Moon CalendarThe cooldowns of your other powers drop by 3 moves.
EgyptThoth
Egypt · Style Time
ThothThe keeper of time
Thoth shortens cooldowns, sends pawns back to their starting squares and grants one piece three moves in a row. The god for players who love a plan.
Turns back time and grants extra moves. For players who love a plan.
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Who is Thoth?
The scribe of the gods bends calendars and makes hours run backwards.
Thoth invented writing, the calendar and probably the footnote. He has the head of an ibis and a moonbeam for a reading lamp. At every judgment of the dead he writes down the verdict, in beautiful handwriting. Thoth knows everything, and he loves telling you about it, at length, with references. To him, time is just another column in his table.
Before the first move, Thoth hides the Hour trap on the board. If your opponent moves onto the square, time runs backwards: the piece is back on its starting square and paralyzed for 1 move. It does not trigger while he is in check.
Powers
Thoth'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.
- Moon Calendar
The cooldowns of your other powers drop by 3 moves.
- Scale of Hours
An enemy pawn returns to its starting square if it is empty.
- Book of Thoth
Ultimate power: One of your pieces (not the king) moves up to three times in a row without capturing.
In mythology
Who was Thoth really?
Thoth was the god of wisdom, writing and the moon. He was shown as a man with the head of an ibis, sometimes also as a baboon. Egyptians believed he had invented hieroglyphs and honoured him as the patron of scribes. His most important sanctuary was at Hermopolis. As a moon god he measured time and kept the calendar in order. At the judgement of the dead, Thoth recorded the verdict when a person's heart was weighed against the feather of Maat. A later Greek story even claims he won five extra days for the year from the moon in a board game. In the game this becomes power over time: Thoth shortens cooldowns, rewinds moves and grants extra ones.
Tactics
How to win with Thoth
Scale first, then the calendar
Use Scale of Hours first, then Moon Calendar. The Scale is ready again after 3 moves instead of 6.
Send advanced pawns home
Is an enemy pawn deep in your camp or about to promote? Scale of Hours sends it back to its starting square, if that square is free.
Three moves to set up
Book of Thoth gives one piece three moves in a row, just without capturing. Park your queen or rook in attack position before your foe can react.
Hide the trap deep inside
Place the Hour trap deep in your half. The intruder lands right back where it came from and loses another move on top.
Quips
Thoth has something to say about everything
Please write down your moves. Legibly.
at the startCheck. See appendix.
when giving checkI am filing a complaint. In writing.
when hitI should have read the footnote.
caught in a trap
Every mythology has a god of the Time style: Apollo and Odin play a similar game with very different powers.
Good to know
Questions about Thoth
The download is free. Thoth can be bought on their own in the game, or together with every other god in the Key of the Gods.
The ultimate power Book of Thoth. It costs 25 favor, works only once per game and does this: One of your pieces (not the king) moves up to three times in a row without capturing.
Every mythology has one god for the Time style. Besides Thoth, these are Apollo (Greece) and Odin (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.