Ruling — Spirit Island

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What does this expansion add?

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Asked with: Spirit Islandbg-162886-en-1e · Spirit Island: Jagged Earthbg-262722-en-1e

This expansion adds the following:

* **Tokens:** Tokens representing perils and hazards that hinder Invaders, specifically Beasts, Wilds, Disease, and Strife.[1]

* **Beasts tokens:** Represent wild animals that are unpredictable allies and may pick off Explorers.[1] They can harm Invaders and generate Fear as specified by Powers and Event Cards.[2]

* **Wilds tokens:** Represent perilous lands (e.g., toxic plants, dangerous paths).[1] They prevent the next Explore action and are then removed.[2]

* **Disease tokens:** Represent maladies that can reduce population or keep growth in check.[1] They prevent the next Build action and are then removed.[2]

* **Strife tokens:** Added to specific Invaders.[1] They block a specific Invader's Damage the next time they Damage Dahan and/or the land, and are then removed.[2]

* **Island Boards:** Two additional Island Boards (E and F) to allow for games with up to 6 players.[3]

* **Aspect Cards:** New ways to play familiar Spirits by providing a new Special Rule or Innate Power.[4] This expansion includes Aspects for the four low-complexity Spirits from the base game: Reach, Wind, Sunshine, and Resilience.[4][5]

* **Blight Cards:** Including "Still Healthy" cards which feature a small Blight pool that, when exhausted, requires drawing a new card rather than losing a blight.[4] Specific new Blight Cards include *All Things Weaken*, *Power Corrodes the Spirit*, *Untended Land Crumbles*, *Invaders Find the Land to Their Liking*, and *Strong Earth Shatters Slowly*.[5][6]

* **Adversaries:** Including The Habsburg Monarchy [5] and The Tsardom of Russia.[6]

* **Scenarios:** *Elemental Invocation*, *The Great River Spirits: Fractured Days Split the Sky*, *Shifting Memory of Ages*, *Shroud of Silent Mist*, *Starlight Seeks its Form*,[5] and *Despicable Theft*.[5][6]

* **Spirits:** *Stone's Unyielding Defiance*.[5][6]

* **Other Materials:**

* All Event Cards.[6]

* Many new Power Cards (some using new tokens).[6]

* Small Reminder Cards for tracking ongoing effects like Adversaries, Events, Major Powers, and Play Options.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook · p.7 · BRANCH & CLAW TOKENS · BEASTS · WILDS · DISEASE

[2] RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook · p.36 · ICONOGRAPHY · NEW TURN ORDER · Spirit Phase · Invader Phase · Slow Power Phase (Cards and Innate) Time Passes · TOKENS

[3] RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook · p.6 · STARTING PRESENCE ON THEMATIC BOARDS · ISLAND BOARDS · BADLANDS ON THEMATIC BOARDS

[4] RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook · p.9 · ASPECT CARDS · 'STILL HEALTHY' BLIGHT CARDS · ONGOING EFFECT REMINDER CARDS · SETUP CHANGE FOR BLIGHT CARDS

[5] RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook · p.3 · USING THIS EXPANSION

[6] RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook · p.3 · USING THIS EXPANSION

