Building a new realm

Winning the elder dragon’s favour requires planning and patience

Tile types

There are six different tiles within two main categories. ‘Faction’ tiles include merchants, farmers and soldiers, while ‘special’ tiles include seasons, winds and dragons.

First player token

As per the rules, the player who most recently saw a dragon takes the first turn. So if you want the upper hand, perhaps you should re-watch some Game of Thrones?

Countdown tokens

Once the Dragon Castle only has tiles left on its ground floor, players have the option of taking a countdown token on their turn to speed up the end of the game and put pressure on the opposition.

Dragon Castle

Before the game begins, you must assemble the Dragon Castle using all the 116 available tiles. Once familiar with the game you can start using some of the alternative layouts, or design your own.

Shrines

Once you consolidate a set of tiles you can start building shrines. The higher the shrine, the more points it is worth, so you might want to bide your time to build taller ones.

Building

Each player builds their new castle on a realm board (not shown). Matching tokens must be placed adjacent to one another in order to be consolidated – diagonals don’t count.

Spirit guides

Players can use the spirit or dragon cards to give themselves a special ability or boost their points.