Dark Arts Path
A white–orange–red track that advances events, unlocks Dark Arts card effects and approaches the final phase.
Also indexed as：Dark Arts Marker · Dark Path · Path Colour Indicator · 黑魔法轨道 · 黑魔法指示物 · 黑魔法标记 · 颜色解锁
Reference facts
- Type
- Rule mechanism
- Category
- Factions
- Rules basis
- MinaLima public rulebook; printed-page references below.
Effect & use
White card effects are available from the start; orange and red effects unlock when the marker first reaches those colours and remain unlocked. An Event Space triggers that colour’s event procedure.
Where to find it / how to resolve it
Advance the marker one space when a House Player Replenishes, an event instructs an advance, or the Dark Arts Player collects all participating House Markers.
Restrictions & timing
- Take each zone’s Progress Token before leaving that zone; a plain non-event space has no event effect.
- Reaching the final space does not automatically win for the Dark Arts Player.
Where guides use this entry
Choose Replenish, legal with all three pawns in Great Hall. The outside-Protected-Area condition belongs to Learn, not Replenish. Discard Trevor without playing it. Hand 5 → 4 , Discard 0 → 1 ; the resolving area remains empty. Dr…
The Dark Arts Player →Understand the clockThe Dark Arts Path advances when House players Replenish, through applicable events, and after Dark Arts collects every participating House Marker. Its white, orange and red zones unlock card effects. An ordinary Dark Arts Explore…
Hogwarts Map & Movement →A board built for movementThe main board adapts Hogwarts Castle and its grounds for play. Read spaces and icons as game information, rather than a floor plan for another game. The side board separately records Loyalty and the Dark Arts Path. The component …
Compare Your Next Action →Refill and recover now, or move before refilling?Replenish restores options and pawns, but a House Replenish also advances the opposing clock.
Compare Your Next Action →Dark Arts: move now, or recover and refill?Explore spends a hand card for movement. Dark Arts Replenish keeps the existing hand, restores stunned pawns and draws to five without the House Replenish path advance.
Sources & revision history
Page numbers refer to printed rulebook pages. Each link opens the PDF spread containing that page.
- Card effect colours, marker advancement and Game End define the path’s functions.
Rules source review: · Initial entry checked against the publisher’s public rulebook.
Changes affecting this page
- · 1.6.0
Consistent terms, section search and two-side teaching
Unified 35 sourced English–Chinese terms and registered all three open rule questions. Search and guide backlinks now lead to matching sections in the current language. Added card-flow diagrams, conditional Dark Arts lessons and exact movement allowances alongside the five existing House comparisons. Unknown rules, routes, card effects and future draws remain unfilled.
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Content quality work in this revision
Added a 24-category component catalogue, nine sourced card examples and a rechecked Alohomora entry; the catalogue remains an identified sample rather than a complete Acquire Deck. Added a complete setup and first-round walkthrough with a player-count checklist, cross-links across all eight guides, reference information boxes, a clarification register, page-specific history and local correction drafts. This records reviewed preview content, without announcing the custom-domain launch.
View this revision → - · 1.2.0
Diagrams, tabletop reference and navigation
Added original component, movement and encounter schematics, a printable quick reference, site-wide search, spelling suggestions and shareable filters. Reference entries and examples gained section navigation. Diagrams explain rules without claiming exact board coordinates.
View this revision → - · 1.1.0
First source-checked reference library
Published 40 bilingual entries and eight hypothetical rule examples alongside eight guides. Entries and examples include printed-page sources, related terms and review dates. Full-text search indexes the visible guide, entry and example text.
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