Glossary · Realm of Karguun

Glossary

Every word of the realm, in plain terms. The same explanations appear when you tap a dotted word in the game. The Chronicle of Karguun · Questions

Your resources

Money: Gold coins pay for buildings, troops, exploring and science. Each working peasant earns about 2 gold a day; Banks add more. Wages for your specialists and elites are paid from it every day.
Peasants: Your people. They work in your buildings (each building has 15 jobs), pay taxes, and are drafted into your army. They grow about 2.5% a day while there is room.
Food: Bushels of food. Everyone in your province eats 0.25 a day; Farms grow 70 each. If it runs out, people and soldiers leave and no children are born. Stored food spoils 1% a day.
Runes: Runes power your wizards' spells. Towers make 10 a day each. Stored runes fade 1% a day.
Networth: A measure of your province's strength: land, buildings, people, army, gold and science, all added up. Attacks, spells and thievery work best between provinces of similar networth.
Acres: The land you own, built or barren. More land means more buildings, more people and more strength. Taken in attacks or explored.
Networth per acre: Networth divided by land. A high figure usually means a strong army for the province's size; a low one means an easy target.

Your province

Race: Your people. Each race has its own specialist and elite troops, bonuses and weaknesses. See the Chronicle's chapter on the peoples.
Ruler: You: your title (from honour), your name and the mark of your personality.
Land: All the acres you own, built or barren. Land taken in attacks and land you explore arrives over a few days.
Building efficiency: How well your buildings work, from how many of their jobs are filled. Below 100% every building gives less. It moves toward its target a little each day.
Trade balance: Aid you have sent minus aid you have received, valued in gold. A large debt makes the aid you receive taxed.
Honour: Earned by winning battles and landing spells and thievery on worthy targets; lost when you are beaten. Honour brings titles, each with small bonuses and more votes.
Offensive points: Your total attacking strength at home: troops' offence, modified by your military efficiency and bonuses. Compare it with a target's defence in the War Room.
Defensive points: Your total defending strength: troops at home, modified by your military efficiency and bonuses. An attacker needs more offence than this to win.
Stealth: How hidden your thieves are, as a percentage. Each operation uses some; it recovers 3% a day. Operations need at least 10%.
Mana: Your wizards' strength for casting, as a percentage. Each spell uses some; it recovers 3% a day. Casting needs at least 10%.
Protection: For your first 72 days no one can attack you, cast on you or send thieves against you, and you can't do so to others. Use it to build.
Generals: Each army needs at least one general to lead it. You have 5; one always stays home. Each extra general sent with an army adds 5% offence.
Building credits: Won in battle. Each credit pays for one building, so it costs no gold.
Specialist credits: Won in battle. Each credit trains one specialist for free.
Plague: A sickness that stops children being born and weakens your defence and tax collection for about 10 days. Hospitals help cure it.
Military efficiency: How well your troops fight, set mostly by the wages you pay. Raising wages raises it slowly; very large armies are a little less efficient.
Wage rate: How much of the normal wage you pay your specialists and elites (50% to 200%). Paying more makes them fight better, slowly.
Draft rate: The share of your people you want in the army. While your army is smaller than this, peasants are drafted every day at the speed you choose.
Barren land: Land with no building on it. It houses fewer people (15 an acre instead of 25) and grows only 2 bushels. Build on it.
Jobs: Every building except Homes has 15 jobs. Filled jobs earn gold and keep your building efficiency up.
Maximum population: How many people your land can house: about 25 on each built acre, 15 on barren land, plus Homes. Above it, people leave.
Mercenaries: Hired for one attack at 350 gold coins each; they fight with 3 offence. At most one for every 5 troops sent.
Exploration cost: Exploring costs gold and soldiers for every acre, more as your province grows. You need at least 50% of your land built, and the land arrives over 24 days.

