recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Water Strider

## Ability

### Ability

**Walk on Water****(Play)** Your Oceans and Seas cards in hand gain +10 Power this turn and your opponent's Oceans and Seas cards in hand lose -10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Also known as a ‘Jesus bug’, the **Water Strider** is distinguished by its unusual knack for walking on water. These bugs can’t turn water into wine or perform any other miracles – that is, depending on what you call a miracle.

The Water Strider’s legs are so buoyant that they can support fifteen times the insect’s weight without sinking. Even in a rainstorm, these resilient bugs power on through.
Virginia Woolf

## Ability

### Ability

**A Room of One's Own****(Play)** If played alone, gain +19 Power/Turn permanently.

## Did You Know?

The queen of stream of consciousness writing, **Virginia Woolf** was ahead of her time. We know that people throw that expression around all the time but Woolf took typical narrative structures and kicked them in the teeth, like a true Modernist writer, choosing instead to write long, flowing sentences that reflected the way a person thought, rather than how they spoke, and it resulted in sentences like the one you just read right here. Who needs periods when you can just resort to commas every time you want your reader to take a breath?

Woolf was best known for her novels *To The Lighthouse*, *Mrs Dalloway* and her collection of essays *A Room of One’s Own.* She challenged gender roles and heteronormativity and even questioned how her own privilege impacted how she viewed class. She turned down honorary degrees from various universities and even wrote a biography of Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but told from the point of view of her dog!

Woolf was married to writer Leonard Woolf but also had relationships with women - one long-term relationship being with author Vita Sackville-West, who was the inspiration for her novel *Orlando*, about a poet who can change sex and live for hundreds of years. All in all, a bisexual queen!
Vervet Monkey

## Ability

### Ability

**Little Humans****(Play)** If you have played any Brilliant Human Body card this game, your Primates cards, wherever they are, gain +24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

One of the most widespread monkey species across Africa, the **Vervet Monkey** is social by nature, living in troops of up to 70 members. Pack mentality has led the species to developing a whole dictionary of calls just for different predators and situations. They even have a special code for humans!

While they may not be our closest cousins, vervet monkeys actually play a key role in our understanding of human behaviour. They share a lot of our same health issues, like high blood pressure, anxiety, and a <link="https:>hankering for happy hour.</link> And just like some humans, vervets also have a <link="https:>soft spot for our feline friends.</link> Just like us, vervets have been recorded acting out of spite, like destroying another troop’s food supply if they’ve been wronged by them before.
Wendigo

## Ability

### Ability

**Possession****(Start)** A random card in your hand gains +30 Power and costs +1 Energy this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise! No, it’s not a teddy bear’s picnic… it’s a human turned cannibalistic monster always on the lookout for more people to eat! But don’t worry, the monster - known as the **Wendigo** - isn’t real (not officially, anyway…)

And even if it was, it doesn’t lurk in all forests - just the northern ones of the United States and Canada. And hey, you could probably outrun it! That being said, it does have supernatural speed, strength and heightened senses. Even in the harshest of climates, the Wendigo survives, hunting its next meal. A wounded Wendigo simply regenerates, so you’ll need to have a silver bullet or blade handy to kill it for good.
Warty Crab

## Ability

### Ability

**Warts and All****(Play)** If you have played Oliver Cromwell this game, your Oliver Cromwell and Warthog cards, wherever they are, gain +32 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

*Eriphia verrucosa*, or the **Warty Crab**, is a species of crab you'll find around the Mediterranean Sea. It's called the warty crab, as far as we can tell, because it's got yellow spots out and down its carapace, and that's really unfair because they're not actually warts. That's like if we discovered a species of monkeys with patchy spots in their fur and we called them Blemish Monkeys, even though they were exhibiting a remarkable ability to operate construction machinery and had built... sorry, I lost my train of thought there.

I'm stalling because there's frankly not much to know about the Warty Crab if I'm honest. It's the only species that can crack open the shell of **rapana venosa** AKA the Veined Rapa Whelk, but you'll have to wait until we make that card to find out why that's remarkable...
Thoremin

## Ability

### Ability

**Electric Feel****(Return)** Your Energy cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power for 3 turns. Repeat this if you have played Thunderstorms this game.

## Did You Know?

The **Thoremin**, also known as a Singing Tesla coil, is a form of plasma speaker that literally plays music with lightning. Yes, this is as metal as it sounds. And yes, you can buy one – if you have a few thousand dollars lying around.

Built by Nikola Tesla in 1891, Tesla coils are a combination of circuits that output up to millions of volts. This creates an electric field that causes lightning sparks to arc up and out of the coil. Each spark pushes on the air, creating a noise that you can change by adjusting the frequency.

With a sound similar to an analog synthesiser, the Thoremin is the kind of instrument you would expect to be used if you went to a rave organised by God – hence the nickname ‘Zeusaphone’.

