ContentsChapter V
The Codex
272 pieces to collect. Catch wild pieces by solving checkmate puzzles and earn others along your journey.
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272 pieces
How collecting works
Amber Lamp
Bishop in the Flesh
Black Earth
Black to Move
Black Vein
Blue Steel
Butterfly Turret
Carousel Steed
Cinder
Cloud Foal
Cobweb Mare
Colourblind
Comb Charger
Comet Spire
Cookies and Capture
Copper Bridle
Dark Roast
Deep Frost
Deep Sapphire
Dust Bundle
En Passant
First Blood
Fossil Courser
Frostmane
Gumball
Gumdrop Stack
Head in the Clouds
Hive King
Honey Queen
Honey Runner
Honey Silo
Jester's Bells
Jewel Filly
Just a Pawn
Leaf Sprite
Little Gloop
Little Planet
Lone Cactus
Magma Stallion
Mint Drip
Old Winter
Ooze Colt
Pine Keep
Playing Both Sides
Resin Queen
Root Runner
Saddleback
Sand Mustang
Sap Bead
Silk Spinner
Sixty-Four
Snowcap
Star Unicorn
Still Water
Sunken Fort
Taffy Pony
The Agate Exchange
The Amber Advance
The Amethyst Crown
The Amethyst Racer
The Amethyst Reign
The Arcade Defence
The Archbishop
The Arrow Slit
The Bare Stone
The Belfry
The Big Top
The Billow
The Black Archbishop
The Blindside
The Blitz
The Blue Spires
The Boardroom King
The Bolt
The Brilliancy
The Brim
The Bronze Lady
The Bubble Queen
The Bulb
The Burning Gambit
The Butcher
The Cathedral
The Cattle Baroness
The Chapel
The Charge
The Chestnut
The Classical Line
The Cliff Castle
The Clown
The Colossal Rook
The Combination
The Cool Head
The Copper Battery
The Cosmic King
The Counterattack
The Crosscheck
The Crystal Court
The Crystal Fortress
The Dapple
The Dark Squares
The Deep Watch
The Deflection
The Demo Board
The Deputy
The Desert Endgame
The Downpour
The Dragon Variation
The Drip
The Ember Rider
The Emerald Gallop
The Emerald Outpost
The Emerald Queen
The Emerald Reserve
The Empress
The Engine House
The Facet
The Fairy Rook
The Fighting King
The Fire Fork
The Flame Crown
The Flick
The Fluorite Leap
The Fool's Mate
The Fresh Coat
The Frost Queen
The Frozen File
The Gallery Lift
The Game Tree
The Garden Fork
The Garnet Sacrifice
The Garnet Trade
The Gatehouse
The Gilded Lady
The Gilded Swindle
The Glacier
The Glade Queen
The Glow King
The Golden Seventh
The Great King
The Green Push
The Grind
The Gummy King
The Half Move
The Hanging Rook
The Harvest
The Hedge Fianchetto
The Hoard King
The Hostile Takeover
The Ice Queen
The Ice Throne
The Jade Double
The Jade Emperor
The Jade Jumper
The Jade Promotion
The Jasper Squeeze
The Jelly Pin
The Kiln
The Kingmaker
The Lantern
The Laurels
The Light Squares
The Loaf
The Lollipop Queen
The Long Castle
The Long Diagonal
The Long Reign
The Long Think
The Lost City
The Material Edge
The Meatball
The Melting Blunder
The Mesa
The Midnight Check
The Mincer
The Modern Cavalry
The Modern Defence
The Molten King
The Moon Opposition
The Mothwing
The Mounted Arbiter
The Mug
The Night Knight
The Old Thorn King
The Opal Grey
The Opal Variation
The Open File
The Open Position
The Orchid
The Overcast
The Overnight Queen
The Pagoda
The Paint
The Pale Draw
The Pale Opening
The Pawn Shield
The Pearl
The Peppermint
The Petrified Pawn
The Pharaoh's Pounce
The Picchu Queen
The Pink Blockade
The Pink Passer
The Pour
The Preacher
The Prime Cut
The Puff
The Purple Majority
The Queenside Marble
The Quiet Geode
The Rainbow Square
The Red Queen
The Redeeming Bishop
The Renaissance Man
The Ringmaster
The Rose Initiative
The Rose Roan
The Rose Window
The Rosewood Tour
The Sand Clock
The Sceptre
The Scoop
The Seahorse
The Sealed Move
The Sharp Line
The Sheriff
The Shimmer Attack
The Sicilian Dragon
The Silver Sovereign
The Smothered Rook
The Spider King
The Spiral Queen
The Splash Crown
The Splat
The Split
The Sprout
The Star Chain
The Steel Book
The Stockade
The Stonewall
The Storm Crown
The Summit
The Swirl
The Taj Mate
The Tangle
The Teardrop
The Temple Dragon
The Tent
The Terracotta Tempo
The Torch King
The Trellis
The Trotter
The Turquoise Trot
The Two-Faced Queen
The Underpromotion
The Veiled Queen
The Vent
The Waiting Move
The Warhorse
The Waterline
The Well
The White Knight
The Whole Board
The Wildfire
The Winner's Bouquet
The Wisp
The Wood Pusher
Thunderhead
Under Pressure
Vine Unicorn
Wax Warden
Whole Bean
Wrench in the Works
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272 chess pieces
23 themed families of six pieces each, plus 134 pieces that belong to no family. Catch wild pieces by solving checkmate puzzles and earn others along your journey.
- 57pawns
- 53rooks
- 48knights
- 43bishops
- 38queens
- 33kings
Most queens wait in fixed places on the map. Kings can be gifts from town elders, or join you in other ways: catch the other five pieces of a family and its king comes to find you; five kings can be found at specific locations; one is on sale at the Chessino; and one belongs to a collector who opens his case only when you finish his story.
One king appears only at night, out on the star plain, about once in every twenty encounters. No other piece is tied to the clock.
Your collection in the game
Uncaught pieces stay in silhouette. Catch a piece to reveal its artwork in your Codex.
piece abilities
Thirty-nine pieces with abilities
Thirty-nine pieces carry an ability that works the whole time they are one of your six: free hints, extra experience or Pawn Bucks, or moves that cannot be parried.
Honeyed CounselField the Honeycomb Queen and every game starts with one free hint.
Rider’s InsightField the Ember Rider, the hardest catch in Casteria, and you start with three free hints and no move of yours can be parried. If one of your pieces is captured, you lose any of his three hints you haven’t used.
Collection rewards
- Every 25th pieceYour 25th registered piece pays 1,000 Pawn Bucks and a collector’s title. Each 25th after that pays 1,000 more: 2,000 at 50, 3,000 at 75, and so on.
- Finishing a regionRegister every piece that lives in a region and you get 3,000 Pawn Bucks.
- Using pieces from the same familyWith three pieces from the same family on your team, you earn 5% more Pawn Bucks from wins. With all six, you earn 10% more.
- The Grandmaster’s BoonCollect all 272 and every match pays +25% experience and Pawn Bucks, forever, and every game starts with three free hints.
The three boosts you can buy are at the Chessino: see the Boost Case.
The free demo includes Openfield and Frostford. Your save carries into the full game.