What are the Nightingale Realm Cards? If you plan to leave the home comforts of your Respite Realm’s estate behind and strike off into the great Faewilds, then Realm Cards are your first port of call. These cards put the power of procedural generation directly in your hands, allowing you to tailor any prospective expedition to your needs. With endless possibilities at your fingertips, we’re here to walk you through all the Nightingale Realm Cards at your disposal.
Realm Cards give you control over the setting and theme of Nightingale’s procedurally generated worlds, allowing you to impose modifiers to gather unique resources or encounter rare bosses. The crafting game’s deck is also set to expand as Inflexion Games continues to add new content during early access. Once you close a portal, the exact specifications of that realm are lost forever. If you want to make the most out of this core mechanic, here’s every Nightingale Realm Card and how to craft them.
All Nightingale Realm Cards
There are three different types of Nightingale Realm cards: Biome Cards, Major Cards, and Minor Cards.
Biome Realm Cards
Biome Cards serve as the foundation of the Realm’s setting, including the types of creatures and resources you’ll encounter.
Here are all the Nightingale Biome Cards:
| Biome Card | Effect | Materials Required |
| Byway | A small transient Realm that serves as a pathway between larger Realms. | N/A |
| Desert | A Realm of arid desert. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink |
| Forest | A Realm lush with forest. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink |
| Swamp | A Realm of swamp and moor. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink |
Major Realm Cards
Major Realm Cards set the Realm’s difficulty and establish its theme, generating certain NPCs and points of interest. Some Major Realm Cards have ascended versions that offer a higher mode of difficulty for than their regular counterparts, making them ideal for seasoned Realmwalkers looking for a challenge.
Here are all the Nightingale Major Cards:
| Major Cards | Effect | Materials Required |
| Abeyance | A Realm of minimal damager, suitable for the construction of an estate. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink |
| Antiquarian | A Realm of middling danger, settled by Druids and rife with Fae ruins. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Antiquarian Ascended | A Realm of middling danger, settled by Druids and rife with Fae ruins. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink |
| Astrolabe | A Realm of moderate danger, populated by the Calcularia and the ruins of humanity’s Realmic airfields. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Astrolabe Ascended | A Realm of moderate danger, populated by the Calcularia and the ruins of humanity’s Realmic airfields. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink |
| Estate Address | Go directly to a specific player’s Abeyance Realm. Gift to other players to allow them to visit your estate while you’re offline. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Gloom | A Realm of considerable danger and perpetual darkness, populated by Hermetics. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Gloom Ascended | A Realm of considerable danger and perpetual darkness, populated by Hermetics. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink |
| Herbarium | A Realm of considerable danger, with miraculous plant growth fueled by ancient Fae Gardens. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Herbarium Ascended | A Realm of considerable danger, with miraculous plant growth fuelled by ancient Fae gardens. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink |
| Hunt | A Realm of great danger, where vicious creatures abound and only seasoned Explorers dare to tread. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Hunt Ascended | A Realm of great danger, where vicious creatures abound and only seasoned Explorers dare to tread. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink |
| Provisioner | A Realm of moderate danger, populated by the NTTC and their industrial refineries. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Provisioner Ascended | A Realm of moderate danger, populated by the NTTC and their industrial refineries. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink |
| Vault | Open a connection to a Fae vault with an advanced challenge. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 5x T3 Essence |
Minor Realm Cards
Minor Realm Cards govern specific variables like weather patterns, spawn rates, resource yield, and even gravity. Minor Cards often come with a penalty to offset their bonus effects. Some Minor Cards also have Apogean and Eminent versions; these higher tier cards activate effects that have greater risk, but also offer far greater rewards than their regular counterparts.
Here are all the Nightingale Minor Cards:
| Minor Cards | Effect | Materials Required |
| Alchemist | Increases the yield of crafted potions, your chance of finding Essence, and the magick power of crafted items. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Diamond |
| Amphibious | Increase your swimming speed, resistance to disease, and ability to recover stamina in water. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Angler | Improve your fishing skill and yield, hiding you from hostile sight while fishing. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Artisan | Improve the durability of crafted items and have crafting stations always augmented by the ideal environment, regardless of placement. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink |
| Blood Moon | Increase the chance that enemies will drop rare items, but decrease your maximum health. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Blood Moon Apogean | Increase the chance that enemies will drop rare items, but decrease your maximum health and regeneration rate. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Yew Lumber |
| Blood Moon Eminent | Increase the chance that enemies will drop rare items, but decrease your maximum health and regeneration rate. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Bound Ichor |
| Blunderbuss | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Stock |
| Bulwark’s Workshop | Craft durable tools that enhance your blocking ability but increase stamina cost. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Combatant’s Workshop | Craft tool that deal greater damage, but offer reduced yield. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Cleansing | Remove all minor card effects from a Realm. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 10x Essence Dust |
| Deep Fae Wilds | Decrease the damage you deal, your maximum health and stamina, as well as the rate at which your health and stamina recover. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Bound Ichor |
| Dragon’s Hoard | Grow the content of chests and grant a chance to find rare gems, while lowering your damage resistance | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Dragon’s Hoard Apogean | Grow the content of chests, granting a chance to find rare gems, ore and resources, while lowering your damage resistance. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Sapphire |
| Dragon’s Hoard Eminent | Grow the content of chests, granting a chance to find rare gems and ore, while lowering your damage resistance. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Sapphire |