'Singing Tesla Coil' by Epilectrik (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
The Terracotta Army

## Ability

### Ability

**Stand To Attention****(Draw)** Your cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power for 2 turns. **(Play)** Your Qin Shi Huang card in hand gains +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

You're Qin Shi Huang. You're the founder of a dynasty that is going to be named after you, you're the first emperor of a newly unified China - you're the main man! And what better way to celebrate your own Main-Man-itude that to build a city-sized mausoleum for yourself, guarded by more than 8,000 ceramic soldiers?

**The Terracotta Army** is more than just a big room with some jumped-up garden gnomes in it - each soldier is entirely unique, crafted as they were by hand by more than 700,000 labourers over 40 years. There are also chariots, horses, acrobats and, er, concubines. We're still finding more to this day - it's estimated that there are at least the same amount of soldiers still to be unearthed!

The army was built between 246 and 206 BC, and went missing until 1974, when two farmers happened upon it. Ceramic content in the soil is probably why nothing was growing, guys.
Wahlisaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Wahl to Wahl****(Play)** If played in the left or right slot, this card gains +29 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Like Wario to Mario, the existence of the **Wahlisaurus** suggests the existence of a Mahlisaurus. But that’s not the case here. This extinct genus of leptonectid ichthyosaur was actually named in honour of William Wahl and Professor Judy Massare, both specialists in Mesozoic marine reptiles who mentored Dean Lomax – the man who identified the species in 2016, approximately 65 years after it was first discovered in Scunthorpe Mudstone in Nottinghamshire, UK.

This ancient dolphin-like reptile is thought to have lived about 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic period, making it one of the very few species of ichthyosaurs who were around at that time. Not only that, but the Wahlisaurus was the first new genus of ichthyosaur from the British Early Jurassic to be described since 1986.

'Wahlisaurus NT small' by Nobu Tamura (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered) Background added, color corrected, image enhanced.
The Sleeping Beauty Problem

## Ability

### Ability

**A Dream Come True****(Play)** If played between two Science cards, your Once Upon A Time cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Sleeping Beauty has had it rough. She thought she’d found her prince charming and then some old witch puts her to sleep for a hundred years or so. That sounds pretty bad. But you wanna know what sounds even worse? **The Sleeping Beauty Problem.**

Long after her happy ending - in fact, sometime in the 1980s - a bunch of philosophers and mathematicians came up with a problem. What if Sleeping Beauty was given a sleeping pill on a Sunday night and, during the experiment, she will be woken a couple of times and interviewed before being given a memory wipe and another sleeping pill. The experiment will end on Wednesday when she’s woken up for good. The twist is that when to wake her up before Tuesday will be decided by a coin toss. On heads, she will only be woken and interviewed on Monday. On tails, she will be woken and interviewed on Monday AND Tuesday.

Then, once she’s woken for good on Wednesday and, before she is told what day it is, she’ll be asked what the probability of the coin flip landing on heads would be. I mean, I’d rather have a coffee and a croissant but here we are.

The problem has divided mathematicians. One group (the halfers) believes that Sleeping Beauties naps and/or problematic memory wipes should have no bearing on the probability of a coin flip. The coin landing on heads should always be 1/2. While the other group (the thirders) believe that it’s 1/3. This is because they argue that the Principle of Indifference is at play, with Sleeping Beauty not knowing what day it is and this factoring into her decision making.

Debate still rages but the key thing here is when will Sleeping Beauty catch a break? If it’s not evil witches, it’s mathematicians and right now, I can’t decide which one is worse.
Waimanu

## Ability

### Ability

**Water Bird****(Play)** Your Birds and [[:Category:Sea Birds |Sea Birds ]] cards in hand gain +12 Power for 2 turns. **(Return)** Your remaining Birds and [[:Category:Sea Birds |Sea Birds ]] cards in hand cost -1 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

It was around the same size as an emperor penguin, but about ten times more awkward. The **Waimanu** is the oldest known form of penguin, with fossil records dating back to just after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, around 62–60 million years ago.

These ancient penguins lived near the shallow seas off eastern New Zealand where they foraged for food. Although fossil analysis suggests the wing bones of the Waimanu didn’t have the adaptations of modern penguins to truly thrive in the water, they still could dive to catch prey.

Discovered in riverbed sediments of the Waipara Formation in Canterbury, New Zealand in 1980, the name ‘Waimanu’ comes from the Maori word for “waterbird”.
The Theory of Everything

## Ability

### Ability

**Ultimate Theory****(Play)** If at least 6 cards in your deck are from different Albums, your Science cards in hand gain +24 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Why are we here? What is the world around us and what does it all mean? **The Theory of Everything** is a hypothetical framework that would explain all known physical elements of the universe and help us to answer some of our biggest questions. Albert Einstein made immeasurable contributions to science through his General Theory of Relativity in the early 20th century, but his “theory of everything” was never completed.

He had hoped that this equation would explain how everything in the universe works – and researchers have since devoted their careers to finding such a model. While it is technically an unsolved problem, both String Theory and M-Theory have been proposed as theories of everything – often shortened to ‘TOE’.

