Cabals The Board Game Card list

Cabal Amount Card Name Resource Cost Power Health Ability Flavor Text

3 Private Detective 1 1 1 ”Aldridge Walker, investigator of natural and supernatural crimes.” ­Wall poster on the corner of Piccadilly and Haymarket, February 1931 3 Thieving Faeries 2 1 1 When Deployed: Inflict 1 Damage to target unit with Power 2 or greater. ”Look what I found!” ­Edain the Faery

3 Lady of Ulster 2 1 1 [Exhaust]: Generate +1 RES “Meghan, I told you to leave the butterflies in my study alone.” ­Caitlin O’Brien

3 Faery Demagogue 2 1 1 When deployed: Target friendly unit gains +1 Power. ”Rhetoric is the art of seeing the available means of persuasion.” ­Aristotle

3 Gnome Hero 3 1 3 When conquers: +2 Power. ”My name is Alberich. The clang of your church bells and the boom of your firesticks do not impress me.” 3 Magic Pigs of Cruachu 3 2 2 Adjacent enemy Relic tokens do not grant control of the tile, but they are counted for ”Wasteland for seven years where they have grazed.” ­Nuadha, Danann King Domination. 3 Changeling Chauffeur 3 2 2 When conquers: Gain 2[RES] ”Ms. O’Brien, you are most certainly driving the pushrod­OHV straight­6 detachable head cylinder Rolls­Royce Phantom 1929...” ­Elvin the Driver 3 Changeling Trick 4 Remove all tokens on target unit. That unit loses its abilities and counts as having 1 “In Ireland, looking at a baby with envy put him in the faeries’ power transporting him Power and 1 Health. Place a Changed token on the unit. into their kingdom where he would reach faerie adulthood in few days.” ­W. B. Yeats

3 Cursed Duchess 5 4 4 When conquers: +2 Health. ”The lady in the painting? She was one of the noblewomen murdered in the 18th century witch hunts for unhealthy contacts with the faerie folk of the Vinegar Hill

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n 3 Danann Shapechange 4 Remove all tokens on target unit. That unit loses its abilities and counts as having 4 ”The faerie identity is remarkably prone to drastic change.” ­W. B. Yeats a Power and 4 Health. Place a Changed token on the unit. n 3 Maiden of the Heath 3 2 2 1[RES], [Exhaust]: Target friendly unit gains +1 Power. “Female worshippers of the Horned God were ruthlessly demonized by the Christian e witch hunts.” ­The Witch­cult in Western Europe v 3 Sidh 4 ”The roots in the ceiling of the Caer Loyw halls are decorated with jewelry. Below o You may immediately place a Relic in any uncontrolled non­ stronghold tile from your Reliquary. them screams of feasting and fighting echo.” ­Nuadha, Danann King C 3 Spriggan 1 1 1 Upgrade 2[RES]: +2 Power and +2 Health ”By the club of Daghda, there is no place for midgets in my army! Then again...” n ­Queen Mab n 3 Wealthy Landowner 3 2 2 When conquers: Wealthy Landowner is counted as a Relic until the end of your next ”Since the Wall Street Crash of 1929 real estate and property is where you want to a Domination step. put your money into.” ­Adam Miller, Bank of America n

a 3 Osculum Infame 3 Target unit gains +2 Health and +2 Health. ”The kiss of shame, on the posterior of a lamb or goat, an initiation to true witchhood...” ­The Witch­cult in Western Europe D 3 Phooka 4 3 3 Upgrade 1[RES]: +1 Power and +1 Health. ”The only man to ride the shape­changing mount was Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, using a special bridle made of the creature’s tail.” ­Studies in Irish Folklore.

3 Raiding Party 4 1 1 When deployed: Raiding Party gains +1 Power and +1 Health for each other unit you ”The nightly terror of the Cambridge countryside continues even after the control. mobilization of local militia.” ­The Guardian, 24.3.1931.