| Duelist | Increase the damage you deal as well as the damage you receive | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Explorer | Travel more quickly, improving your resistances to most forms of damage while reducing the damage you can deal. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Explorer Eminent | Travel more quickly, extending the benefits of meals and improving resistance to most forms of damage while reducing the damage you can deal. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Shimmering Ore |
| Farm | Increase the speed of crop growth, improve their yield, and increase the chance of finding Essence when harvesting. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Potato |
| Feast | Prolong the effects of a meal, grow hungry more slowly and heal more quickly. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Forge | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Ingot |
| Fortitude | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Granite |
| Ghost | Improve your stealth and increase the yield of resources and Essence while reducing the damage you deal. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Obsidian Glass |
| Greenhouse | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Flower |
| Harvester’s Workshop | Craft tools that offer greater yield and more efficient stamina usage, but lower damage. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Hearth | Prolong the effects of a meal and rest, grow tired and hungry more slowly, and recover health and stamina more quickly. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Carved Wood |
| Hunter | Increase the yield gathered from slain creatures while increasing the damage you deal to weak points and decreasing your damage elsewhere. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Predator Meat |
| Hunter Eminent | Increase the yield gathered from slain creatures while increasing the damage you deal to weak points and decreasing your damage dealt elsewhere. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Predator Bone |
| Industry | Increase the yield of crafted ammunition and ingots as well as the crafting time of all refinement. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Gunpowder |
| Lumber Mill | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Lumber |
| Maleficiate | Plunge a Realm into eternal night and increase the yield of the Bound’s resources | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Wick |
| Maleficiate Apogean | Plunge a Realm into eternal night and increase the yield of the Bound’s resources, but dealing consistent damage to you over time. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Bound Ingot |
| Marksman | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Barrel |
| Might | Increase your strength and carrying capacity at the cost of your tools’ and clothing’s durability | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Outlaw | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Action |
| Quarry | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Stone Block |
| Settler | 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. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25 Essence Dust |
| Settler Apogean | 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. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Gilded Lumber |
| Settler Eminent | 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. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Lumber |
| Tavern | Prolong the effects of a meal and rest, grow tired more slowly, and recover your stamina more quickly | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Tempest Card | Bring perpetual rains and increase the potency of your magick. | 1x Paper, 1x ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Tempest Apogean | Bring perpetual storms and endless night, increasing the potency of your magick. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Sapphire |
| Tempest Eminent | Bring perpetual storms and increase the potency of your magick. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Emerald |
| Thinned Veil | Move more quickly, leap safely to great heights, and use stamina more efficiently. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Treasury | Increase the chance of finding Essence. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Treasury Eminent | Increase the chance of finding Essence and to make slaying creatures and harvesting produce Essence Dust. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Shimmering Ore |
| Trickster | Leap to great heights, resist injury and feel your strength bolstered. Damage dealt will be reduced, however, and further anomalous effects should be expected. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Ayrium Ore |
| Utopia | Seek a Realm where the sun never sets. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Utopia Apogean | Invoke perpetual daylight and become invisible to enemies. | 1x Foil Paper, 1x Lustrous Ink, 1x Diamond |
| Weighted | Increase the damage you deal and the efficiency of your harvesting while weighing down your body and limiting the efficiency of your stamina. | 1x Paper, 1x Ink, 25x Essence Dust |
| Weighted Eminent | Increase the damage you deal and the efficiency of your harvesting while weighing down your body and limiting the efficiency of your stamina. | 1x Coated Paper, 1x Vibrant Ink, 1x Sandstone |
How to get Nightingale Realm Cards
You can get Nightingale Realm Cards by looting Fae chests, completing quests and Sites of Power, or crafting them yourself at a Simple Enchanter’s Focus crafting bench.
Before you can craft Nightingale Realm Cards, you need to have its crafting recipe first. Your first port of call should be the Nightingale Essence Dealer, who sells a range of Realm Card crafting recipes starting at 30 Essence Dust.
Standard Realm Cards require Alchemical Ink, Paper, and Essence Dust as standard, though the amount required varies depending on the card. You can craft Alchemical Ink at a Simple Mortar Station with Refined Pigment and Glass, while Paper can be crafted using Wood Bundles at the Simple Saw Table.
How to use Nightingale Realm Cards
You can use Nightingale Realm cards by interacting with a Realm Card Machine or Realmic Transmuter, depending on the type of Realm Card you want to use.
Realm Card Machines resemble an old-fashioned Victorian printing press and can be found near portals in the open-world game. To activate a portal with Nightingale Realm Card, simply drag and drop a Biome Card and Major Card from your collection onto the empty slots in the Realm Card Machine’s menu, and open the portal.
Nightingale Realmic Transmuters are elaborate golden orreries that are typically found at the top of Fae Towers. These machines are where you use your Minor Cards, and unlike Realm Card Machines, these changes take place instantaneously. Only one Minor Card can be active at a Realmic Transmuter at a time, so we do recommend you craft your own Realmic Transmuter Remote Control to adjust parameters without making the constant trek back and forth.
Now that you’re an expert in Nightingale Realm Cards, you can begin to explore the farthest reaches of the Faewilds in Nightingale multiplayer. We’ve also got the Nightingale system requirements so you can take in the survival game’s stunning visuals with minimal hardware strain.