Rulebook
Since time immemorial a thick toxic fog lingered over the mysterious continent to
Creation: Seth Jaffee and Matthew Dunstan
Design: Seth Jaffee, Matthew Dunstan,
and Drake Villareal
Development: Boris Momic and Drake Villareal
Solo Design and Development: Drake Villareal
Art: Mihajlo Dimitrievski “The Mico”
Art Direction: Toni Toshevski
Concept Art: Marija Savikj
Graphic Design: Aleksandra Sofronieska
Additional Graphic Design: Naum Jamovski and Marija Savikj
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the northwest of the Five Realms. A dwarven merchant ship sailing to Merchants
Cove noticed that the poisonous miasma surrounding the land had been lifted. Word
quickly made its way to Queen Tabitha who organized excursions to this new land.
What they found shocked them; this was their ancestral homeland, and the six races
used to live in peace. Peace and harmony had returned to the Five Realms, and thus
the ancient curse had been lifted.
Rulebook: Jonathan Cox
The Sixth Realm takes place over three in-game years. Each year, the Stone Council
Rulebook Layout: Aleksandra Sofronieska will meet seven times and determine which Guild is in session.
Rulebook Editing: Final Frontier Games
Your goal, as a recent arrival to this land, is to make a name for yourself. You can gain
Renders and Ana Trajkovska
Photography: a few points by constructing Houses, delving for Artifacts, or exploring to find lost
Production: Maja Denkov, Ivana Krstevska, Vojkan Krstevski, and
Relics. Most of your points will come from the Queen’s Challenges, which all players
Toni Toshevski will play a part in issuing.
World-Building: Drake Villareal and Final Frontier Games
Playtesters: Stefan Andonovski, Bojan Dikovski, Dusko
Jordanovski, Meto Karapejevski, Jovan Necovski,
Jane Nedelkovski, Martin Nonovski, Olivera
Paunovikj, Tamara Velinovska Paunovikj, Ilija Sarov,
and Vladimir Trajcevski
 4 Player boards 1 Wheel of Favor tile 1 Starting Player
token 4 Torch pieces 24 Book tiles 12 Challenge 4 Relic Cabinet
(1 in each player color) (6 in each player color) tokens tiles

1 Sixth Realm board 72 Envoy meeples 1 Popularity Limit marker 6 Guild Council tiles
(2-player board on other side) (6 of each color)

32 Bridges 16 Houses 16 Towers 20 Councilors

(8 in each player color) (4 in each player color) (4 in each player color) (5 in each player color)

3 Starting Feat tiles 24 Resource tiles 1 Merchant Cart 36 Tradition tiles

(2 small & 1 large) (8 each of three types)

18 Seal tokens 2 Lock markers 4 Translator meeples 6 Setup tiles

(3 each of each color)
24 Guild Rank markers 24 Guild Reputation trackers 24 Guild Bonus tiles
(6 in each player color) (6 in each player color) (6 in each player color)

1 Population bag & 1 Artifacts bag 18 Relic tiles 25 Ink tokens 36 Artifact tiles

4 of each in each player color:

Council Influence trackers; 4 Action Point trackers

Navigation trackers; (1 in each player color)
Queen’s Ambition trackers;
1 Solo Component
Popularity trackers;
30 Foundation tiles 20 Small Feat tiles 10 Large Feat tiles
(12 small, 10 medium, & 8 large) (only used with 2 players) Victory Point trackers

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 player count. 8/10/12 of each color in a 2/3/4 14. Randomly place all Tradition tiles into any
player game. Then, with 2/3/4 players, randomly number of face-down stacks to the side of the
take 6/9/12 Envoy meeples from the bag and Historian area. Reveal 9 Tradition tiles from the
General place them onto the Boat near the Merchants stacks and place them face up on the empty
Guild area. spaces of the Library within the Historians Guild
1. Place the Sixth Realm board, choosing the area.
face up side according to the number of 13. Place all Artifact tiles into the Artifacts Bag.
Take 4 Artifact tiles from the bag and place them 15. Place 1 Translator meeple onto each of the
players ( 1-2p or 3-4p.) center spaces of the Historian area grid.
12 face up on the Adventurers Guild banner.
2. Place all Ink in a reserve on the Sixth Realm
board near the Scribes Guild banner. 16. Randomly place one Relic token, face up, onto
2 each City space on the Map in the Navigators
16 Guild area.
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7 Note: When playing with 2-players, stack 2
random Relics onto each City space, without
1 looking at the bottom one.
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3. Randomly place the

6 Guild Council tiles
around the Stone Council,
light side face-up.

4. Place the Wheel of Favor tile in the middle 10

of the Stone Council, with its central arrow 6
pointing to the midnight position, as shown in
the setup example.

