Actions
3/5/7/C
INCOME (RESUPPLY TRADESMEN)
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Move Traders and/or Merchants from your STOCK (above desk) to your PERSONAL
SUPPLY (below desk). The amount you can move is equal to the highest revealed
Bank money bag on your desk. The "C" on the rightmost bag means "all."
PLACE TRADESMAN
Place one Trader or Merchant from your PERSONAL SUPPLY on an open Connection
Point on the board. Each tradesman placed counts as 1 action.
DISPLACE OPPONENT TRADESMAN
1) Take one tradesman from your PERSONAL SUPPLY and use it to displace another
player's tradesman on a Trade Route Connection Point on the board.
2) If you displaced a TRADER, move 1 tradesman from your PERSONAL SUPPLY to your STOCK as payment.
If you displaced a MERCHANT, move 2 tradesmen from your PERSONAL SUPPLY to your STOCK as payment.
3) The player whose tradesman was displaced immediately takes the displaced tradesman PLUS
• 1 tradesman from their STOCK if their displaced tradesman was a TRADER, or
• 2 tradesmen from their STOCK if their displaced tradesman was a MERCHANT
and puts them in open Connection Points on Trade Routes that are adjacent to the route the original tradesman
was displaced from. If no free space exists, move out to the next connected Trade Route(s). If the player does
not have enough tradesmen in their STOCK, they can be taken from their PERSONAL SUPPLY. If still not
enough, they can move tradesmen they own already present on the board.
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MOVE TRADESMEN
Move tradesmen you own from any Connection Points to any open Connection Points on
the board. You can also swap places between a Trader and Merchant you own (though
that counts as 2 moves). The number of tradesmen you can move per action is equal to
the highest revealed number in the Book of Knowledge on your desk.
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CREATE TRADE ROUTE
If you, and only you, have tradesmen on all Connection Points in a Trade Route between
two cities, you may create that route. The following three events then occur, if possible:
1) Each player that CONTROLS one of the cities connected by the Trade Route being created scores 1 Prestige
Point. If both cities are controlled by the same player, 2 points are scored. If a city has no established Trading
Posts, no points are scored. CONTROL = have the most Trading Posts, or if a tie, have the rightmost Trading Post.
2) You gain a Bonus Marker if one was assigned to the Trade Route being created (see Bonus Marker section on
reverse side).
3) You choose ONE of the following three rewards:
ESTABLISH A TRADING POST: Take a tradesman from the Trade Route being created and place it into a
vacant Trading Post space in one of the two cities connected by that Trade Route. This requires that you have:
• a tradesman on that Trade Route that matches the Trading Post shape (only a Merchant in a circle space)
• the necessary Privilege color for the Trading Post space you are establishing
• If a player completes a network of Trading Posts that connects the cities of Arnheim
and Stendal (shown at right), that player immediately scores Prestige Points as follows:
1st to complete - 7 points, 2nd - 4 points, 3rd - 2 points
• If the city the Trading Post was just built in is now out of vacant Trading Post spaces,
move the Completed Cities counter (black cube) up one space on the board.
DEVELOP ABILITY: If the Trade Route you are creating is connected to a city with a pictogram of one of the
five Abilities (see reverse side), you may upgrade the appropriate matching Ability on your desk.
• Abilities are always developed from left to right
• The tradesman removed from the Ability being developed on your desk goes into your PERSONAL SUPPLY
CLAIM END-GAME PRESTIGE POINTS ON THE COELLEN TABLEAU: If you
create the Trade Route connected to Coellen (indicated at right), you may choose to
claim a space on the Coellen tableau using a Merchant from that Trade Route.
• The trademen you use to create the route must include at least one Merchant
• You may claim any space on the tableau as long as you have the required Privilege
color (spaces do not need to be claimed from left to right)

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Your Desk and Abilities
ACTIONS: the number of actions you can take on
each of your turns
• Newly-added actions can be used immediately on the
same turn gained
• Worth 4 end-game Prestige Points if fully developed

Privilegium
PRIVILEGE: Trading Post construction permits
• You start with permission to build Trading Posts on
white spaces only; develop this Ability (left to right)
to unlock additional space colors
• Worth 4 end-game Prestige Points if fully developed

Liber
Sophiae
BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE: number of tradesmen you
can move during each "MOVE TRADESMEN" action
• Developing this Ability is also the only way to unlock
additional Merchant traders (disks)
• Worth 4 end-game Prestige Points if fully developed

BANK: number of tradesmen you can move during
each "INCOME (resupply tradesmen)" action
• Highest revealed number is what can be moved from
Stock (above desk) to Personal Supply (below desk)
• Worth 4 end-game Prestige Points if fully developed

CITY KEYS: end-game Prestige Point multipliers
• Count number of your Trading Posts in your largest
(highest quantity) connected group of Trading Posts
• Multiply that number by the number on your highest
revealed City Key

Bonus Markers
1) To claim a Bonus Marker, create the Trade Route it is assigned to
2) Draw a random new Bonus Marker and place it facedown on your desk's plate
3) At turn end, look at Marker on your plate & place it faceup on any Trade Route that:
a) Has no tradesmen on it
b) Has no Bonus Marker on it
c) Has at least one vacant Trading Post space in either of the connected cities

An earned Bonus Marker may be
used the same turn it is gained,
but not in the same action it is
gained. Use of a Bonus Marker
does not require an action.
Save spent Bonus Markers!

Switch the positions of any two
Trading Posts in a city. Shape
and Privilege color of spaces
do not limit this action.

Move up to 3 opponent tradesmen from
occupied Connection Points on 1 or
more Trade Routes, to free Connection
Points on 1 or more Trade Routes.

Take 3 or 4
additional
actions.

Develop any 1 Ability. Take the
tradesman removed from desk
and add it to your PERSONAL
SUPPLY (below desk).

After creating a Trade Route, build an extra Trading Post in a connected
city that already has at least one Trading Post (even if all spaces are
full). Place it to the left of all Trading Posts. The same city can be
chosen multiple times if this type of Bonus Marker is played again later.

End of Game
Game ends immediately at the end of the triggering action, when any of the following occur:
a) A player reaches 20 on the Prestige Point track
b) 10 cities have been completed (complete = all available Trading Post spaces have been filled)
c) A player qualifies to place a new Bonus Marker on the board, but there are none left

points
1
1
2-3
3
4-5
6
6-7
10
8-9
15
10+
21

TALLY FINAL SCORE: add to your current Prestige Points track position using the following steps:
1) 4 points for each Ability developed to the maximum (with the exception of City Keys)
2) Number of Bonus Markers you collected, using the chart at right
3) Spaces you claimed on the Coellen Prestige Point tableau, if any (located on the board)
4) 2 points for every city you control (control = have the most Trading Posts, or if a tie, have the rightmost Trading Post)
5) Count the number of your Trading Posts in your largest group of connected Trading Posts (adjacent cities in which
you have at least one Trading Post; control not required). Multiply this number by the number on your highest revealed
City Key.

Player with the highest total Prestige Points wins! Tied players share victory.

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