Nile MudThree empty squares side by side in the middle are blocked for your opponent for 2 moves.
EgyptOsiris
Egypt · Style Growth
OsirisThe lord of return
Osiris brings captured pieces back, even the queen, and slows the enemy down with Nile mud. The god for patient players who like to trade.
Brings pieces back and slows foes with mud. For patient players.
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- Plays offline
Who is Osiris?
The green god raises the fallen and makes the Nile overflow its banks.
Osiris was once king of Egypt, then his brother Set murdered him, then he was brought back to life, and ever since he has taken everything a little more calmly. He rules the afterlife and brings the yearly Nile flood that makes the land fertile. His skin is green like young grain. Whoever falls with him often rises again. Osiris says it is not magic, just patience.
Before the first move, Osiris hides the Reed trap on the board. If your opponent moves onto the square, the piece gets stuck in the reeds: its move is lost and the square is then blocked for him for 2 moves. It does not trigger while he is in check.
Powers
Osiris'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.
- Nile Mud
Three empty squares side by side in the middle are blocked for your opponent for 2 moves.
- New Grain
One of your captured pawns returns to your third rank.
- Resurrection
Ultimate power: One of your captured pieces, even the queen, returns to your back rank.
In mythology
Who was Osiris really?
Osiris was the god of the afterlife, fertility and rebirth. According to myth, his jealous brother Set murdered him to seize the throne. His wife Isis searched for his body, put it back together and revived him with her magic long enough to conceive their son Horus. From then on Osiris ruled the underworld as judge of the dead. Artists showed him as a mummified king with green or black skin, holding the crook and flail. Those colours stood for fresh plants and the fertile mud of the Nile, and the grain that sprouted each year was seen as his gift. So in the game Osiris brings fallen pieces back and lets mud and grain work for him.
Tactics
How to win with Osiris
Trade without fear
Every capture earns you favor. Later, Resurrection brings back any fallen piece, even your queen.
Mud in the center
Use Nile Mud to block three central squares your opponent wants for his pieces. For just 6 favor his advance stalls for 2 moves.
New Grain for the endgame
In the endgame every pawn counts. New Grain returns a captured pawn to your third rank and plugs the holes.
Reeds on the knight's path
Hide the Reed trap on a square enemy knights need for an attack. Their move is lost and the square stays closed for 2 moves.
Quips
Osiris has something to say about everything
What falls grows back. Remember that.
at the startRest now. The afterlife is quite nice.
when capturingA trap. Just like Set. Typical.
caught in a trapI will be back. I always am.
after a defeat
Every mythology has a god of the Growth style: Gaia and Freyja play a similar game with very different powers.
Good to know
Questions about Osiris
The download is free. Osiris can be bought on their own in the game, or together with every other god in the Key of the Gods.
The ultimate power Resurrection. It costs 25 favor, works only once per game and does this: One of your captured pieces, even the queen, returns to your back rank.
Every mythology has one god for the Growth style. Besides Osiris, these are Gaia (Greece) and Freyja (The North).
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.