5. With 2/3/4 players, take 1/2/3 Seal tokens of 8

each of the guild colors and place them on the
bottom-left corner of the Sixth Realm board.
Return any remaining Seal tokens to the box.
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8. Place the Popularity
6. Place the Large Starting Feat tile in the middle of Limit token on the “3” space 12
the Court. Align these tiles with the board’s grid. of the Popularity track.
Then place the 2 Small Feat tiles on either side
of the Large Feat tile so that all three tiles form 9. With 2/3/4 players, place 4/6/8 of each Resource
a line. into separate stacks near the Merchant Gulid
area.
7. In a 2/3 player game return 4/2 of each type
of Foundation tile to the box. Then, sort the 10. Place the Merchant Cart in the center of the
Foundation tiles by size and place them into Merchant Guild area. 11
stacks near the Builders Guild area next to the 11. Place the Lock tokens next to the Stone Council
Sixth Realm board. Then place 1 Foundation tile area.
of each size into the indicated spaces of the
Builders Guild banner. 12. Place Envoy meeples into the bag based on the 5
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 c. 1 Popularity tracker on the “0” space of the 9. Take 5 random Feat tiles and keep them hidden 10. Take and place 3 Challenge tokens with values
Player Setup Popularity track. from opponents. With 2 players, take Large Feat 2/3/4 into your supply.
tiles. With 3 or 4 players, take Small Feat tiles.
Each player completes the following steps: d. 1 Navigation tracker on the bottom-most Return any remaining Feat tiles to the box. 11. Then return all Setup tiles to the box.
space of the Navigation track.
1. Take 1 random Setup tile.
2. The player with the highest numbered Setup tile e. 1 Councilor into the Stone Council area
value takes the Starting Player token. according to the value on your Setup tile and
the player count:
3. Choose a player color and take all components of
that color, and a player board. i. 2 Players - Place Councilors from lowest
to highest value onto Seats 2 and 5.
4. Place the following onto your player board: 5d
a. 1 Action Point tracker on the “0” space of the ii. 3 Players - Place Councilors from lowest
Action Point track. to highest value onto Seats 2, 4, and 6. 5g
iii. 4 Players - Place Councilors onto the seat
b. 1 Book under each of your six Guild tracks.
Flip the Book matching your Setup tile’s icon that matches their Setup tile value.
so that the “+1” shows on the left-hand page. Example: Jonathan’s
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Flip all other Books so that the left-hand page
is blank.
Setup tile value is 1,
Jessica’s is 2, and Drake’s
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is 4. Jonathan places
c. 1 Rank Marker at the bottom of your six Guild his Councilor on Seat 2, 5c
tracks. 5e
Jessica places hers on
Seat 4, and Drake places 5 3 5a
d. 1 Reputation tracker directly above each of his on Seat 6.

your Rank tokens. 4 5f

f. 1 Queen’s Ambition tracker on the left-most
e. 4 Councilors onto the slots in the Council space of the Queen’s Ambition track, stacked
area. in player order. Beginning with the player 5b
f. 4 Houses onto the slots in the Housing area. who has the Starting Player token, place
their tracker in the left-most space. Then,
g. 4 Towers onto the upper slots in the Embassy.
in clockwise order, place the next player’s
h. 8 Bridges onto the lower slots in the Embassy. tracker on top of the previously placed tracker 4a
i. 1 Ink token into your Ink supply, (as shown on and continue until all trackers are placed. 8 6
your Setup tile).
g. 1 Torch in the “0” space of the Dungeon in the
4e
j. 1 Seal token matching the Seal on your Setup Adventurers Guild area.
tile. Take it from the Seals supply near the 4f
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Sixth Realm board and place it in your Seals 6. Take 1 Resource of each type from the Merchant 2 4g
archive. Guild area of the Sixth Realm board. Place these 4d
next to your player board with the “x” side facing
4c 4h
5. Place the following onto the Sixth Realm board: down. 10 4b 4i
a. 1 Council Influence tracker on the first space 7. Place 1 Relic Cabinet tile next to your player 4j
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of the Influence track. board.

b. 1 Victory Point tracker on the “0” space of the 8. Place 6 Guild Bonus tokens to the left of your 1
Victory Point track. player board.
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 Queen’s Castle Area Queen’s Ambition
This castle was in near perfect Track
condition, and was a big reason
LOCATIONS AND GENERAL CONCEPTS this location was chosen as the The Court
exploratory base of operations.
Player Board The Queen’s Castle contains the Challenge
Arrivals Victory Point track, the Queen’s
Action Points Area Ambition track, and the Court.
Tokens
Track
Plaza Feat Tiles
Area Victory Points
Council Area Track
Guild Tracks
Housing Area
Embassy Gain Victory Points Effect any vacant full-circle icon created by any two adjacent
Area Feats. Immediately gain the Victory Points shown on the
Whenever you perform this effect, move your Victory Point Challenge token you just placed.
Ink Supply tracker forward on the track the number of times shown
Traditions within this icon, or as designated by the particular end Challenge tokens signify a conditional goal all players
Area Seals game scoring effect. may complete during Final Scoring. Any player who meets
Archive or exceeds the conditions of both Feats under a Challenge
Gain Queen’s Ambition Effect token gains the Victory Points shown on that token.
Whenever you perform the Queen’s Ambition effect, move
your Queen’s Ambition tracker once to the right on the
Sixth Realm Board track. If your tracker’s new track space is occupied, stack
your tracker on top of the other trackers. If your tracker is
already in the final space of the track, then gain 1 victory
point instead of moving it further (you will never change
Navigators your tracker’s position within a stack of trackers).
Guild Area
Queen’s Champion
At all times, the player whose Queen’s Ambition tracker
is furthest to the right on the track (or at the bottom of a Example: Teal ends the game with 4 red Seals, 5 Traditions, and
stack, if tied) is the Queen’s Champion. 3 seated Councilors. They gain 4 Victory Points due to having
Historians at least 2 red Seals and at least 5 Traditions. If they had 1 more
seated Councilor, he gains 3 additional Victory Points.
Adventurers Guild Area
Guild Area

Merchants Example: Orange is the current Queens Champion, because their

Guild Area Builders tracker is the furthest to the right, and breaks the tie on that spot by
Guild Area being on the bottom. If Teal or Purple increase their trackers once,
then they become the Queen’s Champion for the rest of the year
because that is the final space on the track.

Harbor Area Scribes

Guild Area Queen’s Challenge Effect
Whenever your Queen’s Ambition tracker lands on this
icon (found on space 3 of the Queen’s Ambition track),
Stone Council Queen’s immediately perform the Queen’s Challenge effect.
Area Castle Area Choose 1 Feat from your hand and place it face up into
the Court on an empty grid space, with at least one flat
side adjacent to at least one other Feat. Choose 1 of your
Challenge tokens from the supply and place it face up onto
Example: In a 1 or 2 player game, Large Feat tiles are used.
These each contain 2 distinct Small Feats, and are pre-printed
with a “3 Victory Point” Challenge token between them (which
is not scored when the tile is placed, but is able to be scored
during Final Scoring like normal).
Large Feat tiles can be rotated 180* to change which Feat is on
the left/right, but must be placed completely within one of the
six designated areas shown above.

