Barbarity Bellarmine Chance Bought and Sold Conquest Duke of Alba

Barbarity Bellarmine Chance

Special Special Special Playable during your turn. In this turn you Choose a Scientist Character in play who Pick up the two top cards of the discard pile can make an extra attack; you don't need to does not have an Object and put them in and put them in your hand. play a second Attack card. your hand.

Bought and sold Conquest Duke of Alba

Special Special Special Choose and swap the places of two Bastions Choose a Bastion in play from another Choose a Reformed Character in play who already in play. player's City and place it in your City. does not have an Object and put them in your hand.

Electrocution William of Orange New world

Special Special Special Swap your hand with another player of your Choose a Catholic Character in play who Draw 3 cards. choice. does not have an Object and put them in your hand.

New world Resurrection Burned at the stake

Special Special Special Draw 3 cards. If there is a Character on top of the discard Choose a Demonic Character in play who pile, add them to your hand. does not have an Object and put them in your hand.

Rust Misfortune Misfortune

Special Special Special Choose and discard an Object in play. Cancels the effect of a Special card that's Cancels the effect of a Special card that's just been played. just been played.

Tempest Tenacity Earthquake

Special Special Special Choose a Pirate Character in play who does Playable during your turn. In your next turn, Destroy a Bastion of your choice. not have an Object and put them in your you can perform two actions. hand.

Truce Truce Phillip II

Special Special Protagonist - Catholics Cancels an Attack just after it's declared. Cancels an Attack just after it's declared. King of Spain, son of Charles V, Phillip II was a The Attack card is discarded. The Attack card is discarded. staunch defender of the Catholic Church, and mobilized his immense army to combat every form of heresy.

Giordano Bruno Francis Drake Martin Luther

Protagonist - Demonic Protagonist - Pirates Protagonist - Reformed The great writer and philosopher was burned as a A great corsair, he was the ﬁrst English person to Augustinian monk who contested the Church's moral heretic in 1600 by order of the Inquisition; he wrote circumnavigate the globe; he was also crucial to the conduct and some of its doctrinal principles, texts on magic, amongst which De magia and De English victory against Phillip II's Invincible Armada. beginning the Protestant Reformation. magia matematica.

Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Witch hunter

Protagonist - Scientists Protagonist - Scientists Character - Catholics Father of physics and of the experimental method, Newton was the founder of classical mechanics and The Malleus Maleﬁcarum explained how to recognize was condemned by the Tribunal of the Inquisition and deﬁned the laws of motion and universal gravitation. and capture a witch, went through around thirty-four forced to renounce the heliocentric theories. editions, and was the most widespread book after the Bible.

Capuchin Cardinal Exorcist

Character - Catholics Character - Catholics Character - Catholics The Order of the Capuchins is born in the mid 1500s. Cardinal Richelieu was the most important political Those afﬂicted by such maladies as schizophrenia or The friars observed the Franciscan vow of poverty personality of the ﬁrst half of the 1600s, and epilepsy were considered to be possessed by a and distinguished themselves by their preaching skills. established France's primacy in Europe. Demon; those who would heal them resorted to exorcism.

Jesuit Inquisitor Missionary

Character - Catholics Character - Catholics Character - Catholics The Jesuit masters, gifted with enormous cultural To counter the effects of the Reformation, the Church The jesuit Reductions in Latin America were missions awareness and training, were amongst the ones most established the Tribunal of the Inquisition, which used in which the indigenous people were considered to be sought after by noble families for their innovative even torture to induce its defendants to renounce their free and could live off their own labour. teaching methods. theories.

Parish priest Sorceress Healer

Character - Catholics Character - Demonic Character - Demonic For the 1600s, the parish priest par excellence is The most famous sorceress in Paris, in the 1600s, was Woman who healed maladies and wounds with Alessandro Manzoni's Don Abbondio, “an La Voisin, who distilled extremely potent poisons with incantations or magical herbs. earthenware vase forced to travel alongside many the help of her warlock lover. iron vases”.

Midwife Wizard Enchantress

Character - Demonic Character - Demonic Character - Demonic The death of a newborn could be blamed on the dark Philosophers and scientists believed in the existence A witch who wove spells and incantations to make arts of the woman who'd helped him be born. of wizards and witches, and knew the magical arts. people fall in love, to hurt them, or kill them.

Fortune teller Witch Anointer

Character - Demonic Character - Demonic Character - Demonic Some women had the magic gift of looking into the Women were the main victims of witch hunts, because This ﬁgure would anoint walls or doorknobs with a future and predicting one's fortune. it was held that they easily let themselves be tempted yellowish substance to spread the plague. by the Demon.

Buccaneer Barbary corsair English corsair

Character - Pirates Character - Pirates Character - Pirates Henry Morgan, of Welsh origin, was one of the most Jan Janzsoon, Spanish corsair, converted to Islam and Woodes Rogers, English corsair, was nominated famous and bloodthirsty buccanners of the died captured by the knights of Malta. governor of the Bahamas and led a merciless ﬁght Caribbean. against piracy in the Caribbean Sea.

