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001/58 · The Phoenix
138-Year Orbit · Source tag: Attested · Severity 10 · Reach 10
An intruder planet on a 138-year orbit perpendicular to the ecliptic, crossing the inner system in May, descending out of the Cygnus region. In transit it darkens the sun and blankets Earth in cosmic dust: pole shifts, mudfloods, red rains, vanishings. The Chronicon calls it the planet of chronology; the ancients called it Typhon, the Winged Disk, the fiery flaming sword.
The 138-Year Return: Reveal the top three cards of the deck. Every Phoenix return among them whose own home stands empty and unsealed enters play there as yours, Secured for scoring; the rest are discarded. Recruited returns trigger no arrival transit. Their source tags do not change.
Cited: Chronicon · Doomsday Chronology
002/58 · The Nemesis X Object
792-Year Orbit · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 9
A dead world on a 792-year orbit: 732 years in the Deep below the ecliptic, then a 60-year transit above it. The Babylonians recorded it as Tiamat, a great blackness that swallowed the stars; the Greeks as Typhon. Doomsday Chronology places its return in November 2046 and its exit in 2106 CE, the year 6000 Annus Mundi.
The Deep: The opponent skips their next draw, and every attack they make is 1 Severity weaker for the rest of the game.
Wormwood: The weakening outlives the planet: it holds even after Nemesis has left the board.
Cited: Chronicon · Doomsday Chronology
003/58 · The Nemesis Cataclysm
5239 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 3
The beginning of Earth's geometrical timelines. Nemesis, the old binary companion, implodes, hurling Earth, Luna, the Dark Satellite, the Nemesis X Object, Electra and Phoenix toward Sol. The Great Year system of 600-year periods counts from this year: 7,344 years to 2106 CE.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 5239 BCE entry (-1344 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
004/58 · The Daystar Rebellion
4639 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 7
A third of the Anunnaki quit their appointments and require worship of themselves; war breaks out among the planets of the Daystar and the old system begins to fail. Exactly 600 years after the Nemesis Cataclysm.
The Age Turns: Both hands keep their oldest three cards. The clock takes an extra step and you draw one card.
Cited: Chronicon, 4639 BCE entry (-744 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
005/58 · The Daystar Goes Dark
4309 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
The smaller sun explodes and folds in on itself; the pre-Adamic world is destroyed as a dust cloud hides the sun. Nemesis X Object drifts into its 792-year orbit and Phoenix into its 138-year orbit, the two clocks this chronology runs on. Named as the Phoenix's first year; the Gnostic texts remember the world destroyed, to return in the Last Days.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 4309 BCE entry (-414 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
006/58 · The Capture of Luna
4039 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
After 270 years adrift, frozen solid, Earth settles into its present orbit between Venus and Mars, an intruder planet, the Titius-Bode spacing broken to admit it. The Moon appears in orbit, arrived out of the destroyed Nemesis system. The year runs 360 days, and keeps that length until 713 BCE.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 4039 BCE entry (-144 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
007/58 · Year One: the Fiery Flaming Sword
3895 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 7
A thirty-degree pole shift makes a New Heavens and a New Earth, and mankind is banished under a 'fiery flaming sword' in the sky: the first witnessed appearance of planet Phoenix. Year One of the Ancient World's calendar, the 6,000-year Annus Mundi count that ends in 2106 CE.
The Fiery Flaming Sword: Every unsealed card in play is exiled, this one included. Both hands return to the deck, the deck is shuffled, and each side is dealt five again. Sealed history is untouched.
Cited: Chronicon, 3895 BCE entry (1 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
008/58 · The Gihon Flood
3439 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 3
Nemesis X Object completes its orbit and passes dangerously close; the waters of the Gihon overwhelm a third of mankind. The Watchers descend in its wake, two hundred of them with a sixty-year window to make the crossing, and the Technolithic period begins.
Slip the Basin: Every unsealed card in play with effective Reach below 9 is exiled — yours included, this one included.
Cited: Chronicon, 3439 BCE entry (456 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
009/58 · Impact Over North America
3113 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 3
Impacts and disasters; a strike on North America. The Mayan Long Count begins counting this year, and not to 2012: reckoned in its own perfect 360-day years, the thirteenth baktun of 144,000 days completes in 2046 CE, when Earth is removed from its orbit.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 3113 BCE entry (782 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
010/58 · The Anunna Exodus
2647 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
Nemesis X Object completes its orbit and departs, and over sixty years the Anunna vanish from among men. Sumer's government, institutions, language and culture go with them, replaced by Akkad and the warlike nation-states. The Abandonment and Shock period begins: 408 years to the Flood.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Chronicon, 2647 BCE entry (1248 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
011/58 · The Great Flood
2239 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 10 · Reach 10
Year 1656 Annus Mundi. Seven days before the Deluge, Phoenix was seen entering the inner system, growing larger in the sky from the direction of Venus; it transited between Earth and the sun and cast the planet in shadow. The world turned upside down: a pole shift, continental quakes and mudfloods, hundreds of cities shoved undersea, worldwide volcanism, red rains and cosmic dust fallout, the vapor canopy collapsing out of the sky. Every culture on the planet remembers this year; over a thousand flood traditions agree.