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Stone Council Area
Rather than moving the Stone Council
from Caveborn, Queen Tabitha decided
to create a new one to govern this new
land.
The Stone Council area contains the
Influence track, Guild Council tiles,
Councilor Seats, and the Wheel of
Favor token.
Wheel of Favor
token
Increase Influence Effect
Whenever you perform this effect, advance your Council
Influence tracker one space forward on the Influence
track. You may need to stack Council Influence trackers
in any order when they are in the same space of the track,
their order does not matter.
After each movement, perform the effect shown on your
Council Influence tracker’s new position.
Your Council Influence tracker never moves backwards on
the track. Once you place your Council Influence tracker
on the final space of the track, you cannot perform this
effect again for the rest of the game.
Gain a Councilor Effect
Whenever you perform this effect, place the left-most
Councilor from your Council area onto the Active Seat of
a Council section with less than 3 seated Councilors. If
there is a Councilor in the chosen Active Seat, move it to
a Retired Seat within the same Council section, and that
player gains 1 victory point. Place your Councilor into the
vacated Active Seat.
Council Section
Retired
Seats
Active
Seats
Guild Council
Tiles
Influence Track
Wheel of Favor
The Wheel of Favor tile rotates within the Stone Council and
indicates which three Guilds are selectable during a round.
Two outer arrows point to the Secondary Guilds and the
central arrow points toward the Primary Guild for the round.
The Wheel of Favor also tracks the progress of each year.
It rotates clockwise one section at the end of the first five
rounds. At the end of the sixth round, it instead rotates to a
section chosen by the Queen’s Champion (pg.16).
After rotating, if there is a Councilor in the Primary Guild’s
Active Seat, give that Councilor’s player the Starting Player
token. Each year ends after all players take a turn following
the sixth movement of the wheel.
Example: As the fourth round finished, the Wheel of Favor was
rotated counter-clockwise once. Its central arrow is pointing at
the fifth Council section, which makes it easy to tell that the next
round is the fifth of the year. For the next round, the Merchants
are the Primary Guild, while the Adventurers and Builders are
the Secondary Guilds. Orange’s Councilor is in the new Primary
Guild’s Active Seat, so they take the Starting Player token from
the black player.
Using Resources
Each of the three types of Resource tiles are associated with
two Guilds:
Merchants & Builders
Guilds
Adventurers & Navigators
Guilds
Scribes & Historians
Example: Teal player performs a “?” Gain Popularity effect during
Guilds the second year of the game, which means they gain 2 Popularity.
As they gain their first Popularity, they hit the “5” space with the
During the game, you need to Exhaust specific Resources Popularity Limit token. So they gain 1 Envoy from the boat, place
to perform various effects. You cannot use exhausted their tracker on the “0” space, and finish this effect by moving their
tracker up to the “1” space.
Resources until they have been Refreshed.
Placed Envoys must go to an empty space within your Arrivals
Exhaust Resource Effect
area. If there are no empty spaces you cannot take a new
Whenever you perform this effect, choose any of your Envoy, so try to keep a few open spaces. If the placed Envoy
Resources that does not have its “X” side facing up. is the second Envoy in an Arrivals area column, perform one
Exhaust that Resource by flipping it so that its “X” side is of these effects immediately:
facing up.
If both Envoys in the column are the same
Refresh Resource Effects color, Refresh one exhausted Resource
that matches the Envoy’s color.
Whenever you perform this effect, choose any of your
Resources that has its “X” side facing up and matches the
If both Envoys in the column are different
color of this effect.
colors, gain 1 Queen’s Ambition.
If this effect shows a Resource icon, you must flip a
matching Resource so that its “X” side is facing down.
You begin the game with one Resource of each type and
can gain one more of each type (for a total of two each)
by performing Merchant Guild actions, explained on pg.18.
Gain Popularity Effect Example: Black gains a new Envoy and must place it into one of
Whenever you perform this effect, move your Popularity the four empty spaces in their Arrivals area. If they place in the
tracker up the track the number of spaces shown within the left space, the Envoy’s color matches with the other Envoy in that
column and they may perform the “Refresh a Resource” effect with
icon. If there is a “?” within the Icon, it equals the current a Historians/Scribes Resource. If they chose the middle space, the
game year (1, 2, or 3). Envoy colors won’t match in that column and they may perform
a “Gain Queen’s Ambition” effect. Lastly, if they choose the right
space it becomes their first Envoy in that Arrivals area column, and
Gain Envoys Effect no effect is performed.

If your Popularity tracker reaches the Popularity Limit token,
immediately take an Envoy from the boat and place it in the
Arrivals area of your player board. Then, move your Popularity
tracker to the “0” space. If you have remaining Popularity to
gain, resume moving your tracker up the track.
Example: Orange chooses to place their Councilor into this Active
Seat. Teal already has a Councilor there, so they move that Councilor
onto one of the two available Retired Seats in this section and they
gain 1 Victory Point.
At any point, if there is exactly one Envoy on the boat, refill
the boat. First, move the Popularity Limit token up one space
on the track (if able). Then, take random Envoys out of the
bag and place them onto the boat until the maximum number
is reached, according to the player count:
• 2p - 6 Envoys total
• 3p - 9 Envoys total
• 4p - 12 Envoys total

