You assume the role of one of the five realms, discover new lands, and send out your workers to establish settlements and resources for buildings and spells. The peoples work together in peace, but they cannot forget their historical rivalries completely. In the end, each nation tries to earn the most glory for themselves in the young history of Pandoria.
Expand the land and place workers to claim resources to be acquired. Each type of landscape earns a different resource once the area has been completed: crystals in the mountains, gold in the hills, wood in the forest, and points in the city. The resources are needed to build new buildings and monuments, unleash powerful spells and buy new cards from the market.
Through the buildings, you get special benefits for the rest of the game, while spells have a more powerful, one-time effect. Completing cities and surplus resources earns points.