The Great Deluge: Every unsealed card in play that is not Mythic is exiled. Each side keeps its oldest card in hand, discards the rest and draws up to two additional cards.
Cited: Chronicon, 2239 BCE entry (1656 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
012/58 · The Drowned Century
2101 BCE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 5
The first return after the Flood. The Chronicon logs Phoenix completing its 138-year orbit and returning toward the Kuiper Belt. It suggests a possible Chinese record, referring the reader to its 2137 BCE entry, rather than describing a definite catastrophe on this return.
Slip the Basin: Every unsealed card in play with effective Reach below 4 is exiled — yours included, this one included.
Cited: Chronicon, orbital series
013/58 · Night Turned to Day
1963 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 9
A temporary pole shift. The Vedic Ramayana preserves it exactly: night suddenly turned to day, people wakened in their beds by daylight, astronomers bewildered to find the oil lamps still full; then the sun plunged and night returned. A Babylonian omen text reads: 'If the sun comes out in the night and the country sees it light everywhere: there will be disorder in the country everywhere.'
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 1963 BCE entry (1932 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
014/58 · Typhon Over Babylon
1915 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
The first return of Nemesis X Object after the Flood. Babylon records a great blackness that swallowed the stars; Hesiod's Typhon appears with flaming dragon heads as the seas overrun their bounds, and a 'thundervolt', a flux tube, flashes between Earth and the intruder. The 32nd year of Nimrod's reign.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1915 BCE entry (1980 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
015/58 · The Babel Incident
1899 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 7
The Dark Satellite passes close and a flux tube strikes Nimrod's great pyramid at Shinar, vaporising its upper third in vitrified detritus as a continental quake lifts the southern Mediterranean basin out of the sea. The languages fracture; 750,000 flee in all directions; the topography of the world changes.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1899 BCE entry (1996 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
016/58 · Sodom, Gomorrah and Mohenjo-daro
1849 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
Earth crosses the strewn field of the Sodom-Trojan Apocalypse Group. The cities of the plain burn; Mohenjo-daro's people are found where they fell, unmarked by weapons, their skeletons anomalously radioactive; Sumer's Lamentation Texts mourn an 'evil wind'. The year is 2046 Annus Mundi. 'There is deity in the design. We have been warned.'
Red Dust: Every unsealed Fallout card you hold on the board, this one included, permanently gains 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1849 BCE entry (2046 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
017/58 · A Quiet Return
1825 BCE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 6
The Chronicon logs the completed orbit; the great violence of this era belongs to its neighbours, the Nemesis X transit of 1915 and the fire that took Sodom and the Indus cities in 1849. On the spoke itself, the record is quiet.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1825 BCE entry (2070 AM)
018/58 · The Ogygian Flood
1687 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 10 · Reach 8
Direct transit between the orbits of Venus and Earth, darkening the sun. The Ogygian Flood drowned the Peloponnese; the Xia Dynasty fell under yellow fogs and a darkened sun; a twenty-five-year darkness and famine sit in the records of the Mediterranean and the Americas alike. After this year, the Chronicon notes, no dynasty on Earth called itself Children of the Sun again.
Slip the Basin: Every unsealed card in play with effective Reach below 9 is exiled — yours included, this one included.