Strategy guides → — community tips, kept separate from rulings

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 77 ms · ask 7584 ms · total 7662 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7662 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 10, "score": 0.032266, "snippet": "Look at the Invader Card in the Build Action Space on the Invader Board: the Invaders Build in each land of the shown type only. Whenever there are Invaders in the specified type of land, they add either one City or one Town: If the land has more Towns than Cities, add a City. (Y ou are not upgradin", "headingPath": "3b. BUILD", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 36, "score": 0.032266, "snippet": "Items with a plain mountain rely on no rules outside of the base game. Items with a smoking volcano rely on a rule, concept, or clarification introduced in this expansion, but nothing from Branch & Claw. Items with an active volcano rely on rules or concepts from Branch & Claw (and possibly this exp", "headingPath": "ICONOGRAPHY · NEW TURN ORDER · Spirit Phase · Invader Phase · Slow Power Phase (Cards and Innate) Time Passes · TOKENS", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}, {"page": 32, "score": 0.031754, "snippet": "Growth Gain Energy Play and pay for Power Cards Fast Power Phase (Cards and Innate) Invader Phase Blighted Island Effect Fear Effects Ravage: Invaders Damage the land and Dahan. Add Blight if the land takes 2 or more Damage. Surviving Dahan fight back. Build: If Invaders are present, add a Town or C", "headingPath": "Spirit Phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.031054, "snippet": "This expansion uses tokens to represent perils and hazards which hinder the Invaders. Beasts, Wilds, and Disease tokens are added to lands; Strife is added to specific Invaders. There is no limit to how many tokens can be in a land, or to how many Strife tokens can be on an Invader. Beasts tokens re", "headingPath": "BRANCH & CLAW TOKENS · BEASTS · WILDS · DISEASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.031025, "snippet": "The Invaders have begun to colonize your Island! While not specifically aiming to exterminate you, their colonization and 'taming' of the land has upset the natural balance. The goal of the game is to drive off the Invaders by meeting the victory conditions of the current Terror Level. As more Invad", "headingPath": "INVADERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 22, "score": 0.030331, "snippet": "Adversaries are specific colonizing Powers from the world of Spirit Island. Including an Adversary in a game is optional, but doing so adds an additional layer of depth and strategy to the game. Be sure to choose your foe before Setup begins, as some may change the rules of Setup. The Adversary Pane", "headingPath": "ADVERSARIES", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 30, "score": 0.029877, "snippet": "Action: See Invader Action. Add: To put onto the board from the supply. Adjacent Land: Sharing a border or corner. [p.13] Adversary: A specific colonizer to fight against. Boosts difficulty and changes how the game plays. [p. 22] +Any: Any one element, chosen anew each turn. Once set for a turn, can", "headingPath": "GLOSSARY/INDEX", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}, {"page": 16, "score": 0.02885, "snippet": "Energy Cost (Power Cards only) Name Elements Gained (Power Cards only): There are eight Elements: Sun, Moon, Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Plant, and Animal. When you play a Power Card, you gain the Elements shown. Some Powers have extra effects if you have gained specific Elements (see #8 on the next pa", "headingPath": "ANATOMY OF POWERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 58}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "BRANCH & CLAW TOKENS · BEASTS · WILDS · DISEASE", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}, {"page": 36, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ICONOGRAPHY · NEW TURN ORDER · Spirit Phase · Invader Phase · Slow Power Phase (Cards and Innate) Time Passes · TOKENS", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "STARTING PRESENCE ON THEMATIC BOARDS · ISLAND BOARDS · BADLANDS ON THEMATIC BOARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ASPECT CARDS · 'STILL HEALTHY' BLIGHT CARDS · ONGOING EFFECT REMINDER CARDS · SETUP CHANGE FOR BLIGHT CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "USING THIS EXPANSION", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "USING THIS EXPANSION", "sharpsignalDocId": 861}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 58 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 58 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.86550 of 1777 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 12, 2026 12:21

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	3b. BUILD	p.10	0.032266 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	ICONOGRAPHY · NEW TURN ORDER · Spirit Phase · Invader Phase · Slow Power Phase (Cards and Innate) Time Passes · TOKENS	p.36	0.032266 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	Spirit Phase	p.32	0.031754 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	BRANCH & CLAW TOKENS · BEASTS · WILDS · DISEASE	p.7	0.031054 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	INVADERS	p.15	0.031025 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	ADVERSARIES	p.22	0.030331 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	GLOSSARY/INDEX	p.30	0.029877 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	ANATOMY OF POWERS	p.16	0.02885 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 80 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	BRANCH & CLAW TOKENS · BEASTS · WILDS · DISEASE	p.7	#4	0.031054 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	ICONOGRAPHY · NEW TURN ORDER · Spirit Phase · Invader Phase · Slow Power Phase (Cards and Innate) Time Passes · TOKENS	p.36	#2	0.032266 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	STARTING PRESENCE ON THEMATIC BOARDS · ISLAND BOARDS · BADLANDS ON THEMATIC BOARDS	p.6	#11	0.016393 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	3b. BUILD	p.10	#1	0.032266 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Spirit Island — Rulebook (corpus doc 58)	For these examples, the Explore Action takes place in Jungles because of the Invader Card shown.	p.11	#22	0.012346 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	ASPECT CARDS · 'STILL HEALTHY' BLIGHT CARDS · ONGOING EFFECT REMINDER CARDS · SETUP CHANGE FOR BLIGHT CARDS	p.9	#20	0.012658 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	USING THIS EXPANSION	p.3	#15	0.014085 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	USING THIS EXPANSION	p.3	#12	0.016129 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	BRANCH & CLAW TOKENS · BEASTS · WILDS · DISEASE	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	ICONOGRAPHY · NEW TURN ORDER · Spirit Phase · Invader Phase · Slow Power Phase (Cards and Innate) Time Passes · TOKENS	p.36	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	STARTING PRESENCE ON THEMATIC BOARDS · ISLAND BOARDS · BADLANDS ON THEMATIC BOARDS	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	ASPECT CARDS · 'STILL HEALTHY' BLIGHT CARDS · ONGOING EFFECT REMINDER CARDS · SETUP CHANGE FOR BLIGHT CARDS	p.9	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	USING THIS EXPANSION	p.3	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Spirit Island: Jagged Earth — Rulebook (corpus doc 861)	USING THIS EXPANSION	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 77 ms · first delta 3945 ms · total 7662 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 77 ms · ask 7584 ms · gateway work 7662 ms · total 7662 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3057
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 545
tok/sec: 148.7 tok/sec — 545 output tokens in 3.666 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 21s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 7), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.