Presence
Presence (
) are physical pieces that Spirits use in a game of Spirit Island. All Spirits start the game with one or more Presence already on the island, with the rest covering Presence Track icons on their Spirit Panel. The majority of Spirits have a total of 13 Presence.
Spirit Presence marks the lands a Spirit occupies. Lands with your Presence are sometimes referred to as "your lands". If your Presence is ever destroyed (for example, by Invaders Blighting the land), it is removed and put next to the island. If any Spirit ever has no Presence left on the island, the players immediately lose. A land can hold any number of Presence from any number of Spirits.
Game effects that do things with Presence (such as move it or destroy it) always affect Presence on the island unless they say otherwise.
Sacred Sites
A Spirit's Sacred Sites (
) are any lands where that Spirit has more than one Presence. Some Powers (like Tsunami or Purifying Flame) can only be used from these places of focused influence.