Cited: Chronicon, 1687 BCE entry (2208 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
019/58 · Three Suns Over a Drowned Aegean
1549 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 6
Crete, Thera, the Cyclades: the whole Aegean shaken, with tsunamis on the coasts. Pharaoh Ahmose's Tempest Stele records a darkness in the west, houses floating on the water, no one able to light a torch. The Chinese Bamboo Books log yellow fog, a dim sun, then three suns, frost in July. India goes silent for a thousand years.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 1549 BCE entry (2346 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
020/58 · A New Star, a Bloody Sky
1411 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 10
Phoenix passed and shed the debris that became the Joshua Comet Group. The Midrashim record the sun's motion altered; a Samaritan chronicle has a new star at Joshua's long day; Servius wrote that the sky turned bloody red. Venus itself was bathed in Phoenix dust and grew a tail: the smoking star of the Toltecs, the bearded star of the Chaldeans.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 1411 BCE entry (2484 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
021/58 · Midday Turned to Night
1273 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 6
In the annals of Mursilis II of Hatti, as the king marched to war, 'the sun became obscured'. Archilochus wrote that Zeus turned midday into night; Seneca and Euripides kept the memory in Thyestes and Electra. Doomsday Chronology associates Atreus's prediction with this return. Assyria annexed Babylon the same year and took the Winged Disk as its imperial seal.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1273 BCE entry (2622 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
022/58 · The Sinking of Atlantis
c. 13th-12th century BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 7
An editorial panorama of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean. The Chronicon's 1229-1135 BCE discussions describe ruined Aegean cities, migrations and the later Phoenix transit. This card's broad 13th-12th-century setting is not an exact date for a single catastrophe.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Chronicon, 1229-1135 BCE Mediterranean discussions; editorial date range
023/58 · Direct Transit: the Dark Age Begins
1135 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 10 · Reach 8
Direct transit. The sun darkened as it had 552 years earlier at the fall of the Old Bronze Age, and 552 before that at the Flood. Nebuchadnezzar I recorded a 'comet' that darkened the sun over Babylon; Egypt's new 20th Dynasty opened under an immense black cloud, a blood-red sun and a rain of dust, the same dust that fell in 1902. The Mediterranean Dark Age begins on this spoke, and the record goes quiet for three centuries.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 4 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1135 BCE entry (2760 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
024/58 · The Shang Fall Under a Darkened Sun
1123 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
Nemesis X Object passes in transit while the Far East faces the sun. China records a violent sun-darkening and comets fighting in the sky; the Shang Dynasty collapses and a quarter of a million people take to ships over the eastern horizon.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1123 BCE entry (2772 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
025/58 · The Angel of Death Over Jerusalem
997 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 5
King David, in his sixth year at Jerusalem, saw the Angel of Death standing between heaven and earth like a sword over the city, the same fiery-sword imagery the Chronicon traces to the Phoenix's first witnessed appearance in 3895 BCE. Across the ocean, a comet or great meteorite struck the Badlands of North America within three years of this date.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 997 BCE entry (2898 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
026/58 · The Winged Disk Expected
859 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 5
The Assyrians were waiting for it. Palace seals and wall reliefs from this reign show the empire expecting the return of the Winged Disk, the old sign of the Phoenix, and it appears on the relief commemorating King Jehu's submission. In Israel, fire fell from heaven and an earthquake followed a day later; Elijah passed his mantle and vanished into the sky.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 859 BCE entry (3036 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
027/58 · A New World Age
721 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 6
An Assyrian inscription has a New World Age beginning; the Kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria the same year. Chinese astronomers logged the event, and Rome's annalists preserved that late in the reign of Romulus the sun darkened; Augustine conceded the darkness did not obey 'the natural laws of the heavenly bodies'.
The Age Turns: Both hands keep their oldest three cards. The clock takes an extra step and you draw one card.
Cited: Chronicon, 721 BCE entry (3174 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
028/58 · The Year the Year Changed
713 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 7
The Dark Satellite passes too close, and a flux tube out of the sky vaporises 185,000 Assyrian soldiers on the road to Jerusalem. The cataclysm moves Earth's orbit: the 360-day year becomes 365.25 days, and every calendar on the planet, China to the Americas, adds five 'evil days' to compensate. The 864,000th day of the Long Count.
The Year the Year Changed: Each side draws up to five cards, to the hand cap of 7, then discards its newest cards until its hand is five smaller — never below three.
Cited: Chronicon, 713 BCE entry (3182 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
029/58 · The Sun Darkens the Battlefield
583 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 7