Figures on your pages

Total population: Everyone in your province: peasants, soldiers, specialists, elites, thieves and wizards. It can't go above your maximum population.
Army and thieves: Your army and thieves, and their share of your people. A large share leaves fewer peasants to work and pay taxes.
Employed peasants: Peasants with a job in your buildings. Only they pay taxes, about 2 gold a day each.
Unemployed peasants: Peasants with no job. They pay nothing; build more to put them to work.
Income: Gold earned each day: taxes from working peasants, Banks, and your bonuses.
Wages: Gold paid each day to your specialists and elites (1.5 each at the normal wage rate).
Net income: Income minus wages: how much your treasury grows each day.
Food grown: Food your farms and barren land grow each day, with your bonuses.
Food eaten: Food your people and army eat each day (0.25 each).
Food spoiled: Stored food that rots each day (1% of your stores).
Runes made: Runes your towers make each day, with your bonuses.
Generals ready: Generals at home and free to lead an army now. One always stays home.
Pay the army has felt: The pay your army has actually felt. When you change the wage rate, it follows a little each day.
Offensive efficiency: How hard your troops hit, from wages, buildings, science and bonuses. It multiplies your offence.
Defensive efficiency: How well your troops defend, from wages, buildings, science and bonuses. It multiplies your defence.
At home: Troops in your province now, defending it.
Away: Troops away with your armies; they defend nothing until they return.
In progress: Ordered and on its way; it arrives over the coming days.
Standing army: The troops at home. Each further army you send needs its own general.
Army: A further army: each needs a general of its own. It shows whether it is ready to march or in the field, and when it returns.
Wizards a day: How many wizards your guilds train each day, on average.
Mana a day: Mana your wizards regain each day.
Stealth a day: Stealth your thieves regain each day.
Known: Points you have in this science.
Science per acre: Points divided by your land. The effect depends on this, so a growing province needs more points to keep its bonus.
Science effect: What this science gives you now.
Free science points: Free points from Libraries, waiting to be placed in any science.
Workers: People able to work in your buildings: your peasants, and your prisoners as part-workers.
Workers for full efficiency: Workers needed to fill enough jobs for full building efficiency.
Own: How many you have now.
Share of land: How much of your land this building covers. Buildings that work by share count most for the first few per cent.
Effect: What these buildings give you now.
Next 1%: What building 1% more of your land as this would add.
Construct: How many to start building now.
Construction time: Days until new buildings stand. Accelerated building costs 2× for 50% of the time.
Cost per building: Gold for each building; it rises as your province grows.
Most you can order now: The most you can order right now with your gold, soldiers and land.
Training cost: Gold to train one, with your bonuses.
Soldiers available: Soldiers at home who can be trained, sent to explore or sent to war.
Price of science: Gold for one point of science. It falls by 1 each month, to no less than 5.
Learn: Points to buy with gold.
Assign: Free points to place in this science.
Land on its way: Acres on the way from exploring and battles.
Land put to use: How much of your land is built or being built. Exploring needs at least 50%.
Available: Troops at home you could send.
Send: How many to send in this attack.
Defence estimate: The target's defence from your kingdom's latest report; type your own if you know better.
Raw offence: Your army's strength before bonuses.
Offence with bonuses: Your army's strength with efficiency, generals and bonuses. It must beat the target's defence.
Helpers allowed: Mercenaries and prisoners you may add: at most one for every 5 troops sent.
Defence to beat: The defence you must beat, from the latest report and the target's bonuses.
Chance to win: How likely the attack is to win. Fortune moves both sides by up to 3.5%.
Expected acres: Land you would take if you win.
Returns: When the army comes home.
Troops: Troops in this army.
Acres: Land the army brings home.
Later: Arriving more than 24 days from now.
Total: Everything on its way.
Sent: The troops sent into battle.
Our losses: Troops we lost in the battle.
Their losses: Troops the enemy lost.
Buildings that survived: Buildings on the captured land that came with it; the rest arrive barren.
Credits won: Building and specialist credits won: each builds one building or trains one specialist for free.
Land arrives: When the captured land is yours.
Accuracy: How exact the report is: exact, or roughly within the share shown. More thieves or wizards give better reports.
Gathered by: Who in your kingdom brought the report home.
Being built: Buildings the target is building now.
Armies out: Armies away from home, and when they return.
Offence at home: The target's attacking strength at home, from the latest report.
Report age: How many days old the report is. Old reports may be wrong.
Ruler's temperament: How this ruler seems to play, from a Crystal Ball or Infiltrate. Every ruler run by the realm has a temperament (a Coward never attacks; a Vengeful one hunts whoever hit it last); human rulers have none. It can change during the season.

