The Old King's Crown

Calculate each bid's Strength and resolve bids from highest to lowest (ties by the Order Track); a winning bidder takes an unoccupied Kingdom card or may steal an occupied Kingdom card (or return their bidding card instead) as described for Spring bids and steal/return (pages 10–11).

You place face‑down Faction cards per Region in Spring, and during that placement you may move any number of Supporters to Regions to add Strength in Clashes; Supporter movement is done as part of those placement/Clash steps (page 12).

Deadly elimination is resolved according to the simultaneous elimination rules and the Night/Deadly step: eliminated cards are removed as specified (often to the Lost pile) and mandatory Night triggers still occur per the Deadly rules (pages 15 and 21).

Journey moves the Faction card to the Lost pile and grants Journey tokens you may spend at your Site of Power to acquire cards; it does not automatically acquire cards for you (pages 17 and 23).

When you claim a Location you gain the Herald and the Location rewards and then resolve the Region as part of the Claim Rewards step (page 16).

After tallying crowns, ties are broken first by Favour and then by position on the Order Track as the final tiebreaker (page 18).