Dutch corsair Spanish corsair Filibuster

Character - Pirates Character - Pirates Character - Pirates Piet Pieterszoon Hein, veritable scourge of the Jaboc Collaart, at the service of Spain during the François Nau, known as l'Olonnais, was one of the Spanish fleet, became renowned for his discipline. Dutch revolt, confronted the enemy fleet. fiercest filibusters in history, and tortured his prisoners in horrible ways.

Slaver Pirate Anabaptist

Character - Pirates Character - Pirates Character - Reformed John Hawkins was one of the ﬁrst English slavers, Pirates infested the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and The term “anabaptist” was deprecatingly used and created a slaver's syndicate to best proﬁt from the Caribbean Sea, looting and pillaging, because the Anabaptists refuted the baptism of babies this activity. accumulating great treasures. and practiced the baptism of adult believers.

Anglican Calvinist Lutheran

Character - Reformed Character - Reformed Character - Reformed Just founded by Henry VIII, the Anglican Church kept Calvin turned Geneva into the religious city par Luther's Reformation afﬁrmed the principles of the doctrinal lines of the Catholic Church; with excellence: he forbid gambling and all manner of universal priesthood and clarity and accessibility of Elizabeth I it would get ever closer to Calvinism. leisure; the Consistory kept watch over public morals. the scriptures, and maintained that only through Faith could the soul ﬁnd salvation.

Puritan Quaker Hughenots

Character - Reformed Character - Reformed Character - Reformed The Puritans wanted to make the Anglican Church They were the integralism wing of the Puritan The religious wars in France saw Hughenots pitted more compliant with the Sacred Scriptures. movement and intended to restore the practices of the against Catholics: in the terrible night of St. Persecuted by the authorities, they emigrated to primitive Church: they were mostly successful in the Bartholomew in 1572 thousands of Huguenots were America where they formed the core of the United United States. killed. States. © 2016 Seicento.info © 2016 Seicento.info © 2016 Seicento.info

Waldensian Alchemist Astronomer

Character - Reformed Character - Scientists Character - Scientists The Waldensians were persecuted as heretics by the At heart, every scientist and every philosopher is an The copernican theory, which placed the sun in the Catholic Church until the end of the Middle Ages, and alchemist who pursues omniscience. center of the universe, was demonstrated thanks to adhered to Calvinism with the synod of Chanforan in Galileo. 1532.

Philosopher Physicist Inventor

Character - Scientists Character - Scientists Character - Scientists In the 17th century, science (still being born) and From the observation of nature, and from Galileo's The most famous invention of the age was the philosophy are still profoundly intertwined: Descartes experiments, physics and the experimental method are telescope, made in Holland and reproduced in Italy by was a great philosopher and a great mathematician. born. Galileo.

Mathematician Physician Teacher

Character - Scientists Character - Scientists Character - Scientists Inﬁnitesimal analysis, area calculation and the Knowledge of the human body takes giant steps Culture continues to circulate in the universities, the equation for the tangent to a curve are introduced. forward, thanks to the dissection of human corpses Inquisition's censorship and repression performed mainly by Protestant physicians. notwithstanding.

Relic Amulet Cannon

Object - Catholics Object - Demonic Object - Pirates ** Stop an opponent of your choice from ** Play, into your City, a Character who's ** Discard a Character in play of your playing any characters to their City on their just been discarded or killed in an attack in choice, as long as they are not protected by next turn. which you were not involved. a Bastion.

Print Catapult St. Peter's Basilica

Object - Reformed Object - Scientists Bastion - Catholics ** Choose an opponent, take 3 random ** Destroy a Bastion of your choice. Work on erecting the grandiose basilica, temple of the cards from their hand and add them to Catholic world, started in 1506. Such great artists as yours. Michelango and Bernini took part.

El Escorial Woods Fire

Bastion - Catholics Bastion - Demonic Bastion - Demonic Imposing conventual achitectural work built just One of the favourite meeting places of witches: the In the chosen night between saturday and sunday the outside Madrid under Phillip II to welcome the King nocturnal landscape of the desolate woods, under the witches would ﬂy towards the place where they would of Spain; excepcional monument to the art of the 16th moonlight, atop a hill. celebrate the terrible sabbath. and 17th centuries.

Galley Caribbean Sea Westminster

Bastion - Pirates Bastion - Pirates Bastion - Reformed The galley was entirely propelled by the power of its The most pirate-infested area of the 17th century was After the schism brought about by Henry VIII, the oars and the wind blowing through the masts and the Caribbean Sea, due to the conﬂit between the abbey becomes one of the main centres of the sails; in the 18th century, the sailing ship would English and the Spanish as well as the presence of Anglican religion. supersede it. many islands rich in food.

Wittenberg Venice Villa Medici

Bastion - Reformed Bastion - Scientists Bastion - Scientists It was on the Cathedral's door that Luther afﬁxed the In the dark times of the Inquisition the Republic of Cosimo III de' Medici was the patron of Galileo, and famous 95 theses in which he criticised the Church for Venice remained one of the most tolerant states, a the treatise Sidereus Nuncius is dedicated to him. the scandalous indulgences. haven for many men of culture.