Advisors

You may Recruit 1 Advisor on your turn by paying the costs as a Bonus Action.

Advisors stay with you until the end of the game.

You receive Citizen Points as indicated on the card, immediately after Recruiting. Many Advisors grant special abilities: immediately and one-time, 1x per turn, or permanently. Using the Advisor's abilities is always optional.

Type A Advisors (placed on the board during setup):

The numbers in brackets indicate the Citizen Points that you receive once, immediately after Recruiting.

Immediately and One-time:

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  Master of Coin:

  Take 1 Gold Coin. (+ 6).

  
  
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  Archivist:

  Take 2 Books. (+2).

  
  
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  Goldsmith:

  Take 1 Signet Ring. (+ 5).

  
  
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  Carpenter:

  You receive 10 Building Points. (+1)

  
  

Once per turn (even immediately after recruiting):

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  Baker:

  Pay 1 Cloth and 1 Grain to take 1 Bread OR
  pay 1 Cloth and 2 Grain to take 2 Breads. (+3)

  
  
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  Bailiff:

  Discard 1 Signet Ring to receive 5 Building Points. (+5)

  
  
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  Landlord:

  Pay 1 Cloth and 1 Citizen Point to receive 5 Building Points. (+3)

  
  
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  Schoolmarm:

  Pay any 2 resources to take 1 Book. (+3)

  
  
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  Dressmaker:

  Pay 1 Cloth to receive 2 Citizen Points. (+5)

  
  
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  Merchant:

  Pay 1 resource to take 1 other resource. (+2)

  
  

Permanent (even immediately after recruiting):

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  Chamberlain:

  Discard 1 Signet Ring to take 1 Gold Coin or vice versa. (+6)

  
  
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  Scholar:

  Pay any kind of resources to Hire a Crafts- man or to Recruit an Advisor. You only have to match the required number. (+3)

  
  
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  Mayoress:

  You receive 2 additional Citizen Points, whenever you make a gift in the Castle. (+5)

  
  
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  Steward:

  You may Hire any Craftsman or Recruit any Advisor, irrespective of the positions of your Councilors. (+5)

  
  
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  Abbess:

  Take 1 additional Book, whenever you make a donation in the Cathedral. (+2)

  
  
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  Toolmaker:

  Whenever you receive Building points, you receive 2 additional Building Points. Does not apply to the end game scoring.(+2)

  
  

Type B Advisors (in the face up stack):

All type B advisors' abilities are immediately and one-time.

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  Sir Christiaan:

  You receive 8 Citizen Points.

  
  
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  Sir Carl:

  You receive 10 Citizen Points

  
  
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  Sir Gustave:

  You receive 12 Building Points.

  
  
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  Lady Marie:

  You receive 8 Citizen Points.

  
  
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  Lady Frida:

  You receive 12 Citizen Points.

  
  
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  Sir Antoni:

  You receive 15 Building Points.

  
  

Favor Tokens

Each Favor Token shows a symbol corresponding to 1 of the 4 City Locations in the top left corner. This shows you where you can use its ability. The bottom right of the token shows the reward for doing so:

You may take the token's reward whenever your Councilor moves to the indicated Location or when you perform that Location's action using a Card Action. If you do, discard the Favor Token.

Note: You may take the reward even if you do not use the Location's action.

Event Cards

At the start of each round (6 times per game), you reveal a new Event by removing the top card from the Event Deck and apply the new card's effect. The following Events are in the game:

You each receive 1 resource:

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  Clear the old forest: Take 1 Wood.

  
  
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  Stone from distant shores: Take 1 Stone.

  
  
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  Bountiful harvest: Take 1 Grain.

  
  
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  Fine wool, fine cloth: Take 1 Cloth.

  
  

You an each get a reward at the end of the round.

After each player has finished all 3 turns of the round, you need to pay or discard something (in player order), to get a reward:

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  The great famine: You may pay 1 Grain to receive 3 Citizen Points or pay 2 Grain or 1 Signet Ring to receive 5 Citizen Points.

  
  
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  New lore in old books: You may discard 1 Book or 1 Signet Ring to receive 5 Building Points.

  
  
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  Alms for the poor: You may discard 1 Gold Coin or 1 Signet Ring to receive 4 Citizen Points.

  
  

A game rule is changed for the current round:

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  An early winter: Whenever you receive Building Points, you receive 1 point less.

  Does not apply to the end game scoring.

  
  
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  A long summer: Whenever you receive Building Points, you receive 2 additional points.

  Does not apply to the end game scoring.

  
  
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  Respected at court, loved by the people: Whenever you increase your noble rank, you receive 2 additional Citizen Points.

  
  
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  Good labour situation: Pay any 1 resource less than required to Hire an Advisor.

  
  
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  Merchants from afar: On the market, you may pay 1 additional resource to receive 1 additional Gold Coin.

  
  
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  A pious donation: Whenever you make a donation in the cathedral, you receive 3 additional Citizen Points.

  
  
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  A gift from the people: Whenever you make a gift in the castle, you receive 3 additional Citizen Points.

  
  

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