3 Valburg's Night 5 Add three +1 Power and three+1 Health tokens divided between any number of friendly ”Concepts like ‘sin’ and ‘Devil’ are late Christian inventions. They have no meaning units. for us.” ­Morgana Le Fay 3 Fomorian Brute 5 5 5 ”Look at you, my beautiful. Now rise and let the earth drink the blood of my enemies!” ­Queen Mab 3 Drunken Cluriciaun 3 2 4 ”The police will be grateful for information on the stocky middle­aged man...” ­The Guardian 14.1.1931. 3 Lady of the Lake 2 Target units gains +1 Power and +1 Health. Draw 1 card. The old folk say that in the crystal clear waters of Lough Ennel, a beautiful maiden waits with the sword of King Arthur for the return of the Danann people. 3 Decompose 4 Destroy target unit. Unit's owner gains its cost as [RES]. ”...between summer and winter lies the rotting sphere of fungi, dusk, debris and decaying dwellings.” ­Morgana Le Fay 3 Banshee 4 2 2 3[RES]: Destroy all adjacent units. ”The men of the O’Brien family know that their hour has passed when they wake up to a thin screeching wail in the night.” ­Studies in Irish Folklore, vol. 3. Cabals The Board Game Card list

Cabal Amount Card Name Resource Cost Power Health Ability Flavor Text

3 Swarming Lice 1 1 1 ”The old fear of insects and rodents creeping through floorboard cracks, from the so called podpol’e...” ­Municipal Engineering 3 Novgorodian Nobleman 2 1 1 [Exhaust]: Generate +1 RES ”The leisurely nobles of Chekhov looked for pleasure in art. Their modern counterparts seek it in the occult.” ­Max Weber 3 Bog Candle 2 1 1 Adjacent enemy units cannot move or attack. ”Light your candle only on the altar, before the obraz.” ­Ostromir Codex 3 Guided Therapist 3 2 2 Toughness “Thus the ego, driven by the id, confined by the super­ego, repulsed by reality, struggles in bringing about harmony...” ­Sigmund Freud 3 Devoted Beurocrat 3 1 4 ”In a certain Russian ministerial department­­­­ But it is perhaps better that I do not mention which department it was.” ­Nikolai Gogol 3 Domovoi 1 1 1 Double the amount of [RES] gained from the non-stronghold tile Domovoi is on. They say that since Ivan Petrovitš started putting fresh milk and ryecookies under the porch his harvest was plentiful even in years of famine.

3 Fabergé Egg 5 Deploy a unit without paying its cost in a non­stronghold tile adjacent to any friendly ”It is a less known fact about these royal jewels that Peter C. Fabergé designed the unit. This unit enters play exhausted. larger eggs as containers of a sort.” ­Esoteric Aesthetics, an Introduction 3 Infest the Mind 1 Target unit on a non­stronghold tile cannot move until the beginning of your next turn. ”Nothing is more simple than controlling the weak.” ­Rasputin d

o 3 Psychic Lapse 3 Move target exhausted unit to an empty and adjacent non­stronghold tile. ”The workings of the unconsciousness can be seen, for example, in dreams, jokes and mental lapses.” ­Sigmund Freud o

h 3 Rusalka 4 3 3 May be deployed adjacent to a deployment location you control. Does not conquer. ”Hanna: She has assumed the shape of one who is drowned, yet I know and hear

r that she is present. I am so afraid of her.” ­Nikolai Gogol e 3 Spiritual Medium 2 1 1 ”Both the sword and the rifle are weapons of short range.” ­Iosif the Medium

h 1[RES], [Exhaust]: Inflict 1 Damage to target adjacent unit. t 3 Striga 3 2 2 ”The body of a German nobleman was found covered with bite and clawmarks just

o Gain +2[Power] and +2[Health] in the Combat Cleanup step. When Striga destroys a unit it

r is counted as a Relic until the end of your next Domination step. outside of Moscow this morning.” ­Pravda, 23.3.1931. B 3 Underground Spy 3 2 2 1[RES]: Return a Relic you control to the Reliquary from the tile the Underground Spy is ”After the explosion a red­cloaked figure was seen crossing the Trinity bridge through

w on. heavy mist that rose from the freezing Neva.” ­Anonymous Tšeka officer a

l 3 Feral Shaman 3 2 2 [Exhaust]: Target friendly unit gains +1 Health ”Like the Freudian idea of the mind, reality itself consists of upper, middle and lower