'CMS HIggs Event' by Lucas Taylor / CERN (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Volcanic Eruption

## Ability

### Ability

**ERUPT!****(Draw)** Gain +4 Energy and your opponent's cards in hand **Burn** (20) until played.

## Did You Know?

Deep within the Earth, it's pretty hot. Like, REALLY hot - so hot in fact that some rocks slowly melt and become a thick flowing substance called magma. Since it is lighter than the solid rock around it, magma rises and collects in magma chambers. Eventually, some of the magma pushes through vents and fissures to the Earth's surface. Magma that has erupted is called (you’ve guessed it) lava.

Have you ever tried to blow bubbles in cooking oil through a straw? Granted there are better hobbies, but If you have, you'll notice that the bubbles can escape quite easily because the cooking oil has a low viscosity. If you try to blow bubbles in jam or peanut butter, it's basically impossible because the jam and peanut butter are very sticky and don't really move much. Now stick with me, the reason why I’m harping on about my hobby is because it's the same with volcanoes. When magma rises towards the surface gas bubbles start to form. The more they struggle to escape, the more explosive the eruption.

When the magma has low viscosity like cooking oil and doesn’t have much bubbly gas mixed in it, we see slow-moving lava flows and shield volcanoes. This can happen in places like Hawaii.

Explosive **Volcanic Eruptions** can be dangerous and deadly. They can blast out clouds of hot tephra from the side or top of a volcano. These fiery clouds race down mountainsides destroying almost everything in their path. Ash erupts into the sky and falls back to Earth like powdery snow. If thick enough, blankets of ash and gases can suffocate animals and humans.

There are more than 1500 active volcanoes on the Earth. We currently know of 80 or more which are under the oceans. Active volcanoes in the U.S. are found mainly in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington.

## Trivia

* This card is obtained from the Science Level Up Pack in Master level.
Tiger Salamander

## Did You Know?

They may look awesome, but the Tiger Salamander is known for being a carrier of diseases. It's immune to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which is a fungal disease that is a serious threat to the world's frog population, but it transports it.

Fishers using Tiger Salamader larva as bait have been identified as another way thier diseases are spread. So don't do that.
Times New Roman

## Ability

### Ability

**Easy Reading****(Draw)** Your Documented cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, the serif typeface known as **Times New Roman** was made for legibility.

Although it’s the vanilla or ready salted of the font library, TNR is the subject of heated debate among designers: some hate it for its overuse while others embrace the readability it offers. At least all can agree that it’s a far cry from Comic Sans, the most ridiculed typeface of all time.

'Ludlow Times New Roman Type Specimen' by James Puckett from Boulder, USA - Ludlow Times New Roman Type Specimen (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Thumbelina

## Ability

### Ability

**Delicate and Lovely****(Draw)** Your Plant Life and Going Underground cards in hand gain +24 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Step into the whimsical world of Hans Christian Andersen's **Thumbelina**, where a tiny girl faces adventures with animals ranging from altruistic to downright awful. The story starts with a one-inch girl, aptly named Thumbelina, hatching from a tulip. From here, things just get weirder.

Our heroine is is kidnapped by a frog and forced to find her way home with the help of a French swallow and a field mouse with dubious intentions. In a field of flowers, she meets a flower-fairy prince just her size. They wed, and he gifts her a pair of wings so she can fly with him from flower to flower.

Fairy-tale experts (yes, that's a real job) say Thumbelina is a tribute to Andersen's friend, Henriette Wulff—a delicate, handicapped daughter of Shakespeare's Danish translator.
Umibōzu

## Ability

### Ability

**The First Sacrifice****(Play)** Your Oceans and Seas cards in hand lose -20 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your Oceans and Seas cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

If you happen to be fishing in the Tōhoku region of Japan, do yourself a favour and sacrifice the first fish caught to the gods. If you don’t, legend has it that an **Umibōzu** will appear, destroy your boat and kidnap the boat-owner.

Now, you might not believe in paranormal phenomena, but there have been multiple sightings of this Japanese sea spirit over the years. Plus, you might not know when you’re encountering one, as Umibōzu are said to change their appearance.

There are tales in which these spirits take the form of beautiful women and challenge humans to swimming competitions, which is all fun and games until your boat is in a thousand pieces and you’re being kidnapped by a terrifying sea ghost.
War of the Roses (1455 - 1487)

## Ability

### Ability

**Game of Thorns****(Return)** Your Plant Life cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

It’s no secret that George R.R. Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones’ took inspiration from real world events. But the man could have gotten a little bit more creative with names. For example, the Stark and Lannister families are based entirely upon the Yorks and Lancasters, two noble families in British rule who battled over the English crown for generations.

Known as the **War of the Roses**, the feud ended when Henry Tudor won the battle of Bosworth Field and married Elizabeth of York. In Game of Thrones, (spoiler alert) it ended when Daenerys went mad in the space of ten minutes and a weird Stark kid with a penchant for ravens pretended he wanted to be king all along. (Nope, we’re still not over it.)
Thinking About The Immortality of the Crab

## Ability

### Ability

**Reverie****(Draw)** Your Crustaceans cards in hand cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

When you’ve got nothing better to do, let your mind wander and start **Thinking About The Immortality of the Crab**. It may sound absurd, but this Spanish idiom (“Pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo”) is used as a way of poking fun at someone who isn’t just lightly daydreaming, but actively engaged in constructive contemplation.