Lydia and Media met in battle and the sun went out over the field, halting both armies; they concluded peace on the spot. Thales of Miletus had predicted the darkening two years before, and Greek philosophy rode on the fame of it. The Chronicon attributes this solar darkening to the appointed transit rather than the moon, in May, 1,656 years after the Flood; Rashi wrote that every 1,656 years a similar disaster occurs.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 583 BCE entry (3312 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
030/58 · Thirteen Days of Fire
445 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 6
Phoenix passed out of alignment now, too far for direct transit, but the record of the year is grim: a disaster lasting thirteen days, forest fires, rains and flooding, put at 830,000 dead in the reign of Artaxerxes I, ascribed by de Jonge to a 'comet'. Six years later Athens dedicated the Parthenon, carrying the Flood and the War of the Giants on its friezes.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 445 BCE entry (3450 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
031/58 · A Darkness Over Gaugamela
331 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
Nemesis X Object returns as Alexander meets Darius III. The Chronicon records a solar darkening that it allows may have been an ordinary eclipse. Separately, it describes a blood-red moon and says modern computations do not explain that lunar event. Alexander takes Babylon in the 600th year since the Divided Kingdom.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 331 BCE entry (3564 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
032/58 · Disasters in the Oera Linda
307 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 6
The Frisian Oera Linda manuscript records disasters across Europe for this year, the one witness the Doomsday Chronology cites for a return that otherwise crossed unrecorded, in the generation when Alexander's successors were carving up his empire.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 307 BCE entry (3588 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
033/58 · An Unseen Pass
169 BCE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 5
The Chronicon logs the completed orbit and notes that no record indicates it was seen. The year's violence was terrestrial: Antiochus IV sacked the Temple in Jerusalem, three years before the Maccabean Revolt.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 169 BCE entry (3726 AM)
034/58 · Actium and the Olmec End
31 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 10
Phoenix entered and nearly transited, and the earthquake it raised killed thirty thousand around the Aegean during the Battle of Actium; Rome changed hands on a Phoenix year. Cassius Dio records a rain mixed with blood over Egypt and a dragon of incredible size in the sky. On the far side of the planet the Yucatan was ruined: the Olmec carved their final Long Count date at Tres Zapotes this year, and are not heard from again.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Chronicon, 31 BCE entry (3864 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
035/58 · Between the Records
108 CE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 6
The arithmetic puts the return here; the Chronicon reports no surviving astronomical sighting. Fifty-four years later, its 162 CE entry describes a pandemic spreading from China to the Roman provinces, with a forty-six-year Chinese dark age ending in 208 CE.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, orbital series
036/58 · The Plague That Broke Two Empires
162 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 4
A pandemic out of China afflicts the east for eleven years and the Roman world for sixteen, depopulating entire provinces. The Chronicon dates a forty-six-year Chinese dark age from 162 to 208 CE; in Peru, quake-ruined Cuzco is abandoned for the mountains.
Contagion: A contagion starts here and walks one return forward after every action, halving the Reach of each unsealed card it touches, until it meets a card of Severity 7 or more.
Cited: Chronicon, 162 CE entry (4056 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
037/58 · A Bloody Sword in the Air
246 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 6
Old Briton annals record that it 'rained blood in divers parts of this kingdom, and a terrible bloody sword was seen in the air for three nights'. In Mexico the circular pyramid of Cuicuilco was buried under lava, carbon-dated to within a year of this transit.
Red Dust: Every unsealed Fallout card you hold on the board, this one included, permanently gains 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 246 CE entry (4140 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
038/58 · A Pillar in the Sky
384 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 5
The Chronicon logs the orbit but notes no recorded sighting of Phoenix. Alongside it, Lycosthenes' Chronicon describes 'a terrible sign appeared in the sky, shaped like a pillar', in the time of the emperor Theodosius. The reported sign and its identification with Phoenix are distinct.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 384 CE entry (4278 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
039/58 · An Unseen Entrance
462 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 3 · Reach 3
Nemesis X Object enters the inner system after 732 years below the ecliptic; the Chronicon reports no sighting. Doomsday Chronology places the destruction of the statue of Zeus at Constantinople in this year. Sixty years later it exits alongside the Phoenix: the celestial war of monsters of 522.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 462 CE entry (4356 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
040/58 · The Celestial War of Monsters
522 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 10
The only year in all of history, past or future, when both intruder planets crossed the inner system together: Phoenix completing its 138-year orbit as the Nemesis X Object descended back into the Deep. Kent recorded dragons and beasts fighting in the air and a rain of great drops of blood; a star over Winchester trailed a ray ending in a flaming dragon; earthquakes levelled Olympia. The Dark Age begins here.
The Celestial War of Monsters: If both the Phoenix and Nemesis are on the board when this lands, every unsealed card on the two neighbouring returns is exiled and both hands keep only their oldest three cards. Otherwise it is an ordinary return.
