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In AD 1096, hope fills the air like a bird's song after a long winter, the seeming endless road of the Dark Ages may soon come to an end. For years now, warlords have roamed the land, every surface is covered with filth, and disease has ripped through towns like great tornadoes. King Sivolc has dreamed that building a great gothic structure is the answer to leave this Dark Age behind forever. But for the last decade, there has been a massive decline in the building activity, and hardly any great cultural achievements have been made.

Recently, while on one of his crusades, King Sivolc met a master architect named Elias. Elias told the King about his devotion to the mortar arts and how he longed to build a structure so great that people would travel hundreds of miles just to gaze at it. This meeting created a spark that ignited the King’s dream with a fire that would burn away even the darkest of days forever. King Sivolc looks on from his castle and watches with great expectation as his dream becomes a reality. With Elias’ help, he has hired some of the greatest architects and monks in the land to complete this task. He waits patiently for this great abbey to be raised from the earth, filled with people, changing the course of history forever!

The King's Abbey is a worker placement/resource management game in which each player has their own player board that represents the abbey they have been tasked to build. Players take charge of monks that are represented by ten dice as they go out and gather resources, go on crusades, construct buildings, train clergy, bring in peasants, and defend their abbey against the darkness. Each player does this by rolling their dice and then assigning each die (monk) to different places on their player board, resource boards, and crusade cards. The places on the player boards will bring in peasants and train clergy. The places on the resource boards will give them wood, grain, stone, and sand for building the various parts of their individual abbeys.

Each player receives prestige (victory points) for completing crusades and constructing various things in their abbey such as towers and different kinds of buildings. The game proceeds over a total of seven rounds where the "darkness" becomes greater each round. The darkness represents things like depression, famine, raiders attacking, and other things that the Dark Ages brought with it. You fight the darkness by keeping the defenses of your abbey strong. Players are trying to have the most prestige than any other player by the end of the seventh round.

After seven rounds, players add up all prestige earned. Whoever has the most prestige wins the game!

Game Components:

1 Rules Book 
5 Player Aids
5 Individual Player Boards
1 Main Board 
1 Purple Starting Player Meeple
1 Black Disc for tracking the darkness
50 Dice in 5 different colors (monks)
5 Black dice (Vikings)
75 Mini Meeples in 5 different colors(peasants)
5 Purple Cubes(clergy training markers)
30 Wood Resource Tokens
30 Grain Resource Tokens
25 Stone Resource Tokens
20 Sand Resource Tokens
25 Wooden Sticks in 5 different colors(walls)
15 Wooden Sheep Meeples
9 Wooden Cow Meeples
5 Barn Cards
5 Remodel Cards
5 Altar Tokens 
63 Building Cards 
30 Tower Cards in 5 different colors 
28 Crusade Cards
28 Event Cards
60 Coins 
10 Trade tokens in 5 different colors
7 Relic Tokens
6 Resource Initiative Tokens
12 Tool Bag Tokens
12 Wagon Tokens
6 Defense Trackers

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