Hexarion Conquest – World & Game Overview

A Two-Player Tactical Fantasy Skirmish Game of Arcane Mastery

Core Game Summary

• Players: 2
  
• Genre: Tactical, collectible, strategic board game
  
• Win Conditions:
  
  1. Reduce opponent’s Home Base to 0 Core Energy (CE)
     
  2. Eliminate all opposing Hexmasters with none remaining to draw
     

Gameplay Overview

• Played on a 19-hex circular board
  
• Each player controls up to 3 Hexmasters at once
  
• 1 Hexmaster may move and act on their player’s turn but only 1 Hexmaster per turn
  
• Players draw and attach Glyphexes, rotating them to reveal powerful abilities
  
• Core Energy (CE) is spent to upgrade, revive, and fuel abilities
  
• Strategic locations on the board include:
  
  • Resonance Hex (center — potent CE interactions)
    
  • Sanctums (placed by each player — revival points)
    
  • Home Base (tracks CE; cannot be entered or attacked directly until late-stage abilities allow)
    

Hexmasters

• Units on the board — champions bound to the player’s will
  
• Each has:
  
  • 1 HP
    
  • A class-specific Core Edict
    
  • Can be upgraded with a Glyphex
    
• Class Edicts can be selected on Attuned Hexmasters by rotating the Focalis to point the Class Edict at the target.

Classes & Core Abilities

Class	Core Ability	Edict Symbol	Role
Warrior	Hold the Line		Frontline tanking, denial
Archer	Long Shot		Ranged strike, chip pressure
Rogue	Slipstrike		Flanking, repositioning attacks
Druid	Rootstep		Terrain traps, control
Mage	Arcshock		Area-of-effect damage
Cleric	Soul Echo		Utility, recovery

Glyphexes

• Hexagonal upgrade relics
  
• Contain:
  
  • 3 Basic Abilities (Attack, Dash, Fortify) – these are free to activate, the do not carry a CE cost to use.
    
  • 3 Variable Abilities (drawn from a shared ability pool) – these generally cost 1 CE to activate.
    
• Players build a 12-Glyphex deck before the game
  
• Glyphexes are attached to Hexmasters and rotated each turn to reveal active abilities
  
• Over 364 combinations possible with 14 core abilities
  

Core Energy (CE)

• Main resource: used to upgrade units, revive, and fuel advanced effects
  
• Players gain 1 CE per turn, starting from Turn 1
  
• Max CE is 3, with a temporary overflow CE allowed on the player’s turn only
  
• CE is also the HP of a player’s Home Base
  

World of Hexarion

A once-stable realm governed by six ancient metaphysical constructs called the Arcanodes. When these collapsed in an event known as The Fracture, reality shattered, and magic became unstable.

In the aftermath, six philosophical factions arose: the Hexbound Orders, each interpreting the Fracture through their own lens. Their champions, called Hexmasters, fight ritualized battles across fractured terrain. The players themselves are known as Hexlords — strategic entities commanding from beyond the field.

The Arcanodes & Their Collapse

Arcanode	Domain	Collapse Effect	Associated Order
Motion	Kinetics	Spatial instability	Emberclave
Form	Structure	Melting, instability	Obsidian Vow
Essence	Identity	Shifting shapes, mutations	Wyrmroot Pact
Thought	Perception	Illusions, dissonance	Circle of Veil
Connection	Energy links	Bond severing, misfires	Runehand Concord
Will	Intention	Dormant, reactive chaos	Shardbound Chorus

Hexbound Orders

Factions born from the Fracture, each with their own founding myths, tactical philosophies, and regional dominion.

Order	Style & Flavor
Emberclave	Tempo, burn, aggression (Motion)
Obsidian Vow	Fortification, denial, patience (Form)
Wyrmroot Pact	Terrain traps, slow pressure (Essence)
Circle of Veil	Illusion, silence, disruption (Thought)
Runehand Concord	CE control, recursion, optimization (Connection)
Shardbound Chorus	Volatile, reactive, instinctive play (Will)

Lore Highlights

• The Fracture shattered reality — the catalyst event for all current systems
  
• Glyphexes are not made — they are fragments of law from the broken Arcanodes
  
• Hexmasters are conduits. Hexlords are the architects behind them
  
• The Duel Protocol was formed after the Coreveil Convergence, standardizing sacred combat
  
• Tales of the Fracture volumes provide in-universe stories, myths, and expansion hooks
  

Tales of the Fracture – Volumes I–IV

These lore books cover:

1. Key events (Fracture, wars, collapses)
   
2. Order founding myths
   
3. CE anomalies, forbidden Glyphex tech
   
4. Legendary Hexlords, strategic mysteries, and glyphwright lore