Cited: Chronicon, 522 CE entry (4416 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
041/58 · The Silent Spoke
660 CE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 5
The height of the Dark Age. The Chronicon logs the return and concedes the silence: records were not kept, and those that were made did not survive. The cycle does not pause for historiography.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 660 CE entry (4554 AM)
042/58 · Quakes Topple the Maya
798 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 6
Quakes, a dark sun and flooding in the Mayan cities. In 790, one hundred and ninety Mayan cities commemorated the passing katun; by 810, twelve. Monuments stop, centres empty, and the Chronicon opens a 138-year count from this transit to the end of Mayan civilisation at the next.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Chronicon, 798 CE entry (4692 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
043/58 · The 864 Reset
864 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
The 144,000 days of another baktun complete. 864 is the Foundation of Time number, and it means reset, as it did in 713 BCE at the 864,000th day of the Long Count. This reset is American: the Maya themselves disappear from their cities.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Doomsday Chronology · Chronicon, 798 and 936 CE entries
044/58 · The Maya Are Gone
936 CE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 6
No sighting survives; 460 years after the fall of Rome, the Chronicon notes, literacy itself had nearly gone out. In the Americas the 138 years opened by the 798 transit close here: the last Long Count date anywhere is 909, and by this return the classic Maya civilisation is finished.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Chronicon, 936 CE entry (4830 AM)
045/58 · Logged, Unseen
1074 CE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 6
Phoenix completed its orbit with no surviving record of a sighting; the Chronicon allows that it may simply have crossed while Earth was far along its own path. Europe was climbing out of its Dark Age, and the record-keepers were few.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1074 CE entry (4968 AM)
046/58 · The Children's Crusade Vanishings
1212 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 5
Mass human vanishings and earthquakes in the Middle East sit on this spoke. In France a voice set fifty thousand children marching east, the Children's Crusade, and the chroniclers record that the columns of children vanished en masse. The Chronicon counts two Cursed Earth periods of 414 years from this year to 2040.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Chronicon, 1212 CE entry (5106 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
047/58 · The Sixty-year Transit Begins
1254 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 3
Nemesis X Object returns to the inner system for its sixty years above the ecliptic. The Seventh Crusade fails, and England and Scotland open a war that runs the exact sixty years of the transit.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Doomsday Chronology
048/58 · Plague Fogs and the Black Darkness
1314 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 4
Nemesis X Object occults the sun in transit, sixty years after its 1254 entrance and 792 years before its final appearance in 2106. The Seven Comets over Europe end in an 'awe-inspiring blackness'; poison mists are reported descending from the sky; China quakes under a darkened sun. The great famine follows at once, and the Black Death behind it kills a third of mankind.
Contagion: A contagion starts here and walks one return forward after every action, halving the Reach of each unsealed card it touches, until it meets a card of Severity 9 or more.
Cited: Chronicon, 1314 CE entry (5208 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
049/58 · An Unseen Return
1350 CE · Source tag: Partial · Severity 3 · Reach 6
The Chronicon logs the orbit and nothing more: no sighting survives. The world it passed over was burying a third of itself; the Black Death, four years old in Europe, did not let go until 1351. The intruder planet would not be seen again until 1764, when hundreds of thousands watched it cross the sun.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1350 CE entry (5244 AM)
050/58 · Mother Shipton Is Born
1488 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 3 · Reach 5
Phoenix passed unseen, and in the same year Ursula Southeil, Mother Shipton, the Northern Prophetess, was born in England. Her verses describe two sky dragons in the Last Days: the first darkening the sun in 2040, the second, Wormwood, arriving in 2046. The Chronicon reads her as the cycle describing itself.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 1 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1488 CE entry (5382 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
051/58 · Meteoric Rain Over China
1626 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 6
Chinese records log the sun darkening and a shower of meteorites that fell on the crowd assembled to watch the rainmaking priests; 'some thought that it was the end of the world.' The Chronicon marks 1626 as the close of the 552-year Phoenix Cycle system of epochs, and opens a Cursed Earth count of 414 years from the purchase of Manhattan in May 1626 to the fate of that city in May 2040.
Red Dust: Every unsealed Fallout card you hold on the board, this one included, permanently gains 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1626 CE entry (5520 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
052/58 · Hoffman Watches It Cross the Sun
1764 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 7
The first modern scientific record of the intruder planet. In May, astronomers reported black objects passing between Earth and the sun; Phoenix crossed in partial transit, covering a fifth of the sun's surface, watched by hundreds of thousands of Europeans with the naked eye. Astronomer Hoffman of Gotha tracked it by telescope travelling north to south over the ecliptic, a trajectory no planet keeps.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1764 CE entry (5658 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
053/58 · Red Dust Over Four Continents
1902 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 10
The 45th visitation logged in the Chronicon. Phoenix returned with its immense debris field and a bizarre dust rained on Australia, Europe, western Russia, Britain and the Atlantic, in places fifty tons per square mile, cosmic dust pushed off Phoenix by the solar wind as it passed between Venus and Earth. Charles Fort called 1902 'the other Dark Age'. In May, Mount Pelee annihilated the city of Saint-Pierre in minutes.