Not to ruin your train of thought, but the crab is not, in fact, immortal. There is a common misconception that the red king crab can live forever - the idea stemming from the fact that these crabs can regenerate their limbs. But this is not true. Like all living organisms, crabs are subject to the natural process of ageing and, eventually, death.
Walking Mongolia

## Ability

### Ability

**Courage is a Practice****(Return)** If you lost the turn, your Angela Maxwell's Walking the World cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

**10,982 km from home. (6,823 mi.)**

It was -20°C (-4°F) and there was two feet of snow blanketing the roads of Ulaanbaatar the capital of Mongolia (47.915104896142246, 106.88313697628074). The snow and ice made the walk particularly challenging, and for the first week I barely covered 7 kilometers (4 miles) a day pulling Athena behind me.

But as I traveled, spring started to arrive, meaning I could cover a greater distance each day and the melting snow brought wild purple flowers (Pulsatilla Turczaninovii) and fast flowing chalky-colored rivers as the snow thawed.

The steppes of Mongolia may look desolate but there seemed to be nomads everywhere, moving their gers (yurts) with the change of seasons. I met many herders traveling between villages and I was often invited in to learn to milk a yak, to drink fermented horse milk, or help rally their semi-wild goats\*.

With very limited food imported and almost nothing exported, I often found my diet to consist of moonpies\*\* and warm Coca Colas. Mongolia is one of the last places on earth with nomadic herders and it was a privilege to experience just part of this extraordinary lifestyle .

* Generally local breeds like: Zalaa , Erchim Bayandelger, Buural or the Gobi Wool goat.
	+ Marshmallow, cookie and chocolate treat.

**About Angela**

In 2013 Angela Maxwell decided to turn her perfectly normal life upside down. She was in a relationship and running a successful business, but after overhearing a conversation at her art class about a man who had walked around the world, everything was about to change. In less than nine months she had left her home in Bend, Oregon to travel the world alone with nothing but a few supplies and her trusty two-wheeled cart Athena.

She walked for nearly seven years across four continents, over 32,000km (20,000 miles) and 14 countries. During the journey, Angela discovered her innate strength, conviction, and courage. A novice adventurer when she began, Angela faced the odds of surviving the outback in Western Australia, dengue fever in Vietnam and the sheer challenge of being a lone woman traveling and sleeping wherever she could lay her head for the night.
Vega

## Ability

### Ability

**Historically Important****(Play)** If your deck has 8 or more History cards, your Science cards, wherever they are, gain +8 Power until played, and vice versa.

## Did You Know?

Boasting a visual magnitude of 0.03, **Vega** (also known as Alpha Lyra) was the first star to be photographed, after our sun. On July 16th, 1850, astronomers snapped the star through the daguerreotype process at Harvard College Observatory, using a 15-inch (38 centimetres) refractor.

135 years later, Carl Sagan wrote a novel about an alien civilization located in Vega. Given that it’s one of our closest neighbours at just 25 light years from Earth, that would be convenient / terrifying.

While our sun is thought to be 4.6 billion years old, Vega is only about 450 million years old. However, since bigger stars use their fusion fuel faster, Vega’s main-sequence lifetime is only one billion years - a tenth of the Sun’s. In other words, Vega is middle aged.
United States Dollar

## Ability

### Ability

**Lend a Buck****(Play)** Your Buck Moon card, wherever it is, gains +29 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

My money don’t jiggle jiggle, it folds. Specifically, 8,000 times. That’s because the **United States Dollar** bill is made from a special 75% cotton and 25% linen blend, allowing it to fold 20 times more than normal paper.

On each $1 bill, you’ll find 13 arrows, 13 leaves, 13 stars and 13 stripes - a symbol to represent the original 13 colonies. On a twenty dollar bill, you’ll see a portrait of 7th president Andrew Jackson, which is ironic because Jackson was so vehemently opposed to paper money - he believed that only gold and silver coins were legal tender. Of course, nowadays, U.S. coins aren’t made from gold and silver but Cupro-Nickel and Copper-plated Zinc. Still, the U.S. Mint does hold the title for making the most coins in the entire world.
Tinikling

## Ability

### Ability

**Step in Time****(Play)** Your opponent's History and Paleontology cards in hand lose -19 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you’re a natural with a bamboo pole, you should try **Tinikling** – a traditional Philippine folk dance that started in the Spanish colonial era. The name refers to a colourful, buff-banded railbird known in the Philippines as the Tikling.

According to some stories, the dance is inspired by the way the bird struts through the grass with its long legs and the way it runs expertly through branches and dodges bamboo traps set up by rice farmers. During the dance, two people will beat, tap and slide bamboo poles on the ground to “rondalla” music, a serenade played by an ensemble of stringed instruments. While two partners take on the handling of the bamboo sticks, another couple will hop and skip over the sticks to the rhythm.
Waigeou cuscus

## Ability

### Ability

**Territorial****(Play)** If this card matches the Arena, your opponent's cards in hand lose -15 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Not to be confused with the tiny balls of pasta, this is a slightly bigger kind of cuscus, while presumably being less tasty (I could be wrong) this is also way cuter.