c levels which the properly trained spirit can reach.” ­Iosif the Medium r 3 Ancestral Spirit 3 2 2 2[RES],[Exhaust]: Target unit gains Toughness. ”It was these spirits that affected their lives all the time. They were nearer to the a people than God Himself.” ­Vsevolod Miller e 3 Frost 4 1 1 Enemy units enter play exhausted. That year the winter was so harsh that even the wealthier citizens of Leningrad could B barely afford to buy coal and warm their homes. 3 Obsessed Monk 4 3 3 Cannot be targeted ”Liberated from earthly affections you have become like Jesus, just more godlike, more perfect.” ­Rasputin 3 Possessed Junker 4 3 3 Upgrade 2[RES]: +2 Health ”No more pictures of Lenin or talk of progression. Our modern youth need spiritual guidance.” ­Rasputin 3 Leshii 5 4 4 Upgrade 1[RES]: Gain Toughness ”Listen to them – the children of the night. What kind of music they make!” ­ Count Dracula 3 Bear Spirit 6 5 5 Toughness ”Respect the Lord of the Forest, comrade, or He will come back to hunt you.” ­Ivan Petrovitš 3 Vasilisa's doll 2 Target unit gains +1 Health and Toughness. Draw 1 card. ”Come, little doll, drink your milk, my dear, and I’ll pour out all my troubles in your ear, your ear!” ­Vasilisa the Beautiful 3 Underworld Stroke 5 Target unit on a non-stronghold tile cannot move, attack or use its active abilities. ”Petr Bahmutov was the third high­ranking Soviet official to have recently lapsed into this strange form of coma, apparently without a reason.” ­Pravda, 4.2.1931.

3 Northern Lights 4 Inflict 1 Damage to ALL units. ”Sleep tight now child or babushka will open the curtains and let you see those lights in the sky.” ­Old Russian saying Cabals The Board Game Card list

Cabal Amount Card Name Resource Cost Power Health Ability Flavor Text

3 Vril-ya Novice 1 1 1 ”Vril, or Fohat, the electro­spiritual force of God.” ­Theo­ Zoology or the Lore of the Sodom­Apelings and the Electron of the Gods 3 Undead Veterans 2 3 3 Does not conquer. ”Some of us were deeply disturbed by Versailles.” ­Tarnhari

3 Faustian Physicist 2 1 1 [Exhaust], Sacrifice this unit: Generate 3 [RES] ”Rigorous close reading of Goethe made me the scientist that I am.” ­Eckhard the Wired 3 Mechanic 2 1 1 Sacrifice this unit: Inflict 3 damage to target adjacent unit. ”The joints between the Ä4 modules may seem fragile but there is no cause for concern.” ­Eckhard the Wired 3 Bavarian Count 2 1 1 [Exhaust]: Generate +1 RES. ”These stony bluffs are my land. Below that cliff the Danube gently flows.” ­Heinz Von Goring 3 Vril Rocketeer 3 2 2 Fast Attack. ”What do you call this device? The jet engine?” ­Heinz von Goring

3 Armanic Warrior 6 7 7 Lose 3[RES] after you Gain Resources step. Draw one extra card during your Draw ”We are the Armanen, heirs of the sun­king. Rite of Strict Observance to death.” Cards step. ­Hraban the Raven

3 Aviator 5 3 3 Fast Attack. ”Air superiority ­ the key to winning a modern war.” ­Max Immelmann

3 Blitz Trooper 3 2 2 Sacrifice this unit: Target friendly unit gains Fast Attack. Place a Changed token on that ”Volk? In its Germanic root it referred simply to a troop of warriors...” ­J.G. Fichte Unit.