Red Dust: Every unsealed Fallout card you hold on the board, this one included, permanently gains 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1902 CE entry (5796 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
054/58 · 144 Years Before Armageddon
1962 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 3
The 6,000th year since Earth took its present orbit. Radio telescopes pick up strong X-rays out of the Cygnus Rift, the region Phoenix descends from; Cheyenne Mountain is completed; and the Chronicon marks this year as the start of a spiritual darkening.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1962 CE entry (5856 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
055/58 · Return of the Phoenix
2040 CE · Source tag: Predicted · Severity 9 · Reach 10
Doomsday Chronology dates the next transit to 15-16 May 2040: the sun darkened by planet Phoenix, a lithospheric displacement, the oceans slipping their basins, hundreds of coastal cities shoved undersea, worldwide volcanism, continental quakes and mudfloods, red rains and cosmic dust fallout. The Sixth Seal of the Apocalypse, the sixth sky dragon of Mother Shipton, the Black Sun of the Hopi, Ragnarok, the Day of Darkness.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 2040 CE entry (5934 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
056/58 · The Second Sky Dragon
2046 CE · Source tag: Predicted · Severity 10 · Reach 9
Doomsday Chronology places the Nemesis X Object's return in November 2046, the second of Mother Shipton's two sky dragons, the Wormwood of Revelation. It begins its sixty-year transit to 2106 CE, the year 6000 Annus Mundi; the Chronicon has Earth pulled from its orbit and the day and year changed.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 2046 CE entry (5940 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
057/58 · Armageddon: Year 6000
2106 CE · Source tag: Predicted · Severity 9 · Reach 3
Nemesis X Object passes close on its way out of the inner system: the year 6000 Annus Mundi, the end of the 7,344-year count opened at the Nemesis Cataclysm in 5239 BCE. The Chronicon's terminal entry, the year the Anunnaki's power over mankind is broken.
Armageddon · Year 6000: An undealt thematic end marker. At the clock limit, compare the longest Secured run, then Secured returns held. An exact tie goes to the Erasure.
Cited: Chronicon, 2106 CE entry (6000 AM) · Doomsday Chronology
058/58 · The Empty Spoke
2178 CE · Source tag: Predicted · Severity 9 · Reach 3
138 years after 2040 the arithmetic draws a Phoenix return here, but after 2046 Earth no longer keeps the orbit the Phoenix crosses. The spoke never lights. The Doomsday Chronology names this year Simulation Collapse: the exodus from the artificial world into the real one.
The Empty Spoke: The clock's end moves 2 game steps further away, once. These are not new historical returns. This return defends itself no better than any other.
Cited: Doomsday Chronology
II-001/24 · The Sky Closes Over the Near East
1662 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 4
For twenty-five years the atmosphere is clouded with ash and dust and the stars cannot be observed at all. When it clears the order of the Chaldeans begins the records again from nothing: the destruction across the Near East was so perfect that even the sciences started over. The Shang Dynasty begins in the same year, with 540 years to run.
Resurface: Choose one unsealed enemy card anywhere on the board: its Severity drops by 4, to a minimum of 1.
Cited: Chronicon, 1662 BCE entry (2233 AM), merged ed. p. 191
II-002/24 · The Year Bronze Age Egypt Fell
1447 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 3
The Chronicon calls it the most pivotal year in world history. Bronze Age Egypt collapses in a series of disasters, quakes and astronomical phenomena; the Israelites, with foreigners among them, flee into the wilderness.
The Age Turns: Both hands keep their oldest three cards. The clock takes an extra step and you draw one card.
Cited: Chronicon, 1447 BCE entry (2448 AM), merged ed. p. 209
II-003/24 · The Seven-year Famine
867 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
The skies yield forth no rain for seven years. The famine afflicts Israel worst of all and the record is plain that there was no food and no water. Elijah tells the people to arise and sojourn wherever they can, and a populous exodus of Israelites leaves through the Phoenician ports.
Vanishing: Exile one unsealed enemy card that is not Mythic. If its game state was Secured, draw a card.
Cited: Chronicon, 867 BCE entry (3028 AM), merged ed. p. 278
II-004/24 · The Night the Stars Failed
687 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 7
Chinese annals declare that on a clear night the fixed stars in heaven failed to appear, and toward the middle of the night there was a meteoritic rain. The Joshua Comet Group returns and a dust veil envelopes the planet, blocking out the starlight. Phrygia is invaded by a mass of Cimmerians after the disaster, and the Scythians follow.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 687 BCE entry (3208 AM), merged ed. p. 308
II-005/24 · The Rain of Stones on Mount Alba
642 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
Just after the Romans defeat the Sabines at Mantrap Wood, a rain of stones falls from heaven upon Mount Alba near Rome, and reports filter in that the stones had fallen across the countryside. Shortly afterward a plague breaks out and sickens King Tullus Hostilius; then a bolt of lightning strikes the palace and burns it down with the king inside.
Red Dust: Every unsealed Fallout card you hold on the board, this one included, permanently gains 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 642 BCE entry (3253 AM), merged ed. p. 314
II-006/24 · Helike and Bura Are Swallowed
373 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
Two Greek cities are destroyed in an earthquake and a tidal wave and then swallowed by the earth, as a comet shone in the sky. Helike, a principal member of the twelve Achaean city states and home to the Great Temple of Poseidon, suffered a cataclysmic quake and tsunami that destroyed it totally.
Slip the Basin: Every unsealed card in play with effective Reach below 7 is exiled — yours included, this one included.
