ShapeshiftOne of your knights becomes a bishop, or a bishop becomes a knight.
The NorthLoki
The North · Style Trickery
LokiThe shapeshifter
Loki turns knights into bishops, swaps enemy pieces around and makes them fight for you for a while. The pick for players who love tricks and surprises.
Shapeshifts, swaps and turns enemies into allies. Made for tricksters.
- Free to download
- No ads
- No account
- Plays offline
Who is Loki?
The shapeshifter transforms pieces and makes enemy pieces fight for him for a while.
Loki is the reason the gods have problems, and usually also the reason they get rid of them again. He can turn into almost anything, a salmon, a fly or an old woman. He lies whenever he opens his mouth, and sometimes even when he keeps it shut. Nobody trusts him, and yet he gets invited to every feast. It is never boring with Loki around.
Before the first move, Loki hides the Trap of lies on the board. If your opponent moves onto the square, the piece believes Loki’s lies: a pawn defects to Loki, any other piece is paralyzed for 2 moves.
Powers
Loki's three powers
Every move earns 1 favor, every captured piece adds its value on top. Instead of moving, you use a power. After that it needs a few moves before it is ready again.
- Shapeshift
One of your knights becomes a bishop, or a bishop becomes a knight.
- Illusion
Two enemy pieces of different kinds (not the king) swap places.
- Betrayal
Ultimate power: An enemy knight or bishop fights for you for 3 moves and then returns.
In mythology
Who was Loki really?
Loki is the son of the giant Farbauti and of Laufey, yet he lives among the Aesir. He is clever, changeable and unpredictable, often landing the gods in trouble and then getting them out again. In the shape of a mare he gave birth to the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, and a wager he made with dwarves led to the forging of Thor's hammer. With the giantess Angrboda he fathered the wolf Fenrir, the Midgard Serpent and Hel. Because he caused the death of Baldr, the gods bound him in a cave where venom drips onto him. At Ragnarok he fights against the gods. In the game he becomes a trickster who transforms pieces and makes them switch sides.
Tactics
How to win with Loki
Knight or bishop, as needed
Shapeshift turns a knight into a bishop or back again. Knights shine in closed positions, bishops in open ones, so switch to what the board needs.
Illusion scrambles the defense
Illusion swaps two enemy pieces of different types. Pull a defender away from the king or drop a valuable piece onto a square you already attack.
Betrayal for the fork
Betrayal makes an enemy knight or bishop fight for you for 3 moves, once per game. Use it for a fork right in the middle of the enemy camp.
Lies in front of the pawns
If a pawn walks into the Trap of lies, it switches to your side. Place it right in front of an enemy pawn that wants to advance in the center.
Quips
Loki has something to say about everything
I play completely honestly. Honestly.
at the startThat was an accident. Not.
when capturingA draw? How honest. Yuck.
after a drawFine. Next time I will lie better.
after a defeat
Every mythology has a god of the Trickery style: Hermes and Bastet play a similar game with very different powers.
Good to know
Questions about Loki
The download is free. Loki can be bought on their own in the game, or together with every other god in the Key of the Gods.
The ultimate power Betrayal. It costs 25 favor, works only once per game and does this: An enemy knight or bishop fights for you for 3 moves and then returns.
Every mythology has one god for the Trickery style. Besides Loki, these are Hermes (Greece) and Bastet (Egypt).
24: eight each from Greece, Egypt and the North, each with a play style of their own. Zeus is playable right away, Gaia and Hermes join you after three wins.