Ruling — Trickerion: Legends of Illusion

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What does this expansion add?

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Asked with: Trickerion: Legends of Illusionbg-163068-en-1e · Trickerion: Arcane Artsbg-441341-en-1e

The Trickerion: Arcane Arts expansion adds the following:

* **The Arcanist:** A mysterious, hooded figure who travels via an inconspicuous Wagon to a new Location in Magoria every turn, adding a new set of Actions to that Location.[1]

* **Enchantments:** Special Components that allow for greater flexibility in Component and Trick choices; they can be used as a Component substitution to Prepare a Trick, permanently enhancing Tricks and potentially providing rewards during the 'Performance' phase.[1][2]

* **Supernatural Companions:** New, unique Characters—the Golem, the Shapeshifter, the Trickster, and the Specter—that can join your crew, each possessing powerful special abilities.[1]

* **Arcane Workers:** Special Characters that can be summoned at the Arcanist board during the game.[2]

* **Arcane Shards:** "Charged" Trickerion Shards that are generally a more powerful version of them.[2]

* **Arcane Dice:** Two dice placed next to the Arcanist board; in the Performance phase, if a performed Trick's Enchantment type matches the Arcane Enchantment die, the player receives the benefit shown on the Arcane Reward die.[2]

* **Arcane Prophecies:** New prophecies that replace original Prophecies during setup.[3]

[1] RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook · p.2 · I N T R O D U C T I O N

[2] RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook · p.2 · GAME SETUP

[3] RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook · p.3

🔧 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 66 ms · ask 4890 ms · total 4959 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4959 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read: [{"page": 13, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "In the Dark Alley, players can acquire Special Assignment cards for each of the other four Locations. When drawn, these cards are added to the player's hand of Assignment cards and are used during the subsequent 'Assignment' phases just like the Permanent ones. (They are placed below Characters, whi", "headingPath": "SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}, {"page": 15, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Bought Components are taken from the general supply, not from the Buy area itself. The number of Components is not considered limited. In the unlikely case that a Component type runs out, replacements can be used. Acquired Components are placed on the Component slots on the Player Game Board. Differ", "headingPath": "I M P O R TA N T", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.031498, "snippet": "Prophecies are an optional addition when playing with the Dark Alley. The purpose of the Prophecy tokens is to alter certain game rules turn by turn. At all times, the Prophecy next to the Turn Track is the Active one, and it affects the game during the turn, while the other three (inside the crysta", "headingPath": "PROPHECIES", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}, {"page": 5, "score": 0.03101, "snippet": "The Player Game Board is the Magician's headquarters. This is where the Assignment cards are placed during the 'Assignment' phase and where the player's Components and Tricks are kept. It also serves as the Workshop Location. The Player Game Board can be extended to the right by hiring Specialists. ", "headingPath": "PLAYER GAME BOARDS · SPECIALIST GAME BOARD EXTENSIONS · T H E M A G I C I A N C A R D S · MAGICIAN POSTER CARDS · PLAYER MARKERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}, {"page": 12, "score": 0.030536, "snippet": "Character slots at all Locations have Action Point modifiers printed under them. When a Character is placed on a slot, this number is added to or subtracted from its base Action Point value. When playing with the Dark Alley, other effects can further modify the number of Action Points that Character", "headingPath": "T H E S L O T MODIFIER: · CHARACTER PLACEMENT", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}, {"page": 13, "score": 0.030077, "snippet": "This will usually help them decide quicker. FORTUNE TELLING (1 ) : The player may move each Pending Prophecy one slot in a clockwise direction. Players can use the Downtown to add new Tricks to their repertoire by visiting the great Dahlgaard in his Residence, expand their team by hiring Characters ", "headingPath": "SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}, {"page": 18, "score": 0.029631, "snippet": "On top of the Yields of their Tricks, the Performing Magician also receives the following bonuses: Link Bonus: 1 Fame for each Trick Link in the Performance. Specialist Bonus: The Performing Magician also receives the following bonuses if they have Specialist(s) behind them in the Theater this turn:", "headingPath": "PERFORMER BONUSES (PERFORMER ONLY) · PERFORM (SUMMARY)", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.029199, "snippet": "Basic Advanced Superior Each Trick needs a certain number of Components to be prepared and performed. There are three categories of Components in Trickerion: Basic, Advanced and Superior, costing 1, 2 and 3 Coins respectively. They can be bought at the Market Row and are kept in the Magician's Works", "headingPath": "COMPONENTS · ASSIGNMENT CARDS · WOODEN CHARACTER DISKS · MAIN GAME BOARD · DOWNTOWN DICE", "sharpsignalDocId": 301}]
citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "I N T R O D U C T I O N", "sharpsignalDocId": 876}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 876}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 876}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 301 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 301 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 0.91013 of 1046 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 12, 2026 18:56

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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CARDS	p.13	0.032787 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	I M P O R TA N T	p.15	0.032258 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	PROPHECIES	p.6	0.031498 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	PLAYER GAME BOARDS · SPECIALIST GAME BOARD EXTENSIONS · T H E M A G I C I A N C A R D S · MAGICIAN POSTER CARDS · PLAYER MARKERS	p.5	0.03101 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	T H E S L O T MODIFIER: · CHARACTER PLACEMENT	p.12	0.030536 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CARDS	p.13	0.030077 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	PERFORMER BONUSES (PERFORMER ONLY) · PERFORM (SUMMARY)	p.18	0.029631 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	COMPONENTS · ASSIGNMENT CARDS · WOODEN CHARACTER DISKS · MAIN GAME BOARD · DOWNTOWN DICE	p.4	0.029199 (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 51 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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CARDS	p.13	#6	0.030077 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook (corpus doc 876)	T H E H E I R A N D T H E A R C A N I S T ( S O L O P L A Y ) · T H E H E I R ' S P R I O R I T Y · T R I C K E R I O N · ARCANE ARTS EXPANSION DESIGN: · DEVELOPMENT: · I L L U S T R A T I O N A N D G R A P H I C D E S I G N : · …	p.8	#10	0.014286 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook (corpus doc 876)	I N T R O D U C T I O N	p.2	#9	0.015873 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook (corpus doc 876)		p.3	#12	0.013889 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CARDS	p.13	#1	0.032787 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	FAVORITE TRICK CATEGORY	p.14	#29	0.011236 (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 Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook (corpus doc 876)	GAME SETUP	p.2	#13	0.013699 (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 Trickerion: Legends of Illusion — Rulebook (corpus doc 301)	PLAYER GAME BOARDS · SPECIALIST GAME BOARD EXTENSIONS · T H E M A G I C I A N C A R D S · MAGICIAN POSTER CARDS · PLAYER MARKERS	p.5	#4	0.03101 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook (corpus doc 876)	I N T R O D U C T I O N	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook (corpus doc 876)	GAME SETUP	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Trickerion: Arcane Arts — Rulebook (corpus doc 876)		p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 66 ms · first delta 2759 ms · total 4959 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 66 ms · ask 4890 ms · gateway work 4959 ms · total 4959 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3879
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 289
tok/sec: 135.7 tok/sec — 289 output tokens in 2.130 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 31s 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 229), 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.