Buildings

Homes: Houses 5 extra people. Employs no one.
Farms: Grows 70 bushels of food a day. Everyone eats 0.25 a day.
Mills: Building costs −4% and exploration gold −3% for each 1% of your land.
Banks: Makes 35 gold coins a day, and raises income +1% for each 1% of your land.
Training Grounds: Military wages −3% for each 1% of your land.
Armouries: Training costs −3% for each 1% of your land.
Barracks: Armies return 1.5% faster and attack +1% harder for each 1% of your land.
Forts: Resources lost in battle −1.5% and defence +0.5% for each 1% of your land.
Guilds: Each has a 2% chance a day of training a wizard from your peasants.
Towers: Makes 10 runes a day for your spells.
Thieves' Dens: Thieves lost −4% and thievery +3% for each 1% of your land.
Watchtowers: Catch +2.5% and recognise +4% of enemy thieves for each 1% of your land.
Schools: Science costs −3% for each 1% of your land.
Libraries: Gives 3 free science points a day.
Hospitals: Cure the plague +2% and births +7% for each 1% of your land.
Taverns: Draft and mercenary costs −4% for each 1% of your land.
Stables: Breed 1 war horse a day and keep 75 each.
Dungeons: Hold 30 prisoners each; prisoners fight in your attacks.

Your army

Soldiers: Drafted from your peasants. Weak (1 offence and 1 defence), but needed to train specialists and elites, and to explore.
Offensive specialists: Your attacking specialist, trained from a soldier in 24 days. Paid wages every day.
Defensive specialists: Your defending specialist, trained from a soldier in 24 days. Paid wages every day.
Elites: Your race's best troops, trained from a soldier in 24 days. Strong, costly, and paid wages every day.
Thieves: Runs thievery: stealing, sabotage and spying on other provinces. Trained from a soldier for 600 gold coins.
Wizards: Casts your spells. Guilds train them from your peasants a little each day.
War Horses: Adds 1 offence to a troop it carries into battle. Bred in Stables.
Prisoners: Captured in battle and kept in Dungeons. Sent with an army, each fights with 3 offence.
Mercenaries: Hired for one attack at 350 gold coins each, fighting with 3 offence.

Attacks

Traditional March: Takes land: about 12% of the target's acres in a full-strength hit, at most 20%, with some of the buildings on it. The usual attack.
Raze: Fights 15% harder and burns the target's buildings to barren land. Takes nothing.
Plunder: Carries off up to 40% of the target's gold, food and runes.
Learn: Steals some of the target's science.
Massacre: Kills peasants, thieves and wizards.
Conquest: Takes land from a province almost exactly your size (95% to 105% of your networth), or any size in war. Can win in part with less offence.
Ambush: Strikes an enemy army on its way home and wins back land it took from your kingdom.

Sciences

Alchemy: Raises your income, up to +35%.
Tools: Raises your building efficiency, up to +47.4%.
Housing: Raises how many people your land can house, up to +17.5%.
Food: Raises the food your farms grow, up to +70%.
Military: Cuts your troops' losses in battle, up to −35%.
Crime & Deceit: Makes your thievery stronger, up to +65%.
Channelling: Makes your magic and rune output stronger, up to +65%.

