Nightingale: How to get all Realm Cards
One of the most unique features of Nightingale is its Realm Card system. It lets you exert some degree of control regarding the game’s RNG-ness. There’s plenty of realmwalking to do in the Faewilds, and Realm Cards make sure that no two worlds are the same. You’ll need Realm Cards to visit new Realms (or return to old ones). With tons of cards to collect, it can be daunting to find them all. But fear not—we’ll list every Realm Card and how you can find them in Nightingale. You can also check out PlayerAuctions for other guides for the game.
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What Are Realm Cards in Nightingale?
Realm Cards are modifiers that determine the seed of the world that you’re about to generate. These can affect a world’s biome, the buffs and debuffs within that realm, the enemies that appear in it, and all sorts of other mutators. They come in three different flavors:
- Minor Cards – Changes weather conditions, resource spawns, player stats, world traits, etc.
- Biome Cards – Determines the world’s biome (Desert/Swamp/Forest).
- Major Cards – Alters the presence of NPCs, quests, enemy types, POIs, and more.
You’ll be asked to use one Major and Biome Card whenever you open a portal. You’ll need to find a Realmic Transmuter within that world to use Minor Realm Cards and place your modifiers there.
All Minor Cards in Nightingale List
| Minor Card Name | How to Get | Materials Needed to Craft | Description |
| Cleansing Card | Can be crafted using an Enchanter’s Focus | 10 Essence Dust, 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Removes all minor card effects from a Realm. |
| Amphibious Card | Can be looted from Fae Chests or bought from the Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader | 25 Essence Dust, 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Increases your swimming speed, ability to recover stamina while in water, and resistance to diseases. |
| Quarry Card | Can be looted from Fae Chests or bought from the Desert Herbarium Essence Trader | 1 Stone Block, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Increases stone yield, reduces the time needed to refine stone-related products and improves the quality of your stone items at the cost of the effectiveness of other materials. |
| Feast Card | Can be looted from Fae Chests or bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader | 1 Paper, 25 Essence Dust, 1 Ink | Prolongs the effects of a meal and lets you grow hungry more slowly and heal quickly. |
| Maleficiate Apogean Card | Can be looted from Fae Chests or purchased from the Ascended Desert Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Bound Ingot, 1 Foil Paper | Plunges a Realm into eternal night—greatly increasing the number of the Bound’s resources while dealing consistent damage to your character over time. |
| Dragon’s Hoard Card | Can be purchased from the Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader | 25 Essence Dust, 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Grows the content of chests and grants the chance to find rare games while lowering your damage resistance. |
| Duelist Card | Can be bought from the Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Ink, 1 Paper, 25 Essence Dust | Increases the damage you deal and the damage you receive. |
| Dragon’s Hoard Eminent Card | Can be purchased from the Forest Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Sapphire, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Grows the contents of chests, granting you a chance to find rare ores and gems while lowering your damage resistance. |
| Treasury Card | Can be purchased from the Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader | 25 Essence Dust, 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Increases your chance of finding essence. |
| Might Card | Can be bought from the Desert Astrolabe Essence Trader | 1 Ink, 1 Paper, 25 Essence Dust | Increases your carrying capacity and strength at the cost of your clothing’s and tools’ durability. |
| Tavern Card | Can be bought from the Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader | 1 Paper, 1 Ink, 25 Essence Dust | Lets you recover your stamina more quickly, grow tired more slowly, and prolong the effect of a meal and rest. |
| Ghost Card | Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Obsidian Glass, 1 Foil Paper, 1 Lustrous Ink | Increases the yield of Essences and resources and improves your stealth while reducing the damage you deal to enemies. |
| Hunter Eminent Card | Can be bought from the Ascended Desert Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Predator Bone, 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Foil Paper | Increases the yield gathered from creatures killed while increasing the damage you deal to weak points and decreasing your damage dealt elsewhere. |
| Maleficiate Card | Can be bought from the Desert Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Wick, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Plunges the Realm into eternal night, increasing the yield of the Bound’s resources. |
| Weight Eminent Card | Can be purchased from the Swamp Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Sandstone | Increases the efficiency of your harvesting and the damage you deal in exchange for weighting down your body and limiting the efficiency of your stamina. |
| Estate Address Card | Can be purchased from the Abeyance Essence Trader | 1 Ink, 1 Paper | Lets you do directly to a player’s Abeyance Realm. Can be gifted to other players, allowing them to visit your Estate while you’re offline. |
| Blood Moon Card | Can be bought from the Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader | 225 Essence Dust, 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Decreases your maximum health but increases the chance that enemies will drop rare items. |
