answers Odrin Half-Core.

Umbra cultivators have an explanation.

These are not the bodies the dead once had.

It never comes back with a relic.

What breaks is lost for the Turning.

For all its reach, it never takes a relic.

Lumen cultivators call it the deeper form of Silver palm mending, pressed by those who wanted the light to reach further down.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Lumen cultivators say the word commands only what has no right to stand.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is a small spell and a low in cost one, among the simpler spells, so a mage of any affinity can learn it, though across the ring it costs more and fails more easily.

Lumen cultivators are careful about what this is.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Aefenna, the Lamplighter, who holds Reverie, also holds the Third Seal, which keeps back a night without ending.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Before the fighting starts, the spell falls on a single enemy company.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

It is still a simple spell, yet it asks for more turns than the smallest summonings of its affinity.

The bear-folk are proud that they carry Bloom.

Ordinary folk say these are the dead who learned to take their borrowed life by mouth, from enemies as well as from the kingdom that keeps them.

Umbra cultivators say these are the dead who kept the most of their old shape while they waited, and that something of what they knew in life comes up with them.

Cultivators find the gift odd.

Lumen cultivators tie these judges to the Law of Equals.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Summoned things are shapes a spell calls out of the Welter, and mana keeps them standing.

Dragons are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Before anything existed there was only the Welter, raw power with no lasting shape, until seven beings found shapes that held and became the gods.

Fire-folk are among the affinity-born peoples, native life where an affinity runs strong.

Fire-folk are among the affinity-born peoples: native life where an affinity runs strong.

They nest on bare crags where nothing seems to grow.

The blade-singers call themselves the Greenmother's pruning knife.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul, and every one remembers being somewhere else.

The Human lineages have a song about them.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

It lies beyond the complex spells a neighbour can reach, so only a Sealborn whose core woke in Bloom can master it.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, the raw power that can become anything but keep nothing.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, and elementals are among them.

Every Sealborn is a foreign soul who remembers being somewhere else.

The Sealborn who cast it do not agree on what the warriors are, but the Human lineages have a song about them.

The affinity-born peoples are native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Lumen cultivators tell the high ones' story with care.

Deopa's creatures are not all the same kind of thing.

Lumen cultivators remember these steeds in the story of Ysme of Lumen.

Cultivators of Reverie say the Welter has no shape of its own, so it takes the one the summoner holds in mind.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

The noble lines believe they are older than the Scar, and that the Greenmother remembers her own.

The grove-folk say each maiden belongs to one tree, and that the great tree-wardens called by Summon tree guardian are her elders.

Umbra cultivators say the reapers are the Deep's answer to the Unmaker.

The price does not stop there.

Umbra cultivators have a story for it.

It lies beyond the complex spells a neighbour can reach, so only a Sealborn whose core woke in Bloom can master it.

The affinity-born peoples are native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Bloom cultivators tell where the scream came from.

Cultivators of Reverie say this summoning is sung, not spoken, because the Welter answers a song more readily than a command.

Where Lumen runs strong, the Hallow has celestial peoples among its affinity-born life.

Newcomers are often surprised to find serpents answering a call of light.

Elves are among the affinity-born peoples, the native life of the Hallow that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Cultivators of Reverie say a great figure is slow to answer because it must be dreamed whole.

Farmers have their own name for them.

Ordinary folk tell a story about them.

Cultivators argue about whom these speakers speak for.

The Hallow's affinity-born life includes astral peoples, and Lumen cultivators count these casters among them.

The Welter can become anything, but it can keep nothing.

The Welter can become anything, but it can keep nothing.

Bloom cultivators teach it beside the story of Odrin Half-Core.

A Sealborn reaches no further than the complex spells of neighbouring affinities, so this spell belongs to cores that woke in Lumen.

Summoned things are shapes that a spell calls out of the Welter, the raw power beyond the Covenant.

The treefolk hold a proud belief.

Beasts are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Umbra cultivators say the shades are the thinnest of the stranded dead: remnants worn so far down that the spell can give them little more than a darkness to stand in.