Draft speeds

None: 0% of your peasants a day become soldiers, at 0 gold coins each. Faster drafts cost more.
Reservist: 0.5% of your peasants a day become soldiers, at 40 gold coins each. Faster drafts cost more.
Normal: 1% of your peasants a day become soldiers, at 100 gold coins each. Faster drafts cost more.
Aggressive: 1.5% of your peasants a day become soldiers, at 200 gold coins each. Faster drafts cost more.
Emergency: 3% of your peasants a day become soldiers, at 500 gold coins each. Faster drafts cost more.

Spells

Minor Protection: Our defenders fight 5% more effectively.
Greater Protection: A longer-lasting ward: our defenders fight 5% more effectively, on top of Minor Protection.
Fog: Armies that attack us lose their way home for a couple of extra days.
Magic Shield: Hostile spells find our lands harder to touch.
Mystic Aura: The next hostile spell cast on us fails.
Fertile Lands: Our fields yield a quarter more food.
Nature's Blessing: Storms and Drought cannot touch us, and the plague may lift as it is cast.
Love and Peace: Our people have more children.
Tree of Gold: A windfall of gold, part of a day's income.
Quick Feet: Our next army marches out and back faster.
Builders' Boon: Construction goes a little faster.
Inspire Army: Lower wages and faster training.
Anonymity: Our next attack hides our province's name, though not our kingdom's. No honor is won.
Invisibility: Our thieves work 10% more effectively.
Clear Sight: A one-in-four chance to catch any enemy thief.
War Spoils: Land captured while it lasts comes home at once.
Fanaticism: Our army attacks harder but defends less well, and gains less.
Mind Focus: Research finishes sooner.
Town Watch: Our peasants take up arms when we are attacked, at a heavy cost in lives.
Aggression: Our soldiers fight as attackers only: strong on the march, weak at home.
Animate Dead: In the next defense, half of our fallen rise again as soldiers.
Reflect Magic: Some hostile spells rebound upon their caster.
Shadowlight: Reveals who sends the next thieves against us.
Patriotism: The draft runs faster.
Paradise: Wild land is tamed: a few new acres. Not during war.
Crystal Ball: See the target's throne as its ruler sees it.
Crystal Eye: Read the target kingdom's Paper, this month and last.
Storms: Storms batter the target and fewer children are born.
Drought: Less food, a slower draft, and horses die.
Vermin: Vermin devour the target's stored food.
Expose Thieves: The target's thieves work less effectively.
Greed: The target's army demands higher wages and the draft costs more.
Fool's Gold: Part of the target's gold turns to worthless dross.
Pitfalls: The target loses more troops in battle.
Fireball: Fire falls on the target's peasants.
Lightning Strike: Lightning destroys part of the target's runes.
Explosions: Aid sent to or from the target is damaged.
Amnesia: The target forgets some of its knowledge, most of it for a while.
Nightmares: The target's troops are haunted; some soldiers leave the army and some troops must retrain.
Mystic Vortex: A vortex tears away about half of the spells on the target, good and bad.
Meteor Showers: Meteors fall on the target for days, killing peasants and soldiers.
Tornadoes: Tornadoes tear down some of the target's buildings.
Land Lust: Steal a little of the target's land. Only in hostility or war.

Thievery

Infiltrate: Count the target's thieves.
Survey: Survey the target's buildings and construction.
Spy on Military: Count the target's army, at home, in training and in the field.
Spy on Sciences: Learn what the target's scholars know.
Rob the Granaries: Steal food.
Rob the Vaults: Steal gold.
Rob the Towers: Steal runes.
Kidnapping: Carry off peasants; most die on the road.
Steal Horses: Steal war horses.
Free Prisoners: Set the target's prisoners free.
Arson: Burn the target's homes.
Incite Riots: Stir up riots that cut the target's taxes for days.
Bribe Thieves: Turn some of the target's thieves, weakening its guard against us.
Bribe Generals: Buy one of the target's generals for a while.
Night Strike: Kill soldiers in their sleep.
Sabotage Wizards: Drain the target's mana.
Burn Forts: Burn the target's forts.
Assassinate Wizards: Kill the target's wizards.
Torch Farms: Burn the target's farms.
Propaganda: Win the target's peasants over to our side. Only in war.

