Ruling — The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

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Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Erabg-356080-en-1e

I looked through The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era's rulebook and couldn't find a solid answer to that one — and I'd rather tell you so than guess at your table. Try asking it another way, or ask me about setup, turns, or how the game ends: those I know cold.

The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook · p.13

13 13GAme Setup 5. Choose game diﬃculty: Diﬃculty level aﬀects several parts of the game. Select a diﬃculty level from the options on this page. 6. Set up adventurers: Each player takes an adventurer mat and sets up their adventurer as described below. First Session of a Campaign: If this is your /f

RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook · p.12

If you are continuing a campaign, you must select the province determined by your previous session (see page 49) � Note: If this is your first session of your first campaign, it is strongly recommended that you select Black Marsh as your starting province � Ov erland Map: Place the province’s overla

RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook · p.59

adVentuReR tuRns During your turn, you can take a number of actions, including moving, engaging, resolving class abilities, or exploring at a distance � When it is your adventurer’s turn to act, follow the steps below� 1 � S tart of T urn: T rigger any abilities with this timing � 2 � R ecovery: Rem

RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook · p.19

Skills, including Combat, are described further starting on page 21. 4. Add Starting Skill Line: Choose 1 other skill line. Place that line’s circular token in an open attribute slot. /T_hen, add 2 of that line’s level 1 skill dice to that row’s square slots. Place that line’s reference sheet near y

RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook · p.59

Engage This action represents your adventurer using their skills in battle � Adventurers may engage multiple times per turn but are limited by the dice they can roll and fatigue they can gain � You may perform a move action before or after you perform an engage action, but not both � T o perform an

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome

ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below

warm abstain

this ruling — W1 — generic warm abstain · receipt: none (generic)

corpus profile

live,vps

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70

timings

search 87 ms · ask 4131 ms · total 4220 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 0 ms · generation 4220 ms

retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read

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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show

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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)

no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 318 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true

base rulebook doc 318 boosted

answered-before recall

no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough

similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)

debug row retained until

Nov 15, 2026 10:54

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	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.13	0.047643 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.12	0.046696 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.59	0.045445 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.19	0.045079 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.59	0.043269 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.13	0.039313 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.9	0.03125 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.92	0.030415 (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 — not 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	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.93	#27	0.017885 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.93	#11	0.028405 (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 The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.26	#21	0.021629 (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
#4	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.73	#18	0.022181 (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
#5	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.74	#13	0.026547 (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
#6	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.59	#5	0.043269 (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 doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.12	#17	0.024625 (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
#8	RULEBOOK The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era — Rulebook (corpus doc 318)	p.13	#1	0.047643 (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 doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 87 ms · first delta 4124 ms · total 4220 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 87 ms · ask 4131 ms · gateway work 4220 ms · total 4220 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3248
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 200.0 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.045 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 14s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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 244), 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.