3 Bramin Engineer 3 2 2 [Exhaust]: Generate +2 [RES] ”The present seventh phase of the cosmic cycle purifies our Armanen blood from the contamination of it by the insidious slave race bacteria.” ­Karl Maria Viligut

y 3 Charged Trooper 2 1 1 When destroyed: Inflict 2 Damage to all adjacent units. ”The electro­spiritual Vril is the decisive factor in breaking the grip of gravity after the t takeoff.” ­Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen e i 3 Hexenbanner 3 2 2 1[RES], [Exhaust]: Inflict 1 Damage to target adjacent unit. “Pfaffenhofen: murder of two Irish women; Eggmühl: lynching of an English lady...” c ­1931 Police Statistics, Bavaria o 3 Industrial Economics 1 Sacrifice a unit you control: Gain [RES] equal to twice the unit's cost. ”The modern market economy is a satanic mill grinding labour, resources and money S loose from all groundings.” ­The Great Transformation

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i 3 Zeppelin 3 3 3 You may deploy units in a non­stronghold tile adjacent to Zeppelin. Units deployed this Maybach DS8: length 5520m, weight 2800kg, engine capacity 7922c. r way enter play exhausted. Zeppelin is dealt 1 Damage when it unexhausts. V

3 Initiate of Wodan 3 2 2 2[RES]: +1 Power. ”The Vril flows through you, generated by the power plants of the Arktogäa Underworld.” ­Hraban the Raven 3 Aryan Runemaster 3 1 1 Passive: Whenever a unit you control is destroyed: +1 [RES]. 2[RES], [Exhaust] : Draw ”The meaning of the Ar­rune is the death and resurrection of the self­igniting Red 1 card. Eagle.” ­Wieland von Haupt 3 Awakening Barbarossa 4 Destroy target unit. Discard a random card. ”Inside the Kyffhäuser mountain sleeps the emperor Frederick Barbarossa. His awakening will unleash a wave of Teutonic fury over the Western civilization.” 3 Amulet of Wodan 4 Sacrifice a unit you control: Inflict 3 to all units adjacent to it. ”The most sacred of the Wodanic runes is the Hagall.” ­Wieland von Haupt 3 Gas Attack 4 Inflict 1 Damage to ALL units. ”Although it is commonly believed that it was the Germans who first used gas in the War, it was in fact initially deployed by the French.” ­Gerhard Ritter 3 Escalating Inflation 4 Empty all resource pools. Play one card without paying its cost. “Money is demanded for purchasing other goods, not for its own sake. Any unsound credit expansion will result in business cycles, boom or depression.” ­Ludwig von Mises 3 Vril Beserker 4 4 4 When Deployed: Discard a random card. ”Gottlob here is one of the Schwarze Sonne, a new subdivision of our society established to guard the rocket facilities of Peenemünde.” ­Tarnhari 3 Underworlder 4 3 3 Upgrade 2[RES]: Fast Attack. ”The core of the Earth is the sun, its sparks the stars. The Underworld’s night sky has a microcosmic solar system of its own.” ­Tarnhari 3 Champion of Hyperborea 9 8 8 ”We are Hyperboreans – we know well enough how remote our place is. Beyond the North, beyond the ice, beyond death...” ­Friedrich Nietzsche Cabals The Board Game Card list