| Utopia Apogean Card | Can be purchased from the Ascended Swamp Hunt Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Foil Paper, 1 Diamond | Invokes perpetual daylight and lets you become invisible to enemies. |
| Dragon’s Hoard Apogean Card | Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Sapphire, 1 Foil Paper | Grants you a chance to find rare ores and resources but lowers your damage resistance. |
| Alchemist Card | Can be bought from the Ascended Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader | 1 Diamond, 1 Foil Paper, 1 Lustrous Ink | Increases your chances of finding Essence, the Magick power of crafted items, and the yield of crafted potions. |
| Angler Card | Can be bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader | 25 Essence Dust, 1 Ink, 1 Paper | Hides you from hostile sight while fishing and improves your yield and skill. |
| Settler Card | Can be bought from the Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Ink, 1 Paper, 25 Essence Dust | Improves the fortitude of your structures and increases the yield of crops and refined building materials, but reduces your stamina recovery rate. |
| Thinned Veiled Card | Can be bought from the Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Paper, 25 Essence Dust, 1 Ink | Lets you leap safely to great heights, move more quickly, and use your stamina more efficiently. |
| Weighted Card | Can be purchased through the Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader | 25 Essence Dust, 1 Ink, 1 Paper | Increases the efficiency of your harvesting and the damage you deal, but weighs down your body and limits the efficiency of your stamina. |
| Settler Apogean Card | Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader | 1 Gilded Lumber, 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Foil Paper | Reduces your stamina recovery rate in exchange for increases the yield of crops and refined building materials, as well as improving the fortitude of your structures. |
| Tempest Apogean Card | Can be bought from the Ascended Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Sapphire, 1 Foil Paper | Increases the power of your Magick by bringing perpetual storms and an endless night. |
| Dragon’s Hoard Apogean Card | Can be bought from the Ascended Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Sapphire, 1 Foil Paper, 1 Lustrous Ink | Lowers your damage resistance but grows the contents of chests and grants you a chance to find rare resources, gems, and ores. |
| Blood Moon Apogean Card | Can be purchased from the Ascended Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Foil Paper, 1 Yew Lumber | Increases the chance that enemies will drop rare items but decreases the maximum health and regen rate. |
| Combatant’s Workshop Card | Can be purchased from the Desert Astrolabe Essence Trader | 1 Ink, 1 Paper, 25 Essence Dust | Lets you craft tools that deal greater damage but offer reduced yield. |
| Bulwark’s Workshop Card | Can be purchased from the Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader | 1 Paper, 1 Ink, 25 Essence Dust | Lets you craft durable tools that can enhance your blocking ability in exchange for increasing the stamina cost. |
| Harvester’s Workshop Card | Can be bought from the Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader | 25 Essence Dust, 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Lets you craft tools that offer reduced stamina cost and greater yield, but lowers damage. |
| Deep Fae Wilds Card | Can be bought from the Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Bound Ichor | Decreases the damage you deal, the rate at which your stamina and health recovers, and your maximum HP and stamina. |
| Tempest Card | Can be bought from the Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader | 25 Essence Dust, 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Brings in perpetual rains to increases the power of your Magick. |
| Industry Card | Can be purchased from the Desert Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Gunpowder, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Increases the yield of crafted ingots and ammunition, but also increases the crafting time for all refinements. |
| Artisan Card | Can be purchased from the Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Coated Paper | Lets you have crafted stations always augmented by the ideal environment regardless of placement and improves the durability of crafted items. |
| Blood Moon Eminent Card | Can be bought from the Desert Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Bound Ichor, 1 Coated Paper | Increases the chance that enemies will drop rare items but decreases your max HP and HP regeneration rate. |
| Treasury Eminent Card | Can be bought from the Forest Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Shimmering Ore, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Increases your chance of finding Essence and makes slaying creatures and harvesting produce Essence Dust. |
| Explorer Eminent Card | Can be bought from the Forest Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Shimmering Ore | Lets you travel more quickly and extends the benefit of your meals, improving the resistance to most damage forms. In exchange, it reduces the damage you can deal. |
| Greenhouse Card | Can be bought from the Swamp Hunt Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Flower | Reduces the time needed to refine plant products, increases plant yield, and improves the quality of plant-based items at the cost of the effectiveness of other materials. |