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 GAME STRUCTURE
The game takes place over three years, with each year split
into seven rounds. In each round, players each take one
turn. During your turn, you spend Action Points to improve
your position on the Stone Council and perform actions with
a chosen Guild. The Guild options change each round, and
the order of these options changes each year. The game
ends after three years, and you perform the Final Scoring to
determine the winner!
ON YOUR TURN
During a round, beginning with the player with the Starting
Player token and moving clockwise, you each take one turn.
During your turn, you perform the following seven steps in
order. Each step is mandatory unless otherwise indicated:
1. Guild Bonus (optional)
2. Free Actions (optional)
3. Select Guild
4. Gain Action Points
5. Spend Action Points
6. Free Actions (optional)
7. Cleanup
1. Guild Bonus - Optional
If you have a Guild Bonus placed on your Guild track that
matches the Primary Guild this round, you may perform the
effect shown on that tile.
Place Guild Bonus Effect
Whenever you perform this effect, take 1 Guild Bonus
that is next to your player board and place it onto any of
your Guild tracks that do not already have a Guild Bonus.
Immediately perform the effect shown on the Guild Bonus.
2. Free Actions - Optional
You may perform any number of Free Actions, explained on
page pg.17.
3. Choose Guild
Choose the Guild where you may perform actions during
step 5 of your turn. Your chosen guild must be a Primary or a
Secondary Guild, as indicated by the Wheel of Favor.
There is no cost for choosing
the Primary Guild.
If you choose either Secondary Guild,
you must Exhaust a Resource that
matches the color of your chosen Guild.
Example: Orange decides to Exhaust their Merchants/Builders
Resource so that they can choose the Secondary Guild, the Builders.
If they had chosen the Primary Guild, the Merchants, then they would
not have needed to Exhaust that Resource.
4. Gain Action Points
1. Optionally exhaust 1 or 2 Resources matching your
chosen Guild, and increase the position of your
Reputation tracker to the next Reputation value for
each exhausted Resource.
2. Place your Action Point tracker on the same number
that your Reputation tracker is pointing to.
• If your Book under the selected Guild shows “+1”
then increase your Action Point tracker by 1.
Gaining Guild Reputation Effect
Whenever you perform this effect, move any Reputation
tracker up one step on its Guild track. Reputation trackers
cannot move above the 8-value step.
If this effect shows a Guild Crest, move
the Reputation tracker up your color-
matching Guild track. If you gain this
effect with an Envoy, move the Reputation
tracker matching their Guild.
Gaining Guild Rank Effect
This effect is only found on the Books below each of your
Guild Tracks. Whenever you perform this effect, move the
Rank tracker up one space on the Guild track above the
Book this effect is on. If there is a Reputation tracker
on the same step as the moving Rank tracker, move that Example: The Teal chose the Adventurers Guild. Their Reputation
Reputation up one step as well. Rank trackers cannot was at “3”, but they decided to Exhaust their Adventurers/Navigators
Resource to increase that Reputation to “5”. They moved their Action
move above the 5-value step of a Guild track. Points tracker to their fifth space and then moved it one more time
Finally, if your chosen Guild’s Book shows “+1” because their Adventurers Guild Book shows “+1” on its left page.
on its left page, move your Action Point tracker Teal has 6 Action Points to spend. They end this step by lowering their
Adventurers Guild Reputation to the “3” space because this is where
one space to the right. their Rank token is for that Guild.
Guild Books 5. Spend Action Points
The Book token at the bottom of each of your Guild tracks Perform one or more Council Influence and Guild Actions
has a left page and a right page. The left page of the book
in any order you choose. Move your Action Point tracker to
shows its current effect, and the right page shows the the left equal to the number of Action Points spent for each
effect that happens the next time you flip that Book over. action.
No current effect. Once flipped, the Book
Council Influence Action
shows the “+1” icon.
Spend any number of Action Points and perform the
Increase your Action Points by 1 when this Increase Influence effect an equal number of times
Guild is selected. Once flipped, perform the (pg.12). You may perform this action before, between,
Gain Guild Rank effect. and after Guild actions.
Flip Book Effect Guild Actions
Whenever you perform this effect, flip 1 Book of your Perform actions associated with the Guild you chose in
choice on your player board. step 3 of your turn. These Actions are explained in detail
in the Guilds section of the rules, beginning on pg.18.
If this effect shows a Guild Crest, or if you

