Cabals The Board Game Card list Cabal Amount Card Name Resource Cost Power Health Ability Flavor Text 3 Private Detective 1 1 1 ºAldridge Walker, investigator of natural and supernatural crimes.º -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. ºLook what I found!º -Edain the Faery 3 Lady of Ulster 2 1 1 [Exhaust]: Generate +1 RES ªMeghan, I told you to leave the butterflies in my study alone.º -Caitlin O'Brien 3 Faery Demagogue 2 1 1 When deployed: Target friendly unit gains +1 Power. ºRhetoric is the art of seeing the available means of persuasion.º -Aristotle 3 Gnome Hero 3 1 3 When conquers: +2 Power. ºMy name is Alberich. The clang of your church bells and the boom of your firesticks do not impress me.º 3 Magic Pigs of Cruachu 3 2 2 Adjacent enemy Relic tokens do not grant control of the tile, but they are counted for ºWasteland for seven years where they have grazed.º -Nuadha, Danann King Domination. 3 Changeling Chauffeur 3 2 2 When conquers: Gain 2[RES] ºMs. O'Brien, you are most certainly driving the pushrod-OHV straight-6 detachable head cylinder Rolls-Royce Phantom 1929...º -Elvin the Driver 3 Changeling Trick 4 Remove all tokens on target unit. That unit loses its abilities and counts as having 1 ªIn 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.º -W. B. Yeats 3 Cursed Duchess 5 4 4 When conquers: +2 Health. ºThe 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 t Sídhe. n 3 Danann Shapechange 4 Remove all tokens on target unit. That unit loses its abilities and counts as having 4 ºThe faerie identity is remarkably prone to drastic change.º -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. ªFemale worshippers of the Horned God were ruthlessly demonized by the Christian e witch hunts.º -The Witch-cult in Western Europe v 3 Sidh 4 ºThe 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.º -Nuadha, Danann King C 3 Spriggan 1 1 1 Upgrade 2[RES]: +2 Power and +2 Health ºBy the club of Daghda, there is no place for midgets in my army! Then again...º 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 ºSince the Wall Street Crash of 1929 real estate and property is where you want to a Domination step. put your money into.º -Adam Miller, Bank of America n a 3 Osculum Infame 3 Target unit gains +2 Health and +2 Health. ºThe kiss of shame, on the posterior of a lamb or goat, an initiation to true witchhood...º -The Witch-cult in Western Europe D 3 Phooka 4 3 3 Upgrade 1[RES]: +1 Power and +1 Health. ºThe only man to ride the shape-changing mount was Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, using a special bridle made of the creature's tail.º -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 ºThe nightly terror of the Cambridge countryside continues even after the control. mobilization of local militia.º -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 ºConcepts like `sin' and `Devil' are late Christian inventions. They have no meaning units. for us.º -Morgana Le Fay 3 Fomorian Brute 5 5 5 ºLook at you, my beautiful. Now rise and let the earth drink the blood of my enemies!º -Queen Mab 3 Drunken Cluriciaun 3 2 4 ºThe police will be grateful for information on the stocky middle-aged man...º -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]. º...between summer and winter lies the rotting sphere of fungi, dusk, debris and decaying dwellings.º -Morgana Le Fay 3 Banshee 4 2 2 3[RES]: Destroy all adjacent units. ºThe men of the O'Brien family know that their hour has passed when they wake up to a thin screeching wail in the night.º -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 ºThe old fear of insects and rodents creeping through floorboard cracks, from the so called podpol'e...º -Municipal Engineering 3 Novgorodian Nobleman 2 1 1 [Exhaust]: Generate +1 RES ºThe leisurely nobles of Chekhov looked for pleasure in art. Their modern counterparts seek it in the occult.º -Max Weber 3 Bog Candle 2 1 1 Adjacent enemy units cannot move or attack. ºLight your candle only on the altar, before the obraz.º -Ostromir Codex 3 Guided Therapist 3 2 2 Toughness ªThus the ego, driven by the id, confined by the super-ego, repulsed by reality, struggles in bringing about harmony...º -Sigmund Freud 3 Devoted Beurocrat 3 1 4 ºIn a certain Russian ministerial department---- But it is perhaps better that I do not mention which department it was.º -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 non-stronghold tile adjacent to any friendly ºIt 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.º -Esoteric Aesthetics, an Introduction 3 Infest the Mind 1 Target unit on a non-stronghold tile cannot move until the beginning of your next turn. ºNothing is more simple than controlling the weak.º -Rasputin d o 3 Psychic Lapse 3 Move target exhausted unit to an empty and adjacent non-stronghold tile. ºThe workings of the unconsciousness can be seen, for example, in dreams, jokes and mental lapses.º -Sigmund Freud o h 3 Rusalka 4 3 3 May be deployed adjacent to a deployment location you control. Does not conquer. ºHanna: 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.º -Nikolai Gogol e 3 Spiritual Medium 2 1 1 ºBoth the sword and the rifle are weapons of short range.º -Iosif the Medium h 1[RES], [Exhaust]: Inflict 1 Damage to target adjacent unit. t 3 Striga 3 2 2 ºThe 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.º -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 ºAfter the explosion a red-cloaked figure was seen crossing the Trinity bridge through w on. heavy mist that rose from the freezing Neva.º -Anonymous Tšeka officer a l 3 Feral Shaman 3 2 2 [Exhaust]: Target friendly unit gains +1 Health ºLike the Freudian idea of the mind, reality itself consists of upper, middle and lower c levels which the properly trained spirit can reach.º -Iosif the Medium r 3 Ancestral Spirit 3 2 2 2[RES],[Exhaust]: Target unit gains Toughness. ºIt was these spirits that affected their lives all the time. They were nearer to the a people than God Himself.º -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 ºLiberated from earthly affections you have become like Jesus, just more godlike, more perfect.º -Rasputin 3 Possessed Junker 4 3 3 Upgrade 2[RES]: +2 Health ºNo more pictures of Lenin or talk of progression. Our modern youth need spiritual guidance.º -Rasputin 3 Leshii 5 4 4 Upgrade 1[RES]: Gain Toughness ºListen to them ± the children of the night. What kind of music they make!º - Count Dracula 3 Bear Spirit 6 5 5 Toughness ºRespect the Lord of the Forest, comrade, or He will come back to hunt you.º -Ivan Petrovitš 3 Vasilisa's doll 2 Target unit gains +1 Health and Toughness.