Overview

In Inori Valley, villages are built beneath the foliage of an immense sacred tree, where they coexist with benevolent (yet jealous) Spirits. Each year, the village chiefs make offerings to the Spirits and erect Altars in their honor on the Great Tree. Receive the most Favors from the Spirits to become this year’s Keeper of the Great Tree!

Collect favour tokens and try to fill all the spaces on the cards, whilst determining which colours will score at game end by allocating them to the Great Tree by the end of 4 rounds

Turn

On your turn, either Offer to a Card or Offer to the Great Tree

In addition, you may optionally play a Rune Tile

Offer to a Card

If there is an unoccupied space on a card, displayed on the upper edge, you can place your piece there to take the bonus but you may be required to pay a cost if present

The cost can either be a set colour or it could be of the colour you have a majority of

There are a number of different effects found on the cards

Some give you Favour tokens of a specific colour

Some give you Favour tokens of the colour you have the least of

Some let you draw a Rune Tile

Some will score you a point for each unique colour you currently posses

Some will score you a point for each of a specific colour you hold

Some will score you a point for each token of your majority colour

Offer to the Great Tree

You can place an offering on any unoccupied space of the Great Tree

At the start of the game, all spaces are free, but as it progresses there may be an associated cost

When you place your piece on a space without a cost, take the effect, then place an unused Alter Tile of your choice next to it, this will then become the cost to use this space later on

The effects are as follows

Take any two Favour tokens

Score 5 points

Take a Rune Tile plus a Favour token matching the Alter Tile colour

Score a point for each token you have which matches the Alter Tile

Block two card spaces with the neutral pieces, then gain a Favour token matching the Alter tile

Gain 3 Favour tokens matching the Alter Tile

Get the two Favour tokens set aside during setup

Play a Rune Tile

In addition to playing to either a Card or the Great Tree, you can also play Rune tiles

Some give you Favour tokens of an indicated colour

Some let you move a piece from any other card to an unoccupied space on the card of the matching colour

Some let you move a piece from an indicated card to an unoccupied space on any other card

Some let you play on an occupied space, so long as it isn't yourself who occupy it already

End of Season

Once everyone has placed all their pieces, the season comes to an end

Check each of the cards to see if they are complete or incomplete, a card is complete if a piece was placed on every space available

For Complete cards, each player present scores a point for each Favour token they hold which matches the card's colour, then the players retrieve their pieces and the card is replaced with a new one of the colour shown in the top right corner (The same colour as the card itself)

For Incomplete cards, no scoring occurs, all pieces are returned, and the card is replaced with a new one of the colour shown in the lower right corner (this will be different to the current colour). New start cards are an exception: If they are incomplete, players with pieces on them score 1 point per Favour token they have that matches the color in the bottom right of the card.

After which, players gain a new piece from the next season space (in 4 players the first end of season gives no new pieces)

Finally, the player with the fewest points draws 2 Start cards and picks one to use for the new round and then they become the first player

Game End

The game ends at the end of the 4th Season

For each Great Tree space with an Alter Tile, players score 1st and 2nd place for most Favour tokens of the related colour (If tied for 1st, all get 1st score and no 2nd place, if tied for 2nd all get 2nd score)

The player with the most points, wins!