Reports

Throne (Crystal Ball): Crystal Ball: the target's Throne, as its ruler sees it (except its thieves and wizards).
Paper (Crystal Eye): Crystal Eye: the target kingdom's Paper, this month and last.
Thieves' guild (Infiltrate): Infiltrate: how many thieves the target has.
Survey: Survey: the target's buildings and what it is building.
Military (Spy on Military): Spy on Military: the target's troops at home, in training and in the field, with its offence and defence.
Sciences (Spy on Sciences): Spy on Sciences: the target's science.

Kingdoms and war

Monarch: The kingdom's ruler, chosen by votes. The monarch names the kingdom, writes its message, sets relations and stance, and runs dragon projects. Gives +10% income.
Votes: Each ruler votes for a monarch on the Politics page. Higher titles carry more votes (1 to 10).
Stance: A kingdom-wide posture chosen by the monarch: Peaceful, Fortified, Aggressive or none, each with gains and costs. Not used during war.
Relations: How angry kingdoms are with each other. Attacks, spells and thievery fill a measure of anger; it fades when the attacks stop.
Unfriendly: Anger has grown. Some spells and thief operations can only be used on kingdoms you are at least Unfriendly with.
Hostile: Serious anger. Hostile kingdoms take longer to answer, and the other side may declare war.
War: Open war between two kingdoms: faster, deadlier attacks, land taken from the enemy's exploration pool, and honour for victories. Lasts at least 48 days.
Ceasefire: An agreement between two kingdoms: no attacks, spells or thievery between them while it lasts.
Dragon: A beast a kingdom pays to send against another. It cuts the victim's income and food until their soldiers slay it.
Exploration pool: Uncharted land your kingdom can explore; it refills by 25 acres a day.
Rank: A ruler's title from honour, or King and Queen for the monarch.
Coordinates (k:i): Where a kingdom stands: (kingdom:island). (3:7) is the third kingdom on the seventh island.
Gains: What an attack takes. Full gains need a target close to your size: much smaller or much larger provinces give little or nothing.

Stances

None: No bonuses and no drawbacks.
Peaceful: Better defended against spells and thieves, more children born; but we gain less in battle and our own spells and ops are weaker.
Fortified: More income, faster building and a stronger defense; but a weaker offense and slower armies.
Aggressive: Faster armies and fewer losses; but lower building efficiency, and others' anger toward us rises twice as fast.