3. Then, reset your Reputation tracker, lowering it to

perform this effect with an Envoy, you must 6. Free Actions - Optional
If this effect shows a Guild Crest, or if you flip the Book under your color-matching
meet your Rank marker. track. Once again, you may perform any number of Free Actions, as
perform this effect with an Envoy, you must place
explained on pg.17.
the Guild Bonus onto the color-matching track. Current Guild Reputation & Rank
Example: Teal’s Each of the Guild tracks on your player board shows your 7. Cleanup
turn starts, and the current Reputation and Rank with that Guild. Finish your turn by performing the following steps:
Adventures Guild is
the Primary Guild Your Reputation Tracker points to your • Move your Action Point tracker to the 0 space of your
this round. They have
previously placed
current Reputation value: 1, 3, 5, or 8. track. Any unused Action Points are lost.
a Guild bonus on • Refill the Foundations display in the Builders Guild
their Adventurers The Rank Marker shows your progress
within that Guild and stops your Reputation area, explained on pg.19.
Guild track and may
immediately activate token from moving below it. Rank tokens • Refill the Library in the Historians Guild area,
it to perform the
never move down on their track. explained on pg.22.
“Increase Influence”
effect.
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END OF THE ROUND
Once all players have taken a turn, you must prepare for
either a new round or a new year. If you have completed
seven rounds this year, prepare for a new year. Otherwise,
prepare for a new round.
New Round
If the Wheel of Favor’s central arrow is pointing at the
sixth Council section in the Stone Council perform the
Champion Wheel Rotation before continuing with the new
round preparations. Otherwise, simply rotate it one space
clockwise.
Champion Wheel Rotation
The Queen’s Champion player (pg.11) rotates the Wheel
of Favor so that its central arrow points toward any
bright-side-up Guild tile they choose. That Guild becomes
the Primary Guild for the following round. Then, flip the
Primary Guild’s tile over to its dark side. You cannot flip
Dark-side-up Guild tiles for the rest of the game.
Example: The sixth round is ending, and Orange is the current Queen’s
Champion. They must rotate the Wheel of Favor until its central arrow
points to the Scribes, Historians, Adventures, or Builders Guild (the
last option, meaning they wouldn’t rotate at all). They cannot point the
central arrow towards the Merchants or Navigators Guilds because
their Guild tiles have been flipped to their dark sides.
After selecting the position of the Wheel of Favor, if an
Active Councilor is seated in the new Primary Guild’s
Then, place all Queen’s Ambition trackers on the left-most
section, give that player the Starting Player token.
space of the Queen’s Ambition track. Stack the trackers in
Otherwise, the Starting Player token does not move.
the previous Queen’s Ambition track order, with the Queen’s
Finally, move the Cart to the middle of the Merchants Guild Champion on the bottom, then moving left along the track.
area. You are now ready to begin the next round.
New Year
At the end of the seventh round in years one and two, prepare
for a new year. Skip the new year preparations once three
years are complete, and instead perform the Final Scoring
(pg.23).
First, rotate the Wheel of Favor so that its central arrow
points towards the first Guild section of the Stone Council.
Then, perform the Queen’s Ambition and Adventurer’s Guild
preparation steps.
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Queen’s Ambition Preparation
Players now have the opportunity to modify the order of
Guild tiles within the Stone Council. Beginning with the
player furthest to the right on the Queen’s Ambition track,
excluding the Queen’s Champion, and continuing left,
complete one or both of the following, in either order:
• Swap Guild Tiles
Choose two Guild tiles and swap their positions. Guild
tiles under Lock tokens cannot be swapped.
• Lock A Guild
Take a Lock from the reserve and place it onto any
Guild tile that does not already have a Lock, including a
Guild tile that has been swapped this year.
Once all players, except for the Queen’s Champion, have
had the opportunity to swap and/or lock Guild tiles, place
the Lock token(s) back into the reserve.
Example: The Orange is the current Queen’s Champion, which means
they are skipped. The other players may modify the Guild tiles in this
order: Purple, Teal, then Black. Purple decides to swap the Adventurers
and Historians Guild tiles and then place the Lock token on the
Historians Guild in Council section 2. Teal is next, followed by Black.
Example: Using the previous example, the player’s Queen’s Ambition
trackers are returned to the initial space in this order. Orange continues
to be the Queen’s Champion.
Finally, reset the Adventurers Guild area as explained on
pg.19.
FREE ACTIONS
You may perform any number of Free Actions during each of
your Free Action steps.
Writing a Scroll Action
Take one Ink from the Ink supply on your player board, place
it onto an empty Scroll, and resolve all effects shown on
that Scroll (Glossary on page XX). If you have no Ink in your
Ink supply or no empty Scrolls available to you, you cannot
perform this Free Action.
Each player board has the same two Scrolls available at
the start of the game. More Scrolls may become available
through gaining Traditions (page XX) and exploring the
Dungeon (page XX).
The effect of this scroll gains you
Popularity equal to the number of
different colored Seals on your Traditions
and/or in your Seals Archive.
Example: Purple performs a Writing a Scroll action. They moved an
Ink from their Ink supply onto one of their empty scrolls and then
performed its effect, refreshing their Merchants/Builders Resource
tile. They cannot perform the effect on this scroll again until the Ink
is removed.
Assigning an Envoy Action
Take 1 Envoy from your Arrivals area, place it onto an empty
Envoy space on your player board, and resolve all effects
associated with that Assignment area (Glossary on pg.24).
If you have no Envoys in your Arrivals area or you have no
available Envoy spaces, you cannot perform this Free Action.
After resolving all effects, if the taken Envoy was in the same
Arrivals area column as another Envoy, you must immediately
assign the other Envoy as a Free Action. You may place both
Envoys in the same or different Assignment areas.
Assignment Areas
Arrivals
Area
Plaza
Area
Council
Area
Housing
Area
Embassy
Area
Traditions
Area
Each player board has the same four Assignment areas:
Plaza, Council, Housing, and Embassy. The Plaza begins
the game with 12 empty Envoy spaces, while the other
three areas begin with none. Removing Pieces from your
Assignment areas creates additional empty Envoy spaces.
Envoy spaces can also be added to your player board with
Traditions (pg.22).
Note: Removed Bridges do not create Envoy
spaces.
Assignment area effects use the color of the assigned
Envoy when resolved. Only resolve a Plaza effect when
you Assign an Envoy directly below another Envoy of the
same color. Resolve the yellow Plaza effect only during
Final Scoring (pg.23), not when you Assign Envoys to this
area.
Example: Orange decides to Assign their green Envoy to their Embassy
area. They have built two Towers, leaving two empty Envoy spaces,
and they place onto one of them. This lets them perform a “Gain a
Seal” effect, and because they placed a green Envoy, the only Seal they
can take is a Merchants Seal. After assigning this Envoy, they must
immediately assign their brown Envoy because it was in the same
Arrivals area column as their assigned green Envoy. They decide to
assign this brown Envoy to their Housing area, letting them flip their
Scribes Guild book.
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 GUILD ACTIONS Gain Resource Action Adventurers Guild
Spend 3 Action Points, move the Brave adventurers arrive each day from
Each Guild area has unique actions you may perform only if Cart, and then you may perform Merchants Cove to dive into the uncovered
you choose that Guild during step 3 of your turn. a Gain Resource effect that
dungeon and recover precious artifacts.
matches the Cart’s location.