The **Waigeou Cuscus,** is native to the Indonesian island of *(yes, you guessed it)* Waigeo.

With large round eyes providing night vision, five strong digits with nails and a tail that acts as an extra limb for manoeuvring through trees, the **Cuscus** is perfectly suited to their nocturnal, arboreal lifestyles... Or they would be if they didn’t move at the pace of a sloth, and if we skipped the fact that birds of prey eat an awful lot of them!

Like their close relative opossums, try not to be lulled too close to their territory by their initially shy nature and sweet little faces. The male **Cuscus** is extremely territorial and will hiss, snarl and spit at anything that comes too close, including other **Cuscuses.**
Uranus

## Ability

### Ability

**God of the Sky****(Draw)** Your Forces of Nature cards in hand gain +7 Power until this is returned to your deck.

## Did You Know?

Yes. We know. Very funny. But once you’ve stopped giggling, it might interest you to know that Uranus was named after Ouranos - the Greek God of the Sky.

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- An epic d'oh!
V-2 Rocket

## Ability

### Ability

**Cruel Twist****(Return)** An opponent's random card in hand gains +15 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Hitler’s “vengeance weapon”, the **V-2 Rocket** was a ballistic missile built by German scientist Wernher von Braun. During the war, it killed 7,000 Allied troops and civilians in London and Antwerp.

After the war, von Braun and his team were given amnesty by the Americans in exchange for their rocket-making skills. In what is one of the most awkward moments in history, German scientists helped the US to create the Saturn V, the rocket used in the moon landing missions.

'V2-Rocket in the Peenemünde Museum' by AElfwine (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered) Background and color effects added

"Launch of a V2; photo taken four seconds after taking off from test stand, Summer 1943" by unknown (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Volubilis

## Did You Know?

Volubilis was a city built by the Romans in Morocco, at the south-west extreme of the empire. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it's considered one of the finest still-standing examples of Roman architecture.

At its peak it was home to nearly 20,000 Romans, which is huge for a fringe town in an annexed territory - many attribute its success to the fertile surrounding lands and its ability to export exotic wild animals throughout the empire. Granted, those animals were sent to be slaughtered or hunted for sport, but we've all got to make a living.
Urðarbrunnr

## Ability

### Ability

**The Sacred Well****(Play)** If you have played Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld this game, this card gains +120 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Like every plant, the World Tree in Norse mythology needed tending to. Of course, being the World Tree, a part-time gardener wouldn’t suffice. So, the Norns (goddesses responsible for destiny) took water from a special well known as **Urðarbrunnr** and poured it over the tree to prevent its branches from rotting or decaying.

According to the Prose Edda, the water in Urðarbrunnr was so holy that anything that entered the well would become “as white as the membrane called the skin that lies around the inside of an egg-shell.” That’s pretty specific.

In other stories, the gods would travel to Urðarbrunnr via the bifrost rainbow bridge to meet and make decisions on matters such as the laws of nature, magic, love and war.
Violet-backed Starling

## Ability

### Ability

**Vivid Colours****(Draw)** Your Prominent Painters cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power until played and an opponent's random card in hand **Burn**s (12) until played.

## Did You Know?

The beautiful **Violet-backed Starling** looks like a creation from the Harry Potter universe – in fact, this tiny starling can be found in the muggle woodlands and savannah forest edges of sub-Saharan Africa. The striking plum-coloured plumage of the bird is only reserved for the male of the species. This is known as plumage dimorphism and is fairly common in birds – apparently, looks matter to females and they prefer their males to be fanciful, stylish and exuding elegance. So, mission accomplished.
Tupuxuara

## Ability

### Ability

**Simply the Crest****(Play)** Your Parasaurolophus card in hand gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Tupuxuara (no relative of Tupac Shakur) lived around 10 million years ago, in what is now northeastern Brazil.

By far the most dramatic feature of any pterosaur species was an eye-catching crest on its head, which experts believe attracted mates. Tupuxuara was basically just showboating in a really big way. To impress the females, the Tupuxuara would basically swagger around gyrating and turning its head (and crest) to give the ladies maximum impact - SWAG.
Toucan

## Did You Know?

Toucans are renowned for their magnificent beaks, but did you know that they're made of keratin? That's the same stuff that's in human hair, which makes the beak very light and very brittle - they don't use them for digging or fighting as other birds do.

They're also not particularly good at flying - their wings are relatively small, meaning that they hop along rather than actually taking flight. For such a majestic-looking creature, it sure doesn't sound like it behaves like one.
Thylacosmilus

## Ability

### Ability

**Chin Up****(Draw)** Your Ancient Creatures cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Set your time machine to the Pliocene epoch and visit the grasslands of South America: you might just spot a large marsupial with teeth like daggers. You’d be forgiven for thinking the **Thylacosmilus** was a sabre-tooth tiger at first glance, as the two creatures look strikingly alike. However, this is a classic case of convergent evolution, where animals appear similar in form despite having very different evolutionary relationships.

