Scholars of the South Tigris: Kickstarter Translator Promo Cards Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• The Cards
• Icon Key
• Translator Cards
  • Syriac, Arabic (yellow 1)
  • Sanskrit, Persian, Syriac (yellow 3)
  • Chinese, Persian, Syriac (yellow 3)
  • Sanskrit, Hebrew (yellow 1)
  • Persian, Arabic (yellow 3)
  • Chinese, Greek (yellow 2)
  • Hebrew, Syriac (yellow 2)
  • Greek, Persian (yellow 2)

The Cards

The set contains 8 Translator cards. Each card shows:

• Two or three languages in the dark banner (the languages the translator speaks).
• A yellow tab at the bottom right carrying a number from 1 to 3.
• A white star at the bottom right of the banner, and a white asterisk at the top left of the card face.
• A band along the bottom of the card: a requirement on the left, an arrow, and the result on the right. The card prints no words for this band.

According to the base rulebook, a Translator's yellow number is the VP printed on a Translator that has Retired and been placed under a Player Board (see Scoring: "VP printed on Retired Translators under their Player Board"). The yellow number on each card is therefore read as that VP value (inference from the matching base rule, the card itself does not say so).

The top-left asterisk marks the spot where 1 of the owning player's Influence is placed when the translator is employed, as the base rulebook describes for Starting Translators ("place 1 of their Influence on the top-left corner of their chosen Starting Translator").

The Translator cards in this promo have no printed Room number, and the base rulebook's Room rules (Silver cost and Gold requirement) are not printed on them.

Icon Key

The table lists each icon that appears in the cost and reward bands. Status is either Inferred (matched by name to a term in the base rulebook, or by a clear colour or symbol convention) or Unresolved (no term in the base rulebook matches, so the icon is described but not given a rule).

Printed icon	Where it appears	Reading	Status
Two white dice tiles each with a green plus	Requirement, left	Two White Dice, each marked with a plus	Inferred (white die, plus sign)
White die tile with a green hand	Requirement, left	A White Die taken into hand	Inferred (the green hand matches the base rulebook's "to hand" convention)
Yellow hexagon	Requirement or result	Gold	Inferred (the base rulebook names Gold; the hexagon shape is read as Gold by colour and position)
Grey coin	Requirement or result	Silver	Inferred (the base rulebook names Silver)
Stack of two grey coins	Requirement	Two Silver	Inferred (same as the grey coin)
Multi-colour cube (red, blue and yellow sides)

Translator Cards

Cards are listed in the order they appear in the first photograph (top row left to right, then bottom row left to right). Languages are listed in the order they appear in the banner. The yellow number is given as printed. The band is given as printed, left to right, with the status of each icon.

Syriac, Arabic (yellow 1)

• Requirement: two White Dice tiles, each with a green plus.
• Arrow.
• Result: a multi-colour primary Die.
• Status: the requirement reads as two White Dice (inference, from the white die tile and plus); the result reads as a primary Die (inference).

Sanskrit, Persian, Syriac (yellow 3)

• Requirement: an orange minaret-shaped building with an asterisk.
• Arrow.
• Result: three grey coins (Silver).
• Status: the minaret with an asterisk reads as Influence in the Orange Guild (inference); the three Silver reads as the result (inference).

Chinese, Persian, Syriac (yellow 3)

• Requirement: a white die tile with a green hand.
• Arrow.
• Result: a white die tile with no icon (a White Die).
• Status: the requirement reads as a White Die taken into hand (inference); the result reads as a White Die (inference).

Sanskrit, Hebrew (yellow 1)

• Requirement: two White Dice tiles, each with a green plus.
• Arrow.
• Result: a yellow hexagon (Gold), and a green card with a white plus and up-arrow overlapping a yellow hexagon.
• Status: the requirement reads as two White Dice (inference); the Gold reads as Gold (inference); the green card with a plus is unresolved.

Persian, Arabic (yellow 3)

• Requirement: a green minaret-shaped building with an asterisk.
• Arrow.
• Result: a yellow hexagon (Gold), and a multi-colour cube (red, blue and yellow sides).
• Status: the building reads as Influence in the Green Guild (inference); the Gold and the primary Die read as the result (inference).

Chinese, Greek (yellow 2)

• Requirement: a yellow hexagon (Gold).
• Arrow.
• Result: a green card with a white X.
• Status: the Gold reads as Gold (inference); the green card with a white X is unresolved.

Hebrew, Syriac (yellow 2)

• Requirement: two grey coins (Silver).
• Arrow.
• Result: a green card with a white X.
• Status: the two coins read as Silver (inference); the green card with a white X is unresolved.

Greek, Persian (yellow 2)

• Requirement: a purple minaret-shaped building with an asterisk.
• Arrow.
• Result: two white die tiles, each with a red X.
• Status: the building reads as Influence in the Purple Guild (inference); the two red X tiles read as destroying two White Dice (inference).