Dragons are among the affinity-born, native life that grows where an affinity runs strong.

Newcomers who fell through the Scar tell a story about these steeds.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

The spell does a second thing, and many commanders value it more.

In a shard that woke in Pyre, the bolt also breaks the strike of an enemy company for the battle.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Cast by anyone else, it does nothing at all.

Its reason is growth.

Undon, the Unmaker, who holds this affinity, sealed on one term: no sealing lasts.

In any other hands it does nothing at all.

Lumen cultivators explain it plainly.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Its cultivators say a wound is only ground waiting to grow back over.

Enchantments exist in Seven Seals.

Lumen cultivators count it the last of three spells for the fallen, after Silver palm mending and Restore fallen.

It is served before battle, as the work its side brings.

Unrolled before the fighting, it shelters the whole army at once.

Beasts are among the Hallow's own native life, found where an affinity runs strong.

It is cast loose before the fighting starts.

It is rolled out before the fighting and set off among the enemy.

It is thrown before the fighting starts.

What lies inside is one of the restless dead, the natives' dead stranded at the threshold of Deopa, the Deep's Deep since the Breaking.

Reading it stands up a company of Workshop ox in the holder's kingdom.

It is shared out to the whole army before the fighting.

It is lit before the fighting, upwind of the enemy.

Thrown over the enemy before the fighting, it settles on every company there.

The jars are smashed over the enemy before the fighting.

It is read aloud before the fighting.

Opened before the fighting, it pours out a fog that covers the whole field.

It is thrown among the enemy before the fighting and shatters.

It is unwrapped before the fighting and held up to the enemy.

The chart claims to lead to the five sacred cups, the relic Sacred cup stained gold among them.

It is not a weapon for the battlefield.

It does its work during the fighting and after it.

It is used against another kingdom, not on a battlefield.

What is inside is a gamble.

Breaking it pours mana into its holder's own kingdom.

It is loosed on another kingdom, not on a battlefield.

The drums are beaten as the armies close.

Each side may bring a work of its own into battle, and this one strikes first.

Open it in your own kingdom and it releases what is bound inside: a company of Toad or a company of Chipmunk, whichever chance decides.

It is the work its owner brings to a battle.

Set it out in your own kingdom and a troop of Great ape arrives.

Brought as the work its side carries into battle, it breaks open before the armies meet.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Some lesser works attempt a theft, and this is one of them.

Some lesser works gamble, and this one gambles on what it takes.

It is the work its side brings to a battle, and it does nothing until the fighting stops.

Turn it on a rival and it shows two things: the rival's army and the geld in its stores.

Read it in your own kingdom and new folk arrive to settle there, all at once.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Read it in your own kingdom and the newest hostile enchantment laid on that kingdom lifts.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Sent to a rival, the rations are eaten, and they kill.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Pour it in your own kingdom and the households grow.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

It is the work its side brings to the fight.

Beyond every kingdom's settled centre lies the Mist, ground the Covenant has not yet fixed.

Spend it in your own kingdom and geld fills the treasury at once.

No one knows who made it.

Its maker is unknown.

Tellan records no maker, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and no one knows where its shard lay before.

Tellan records no maker, and where the shard lay before its binding is unknown.

Its maker is not recorded, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and no one knows where the shard lay before.

Tellan names no maker, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where the shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan records no maker, and where the shard lay before its binding is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan names no maker, and the shard's first home is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan records no maker.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan records no maker.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan records no maker.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan records no maker.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

The Ox still works the same way.

Tellan names no maker, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where its shard lay before is unknown.

No maker is recorded, and where the shard lay before is unknown.

Its gift is narrow and sharp.

The Fourth Seal lets power hold the form of a spell.

While it is held, the heroes in its holder's service learn more from every battle.

On the ring of affinities, Umbra and Lumen lie across from each other and repel.

Its gifts are broad.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Bloom.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, but only if the holder's core woke in Lumen.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Reverie.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Umbra.

