One of the most unique aspects of Nightingale is the option to hop between various worlds, each offering something new. Nightingale is able to achieve this level of diversity due to its procedural generations paired with all the Realm Cards that can spice up each new realm.
Realm Cards can have a ton of effects on the new Realm you're about to enter. These can range from major effects to biome changes and various minor modifiers. If you want to perfectly tweak your next Realm in Nightingale, be sure to go through our complete list of all Realm Cards and what they do.
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When setting up a new Realm, learn how Realm Cards work and how the Realm difficulty functions.
So, let's get right into the list of all the Biome Cards, Major Cards, and Minor Cards in Nightingale.
Biome Cards
Desert Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of arid desert.
- How to get: Can be crafted using an Enchanter's Focus
Forest Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm lush with forest.
- How to get: Can be crafted using an Enchanter's Focus
Swamp Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of swamp and moor.
- How to get: Can be crafted using an Enchanter's Focus
Major Cards
Abeyance Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of minimal danger, suitable for the construction of an Estate.
- How to get: Provided after the tutorial, can also be crafted using an Enchanter's Focus
Byway Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a small, transient Realm.
- How to get: TBD - Check back soon!
Antiquarian Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of middling danger, settled by Druids and rife with Fae Ruins.
- How to get: Can be crafted using an Enchanter's Focus
Utopia Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm where the sun never sets.
- How to get: Can be bought from the Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader
Astrolabe Ascended Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of moderate danger, populated by the Calcularia and the ruins of humanity's Realmic airfields.
- How to get: Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader
Provisioner Ascended Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of moderate danger, populated by the NTTC and their industrial refineries.
- How to get: Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Astrolabe Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader
Hunt Ascended Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of great danger, where vicious creatures abound and only seasoned Explorers dare to tread.
- How to get: Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Gloom Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Gloom Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Gloom Essence Trader
Gloom Ascended Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of considerable danger and perpetual darkness, populated by Hermetics.
- How to get: Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Herbarium Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Herbarium Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader
Herbarium Ascended Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of considerable danger, with miraculous plant growth fueled by ancient Fae gardens.
- How to get: Can be bought from Ascended Desert Provisioner Essence Trader, Ascended Forest Provisioner Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader
Antiquarian Ascended Card
- Description: Play this card to seek a Realm of middling danger, settled by Druids and rife with Fae Ruins.
- How to get: Can be bought from The Watch| Miscellaneous Essence Trader
Vault Card
- Description: Open a connection to a Fae vault with an advanced challenge.
- How to get: Can be bought from The Watch| Miscellaneous Essence Trader
Minor Cards
Quarry Card
- Description: Play this card to increase stone yield, reduce the time needed to refine stone products, and improve the quality of stone items, at the cost of other materials' effectiveness.
- How to Get: Looted from Fae Chests, Can be bought from the Desert Herbarium Essence Trader
Cleansing Card
- Description: Play this card to remove all minor card effects from a Realm.
- How to Get: Can be crafted using an Enchanter's Focus
Feast Card
- Description: Play this card to prolong the effects of a meal, grow hungry more slowly, and heal more quickly.
- How to Get: Looted from Fae Chests
Maleficiate Apogean Card
- Description: Play this card to plunge a Realm into eternal night, greatly increasing the yield of the Bound's resources, but dealing consistent damage to you over time.
- How to Get: Looted from Fae Chests, Can be bought from the Ascended Desert Gloom Essence Trader
Amphibious Card
- Description: Play this card to increase your swimming speed, resistance to disease, and ability to recover stamina while in water.
- How to Get: Looted from Fae Chests, Can be bought from the Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader
Dragon's Hoard Card
- Description: Play this card to grow the content of chests and grant a chance to find rare games, while lowering your damage resistance.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader
Dragon's Hoard Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to grow the content of chests, granting a chance to find rare gems and ore, while lowering your damage resistance.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Gloom Essence Trader
Duelist Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the damage you deal as well as the damage you receive.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader
Treasury Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the chance of finding essence.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader
Tavern Card
- Description: Play this card to prolong the effects of a meal and rest, grow tired more slowly, and recover your stamina more quickly.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader
Might Card
- Description: Play this card to increase your strength and carrying capacity at the cost of your tools' and clothing's durability.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Astrolabe Essence Trader
Maleficiate Card
- Description: Play this card to plunge a Realm into eternal night and increase the yield of the Bound's resources.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Gloom Essence Trader
Weighted Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the damage you deal and the efficiency of your harvesting while weighing down your body and limiting the efficiency of your stamina.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Gloom Essence Trader
Blood Moon Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the chance that enemies will drop rare items, but decrease your maximum health.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader
Estate Address Card
- Description: Play this card to go directly to a specific player's Abeyance Realm. Gift to other players to allow them to visit your Estate while you are offline.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader
Explorer Card
- Description: Play this card to travel more quickly, improving your resistance to most forms of damage while reducing the damage you deal.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader
Angler Card
- Description: Play this card to improve your fishing skill and yield, hiding you from hostile sight while fishing.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader
Thinned Veil Card
- Description: Play this card to move more quickly, leap safely to great heights, and use stamina more efficiently.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader
Settler Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the yield of refined building materials and crops and improve the fortitude of your structures while reducing the rate at which you recover stamina.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader.