Cited: Chronicon, 373 BCE entry (3522 AM), merged ed. p. 370
II-007/24 · The Sun Veiled in Rust Red
44 BCE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
A storm of shooting stars lights up the sky and Pliny records that there appeared a second sun beside our own. Dio Cassius records a comet that lasted seven days as Mount Etna also erupted. The sun grows dim for the remainder of the year under dust veil and volcanic ash and the crops are devastated. Virgil wrote that right before Caesar was killed the sun was veiled in rust red.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 44 BCE entry (3851 AM), merged ed. p. 439
II-008/24 · Twelve Cities in a Night
17 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 4
A major earthquake levels the Greek cities of the Roman province of Asia and Lydia. Tacitus wrote that the quake occurred at night and without warning, and that those who sought refuge in the fields outside the cities were swallowed by the Earth itself. Locals related that whole mountains appeared and others vanished. Twelve cities were destroyed and the topography of the region altered.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 17 CE entry (3911 AM), merged ed. p. 454
II-009/24 · A Strange Sun Beside Our Own
51 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 3
The Romanid Apocalypse Comet Group enters the inner solar system in a twenty-year detritus train that begins passing over the ecliptic. Pliny records that during Claudius's consulship a strange sun appeared in the sky in addition to our own. Repeated earthquakes afflict Rome.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 51 CE entry (3945 AM), merged ed. p. 473
II-010/24 · The Sun Darkens Over Rome
59 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 3
In the eighth year of the passing of the Romanid Apocalypse Comet Group, Tacitus records that the sun darkened over Rome and all fourteen districts of the city were struck with strange lightning, one woman killed by a thunderbolt in her husband's arms. The Romans record the passage of a comet.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 59 CE entry (3953 AM), merged ed. p. 478
II-011/24 · Vesuvius Buries Pompeii
79 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
Mount Vesuvius erupts and buries Pompeii and Herculaneum in pumice and ash; an estimated twenty thousand are suffocated and entombed alive, and the fall hardens into a new surface over the dead. The cities stood, unknowing, on ground that had already met a volcanic burial in 1687 BCE. Weeks before, a comet was seen over Italy; earthquakes ran through the eruption itself.
Resurface: Choose one unsealed enemy card anywhere on the board: its Severity drops by 4, to a minimum of 1.
Cited: Chronicon, 79 CE entry (3973 AM), merged ed. p. 486
II-012/24 · The Sky Comes Down on Nicomedia
358 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 4
Terrible earthquakes shake the cities of Macedonia, Asia, Pontus and Bithynia, with Nicomedia taking the worst. At dawn on the twenty-fourth of August the clear sky quickly gives way to thick masses of black clouds that descend to the ground, blotting out the sun and rendering everything invisible. Ammianus Marcellinus reports that the destruction began from the sky.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 358 CE entry (4252 AM), merged ed. p. 511
II-013/24 · Justinian's Plague
540 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that a total eclipse of the sun occurred again — and the projections say the moon did not eclipse the sun over Britain at this time, so something else cast the earth in shadow. In the same year begins what came to be called Justinian's Plague. It comes from the east and lasts fifty-two years.
Contagion: A contagion starts here and walks one return forward after every action, halving the Reach of each unsealed card it touches, until it meets a card of Severity 7 or more.
Cited: Chronicon, 540 CE entry (4434 AM), merged ed. p. 545
II-014/24 · Half of Europe
1348 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 4
A comet appears over Paris. A strange pestilential wind infects Cyprus with poisonous air and many die of asphyxiation, the plague there attended with earthquakes. By this year half of Europe's population has died of the Black Death, thousands dying every day from the east to the west. Ibn Iyas wrote that it killed cats, dogs, horses, camels, asses, birds, and even the wild animals far out in the desert places.
Contagion: A contagion starts here and walks one return forward after every action, halving the Reach of each unsealed card it touches, until it meets a card of Severity 9 or more.
Cited: Chronicon, 1348 CE entry (5242 AM), merged ed. p. 620
II-015/24 · Vesuvius Again
1631 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 3
Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted, killing about four thousand people. The Chronicon logs it in a single line — the mountain that buried Pompeii is still working, and the record has learned to expect it.
Resurface: Choose one unsealed enemy card anywhere on the board: its Severity drops by 4, to a minimum of 1.
Cited: Chronicon, 1631 CE entry (5525 AM), merged ed. p. 667
II-016/24 · The Quay at Lisbon
1755 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 7
On All Saints Day a transcontinental earthquake shakes the lands and seas from the Baltic to the West Indies, and from Canada to Egypt, Algiers and Morocco up through Germany, Holland, Spain and France. About ten thousand people in Morocco are swallowed by the earth, and the port of Lisbon is worst afflicted. An expansive granite quay fractures off and plunges into the sea, drowning sixty thousand who had fled to it thinking it the safest place. Whole ships in the harbour are pulled underwater. Not a trace of them was ever found.