Merchants Guild Note: You may never have more

Based out of Merchants Cove, this guild is
responsible for exporting raw materials, and
for importing goods needed by the guilds.
You may perform the following action options multiple times
and in any order:
Moving the Cart
All Cart movements are mandatory.
If the cart is in the middle of the Merchants Guild area,
move it to any Guild Crest within that area. This happens
once per round when the first Merchants Guild action is
performed.
If the Cart is on a Guild Crest, you must move it one space
clockwise or counter clockwise to the next Guild Crest.
Each time the Cart moves onto a Guild Crest, you must
perform one of the three available actions. If you perform
multiple Merchants Guild actions during the same turn,
you must move the Cart in the same direction.
Example: Purple is the first player to perform a Merchants Guild action
this round. They begin by spending 2 Action Points, move the cart to the
Navigators Crest, and then flip the Book under their Navigators Guild track.
Then, they spend 1 Action Point, move counter-clockwise once, and then
refresh their Historians/Scribes Resource. Next, they spend 1 Action Point,
move the cart counter-clockwise, and then skip the action at the Merchants
Crest. Finally, they spend 3 Action Points, move the cart counter-clockwise
once, and take an Adventurers/Navigators Resource from the reserve.
Refresh Resource Action
Spend 1 Action Point, move the Cart,
and then you may perform a Refresh
a Resource effect that matches the
Cart’s location.
Flip Book Action
Spend 2 Action Points, move the
Cart, and then you may perform a Flip
Book effect that matches the Cart’s
location.
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than 2 of each Resource tile type.
Builders Guild
The Builders are responsible for laying
foundations and raising buildings that the
envoys, explorers, and recent arrivals need to
live and work in.
You can perform each Foundation action once, and the Build
House action as many times as you are able.
Small Foundation Action
Spend 2 Action Points, place a size
1 Foundation, perform the effect
covered by the tile, and then optionally
perform the Build a House effect.
Medium Foundation Action
Spend 3 Action Points, place a size
2 Foundation, perform all effects
covered by the tile, and then optionally
perform the Build a House effect.
Large Foundation Action
Spend 4 Action Points, place a size
3 Foundation, perform all effects
covered by the tile, and then optionally
perform the Build a House effect.
Placing Foundations
Place your chosen Foundation onto the Capital grid,
following these restrictions:
• You must place Foundations adjacent to any edge
of the Capital grid or another Foundation tile.
Foundation tiles must share an edge, not just a
corner, to be adjacent.
• You must align Foundations with the Capital grid.
• Foundations must fully cover Capital grid spaces,
as defined by the green borders within the grid.
• Foundations cannot overlap other Foundations.
• No part of a Foundation can be outside the edge of
the Capital grid. At the end of your turn, refresh the Foundation display
There is only one action option for the Adventurers Guild, and
you may perform it multiple times during your turn to delve
deeper into the Dungeon.
Building House Effect
Immediately after taking a
Foundation action, you may build a House if you have
at least one House in the Housing area of your player
board. Take your left-most House and place it onto the
just-placed Foundation. You must align this House with a
single row and column within the Capital grid.
Then, you must spend Action Points to perform row and/
or column effects. These effects are found along the top
and right edges of the Capital grid, and only the effects
aligned with the built House can be performed.
• Spend 1 Action Point to perform the row or column
effect.
• Spend 2 Action Points to perform the row and column
effects.
Note: During Final Scoring, each House may be worth
additional Victory Points (pg.23).
Column
Effects
Row
Effects
Example: Orange spent 4 Action Points to place a Large Foundation.
As part of this action, they spend 1 Action Point to perform the “Build
House” effect and place a House onto one of the three valid locations
on the placed Large Foundation. They decide on this placement, and
because they spent 1 instead of 2 Action Points, they only gain the
benefit of the row or column. They pick the column and then perform
an “Increase Reputation” effect on their Navigators Guild track.
End of Turn Builders Guild Cleanup
by placing new Foundations into it so that there are
exactly 1 of each size. Leave display spots empty once
all Foundations of that size have been taken from the
reserve.
Move Torch Action
Perform this action by spending 1
Action Point, moving your Torch one
space forward within the Dungeon,
and performing the effects of your
Torch’s new room.
The Dungeon is made up of many rooms, each of which
with a numerical value in its top-left corner. When you
move your Torch, it must enter a room with a value exactly
one higher than its previous room. You must move your
Torch through an open doorway between its current
Room and the Room it moves to. Each Room can have
Any number of Torches within it, and other Torches do not
affect movement in any way.
Once you move your Torch to the Dungeon’s final
Room , you cannot perform any more Adventurers
Guild actions for the rest of the year.
Dungeon Effects
There are many effects within the Dungeon’s Rooms that
are found in multiple areas of the board, explained in the
Glossary (pg.24). The following two effects are only found
within the Dungeon:
Artifacts
You may gain Artifacts from the Dungeon, and each
may give you Victory Points during Final Scoring. Each
time you gain an Artifact, place it into an empty slot in
your Artifacts Archive to the right of your player board.
Once placed in the Archive, Artifacts remain there
until the end of the game, they cannot be replaced or
removed. There are no differences between the slots
in the Archive.
Gain Artifacts from each of the following effects:
Gain Visible Artifact Effect
Gain one Artifact from the Adventures
Guild banner. Then, draw one random
Artifact from the bag and place it in the
empty space on the banner, facing up.
Gain Hidden Artifact Effect
Draw three random Artifacts from the
bag, gain one of these, and put the other
two back into the bag.
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 Each Artifact shows one or two conditions. During
Final Scoring, you may gain additional Victory Points
depending on how well you meet those conditions
(pg.23).
Torch Scroll Effect
You only perform Scrolls in the Dungeon once your
Torch moves onto them. To perform a Torch Scroll, take
an Ink from your Ink Supply and place it in an empty Ink
space within the Dungeon Scroll in the center of the
Dungeon. Then, perform the effect of the Torch Scroll
in the room with your Torch, using one of the two Guild
Crests next to the Ink you just placed.
Note: You cannot use Free Actions to perform Scrolls
