Law of Root

The Borough Kings craft before resolving the Manifest during Daylight by activating arsenals. However, they can only activate one arsenal per matching card in the Consolidate column.

After battle, if you rule the clearing of battle, and no enemy pieces remain, you score one extra victory point. When moving, the Borough Kings may move heralds with warriors that they move. (If forced to move, the Kings player may also move heralds.)

The Borough Kings keep their supply of warriors in their bag, and any time they would place one or more warriors from their supply, they draw them at random from the bag. (Draw after declaring where the warrior is to be placed, usually in a clearing, but also if paying for Riverfolk Services or using Propagda Bureau.)

Opponents treat MICE warriors in clearings as their own faction pieces for all intents during their own turn. (Thus they can be used for faction abilities such as Corvid Plots, but are considered Borough Kings pieces if on the Riverfolk faction board.)

Form a supply of 20 warriors, 16 rats and 4 mice. (Do not put them in the bag yet.)

Place 1 arsenal in a corner clearing that is not the starting corner clearing of another player and, if possible, is diagonally opposite from a starting corner clearing. Then choose two different adjacent clearings with no enemy buildings, and place 1 arsenal in each.

Place a rat warrior in each clearing, then put all remaining warriors in the bag.

Choose 1 of the 4 Kings regent cards and place it in your Regent Card slot. Gather the remaining regents face up near you.

Tuck your 2 Loyal Henchmen cards, showing their suit, into the Manifest columns above your faction board as listed on your regent.

Place your 3 remaining arsenals on your Arsenals track from right to left.

Take all your warriors that are in clearings with enemy buildings or tokens, and place them as evenly as possible in your three clearings with arsenals.

If you have no arsenal on the map, select an edge clearing where you can place an arsenal, then place an arsenal and six warriors there. (Drawn from the bag.)

You may activate one arsenal per matching card in Consolidate to craft cards from your hand.

You must resolve the Manifest, starting with the leftmost column and moving right. In each column, you must resolve all of its cards, but in any order. For each card, you must take the action listed for its column, as follows. If you cannot fully take an action, you must immediately resolve a Palace Coup. (BK.7 - Palace Coup)

If any column has 5 or more cards, you must resolve a (forced) Palace Coup. (BK.7 - Palace Coup)

You may voluntarily declare a Palace Coup. (BK.7 - Palace Coup)

If you have less cards in hand than that revealed by the Arsenals track, draw one card.

You must add one to five cards to the Manifest, determined by the Arsenals track. If you do not have enough cards on hand, add as many cards as you have. You may play each card to any column, and each column can hold any number of cards. Then Score Points. Score one victory point for each card after the first you just added to the manifest this round (so if you add 3 cards, score 2 points).

Draw one card, plus one card per clearing you rule that also contains one or more heralds. ?Then, if you have more than five cards in your hand, discard cards of your choice until you have five.

Lose one victory point per bird card in the Manifest.

Return all mice on the map to the bag, and discard all of the cards in the Manifest except your Loyal Henchmen.

Flip your current leader face down and set it aside, choose a new leader from those face up, and place on your faction board. Tuck your Loyal Henchmen into the Manifest spaces listed on your new regent.

End Daylight and begin Evening.

Both Loyal Henchmen begin on Conquer. Once in Birdsong, you may add a card to the manifest. If you do, score one point.

Loyal Henchmen begin on Conquer and Consolidate. Once per turn after crafting an item (not other cards), you may immediately draw a new card.

Loyal Henchmen begin on Conquer and Conscript. At the end of Evening, draw two cards and immediately add those cards to the manifest, but score no points for adding them.

Loyal Henchmen begin on Conscript and Consolidate. In clearings with one or more arsenal, deal one extra hit in battle (applies both as attacker and as defender).