Slip the Basin: Every unsealed card in play with effective Reach below 9 is exiled — yours included, this one included.
Cited: Chronicon, 1755 CE entry (5649 AM), merged ed. p. 690
II-017/24 · Three Cold Winters
1783 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 7
An earthquake in Calabria kills thirty thousand people. The Icelandic volcano Laki erupts, as does the Japanese volcano Asama, and together the two fill the upper atmosphere with enough ash to cause three very cold winters. The astronomer Herschel notes fiery explosions in the same year.
Resurface: Choose one unsealed enemy card anywhere on the board: its Severity drops by 4, to a minimum of 1.
Cited: Chronicon, 1783 CE entry (5677 AM), merged ed. p. 704
II-018/24 · Stones Over Tuscany
1794 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 3
Mount Vesuvius erupts and stones rain from the sky over Tuscany. Historians connect the two events despite the known fact that the eruption was not powerful enough to launch stone debris into the atmosphere to rain down that far. The falling of stones from the sky, even on a clear day, has been recorded many times.
Resurface: Choose one unsealed enemy card anywhere on the board: its Severity drops by 4, to a minimum of 1.
Cited: Chronicon, 1794 CE entry (5688 AM), merged ed. p. 708
II-019/24 · The Year Without a Summer
1816 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 4
A huge spectacle is seen passing through the sky that apparently missed the earth. In April Mount Tambora in Java erupts with earthquakes, initially killing twelve thousand, the detonations heard a thousand miles away. The disease and starvation that follow shortly afterward kill an estimated eighty thousand more.
Resurface: Choose one unsealed enemy card anywhere on the board: its Severity drops by 4, to a minimum of 1.
Cited: Chronicon, 1816 CE entry (5710 AM), merged ed. p. 714
II-020/24 · The Loudest Sound Ever Made
1883 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 9 · Reach 7
On the Indonesian island of Krakatoa the volcano explodes with the force of two hundred megatons, excavating a hole nineteen hundred feet deep in the sea floor and ejecting six-foot boulders as far as twenty-five miles into the atmosphere. It was the loudest sound ever made heard by man, a thunderous detonation heard as far as three thousand miles away. The shockwave and the accompanying earthquake were felt around the world.
Resurface: Choose one unsealed enemy card anywhere on the board: its Severity drops by 4, to a minimum of 1.
Cited: Chronicon, 1883 CE entry (5777 AM), merged ed. p. 747
II-021/24 · The Worked Stone at Tarbes
1887 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 3
In August a symmetrical iron object falls out of the sky at Brixton, suspected to be artificial. In June, during a violent storm, a small stone falls from the sky at Tarbes in France, covered in ice and cut and shaped by intelligence — a disk of worked stone. In February a quake strikes Genoa and it was reported that the sky was on fire; in December an earthquake at Roggiano collapses nine hundred houses.
Red Dust: Every unsealed Fallout card you hold on the board, this one included, permanently gains 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1887 CE entry (5781 AM), merged ed. p. 751
II-022/24 · The Blood Rain of Calabria
1890 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 5 · Reach 3
In May a substance like blood rains out of the sky over Massingia in Calabria. Samples are taken and sent to Rome, where specialists determine that it was indeed blood. In June a hail of ice mixed with sandstone pebbles rains over France. The Chronicon counts this exactly 1,800 months before the May 2040 transit.
Red Dust: Every unsealed Fallout card you hold on the board, this one included, permanently gains 2 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1890 CE entry (5784 AM), merged ed. p. 752
II-023/24 · The San Francisco Horror
1906 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 3
A typhoon kills over ten thousand people in Hong Kong. Mount Vesuvius erupts and kills a thousand. On the eighteenth of April at 5:13 in the morning a powerful earthquake strikes San Francisco, rippling up the streets and felling the buildings of a city of 450,000. The quake and the burning that followed destroyed 28,188 buildings.
Pole Shift: The card that just landed here swaps its Severity and Reach. The clock steps back once before the ordinary step, never below zero. Sealed history stays sealed.
Cited: Chronicon, 1906 CE entry (5800 AM), merged ed. p. 768
II-024/24 · Tunguska
1908 CE · Source tag: Attested · Severity 7 · Reach 4
A bright comet flashes over Asia, witnessed by thousands, before exploding in the sky over Tunguska in Siberia, damaging forests up to three hundred miles away. The blast is heard six hundred miles off and knocks people from their feet a hundred miles away. It moves barometers in England, and for weeks afterward the sunsets are very beautiful from the atmospheric dust.
Darken the Sun: The opponent's next action, win or lose, triggers no transit. The card that just landed here loses 3 Reach.
Cited: Chronicon, 1908 CE entry (5802 AM), merged ed. p. 768
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