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If you squint your eyes hard enough, this almost passes as a medium-sized release by good old day standards. Not a whole lot of new written content, but it adds a few new mechanics to make cycles more varied and mechanically different.

Change Log:

• Each of the 32 renascents now has a new phase/mood for a total of 8.
• Each cycle can now have up to 5 simultaneous Socio-Environmental Contexts (previously less correctly named Social Contexts) rather than 4.
• Added a new Monster Strength value, displayed in the "Colony" information screen, determining how much stronger or weaker Monster units will be in the present cycle. Low technology diffusion, societal development and certain feyfolk and contexts will make them more powerful and viceversa, making the strongest ones nearly unbeatable during ages of magic, ignorance and superstition, but more manageable in enlightened cycles.
• Investments are more profitable, especially in novel ideas. These will get exhausted as the cycle progresses with other competing investors also seeking them out now, simultaneously weeding out over time the worst ideas for prudent investors.
• The Experience (EX) value of the player character and other renascents now decreases very slightly with each cycle while monster and mundane units will continue to see theirs reset.
• Generated aristocrats from any given territory can now sometimes be of different types to increase variety within the same cycle. As a whole, they are also slightly less likely to try to sabotage and spy on you.
• Inviting aristocrats to your homebase is now free and gaining control over an opportunist that had control over you in turn will allow you to break relationships with them for free.
• Fighting cautiously and resting at home very slightly decreases Local Tension now.
• New fey content, including a new fey power, 2 new passive fey effects and smaller assorted variations.
• 13 new socio-environmental contexts.
• The usual balancing and bugfixing, most notably removing the ability the consume any captured unit freely, which was supposed to be an uncommon fey power.