| Blunderbuss Card | Can be purchased from the Swamp Hunt Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Stock, 1 Coated Paper | Increases the yield of shotgun ammunition crafted, the damage you deal using Magick ammunition, and the damage you deal with shotguns, but reduces the damage you deal with other guns. |
| Farm Card | Can be purchased from the Forest Hunt Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Potato, 1 Coated Paper | Speeds up crop growth, improves their yield, and increases the chance of finding Essence when harvesting. |
| Hunter Card | Can be bought from the Desert Hunt Essence Trader | 1 Predator Meat, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Increases the damage you deal to weak points and yield gathered from slain enemies, but decreases your damage dealt elsewhere. |
| Marksman Card | Can be purchased from the Forest Hunt Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Barrel, 1 Coated Paper | Increases the damage you deal using rifles and with Magick ammunition, as well as the yield of rifle ammunition crafted. Reduces the damage you deal with other guns. |
| Fortitude Card | Can be bought from the Desert Herbarium Essence Trader | 1 Granite, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Improves your blocking ability, increases your resistance to injury, and increases the fortitude of your structures at the cost of your clothing’s and tools’ durability. |
| Forge Card | Can be bought from the Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Ingot, 1 Coated Paper | Reduces the time needed to refine ore products, increases ore yield, and improves the quality of metal items in exchange for reducing the effectiveness of other materials. |
| Lumber Mill Card | Can be purchased from the Forest Herbarium Essence Trader | 1 Lumber, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Improves the quality of wood items, increases wood yield, and reduces the time needed to refine wood products while reducing the effectiveness of other materials. |
| Settler Eminent Card | Can be bought from the Forest Herbarium Essence Trader | 1 Lumber, 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Coated Paper | Reduces stamina recovery rate but improves the durability of your structures and increases the yield of crops and building materials. |
| Outlaw Card | Can be bought from the Desert Hunt Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Action, 1 Coated Paper | Reduces the damage you deal using other guns, but increases your damage dealt with pistols and Magick ammunition equipped and the yield when crafting pistol ammunition. |
| Tempest Eminent Card | Can be bought from the Swamp Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Emerald, 1 Coated Paper | Increases the power of your Magick by bringing in perpetual storms. |
| Hearth Card | Can be bought from the Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader | 1 Carved Wood, 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Prolongs the effects of a rest and meal, lets you recovery stamina and health more quickly, and grow hungry and tired more slowly. |
| Trickster Card | Can be bought from the Forest Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Vibrant Ink, 1 Ayrium Ore, 1 Coated Paper | Lets you resist injury and leap to greater heights, but reduces damage dealt with anomalous effects to be expected. |
List of All Major Cards in Nightingale
| Major Card Name | Where to Purchase/How to Craft | Materials Needed to Craft | Description |
| Vault Card | The Watch | 5 T3 Essence, 1 Foil Paper, 1 Lustrous Ink | Opens a connection to a Fae Vault with advanced challenge. |
| Antiquarian Ascended Card | Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Coated Paper, 1 Vibrant Ink | Opens up a Realm of middling danger. |
| Abeyance Card | Provided after completing the tutorial. Can also be crafted using an Enchanter’s Focus | 1 Paper, 1 Ink | Opens up a Realm of minimal danger. |
| Antiquarian Card | Crafted using an Enchanter’s Focus | 1 Ink, 25 Essence Dust, 1 Paper | Opens up a Realm of middling danger. |
| Herbarium Ascended Card | Ascended Desert Provisioner Essence Trader, Ascended Forest Provisioner Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Foil Paper | Opens up a Realm of considerable danger, with plants grown in ancient Fae gardens. |
| Hunt Ascended Card | Ascended Forest Gloom Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Gloom Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Gloom Essence Trader | 1 Foil Paper, 1 Lustrous Ink | Opens up a Realm of great danger, where vicious creatures lurk. |
| Gloom Ascended Card | Ascended Forest Herbarium Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Herbarium Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader | 1 Foil Paper, 1 Lustrous Ink | Opens up a Realm of considerate danger, populated by Hermetics. |
| Astrolabe Ascended Card | Ascended Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Foil Paper | Opens up a Realm of moderate danger, populated by the Calcularia. |
| Provisioner Ascended Card | Ascended Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader, Ascended Desert Astrolabe Essence Trader, Ascended Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader | 1 Lustrous Ink, 1 Foil Paper | Opens up a Realm of moderate danger, populated by the NTTC. |
| Utopia Card | Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader | 1 Ink, 25 Essence Dust, 1 Paper | Opens up a Realm where the sun never sets. |
| Byway Card | N/A | N/A | Opens up a small, transient Realm. Used during the tutorial. |
List of All Biome Cards in Nightingale
| Biome Card Name | How to Unlock | Description |
| Swamp | Unlocked during the tutorial | Opens up a Realm of moor and swamp. |
| Desert | Unlocked during the tutorial | Opens a Realm of arid desert. |
| Forest | Unlocked during the tutorial | Opens up a Realm full of lush greenery. |