Temperaments of the realm's rulers

Warmonger: Attacks whenever it can, with a thin margin, and as monarch declares war at every chance.
Berserker: Throws everything at the enemy, up to two attacks a session, and leaves little at home.
Bully: Picks on the smallest provinces it can still take land from, and only when it is sure to win.
Glory Hound: Goes for the biggest provinces it might beat, for the land and the honour.
Vulture: Finishes off provinces that were just hit, reading its kingdom's Paper and Crystal Eye reports.
Ambusher: Prefers targets whose armies are away, and ambushes any army carrying its land home.
Raider: Plunders and learns: takes gold, food, runes and science rather than land.
Butcher: Massacres and razes, above all in war.
Sniper: Always scouts first and attacks only with a fresh report; it almost never bounces.
Gambler: Attacks without scouting and with a thin margin; it often bounces and sometimes wins big.
Conqueror: Uses Conquest whenever the rules allow it, and marches otherwise.
Daredevil: Builds almost nothing but offence: it hits hard and is easy to hit back.
Coward: Builds a big army but never attacks, begs for ceasefires, and keeps its kingdom Fortified.
Paranoid: Builds watchtowers and forts, keeps protective spells up, and doubles its guard after any hostile act, even a caught spy.
Hermit: Builds and explores, and never attacks, writes, votes or sends aid.
Pacifist: Never strikes first or sends thieves, keeps the Peaceful stance and sends aid. Hit three times in three days, it turns Vengeful.
Vengeful: Goes after the last province hostile to it (an attack, a spell, thieves caught), at any size and with hexes and thieves too, until someone else crosses it.
Grudge Keeper: Tallies everyone who wronged it all season and hunts the worst of them.
Tit-for-Tat: Strikes back once for every hit it takes, and otherwise leaves you alone.
Shield of the Kingdom: Hits back at whoever attacked its kingdom-mates; for an anonymous attack, anyone in that kingdom.
Feudist: Picks a rival kingdom when the season starts and harries it all age, with armies, thieves and spells.
Hothead: Any hostile act sends it into a few days' rage against the culprit's kingdom.
Saboteur: Prefers thieves to armies, with the nastier operations (Night Strike, Burn Forts) once relations allow.
Hexer: Rains hexes on rivals, and Fireball and Lightning Strike once relations allow.
Spymaster: Scouts several provinces every session, so its kingdom always has fresh intelligence.
Pickpocket: Robs vaults and granaries constantly, a little at a time.
Loyal Soldier: Attacks the war enemy and kingdoms hostile to its own, and joins the targets its kingdom-mates hit.
Benefactor: Sends aid to kingdom-mates who were hit, or to the smallest.
Politician: Votes for itself, campaigns on the Moot and flatters humans; as monarch, a busy diplomat.
Peacemaker: As monarch, seeks ceasefires and peace early; it never provokes anyone.
Warlord: Campaigns for the throne; as monarch, declares war at every chance and keeps the Aggressive stance.
Dragon Keeper: Pours gold into dragon projects, raises them against enemies as monarch, and is first to fight a dragon on its land.
Miser: Hoards gold, spends only when rich and never sends aid.
Spendthrift: Spends every coin at once and keeps no reserve, so wages sometimes cannot be paid.
Land Baron: Explores at every chance and keeps a small army.
Scholar: Pours gold into science and builds libraries and schools.
Total Newb: Makes bad decisions (wrong buildings, wild pay and draft, hopeless attacks with home left empty, wasted runes, troops released, gold given away), and slowly learns: from 60% of the age it plays as Steady.
Absentee: Plays its protection, then logs in only about once every two days; its province drifts, ripe for the taking.
Addict: Logs in constantly, so its spells are always fresh and its army always ready.
Quitter: Plays normally until it loses a third of its land in a week, then says goodbye on the Moot and drifts like an Absentee.
Wildcard: Plays a different temperament every game month; a report shows this month's mood.
Rusher: Fierce in the first weeks of the age, and fades later.
Late Bloomer: A quiet builder early in the age who turns aggressive in its second half.
Challenger: Seeks out human rulers as worthy opponents.
Shy: Never attacks, hexes or sends thieves against human rulers.
Braggart: Boasts on the Moot and in couriers after every win.
Steady: No quirks: plays its style as a sensible ruler would.

Single player

File: Your own world in single player. It keeps every season you play in it and their scores.
Season: One game in a file, from founding your province to its last day (336 days for a short one). You can end it whenever you like and start another.
Speed: How fast days pass in single player, from a day each minute to a day every second. You can stop time whenever you like; it also stands still while no one is looking.
Jump: Letting several days pass at once. A moment you asked to be stopped for ends the jump early.
Moment: Something big that stops time: an attack on you, a war, the end of your protection, a dragon, a goal met, the last month.
Posture: How your AI kingdom-mates play, by your order: as they please, Grow, Defend, War, or Follow my targets.
Mark: An enemy province you have pointed out to your kingdom-mates. They attack and scout it first; under Follow my targets they attack nothing else.
Goal: One of the 4 aims a season gives you, worth points if met.
Score: Your land, honour, places and goals, times the difficulty of the world you chose. Each file keeps its best seasons.