====== Glossary ======
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===== A =====

**Adjust Rigging** - A __Guard Card__.

**Alert** - A __Guard__ __Status__.

**Armour, The** - A __Treasure Card__.

**Arrow** - See __Arrow Cards__.

**Arrow Cards** - There are 3 __Guard Cards__ that are arrows and one __Thief__ Card.  These cards are __Moss__, __Noise__, __Rope__ and __Water__.

**Arrow, Moss** - A __Guard Card__ and an __Arrow Card__.

**Arrow, Noise** - A __Guard Card__ and an __Arrow Card__.

**Arrow, Rope** - A __Thief Card__ and an __Arrow Card__.

**Arrow, Water** - A __Guard Card__ and an __Arrow Card__.

**Art** - A __Guard Card__.

===== B =====
**Blue Crescent** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Stationary Guard__.

**Bored** - A __Guard__ __Status__.

===== C =====
**Compass Rose** - The hexagonal illustration in the middle of the __Play Aid__ showing the compass directions and the 6 numbers used by players for their __Thief Card__ movements.

**Co-ordinates** - A letter and a number at the centre top of a __Hex__ on a __Map Tile__ to distinguish it from every other hex on that tile.  Used with your __Location Dial__ to secretly track your hidden __Thief__.

**Counters** - There are two counters used in the game.  These are __Extinguished Torch__ and __Rock__.

**Crescent, Blue** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Stationary Guard__.

===== D =====
**Dice, Black** - A numbered die used for determining random start locations for __Wandering Guards__ and facing for __Stationary Guards__.

**Dice, White**- A die with dots used for showing the current __Phase__ of the __Movement Phases__.

**Diligent** - A __Guard Card__.

**Discard Pile** - see __Guard Card Discards__.

**Distracted** - A __Guard__ __Status__.

===== E =====
**East** - A __Thief Card__.

**Exit** - See __Exit Card__.

**Exit Card** - A __Thief Card__.  Played at the start of the game to indicate to all players which __Map Tile__ your thief will have to exit from in order to win the game.  The __Map Tile__ cannot be the __Vault Map Tile__ or the one you entered the game from. 

**Extinguished Torch** - A __Counter__ used to denote a __Hex__ you have used a __Water Arrow__ on.  No thief may be __Spotted__ on that hex, but may still be captured there if a guard and a thief are on that hex at the same time.  This counter is removed if a guard ever moves onto it.

**Eye, The** - A __Treasure Card__.

===== F =====
**First Player** - The current player that goes first.  Denoted with a First Player Card.

===== G =====
**Gold Coin** - A symbol on a __Thief Card__ that shows it can be spent to buy a __Guard Card__ in the __Resource Phase__.

**Green Line** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Patrolling Guard Route__.

**Green Star** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Patrolling Guard Start__.

**Green Shield** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Patrolling Guard End__.

**Guard** - At least one guard is on every __Map Tile__.  They are represented with green, blue or red meeples for either a __Patrolling Guard__, a __Stationary Guard__ or a __Wandering Guard__.

**Guard Card Discards** - When __Guard Cards__ are used, or after the __Resource Phase__ there are cards left, they are discarded to the discard pile space on the __Play Aid__.

**Guard Cards** - Cards that may be bought in the __Resource Phase__ or stolen from a __Guard__ with a __Pick Pocket__.  There are 24 cards that consist of __Adjust Rigging__ (x2), __Art__ (x2), __Diligent__ (x2), __Hip Flask__ (x2), __Lockpicks__ (x2), __Moss Arrow__ (x3), __Noise Arrow__ (x2), __Taffer Making Noise__ (x2), __Thrown Rock__ (x2), __Trip__ (x2), __Water Arrow__ (x3). 

**Guard, Patrolling** - see __Patrolling Guard__.

**Guard, Stationary** - see __Stationary Guard__.

**Guard, Wandering** - see __Wandering Guard__.

**Guards Movement Phase** - One of the two __Movement Phases__

===== H =====
**Hammer, The** - A __Treasure Card__.

**Hex** - See __Hexes__.

**Hexes** - Hexagonal spaces on the __Map Tiles__ and __Vault Map Tile__ that have __Co-ordinates__ on them and may have symbols denoting different game effects.  Types of hexes include __Patrolling Guard End__, __Patrolling Guard Route__, __Patrolling Guard Start__, __Special Hex__, __Vault Hex__, __Wall__, __Wandering Guard Route__, __Wandering Guard Start__.

**Hide** - A __Thief Card__.

**Hip Flask** - A __Guard Card__.

===== I =====
**Initiative Phase** - Part of the __Sequence of Play__ for a __Turn__.  This is where you change the __First Player__ to the next clockwise player.