Cabal Amount Card Name Resource Cost Power Health Ability Flavor Text

3 Conspiring Beggar 1 1 1 ”Nothing passes unnoticed from the real eyes and ears of Fulcanelli, keeping watch of the streets and marketplaces in all the major Andalusian cities.” ­José Osorio de Cádiz 3 Depraved Aristocrat 2 1 1 When Deployed: Target opponent loses 2[RES]. After spending his inherited fortune on all kinds of conceivable and useless luxuries, Ibrahim took to living at the cost of his enemies. 3 Duke of Cadiz 2 1 1 [Exhaust]: Generate +1 RES ”I have no need for costy and thieving servants anymore. The Zahir automatons cook, clean and open doors for me.” ­José Osorio de Cádiz 3 Magician 2 1 1 [Exhaust]: Return target unit you control to its owner's hand. ”The Sufi masters of medieval Córdoba understood nothingness more profoundly than the Buddhists of the Far East.” ­Azab the Luminous 3 Disciple of the Third Eye 3 2 2 When attacking: Return the defending unit to its owner’s hand before the Combat – Hit ”Love screams in my own throat; I am the Jesuve, the filthy parody of the blinding Step. sun.” ­Georges Bataille 3 Adept Transmuter 3 2 2 [Exhaust]: Draw 1 card. ”The seven steps in the process of elemental change are: Calcination, digestion, fermentation, distillation, circulation, sublimation and fixation.” ­Quorcetanus 3 Clone 3 2 2 Upgrade 2[RES]: Clone gains the printed Power, Health and abilities of the target unit. ”I saw, not with the eyes of the body, but with those of the mind, my own figure Place a Changed token on the Clone. coming toward me [...] on the same road, attired in a dress which I had never worn...” ­Goethe 3 Homunculus 2 2 2 Slow Attack. 1[RES], [Exhaust]: Count the Relic on Homunculus' tile twice during your “He spat forth his own flesh and became his exact opposite like the Ouroboros, the Domination step. dragon biting his tail.” ­Visions of Zosimos 3 Laboratory Guardian 3 2 2 Slow Attack. Generate +1[RES] in Gain Resources step. “The basic elements are arranged according to their hotness, coldness, dryness and moistness. By rearranging these qualities, one metal can be changed into another.” r i 3 Living Void 5 4 4 All units in combat with Living Void are destroyed at the Combat Destroy Step. ”The oldest fear of mankind is not the fear of the dark or nature but the dread of h vacuity, horror vacui.” ­Ihsan the Wanderer a ”Mimesis is the basic mode of human learning.” ­Aristotle Z 3 Mimic 2 1 1 Upgrade 2[RES]: Mimic gains printed abilities of the target enemy unit. Place a

f Changed token on the Mimic.

o 3 Rose of the Closed Garden 2 Target opponent loses all Resources in pool. Gain the same amount of Resources. ”I have picked this five­petaled flower from the closed garden and planted it in my laboratory as a symbol of the Holy Grail and Virgin Mary.” ­Fulcanelli r

e 3 Skull Machine 1 Draw 1 card. Gain +1 [RES]. ”Gentlemen and colleagues, behold the Magnum Opus translated into the language d of the 20th century!” ­Fulcanelli r 3 Carve the Skin 3 Target unit gains +2 Power, +2 Health and Slow Attack. Place a Changed token on that ”Of course being a statue has its sides. It all depends on the way you look at it.” O unit. ­José Osorio de Cádiz

3 Lamp of Illumination 3 Draw 3 cards. This Is a souvenir from one of my travels in medieval Maghreb. Rub it. ­Franz Tausend 3 Snake Charmer 3 2 2 When deployed: Target opponent discards a random card. “There is no ground beneath your feet. Look into the empty eyes of the Naga.” Ihsan the Wanderer. 3 Cutthroat 4 3 3 Boost 1[Res]: Target opponent discards a random card. ”The murders of the diplomats in Málaga and Seville remain unsolved. The Soviet Union demands explanations from the government.” ­ABC Periódico 3.4.1931 3 Assassin 4 2 2 When Deployed: Inflict 1 Damage to target unit. The 8th century tradition of Fort Alamut emphasizes blade techniques, the use of shadows and mental discipline. ­Husain Ramirez 3 13th Chair 4 Return target unit to its owner’s hand. ”Despite the vehement protests of King Arthur and the other knights around the Table, Sir Galahad took the dreaded seat of Judas.” ­Geoffrey of Manmouth 3 Jeweled Idol 4 3 3 Whenever an unit controlled by an opponent is destroyed: Draw 1 card. ”Look! It is carved from an emerald that fell from the crown of Lucifer when he was cast out of the heavens.” ­Azab the Luminous 3 Trephination 4 Inflict 1 Damage to target unit. If the unit survives, it gains +2 Power and +2 Health. ”To let out foul air, evil spirits and to bring relief to the patient, we puncture the skull...”. ­Nebhra, the Royal physician

3 Liquid Servant 5 4 4 Boost 1[Res]: Draw 1 card. ”The ousia of Aristotle translates into Wesen as an active state of becoming, of dynamic maintaining of the essence.” ­Martin Heidegger 3 Golem 7 8 8 Slow Attack. ”The rabbis of Prague taught me the secret word with which to undo their creation. Just in case.” ­ Fulcanelli