Unlike its evolutionary twin, the Thylacosmilus was no death-dealing predator. After studying its fangs, palaeontologists found that the creature was more of a scavenger than a killer, using its teeth to pull meat from animals that hungry predators (like sabre-tooth cats) had already killed. Like modern marsupials, it’s likely the Thylacosmilus carried its young inside a pouch.

Image by Roman Uchytel, https://prehistoric-fauna.com
Turquoise

## Did You Know?

When Cards, the Universe and Everything runs out of subjects to write about to the extent that we're doing a collection about individual colours, this card will make whoever is defining that collection mildly upset that a subject name has already been used up. That's just a long-winded way of saying that **Turquoise**, as well as being a gemstone, is a colour.

You'll find **Turquoise** (the gemstone) in Egypt, Iran, Mexico, China, Chile and the Southern United States; the mineral is of such beauty that early civilisations from all of those places mined and shaped it into jewellery. It forms in the gaps between rocks where mineral-rich water seeps through, depositing the minerals which come together to make brilliant green and blue stones.
Tunki

## Did You Know?

The **Tunki**, or Andean cock-of-the-rock are, as the name suggest, native to the Andean cloud forests of South America. Get your sniggering out of the way now. Yes, it's got "cock" in its name. Move on.

Anyway, Tunki males practice an elaborate dance which they perform to attract females. Groups of males and females congregate at a "lek", which an area of forest is where the dance is performed.

You're still sniggering. I bet you think it's funny that there's a suburb of London called Cockfosters too.
Walking the United Kingdom

## Ability

### Ability

**Courage is a Practice****(Draw)** If you are losing the round, your Angela Maxwell's Walking the World cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**8530 km from home. (5,300 mi.)**

Did you know that in a certain time of the year in Northern Scotland the sun never dips more than 12 degrees below the horizon, leaving the night sky illuminated with a turquoise glow? Well, I had no idea when I first landed in John O’Groats (58.63836624516979, -3.069141204731046) and to me it just seemed like the night never began.

I used the illumination to walk the ocean cliff sides at night and look out across the sea at the Orkney Islands, imagining what it must have been like as a sailor navigating the craggy islands and looking back at the Duncansby lighthouse.

My fathers family originated from Scotland, the Maxwell\* clan, though he had never visited or even knew that our ancestors lived in the Dumfries area. I walked the highlands and the lowlands looking for some connection to my forbears.

I decided to hike south along the Pennine Way to England leaving Athena and backpacked through the expansive heather fields and soggy bogs. For almost a month my feet and shoes and tent were almost continuously wet. As the author Alfred Wainwright said, “You won’t find me anywhere along the Pennine. I’ve had enough of it”. I made my way to the South east coast of England and sunnier skies.

* The name Maxwell is derived from Maccus Well, a pool in the River Tweed.

**About Angela**

In 2013 Angela Maxwell decided to turn her perfectly normal life upside down. She was in a relationship and running a successful business, but after overhearing a conversation at her art class about a man who had walked around the world, everything was about to change. In less than nine months she had left her home in Bend, Oregon to travel the world alone with nothing but a few supplies and her trusty two-wheeled cart Athena.

She walked for nearly seven years across four continents, over 32,000km (20,000 miles) and 14 countries. During the journey, Angela discovered her innate strength, conviction, and courage. A novice adventurer when she began, Angela faced the odds of surviving the outback in Western Australia, dengue fever in Vietnam and the sheer challenge of being a lone woman traveling and sleeping wherever she could lay her head for the night.
Thrust

## Did You Know?

Thrust is the aerodynamic force that propels an aircraft in the direction that it is facing. This is usually generated by the engines - they create enough momentum to overcome not just the drag holding the plane back, but the weight holding the plane down. Coupled with the lift generated by the shape of the wings, the plane takes flight!
The World (XXI)

## Ability

### Ability

**Change of Place****(Draw)** If it's the first turn of a round, this card costs -7 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

The 21st card of the Major Arcana, **The World** is the kind of card you want to draw upright on a gloomy day.

According to the Rider-Waite deck, the World brings assured success, recompense, voyage, and a change of place. But reversed, depicts inertia, stagnation and permanence.

Basically, if you’ve been working on a big university project, or you’re nearing the end of that painfully intricate embroidery, or your complete compendium of cats and their facial expressions is almost done (to draw from experience) and you find the World in your Tarot reading, you can breathe a sigh of relief. You’ve smashed it out of the park, and we’re proud of you.

The card depicts a naked woman surrounded by four animals that represent each of the four elements - the lion (Leo - a fire sign), the Bull (Taurus - earth), the Eagle (Scorpio - water) and the Man (He-Man?!) for Aquarius, an air sign.