within the Dungeon, and you cannot use Ink removal
effects to remove Ink from the Dungeon Scroll.
Navigators Guild
The brave navigators guild has been tasked with
mapping ancient cities and making the roads
between them safe to travel.
You may perform the following action options multiple times
and in any order.
Example: Black begins in room #6. They spend 1 Action Point, move
to the right-hand room #7, and then perform a “Gain Ink” effect. After
this, they spend another Action Point, and now must move to the right-
hand room #8 because there is no path to the left-hand room $8. Once
they arrive, they perform a “Torch Scroll” effect by placing an Ink from
their Ink supply onto the center option of the Dungeon Scroll. Finally,
they perform an “Increase Reputation” effect on either their Merchants
or Builders Guild track. No one can place an Ink on that spot on the
Dungeon Scroll for the rest of the year.
End of Year Adventurers Guild Cleanup
The Dungeon is reset at the end of each year. First, place
all Ink from the Dungeon Scroll back into the reserve.
Then, perform the following steps for each Torch:
1. The Room with your Torch has a reset value in the
bottom right corner. Move your Torch to the Dungeon
room that matches that value.
2. Perform the effect shown in your Torch’s new room.
3. Perform all effects in rooms with lower values.
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Example: Black’s reset value is “3”, so they move their Torch to room
#3. Then, they may perform the “Gain or Remove Ink” effect from that
room, then the “Remove Ink” effect from room #2, and the “Gain Ink”
effect from room #1. After this, Purple moves their Torch to room #2
and performs the “Remove Ink” effect there, as well as the “Gain Ink”
effect from room #1.
Build a Bridge Action
You may build a Bridge as long
as you have at least one Bridge in the Embassy area of
your player board. Spend 1, 2, or 3 Action Points when
building your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Bridge within the same turn.
You cannot build more than three Bridges during a turn.
Example: Teal has built one Bridge this turn already. Next, they spend
2 Action Points to build their second Bridge and may place it on any of
the checkmarks. The “X” is not a legal build location because it is not
adjacent to another Bridge or a City.
After spending Action Points, remove the left-most Bridge
from your board and place it onto an empty Bridge space
on the Navigator’s Map. The chosen space must be
adjacent to another Bridge or City.
Perform all effects from the space the placed Bridge
covered.
Build a Tower Action
You may build a Tower as long as
you have at least one Tower in the Embassy area of your
player board. Spend 2 Action Points to build a Tower. You
may build multiple Towers during the same turn.
After spending Action Points, remove the left-most Tower
from your board and place it in a city space on Navigator’s
Map following these conditions:
Example: Teal gained a Relic, and placed it into the space of their
• The City space cannot already have a Tower in it. Trophy Cabinet that shows the “Increase Navigation” effect. They
• The City space must be adjacent to a completed route perform this to increase their Navigation tracker once, stacking on top
of the orange tracker. Because they crossed a banner line, they have
of Bridges. A route is completed when every Bridge
a better conversion ratio for Relic Victory Points during Final Scoring.
space between two City spaces has a Bridge built on it.
• One of the Bridges on the required completed route
must be yours.
Historian Guild
The Sixth Realm is the greatest archaeological
find in history, and the historians are working
round the clock to decipher and translate their
language of their ancestors.
You may perform the following action options multiple times
and in any order.
Move Translator Action
Spend 1 Action Point to move one
Example: Orange can only build a Tower on the two checkmark cities. Translator to a different space
within its aisle (row or column) of the Library. Perform the
Take the Relic from your chosen City space and place it in effect shown on that Translator’s new space.
an empty space within your Relic Cabinet. Then, perform the
effect that was covered by the Relic.
Note: In 2-player games there are two Relics on each
City space. When building a Tower, remove both Relics
from the space. Place one of these Relics in your Relic
Cabinet and remove the other Relic from the game.
Each Relic in your Relic Cabinet potentially gives you Victory
Points during Final Scoring, depending on your actions and
position on the Navigation track.
Navigation
Space
Track Effect
Whenever you perform this Translator
effect, move your Navigation Column
tracker up once on the
Translator
Navigation track. Your tracker Meeple
may share a spot with other
trackers by stacking them on
top of each other. Once you
move your tracker to the top- Example: Black spends 1 Action Point and then moves the right-hand
most space, you ignore this column Translator to the top space. They may perform the “Increase
Popularity” effect with a value of 2 because it is currently the second
effect for the rest of the game.
year of the game.
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 Take Tradition Action
Choose one Tradition within
the Library that is adjacent to
at least one Translator. Take
that Tradition and place it onto any empty slot within the
Tradition area of your player board. Spend the Action
Points shown above your placed Tradition (2, 3, or 4 Action
Points). If you do not have enough Action Points, then you
cannot choose that slot.
Perform the effect that the placed Tradition covered.
Once placed, Traditions remain there until the end of the
game. They cannot be replaced, moved onto another slot,
or removed.
Traditions
Each Tradition on your board gives you
a new Scroll or Envoy space that you
may perform with Free Actions.
Each Tradition has a printed Seal in it’s top left corner. Remove All Ink Action
Their function is the same as the Seal tokens when used Spend 3 Action Points to return all
for various in-game effects or during Final Scoring. Ink from the scrolls on your player
board and Traditions to the reserve.
Example: Teal spends 4 Action Points and performs the “Take Tradition”
effect, placing it in one of their “4” slots of their Tradition area. When
choosing a tile, only five of them were next to at least one Translator
(checkmarks). After placing the Tradition on their board, they may
perform “Gain Ink” and “Remove Ink” effects because those icons were
covered by the tile.
Gain Seal Effect
Whenever you perform this effect, gain 1 Seal
from the bottom-left corner of the Sixth Realm
board. If you perform this effect with an Envoy,
you must gain a color-matching Seal.
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Scribes
The scribes are the bureaucratic guild in charge
of recording the day to day happenings in this
new land so news can reach the inhabitants of
the Five Realms.
You may perform the following action options multiple times