After each battle, the cup restores some of its holder's fallen companies, if the holder's core woke in Pyre.

Its bargain is written openly in the accounts.

It guards in two ways.

Written in it is The Sunward Enclosure, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

Its gift is simple.

It is thrown once, at another kingdom, and it burns that kingdom's Nodes.

Turned on another kingdom, the bowl shows everything that matters there: its army, its geld and mana, its people, its buildings and the enchantments standing over it.

Written on it is The Deepward Step, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

It is used once.

The pipes do not make their holder's army stronger.

While it is held, every attempt to spy out what lies in its holder's kingdom is turned aside.

While it is held, its holder's kingdom resists spells of every affinity more strongly.

While it burns in its holder's kingdom, the holder's spells cost less mana, dispelling costs less, and casting fails less often.

It gives order to two things at once.

It favours Deopa's creatures, the shapes that belong to the Deep.

Cut into those leaves is The Ash Furrow, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

The sword belongs to the storm.

It is used once, against another kingdom, and it takes a hero from that kingdom's service into its holder's.

The maul strikes the ground, and everything standing on it feels the blow.

It is laid once on a hero in the holder's service.

On the ring of affinities, Lumen feeds Reverie: order dreams.

Written in it is Greenmother's Unbinding, one of the five oldest spells, older than the Scar.

While it is worn, its holder's spells cost less mana and fail less often, whatever their affinity.

It does not depend on how many Nodes the kingdom has raised.

Bone callers name Odrin Half-Core their first teacher, though none of them claims to have met him.

A casting mage calls summoned things out of the Welter with a spell and pays mana to keep them standing.

Its kind serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war that Undon, the Unmaker holds.

It serves in Umbra, the affinity of death and its aftermath.

Its kind serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war that Undon, the Unmaker holds.

The Deep lies inside the god, beneath the Hallow's remade ground and outside it.

It serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war that Undon, the Unmaker holds.

Umbra raises the restless dead on life borrowed from the living, and the kingdom pays in people.

It serves in Bloom, the affinity of growth, beasts and living ground.

Its kind serves in Bloom, the affinity of growth, beasts and living ground, which Virenna, the Greenmother holds.

Tellan, the Keeper of Tallies keeps the Mnemoliths outside the world and records every art and every first discovery.

It serves in Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind that Aefenna, the Lamplighter holds.

It serves in Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind that Aefenna, the Lamplighter holds.

Wanderers keep their memories from world to world.

The champions tell the history of their kind through Wen Sarai.

It serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war.

It serves in Bloom, the affinity of growth, beasts and living ground.

It strikes with magic from a distance.

It fights hand to hand, and it grows stronger and harder to kill the longer it serves.

A kingdom's Workshops set the pace of construction.

It is not one of the creatures of Deopa, the Deep, but it works for them.

It serves in Reverie, the affinity of dream, illusion and mind that Aefenna, the Lamplighter holds.

It strikes with holy light from a distance, and it grows stronger and harder to kill the longer it serves.

Those dead are the natives' dead.

Once it has served long enough, it brings its employer a steady sum of geld every turn, and the sum grows the longer it stays.

A kingdom runs on two currencies: mana, the raw power a core or a node draws, and geld, the coin ordinary folk pay.

Its quarry is the restless dead: the natives' dead, stranded at the threshold of the Deep since the Breaking.

It serves in Pyre, the affinity of fire, destruction and war.

Every recruit is one of the kingdom's own people, and recruiting one costs geld and a person.

When a spell comes against a kingdom, the ward is the first thing it must get past.

The people who work them are ordinary folk: coreless, Plain, needing no Core to live on the ground.

Lose every Fortress, and the kingdom is lost for the Turning.

It recovers spells.

A Sealborn's core draws mana of its own, but a Node gathers it from the ground itself, and it is not only for mages.

The people inside are ordinary folk.

Beyond a kingdom's settled centre lies the Mist, ground the Covenant has not yet fixed.

This is also where constructs are made: soldiers built rather than born, each with its own listed costs.