[So a bird is an arachnid representing water, and a man is a water-bearer representing air? Sure. Ok. That all makes perfect sense. - Ed.]
Tropicbird

## Ability

### Ability

**Tropic Thunder****(Draw)** Your Forces of Nature cards in hand cost -4 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

The national bird of Bermuda, Tropicbirds catch their prey (generally fish or squid) by hovering over the sea before plunging below the surface of the water. They can eat fish that are up to 18% of their body weight in one go (hard relate).

See if you can get your tongue around the Maldivian name for the Tropicbird - "Dhadifulhudhooni".
The Sombrero Galaxy

## Did You Know?

The Sombrero Galaxy (or, to give it its full technical name, Messier Object 104) can be found in the constellation of Virgo. The black hole in the centre and the prominent dust ring around the edge make it resemble a popular kind of Mexican head attire - of course, it only looks like that because we see it side-on.

The galaxy is about 3/10s the size of our Milky Way Galaxy, but is much denser - the core contains nearly 2000 globular clusters, compared to the Milky Way's 200 or so.
Touch

## Ability

### Ability

**Perfect Sense****(Draw)** If your deck contains Hearing, your Hearing card, wherever it is, costs -1 Energy until played and this card gains +9 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

From the sharp sensation of a pinprick to the soft feeling of a cat’s fur, our sense of **Touch** is the first sense we develop while in the womb, and it remains important throughout our lives. So how does it work? In short, the skin is your body’s largest organ and contains more than 4 million sensory receptors. When we come into contact with something, these touch receptors send signals that travel along sensory nerves and connect to neurons in the spinal cord.

The human body has more receptors for pain than for any other sensation – and with good reason. Pain is the body’s warning system and has a vital role to play in keeping us safe from harm.
The Roswell Incident

## Ability

### Ability

**Cover Up****(Play)** If played between two Espionage cards, your Space cards, wherever they are, gain +16 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Did a UFO really crash land at a New Mexico ranch in 1947? Well, something certainly crashed, and the rancher who stumbled upon the debris described it as “bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.” Sure, that could be anything - however, just a week prior, nine unidentified objects were seen flying “like a saucer would across water” near Mount Rainier, Washington.

Nevertheless, **The Roswell Incident** was almost immediately dismissed and forgotten until the National Enquirer ran a story about it in 1980. If you do go to Roswell, though, you will 100% see a saucer. Unfortunately, this spacecraft is just a McDonalds in the shape of a UFO. Alternatively, you could try Naruto running through Area 51 to “see them aliens.”
Virgo Spiral Galaxy

## Did You Know?

This beautiful spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation has the catchy name RX J1140.1+0307. We'll call it Rex.

Rex presents something of a puzzle for scientists. In the centre of it is a supermassive black hole (a black hole that is more than 10 million times as big as our sun!), but it's a black hole with such a low relative mass that it doesn't explain how all the objects around it ended up the way they are. What other forces are acting upon it?

The image you see on the front of this card was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Giant Wasps- Mihail Monsters and Animals

**DESCRIPTION**

Giant Wasps are flying hostile insectoids native to the fall forests of Skyrim, Cyrodiil and High Rock, they should not be mistaken with the other giant wasps species appeared on ESO, that are native from Morrowind, Valenwood and Black Marsh. These last ones are not included in this mod, and are bigger, more chitinous, live in col

onies of nests, and appear in various colors, being the workers red, the drones black and the queen purple. They rarely appear in Skyrim, where they are known as killer hornets. (killer hornets are a thing for other mod)

Giant Wasps live in dangerous swarms around big and heavy nests made on tree branches on fall forests, allways close to the ground, sometimes inside caves. There are allways 4 or 5 giant wasp drones outside guarding the nest, and if you get to close, wasp workers, smaller than the drones, will start spawning to protect the nest and the queen. You need to destroy the nest, in order to stop the wasps spawning, or they will come in more and more numbers to kill you. They also will destroy all the beings that aproach the hives, and they attack with their mandibles and the sting, this last one more rarely but it injects a poison that causes paralysis. (to avoid outnumber of enemies on screen, after some time the workers are removed and start respawning again from 0)

Giant Waps are weak, but they secret weapon is their large numbers. Despite that, they seem to dislike water, so, you may seek protection there if necessary. As animals, wasps, and the nest itself, can be controlled by spriggans or other forest spiritis, turning them into yet more dangerous foes.

After you destroy the nest, you destroy automatically all the workers, but some drones can still be around. Biggest foe after that will be the queen, bigger and stronger, that will come from the nest remains to attack you.

**FEATURES**

A new insect- Giant Wasps

A new world destructible item- Giant Wasps Nests

2 new ingredients- Giant Wasp Antennae  and Wasp Nest Shards

Custom Giant Wasp sound and behaviour

More wildlife, so, immersion, and hard fights.
Turtle Dove

## Did You Know?

There are many species in the Turtle Dove family all over the world, which are named for the scaly pattern of their neck and wing feathers (and not because they've got hard shells and move slowly).

The bird on the front of this card is the European Turtle Dove, which is the variety most likely to be gifted in the 12 Days of Christmas song. Cumulatively, by the end of the song, the recipient has been given 22 Turtle Doves, which is PLENTY.