and in any order.
Gain or Remove an Ink
Action
Spend 1 Action Point to either:
• Gain 1 Ink, taking it from the reserve and placing it into
your Ink supply.
• Return 1 Ink to the reserve. It must come from a scroll
on your player board or one of your Traditions.
The game ends once the seventh round of the third year has section. For each of your Relics count how many times
finished. you met the condition. Do this for each Relic, then total
the results. Divide this final number by your Navigation
You now gain additional Victory Points for each of the
value (rounded down), and gain that many Victory
following:
Points.
1. Houses: Gain points for your Houses in the Builders
Guild area. Each House is worth 1 Victory Point for
each completed row and/or column aligned with it
(maximum of 2 Victory Points per house). A row or
column completes when Foundations cover all Capital
grid spaces along it.
Example: Purple ends the game with two Relics. The next banner above
their Navigation tracker shows that they gain 1 Victory Point for every
2 of the condition they have for each Relic. They have 3 Traditions and
4 Councilors seated at the Stone Council, which makes it 7 conditions
met total. For this they will score 3 Victory Points. If they gained 1 more
Navigation icon, they would gain 7 VP instead.
4. Gain the Victory Points shown on each Challenge,
regardless of color, within the Court where you meet or
exceed both associated Feats.
Example: During Final Scoring, there are three completed rows and/
or columns in the Capital grid (green lines). Orange gains 4 Victory
Points, Purple gains 1 Victory Point, while the other players gain no
Victory Points.
2. Artifacts: Each Artifact shows one or two conditions.
Score each condition where you have the most, or
tied for the most, of that condition compared to all
opponents.
• One Condition Artifacts - You gain 2 Victory
Example: Teal ends the game with 3 red Seals, 5 Traditions, and 3 Rank
Points when scored. token raises. Then gain 4 Victory Points for having at least 2 red Seals
• Two Conditions Artifacts - Check each condition and 5 Traditions. If they had 1 more Rank token raise, they would have
separately. If you score for both conditions, then scored an additional 3 Victory Points.
gain 3 Victory Points. If you score for one of the
conditions, then gain 1 Victory Point. 5. Gain 1 Victory Point for each different color Envoy in
the Plaza area of your player board.
Example: Orange ends the game with these three Artifacts. They
have more red Envoys than any opponent which means the right-hand
Artifact gains them 2 Victory Points. Teal has more purple Envoys than
Orange does, which means they only have one majority out of two for Example: Orange gains 3 Victory Points because they have 3 different
the center Artifact and gain 1 Victory Point. They have the same number color Envoys in their Plaza area.
of white Seals as the Black player so the left-hand Artifact scores them
2 Victory Points.
The player with the most Victory Points wins the game!
3. Relics: Before scoring Relics, find the highest banner If there is a tie, the tied player furthest to the right on the
section with your tracker on the Navigation track. Queen’s Ambition track wins.
That banner shows the Navigation value for that track
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GENERAL ICONS
? (page XX) - The ? inside effects equals the current year of
the game (1, 2, or 3).
Guild Crest - Each Crest is associated with one Guild:
Navigators, Builders, Historians, Adventurers, Merchants,
and Scribes.
Represents the number of different type of Seals you have,
either on tokens in your Archive or on Tradition tiles.
Score if you have the most Envoys anywhere on your player
board.
Score if you have the most Seals in your Archive and on
Traditions.
EFFECTS
Perform one or two actions available to you that require
spending 2 or fewer Action Points total.
Gain Victory Points (pg.11/pg.23) - Gain the indicated
amount of Victory Points.
Gain Queen’s Ambition (pg.11) - Move your Queen’s Ambition
tracker to the right by the number indicated (1 if no number).
Queen’s Challenge (pg.11) - Place 1 of your Feаt tiles to form
a Challenge. Then place a Challenge token onto any 2 Feats
and gain the Victory Points shown on that Challenge token.
Gain Ink (pg.22) - Gain 1 Ink from the reserve and place it
into your Ink supply.
Remove Ink (pg.22) - Remove 1 Ink from one of your Scrolls
and return it to the reserve.
Increase Influence (pg.12) - Move your Influence tracker 1
space counter-clockwise on its track and activate the effect
on the new space.
Place a Councilor (pg.12) - Place your left-most Councilor
from your Council area onto any Active Seat.
Exhaust Resource (pg.13) - Flip 1 Resource from its icon
side to its “X” side.
Refresh Resource (pg.13) - Flip 1 Resource
from its “X” side to its icon side. If an icon
is indicated, only that Resource may be
Refreshed.
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Gain Resource (pg.18) - Gain 1 Resource from the
reserve. You may never have more than 2 of the same
Resource.
Gain Popularity (pg.13) - Move your Popularity tracker
up the indicated number of spaces on its track.
Gain Envoys (pg.13) - Gain 1 Envoy from the boat and
place it in an empty space within your Arrivals area.
Place Guild Bonus (pg.14) - Place 1 Guild Bonus onto
a Guild track that does not have one and immediately
perform its effect. If the performed effect shows a
Guild Crest, or if you perform this effect with an Envoy,
you must place the Guild Bonus onto the color-matching
track.
Gaining Guild Reputation (pg.15) - Move any Reputation
tracker up once. If there is a Guild Icon, or if you perform
this effect with an Envoy, you must move the color-
matching Guild Reputation tracker.
Gaining Guild Rank - Move the Rank tracker up once for
the Guild associated with the Book with this effect.
Flip Book (pg.15) - Flip any Book and perform any
indicated effect. If there is a Guild Crest, or if you
perform this effect with an Envoy, you must flip the
color-matching Book.
Build House (pg.19) - Place 1 House onto the Foundation
that you just placed.
Gain Visible Artifact (pg.19) - Take 1 Artifact from the
Adventurers Guild banner and place it in your Artifacts
Archive.
Gain Hidden Artifact (pg.19) - Draw 3 random Artifacts
from the bag, place 1 into your Artifacts Archive, and
put the rest back into the bag.
Increase Navigation (pg.21) - Move your Navigation
tracker up once.
Move Translator (pg.21) - Move 1 Translator to any other
space within its aisle. Perform the effect shown where
the Translator ended its move.
Take Tradition (pg.22) - Take 1 Tradition that is adjacent
to at least 1 Translator. Place it on any empty space on
your board without spending any action points. Perform
all effects covered by the placed Tradition and refill the
empty slot with a new Tradition.
Gain Seal (pg.22) - Take 1 Seal from the bottom-left
corner of the Sixth Realm board if one is available. If
you perform this effect with an Envoy, you must take the
color-matching Seal.