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Even before the blind, prophesying Harbinger came trailing dark omens and evil demons in his wake, she had worked tirelessly to rid the world of evil. She had used her divine powers to defeat countless wraiths, skeletons, and trolls, capricious faeries, hordes of rats, and heretic priests. Now this possessed, mutated, rabid human being was about to attack her. She would not be overcome, not so easily. Raising her arms high in the air, she shouted an incantation...
Fight for survival as the apocalypse approaches in The Harbinger, the latest expansion for Talisman 4th Edition! Even as your heart burns to seize the Crown of Command, your first priority is to stay alive through the oncoming End Times. The dead are awakening, demons are rising from their hellish homes, and the world itself is splitting apart, opening up deadly chasms right beneath your feet!
Time is running out! When the Harbinger entered the realm he brought with him a prophecy of impending doom and a series of seven Omens to watch for: when the seventh appears, the end is upon you. The Harbinger features four unique decks of Omen cards, each making manifest a different downfall. In one Omen deck the constellations align, threatening the extinction of magic. In another, the dead rise from their graves and battle to overthrow the living. In another, the time of judgement arrives bringing with it war, famine, death, plagues, and other forms of destruction.
In the fourth, the world shatters into many pieces and the terrain transforms unpredictably. New Terrain cards enter the game and alter the landscape, supplanting fields with barrens, deserts with floodlands, and cities with bogs. As doom draws nearer, more and more of the realm is transformed until the seventh Omen appears and all of Talisman becomes a deadly devastation. Only the bravest, most tenacious characters will be able to compete under these brutal conditions. Whether they fight using weapons or Spells, battle evil or seek to ruthlessly destroy all forms of good, they are all necessarily warriors.
With the aged Harbinger wandering throughout the realm of Talisman, there can be no doubt that the apocalypse is imminent. The End of Days alternative ending heralds that apocalypse with the arrival of the four demon Horsemen of War, Famine , Disease, and Death who have taken over the four populated corners of the realm. They all must be vanquished before any character can enter the Inner Region. There in the Valley of Fire awaits the captain of these Horsemen and the most terrible demon of all, The Beast, arisen from the pits of Hell to wreak misery and devastation across the world. You must fight this nearly omnipotent fiend and defeat him to win the game, or else fall dead at his gargantuan cloven feet.
Under the Armagedden Crown alternative ending, the Crown of Command itself becomes an agent of doom, capable of hastening the end times or delaying them. Any single character on the Crown of Command must roll a die for their turn. The result determines whether the present Omen of the Omen stack is discarded, bringing the end closer, whether a past omen returns, postponing armageddon, or whether all characters simply lose a life. If more than one character is present at the Crown, the two must duel each turn until one defeats the other. The last character alive wins the game.
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