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 Hello realmrunners, season's greetings and all the rest for this time of year! Today, in the spirit of all things reflective and thoughtful, I thought I'd share my thoughts on the upcoming events in the world of Achroma. So to start us off here's the release timeline shared at the event at the end of last month; We've finally seen the release of the final Chronicle to round out the 2nd chapters with The Monsters of Norso, along with Chapter 1 products mostly being condensed into the Booster product. This as well as a refresh and update to the companion app and a more structure regular play system which has definitely been needed for a fair amount of time, I think we can all agree on that! So what's next now all this is in place? Some new side-products it would seem! Breaking away from the standard Chapters and Chronicles, we have a few upcoming products for next year. Starting off with Sprat's Fairy Painters; a new introductory set which, judging from the artwo...

 Hello realmrunners and welcome to another highlight coming from The Monsters of Norso. Today I wanted to visit, debatably my favourite Rare in the game to date, a real beast with so much potential and synergies with other Characters; Detestatio, the Chimera . On face value it already seems really strong; 5 Strength and Shard Value, decent drain 2 resolve and an ability that gets you a free Character out of your Dregs if it survives Shard Drain! To trigger that ability is a lot easier than you’d expect, which I went into a good amount on my article on Vengeance ; there’s several cards that can inflict Shard Drain, alongside standard damage from combat. What I want to focus on specifically is their Shard Value of 5, as this allows them to take a couple of hits from the more powerful cards as they inflict 2 Shard Drain, one of which being Cerberus  which is a Character itself so you can Dig it and then inflict further Shard Drain, through its own ability, to  Detestatio, t...