Weighted Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the damage you deal and the efficiency of your harvesting while weighing down your body and limiting the efficiency of your stamina.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader
Combatant's Workshop Card
- Description: Play this card to craft tools that deal greater damage, but offer reduced yield.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Astrolabe Essence Trader
Harvester's Workshop Card
- Description: Play this card to craft tools that offer greater yield and reduced stamina cost, but lower damage.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader
Bulwark's Workshop Card
- Description: Play this card to craft durable tools that enhance your blocking ability but increase stamina cost.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader
Tempest Card
- Description: Play this card to bring perpetual rains and increase the potency of your magick.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader
Deep Fae Wilds Card
- Description: Play this card to decrease the damage you deal, your maximum health and stamina, as well as the rate at which your health and stamina recover.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader
Artisan Card
- Description: Play this card to improve the durability of crafted items and have crafting stations always augmented by the ideal environment, regardless of placement.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader
Blood Moon Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the chance that enemies will drop rare items, but decrease your maximum health and regeneration rate.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Provisioner Essence Trader
Industry Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the yield of crafted ammunition and ingots as well as the crafting time of all refinement.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Provisioner Essence Trader
Treasury Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the chance of finding Essence and to make slaying creatures and harvesting produce Essence Dust.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Provisioner Essence Trader
Explorer Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to travel more quickly, extending the benefits of your meals and improving your resistance to most forms of damage while reducing the damage you can deal.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Provisioner Essence Trader
Fortitude Card
- Description: Play this card to increase your resistance to injury, improve your blocking ability and increase the fortitude of your structures, at the cost of your tools' and clothing's durability.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Herbarium Essence Trader
Lumber Mill Card
- Description: Play this card to increase wood yield, reduce the time needed to refine wood products and improve the quality of wood items, at the cost of other materials effectiveness.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Herbarium Essence Trader
Settler Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the yield of refined building materials and crops and improve the fortitude of your structures while reducing the rate at which you recover stamina.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Herbarium Essence Trader
Forge Card
- Description: Play this card to increase ore yield, reduce the time needed to refine ore products, and improve the quality of metal items, at the cost of other materials effectiveness.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader
Hearth Card
- Description: Play this card to prolong the effects of a meal and rest, grow tired and hungry more slowly, and recover health and stamina more quickly.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader
Trickster Card
- Description: Play this card to leap to great heights, resist injury and feel your strength bolstered. Damage dealt will be reduced, however, and further anomalous effects should be expected.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Gloom Essence Trader
Tempest Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to bring perpetual storms and increase the potency of your magick.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Gloom Essence Trader.
Outlaw Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the damage you deal with pistols, the yield when crafting pistol ammunition as well as the damage you deal with magickal ammunition, while reducing the damage you deal with other guns.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Hunt Essence Trader
Hunter Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the yield gathered from slain creatures while increasing the damage you deal to weak points and decreasing your damage dealt elsewhere.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Desert Hunt Essence Trader
Marksman Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the damage you deal with rifles, the yield when crafting rifle ammunition as well as the damage you deal with magickal ammunition, while reducing the damage you deal with other guns.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Hunt Essence Trader
Farm Card
- Description: Play this to increase the speed of crop growth, improve their yield and increase the chance of finding Essence when harvesting.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Forest Hunt Essence Trader
Blunderbuss Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the damage you deal with shotguns, the yield when crafting shotgun ammunition as well as the damage you deal with magickal ammunition while reducing the damage you deal with other guns.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Hunt Essence Trader
Greenhouse Card
- Description: Play this card to increase plant yield, reduce the time needed to refine plant products and improve the quality of plant-based items, at the cost of other materials' effectiveness.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Swamp Hunt Essence Trader
Dragon's Hoard Apogean Card
- Description: Play this card to grow the content of chests, granting a chance to find rare gems, ore and resources, while lowering your damage resistance.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader
Blood Moon Apogean Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the chance that enemies will drop rare items, but decrease your maximum health and regeneration rate.
- How to Get: Can be bought from the Ascended Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader
Tempest Apogean Card
- Description: Play this card to bring perpetual storms and endless night, increasing the potency of your magick.
- How to Get: It can be bought from the Ascended Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader
Settler Apogean Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the yield of refined building materials and crops and improve the fortitude of your structures while reducing the rate at which you recover stamina.
- How to Get: This can be bought from the Ascended Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader.
Alchemist Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the yield of crafted potions, increase your chance of finding Essence and increase the magick power of crafted items.
- How to Get: This can be bought from the Ascended Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader.
Dragon's Hoard Apogean Card (Duplicate)
- Description: Play this card to grow the content of chests, granting a chance to find rare gems, ore, and resource, while lowering your damage resistance.
- How to Get: It can be bought from the Ascended Forest Gloom Essence Trader.
Utopia Apogean Card
- Description: Play this card to invoke perpetual daylight and become invisible to enemies.
- How to Get: It can be bought from the Ascended Swamp Hunt Essence Trader.
Hunter Eminent Card
- Description: Play this card to increase the yield gathered from slain creatures while increasing the damage you deal to weak points and decreasing your damage dealt elsewhere.
- How to Get: It can be bought from the Ascended Desert Provisioner Essence Trader.
Ghost Card
- Description: Play this card to improve your stealth and increase the yield of resources and Essence while reducing the damage you deal.
- How to Get: It can be bought from the Ascended Forest Provisioner Essence Trader.
That's all that we have about Realm Cards in Nightingale. For more details about the game, you can explore topics such as How to Craft Slingbow Ammo in Nightingale and How to Save Game.