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Very interesting faction - love the uniqueness of utilising paths, the Emerge action, the look of your Meeples and the clever way you use your cards. 

Like Sparky, I need a little clarity on the crafting side of things. As I understand it, like Lizards, the crafting suit means that you can only craft cards that use one suit. The only instance you would be able to craft a card that, for example, cost 1 mouse, fox and rabbit crafting piece, is when the Will was bird suited.

In terms of activating cards to craft, am I right in my thinking in this following example?  - The Will is Fox. You have set aside 6 cards after taking your Daylight actions - you have 1 fox, 2 mouse, 1 rabbit and 2 bird cards.  - You want to craft a rabbit suited card that costs 2 fox crafting pieces. The fact that the card you wish to craft is rabbit suited is irrelevant as the Will is Fox. The important thing is the rabbit suited card can be crafted as the 2 fox crafting pieces match the Will's suit. - To craft this card, you activate your fox card, discarding it. You don't have a second fox card so you activate one of your 2 bird cards, discarding that too. You can now craft the rabbit card with 2 fox crafting pieces, getting whatever reward it states and discarding or keeping the card accordingly. - You now have 2 mouse cards and 1 bird card. Other players, from current loser to current winner, take turns picking those cards if they want and any leftovers are discarded.

If this is correct, I wonder if the term 'activate' complicates things unnecessarily. If the act of activating essentially means spending/discarding that card as if it is a crafting piece, maybe it's just worth using the term 'discard'. Something like 'Craft by discarding cards that match the Will's suit.'

Regardless, I find this a very intriguing faction and I think the loop of consecrating and emerging is particularly inspired. Great job! 

Oh, one last thing - on the manifest, the beacon is rectangular and I assumed it was a card. Which I was very curious about as I wondered how a single card could function. Then I saw the 10 suited cards below and assumed they were the backs to the beacon card. So could be worth adding the x10 Will cards to the manifest and making it clear the Beacon is a piece or landmark or whatever you intend it to be. Is the idea that it would be wooden?

Oh it's a Landmark, I just didn't have the thought to make it look like one but it's reiterated in the Law! Initially, I had it say "The Beacon is a landmark unique to your faction" on the player board, but it took up a lot of words so I cut it.

As for the crafting example, that's more or less spot on for both examples! The only little wrinkle is that you don't have to start with a card that has a suit matching the Will, you effectively simply ignore the suit printed on the card and treat all cards as crafting pieces of the Will's suit.

From what I could glean from the seiyria site, all crafting is done by specifically activating your faction's crafting pieces, so I stuck with what was there for overall consistency. Just saying "discard" also has the baggage of "well, can I use the cards in my hand as crafting pieces?" and the answer there would be no, you can't.

I doubt I'd ever come to a clean answer though, every choice has its pros and cons and the likeliest way to know would be to just blind test the game and see what the most obvious interpretation is.

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Thanks for clarifying. 

I think you're right to cut the Beacon text on the faction board - like you say, you don't really need it. I think just in the component manifest having the landmark labelled X1 Beacon landmark and adding the cards with X10 Will cards makes it nice and clear.

Ah, I didn't know the term 'activating' was already used in the Law. Although off the top of my head, I can't think of an instance of it on a faction board. If there's not one, I'd still plump for something like 'discard' as 'activating' a card in this case simply means discarding it (as I understand it). And to avoid confusion over cards in your hand, 'Craft by activating face up cards' would just change to 'Craft by discarding face up cards'.