## Trivia

* This card is available on Christmas specials.
Tylosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**No Escape****(Play)** If you are winning the round, your Monsters of the Deep cards, wherever they are, gain +24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Picture the child of a bloodthirsty dolphin and a mega crocodile. That's close to what a **Tylosaurus** - an ancient predatory marine reptile - would have looked like. One of the largest marine carnivores of its time, Tylosaurus was a stone-cold killer that fed on a diet of other mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, giant squid, sharks and turtles. The largest known specimen has been estimated to measure a whopping 14 metres long.
Uther Pendragon

## Ability

### Ability

**Familial Favours****(Return)** Your King Arthur and Stonehenge cards, wherever they are, gain +28 Power until played and your Stonehenge card, wherever it is, costs -3 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

**Uther Pendragon** was the father of King Arthur, and the brother of Ambrosius, whom he succeeded as King of Britain. His name, Pendragon, means the "Chief-Dragon", which means he is the "foremost leader" or "chief of warriors".

So the story goes, Uther saw a comet-shaped like a dragon in the night sky on the night of his brother’s death – hence the name he gave to himself upon taking the throne. According to the French poet Robert de Boron, Uther founded the Order of the Round Table.

Contrary to popular belief, King Uther Pendragon was not created from the imagination of Geoffrey of Monmouth like so many Arthurian legends. In fact, he appears in earlier Welsh tradition, both in his own right and as King Arthur’s father.
Tidal Energy

## Did You Know?

Tidal Energy utilizes the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon - which makes it sound like humanity has tamed the forces of nature, but it's not that cool unfortunately.

The Sun and Moon exert their gravitational power on the planet, and the resultant movements of water - waves, tides, currents in rivers - are harnessed by tidal barrages and undersea tidal turbines. The first known use of Tidal Energy was in 787 A.D. when incoming tides filled a storage pond with water, with the outgoing tide causing a water wheel to turn.
UH-60 Black Hawk

## Ability

### Ability

**Take to the Skies****(Return)** Your Fearsome Flyers cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Used for air assault, air cavalry, and aeromedical evacuation units, the **Black Hawk Helicopter** is a U.S. Military helicopter – and a tough one at that. In 1983, during Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada, a Black Hawk helicopter survived 29 hits from close-range arms fire and still returned its crew safely.

In total, this beast of a chopper is designed to carry 11 combat-loaded air assault troops or 14 in a max-capacity situation. It can also fly in most weather conditions, which is why the Black Hawk is often used to save lives and deliver supplies during natural disasters. To defend itself, it is equipped with an AN/APR-39 - a lightweight radar that warns of radar-directed threats, allowing enough time to take appropriate action.
Valles Marineris

## Ability

### Ability

**Deeply Entrenched****(Draw)** Your Natural Monuments cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power permanently. **(Return)** Your Natural Monuments cards, wherever they are, lose -15 Power permanently. **(Play)** Your Mars card in hand gains +22 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you thought the Grand Canyon was big, you’ve clearly never been to **Valles Marineris**. Of course, it being located on Mars makes a casual trip impossible for the time being.

Valles Marineris, or Mariner Valley, is a vast canyon system that runs 4,000km long across the Martian equator, reaching depths of 7km. Grand Canyon aside, Valles Marines is as long as the entire United States and spans about one-fifth of the entire distance around Mars - a size that earns it the status of the largest canyon in the Solar System.

But how was it formed? Experts say landslides played a role in shaping the canyon, along with mass-wasting, erosion and strong water flows that altered the terrain hundreds of millions of years ago.
Triathlon

## Ability

### Ability

**Multidiscipline****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand **Lock**s this turn. **(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -10 Power this turn. **(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand costs +1 Energy this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you’re planning on entering a **Triathlon**, do yourself a favour and get some carbs in your body – it’s not uncommon for triathletes to burn up to 10,000 calories during a long-distance race.

Consisting of running, swimming and cycling, this multisport race is not for the faint-hearted. Little known to some, one of the most critical parts of the race is the transition. Top athletes can expect to transition from one sport to another in a matter of seconds – that is, of course, if a toilet break doesn’t get in your way.

Also, you’ll need to be able to withstand the “washing machine” effect, when swimmers jostle for position and kicks to the head are commonplace. That’s a hard pass for us.
Tokyo Skytree

## Ability

### Ability

**Signal Boost****(Return)** A random Science , a random Space and a random Life on Land card in your hand gain +30 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

In 2010, the **Tokyo Skytree** became the tallest tower in the world, reaching a dizzying height of 634 metres in total. This exact measurement is no accident: the numbers 6 (mu), 3 (sa), 4 (shi) stand for “Musashi”, an old name of the region where the tower stands.

Completed on the 29th February 2012, the Tokyo Skytree is now the primary television and radio broadcast site for the Kanto region – but that’s not all. Within its 29 floors, you’ll find everything from shopping and dining facilities to an impressive aquarium – not to mention 2 of the highest observation decks in Japan. In the upper platform is every acrophobic’s worst nightmare: a section of glass flooring with a downward view of the streets below.