Elder One Discovery Token

The Elder One Discovery token is one of the three tokens that move on the Discovery Track. However, while the other two tokens tend to move every now and then during the game, the Elder One Discovery token only rarely moves, and it's possible that it will not move at all during an entire game.

The Elder One Discovery token functions as the goalpost the other two tokens are racing to reach. When either of the other two tokens reaches the Elder One Discovery token, the Elder One awakens, and must be defeated before it defeats the players.

Discovery Track

The Discovery Track tracks the progress of the players and the enemy during the game, and also controls when a new Act begins.

At the start of the game, the Player Discovery token and the Enemy Discovery token are placed at the first space on the Discovery Track, and the Elder One Discovery token is placed on either space 8, 12 or 16 on the track depending on whether players want to play a short, medium or long game. The chosen starting point for the Elder One Discovery token counts as the end of the Discovery Track. (The Elder One Discovery token can advance towards lower numbers on the track at some points in the game, but that doesn't change where the end of the track is.)

The players win the game by reaching the end of the Discovery Track without losing the game before that. They lose the game if the Enemy Discovery token reaches the end of the Discovery Track before the players do, or if the Elder One is awakened and completes its objective.

The first time the Player Discovery token or Enemy Discovery token reaches position 4, 8 or 12, it triggers an End of Act, and then a new Act begins. Note: when playing a shorter game by choosing a lower starting position than 16 for the Elder One Discovery token, the game will end before all the Acts of the full game have started.

Note: while the normal way of advancing the tokens on the Discovery Track occurs as part of the Enemy Phase.