👑 Campaign Guide - Tournament & Book of Conquest

The campaign is a Bo1 tournament: you fight each rival exactly once, and the winner moves on to the next empire. Defeat does not end your run — the same rival returns, and the number of attempts it took is recorded in your Book of Conquest. When five empires have fallen, a sixth challenger appears: an empire with its own cards, its own seals and its own rules, whose identity stays hidden until you reach it — and it is not guaranteed to be the same one next time.

Best-of-one means no sideboarding between games and no adapting to a rival across a series — adaptation happens across attempts instead. Every loss is information: bring a different seal, a different empire, or a different pacing the next time the same rival appears. Because the attempt count is written down, the campaign rewards players who treat defeats as scouting rather than setbacks.

• One match per rival: open with your most practiced empire, not your most theoretical one.
• Re-seal every match: the seal is chosen per match and the tournament lets you re-pick each rival.
• Scout on defeat: change exactly one variable per retry so the Book of Conquest reads like a lab notebook.

The Book of Conquest is the campaign's record: which rivals fell, and how many attempts each one took. The official framing — "Victory is not cheap; it is written down" — tells you the design intent: the campaign is not a difficulty wall but a ledger. A clean Book (one attempt per empire) is the game's implicit challenge run; a stained Book is the normal, intended experience.

Beyond the five playable empires, the official site shows two sealed entries — and the Steam page confirms the shape of the endgame: after five empires fall, a sixth challenger appears with its own cards, its own seals and its own rules, and its identity is not guaranteed to repeat between campaigns. Nothing else is official yet — this page collects confirmed details as the community discovers the challengers.