Player’s HandbookPaths

The Three Paths

Create, Protect, Conquer — and the Crown you do not show yet

Reign is public. Your Path is not. You record progress in Create, Protect, and Conquer columns. The secret Path determines which column must supply at least six Reign before you may attempt the Crown. Choose or roll: D6 1–2 Create, 3–4 Protect, 5–6 Conquer. Place the Path card facedown.

Path	Fantasy	Status
Create	Build, restore, produce, and establish a durable Realm network.	PROVISIONAL LOCK: 10 total Reign; 6+ Create.
Protect	Stabilize people and the Realm through aid, accords, relief, and containment.	PROVISIONAL LOCK: 10 total Reign; 6+ Protect.
Conquer	Win conflicts, seize contested ground, and defeat encounters.	PROVISIONAL LOCK: 10 total Reign; 6+ Conquer.

Each completed achievement grants 1 Reign and may be completed only once by each House per game. A House may normally gain no more than 1 Reign during its own House Turn. Breaking Point cannot award the Crown or raise a House above 9 Reign.

If one resolution satisfies several achievements, choose one to score. Another may be scored later only if its required state still exists and a later legal resolution verifies it. An achievement cannot be farmed by reversing and repeating the same transaction, control change, agreement, rescue, or damage sequence.

Create

Achievement	Proof	Limit
Foundation	Claim a neutral production site and retain control until the beginning of your next turn.	Once
Industry	A structure you built becomes active.	Once
Network	At cycle cleanup, control active production sites for two different Goods.	Once
Answer the Need	Receive your primary Need good through trade and consume it during that cycle’s Economy step.	Once
Realm Market	Complete three legal trades involving at least two other Houses during one cycle.	Once
Reconstruction	Rebuild and reactivate a destroyed production site.	Once
Great Production	Produce at least five total Goods during one Production step.	Once
Grand Design	Control three active, non-identical structures at the same time.	Once

Protect

Achievement	Proof	Limit
Rescue	Stabilize a Downed character belonging to another House that your House did not Down.	Once
Relief	Transfer the required Good in time to prevent another House’s shortage.	Once
Calm the Realm	Personally reduce Chaos while it is at 4 or higher.	Once
Oathkeeper	Complete an Accord involving your House without Breach or Default.	Once
Guardian of the Realm	Contribute at least 2 containment points to a contained Breaking Point; score at the beginning of your next turn.	Once
Interposition	Use a legal effect to prevent at least one wound or one Integrity loss another character or structure would suffer.	Once
Safe Passage	Another House completes movement through your controlled territory under an active Accord without Breach.	Once
Realmkeeper	At cycle cleanup, have no friendly Downed character and Chaos 3 or lower after your House reduced or prevented Chaos that cycle.	Once

Conquer

Achievement	Proof	Limit
Break the Line	Down an opposing Cohort.	Once
Champion’s Fall	Down an opposing Champion.	Once
Demolition	Destroy an opposing structure.	Once
Seize Ground	Claim a production site previously controlled by another House and retain it until your next turn.	Once
Hold the Field	Remain standing on or adjacent to a contested site for a complete round after being attacked there.	Once
Declared Victor	Win a legally declared Rivalry.	Once
Hunter	Deliver the final successful effect or wound that defeats a regular Encounter.	Once
Two Fronts	Cause at least one wound to characters belonging to two different opposing Houses during one cycle.	Once

Crown eligibility requires 10 total Reign, at least 6 aligned to the secret Path, a standing Champion, and a valid matching Crown Proof. How the Crown Round is run is the Realm Master’s chapter. You need to know the proofs. They need to know the interruptions.