**Interested** - A __Guard__ __Status__.

===== L =====
**Lantern, The** - A __Treasure Card__.

**Line of Sight** - Any full __Hex__ that can be seen by a __Guard__.  What hexes a guard can see depends on their __Status__.

**Line, Green** - see __Patrolling Guard Route__.

**Location Dial** - A tool for secretly recording the hidden location of your __Thief__.  The location dial has two dials, one with letters and the second showing numbers.  It's used to record the __Co-Ordinates__ of the __Hex__ of the __Map Tile__ your thief is on.

**Lockpicks** - A __Guard Card__.

===== M =====
**Map Tile** - There are five large hexagonal cardboard map tiles in the game with __Hexes__ on them and one with the __Vault Hex__ in the centre, marking it as the __Vault Map Tile__.

**Moss Arrow** - A __Guard Card__.

**Movement Phases** - Part of the __Sequence of Play__ for a __Turn__.  The movement phases are __Guards Movement Phase__ and __Players Movement Phase__.  These are repeated five times in a turn.

===== N =====
**Noise** - When a player uses a __Run Card__ from their __Thief Deck__ they make noise and cause __Guards__ to become __Alert__ if they are __Distracted__, __Bored__ or __Interested__.

**Noise Arrow** - A __Guard Card__.

**Nor-East** - A __Thief Card__.

**Nor-West** - A __Thief Card__.

**Not Found** - When a __Guard__ that is __Pursuing__ a __Thief__ reaches their __Thief Marker__ and discovers the thief has since moved out of __Line of Sight__, they change __Status__ to __Returning__.


===== O =====
**Outside Hex** - Any of the six corner __Hexes__ on a __Map Tile__ that isn't next to another map tile or the __Vault Map Tile__.  __Thieves__ can only enter or leave the Keep through an Outside Hex.

===== P =====
**Patrol Route** - see __Patrolling Guard Route__.

**Patrolling Guard** - A type of __Guard__.  Shown on the board with a green meeple.

**Patrolling Guard End** - The green shield symbol on a __Hex__ of a __Map Tile__ that signifies a __Patrolling Guard__ will turn around and head back along its __Patrolling Guard Route__ until it reaches the __Patrolling Guard Start__ hex.

**Patrolling Guard Route** - The green line on a __Hex__ of a __Map Tile__ that signifies the route a __Patrolling Guard__ will go back and forth on.

**Patrolling Guard Start** - The green star symbol on a __Hex__ of a __Map Tile__ that signifies a __Patrolling Guard__ will turn around and head back along its __Patrolling Guard Route__ until it reaches the __Patrolling Guard End__ hex.  Also the hex it starts the game on when first placed.

**Phases** - There are three phases in a __Turn__.  The __Initiative Phase__, then the __Resource Phase__ then five repetitions of the __Movement Phase__ which is broken down into the __Guards Movement Phase__ and the __Players Movement Phase__.

**Pick Pocket** - A __Thief Card__.  Only  useful if your thief is adjacent to, and out of __Line of Sight__ of a __Guard__.

**Play Aid** - A large hexagon of the same size as the __Map Tiles__ but containing a place to put the __Guard Cards__ the __Guard Card Discards__ and showing the __Compass Rose__ for directions and a summary of the __Statuses__

**Players Movement Phase** - The second part of the __Movement Phase__ in which players may use a __Thief Card__ or __Guard Card__, __Rest__ or __Pick Pockets__.

**Pursuing** - A __Guard__ __Status__.

===== R =====
**Resource Phase** - The second __Phase__ of a __Turn__.  When 5 __Guard Cards__ are made available to buy and __Resting__ __Thief Markers__ are removed.

**Rest** - A __Thief Card__.  The only way to get __Thief Cards__ back, but it reveals your __Thief's__ location to the other players (but not to the __Guards__).

**Returning** - A __Guard__ __Status__.

**Rock** - A counter used to show where the rock has landed from playing a __Thrown Rock__ __Guard Card__

**Rope Arrow** - A __Thief Card__. Only useful if your thief is adjacent to a __Special Hex__.

**Run** - A __Thief Card__. 

===== S =====
**Sequence of Play** - The order that phases occur in a turn.  __Initiative Phase__, __Resource Phase__, __Movement Phase__ x5.

**Shield, Green** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Patrolling Guard End__.

**Shield, Red** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Wandering Guard Start__.

**Sou-East** - A __Thief Card__. 

**Sou-West** - A __Thief Card__. 

**Special Hex** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__. 
 
**Spotted** - When a __Guard__ ends its move within __Line of Sight__ of a __Thief__ or a thief ends its move in the line of sight of a guard.

**Star** - A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.   see __Patrolling Guard Start__.

**Star, Green** -  A symbol on a __Map Tile__ __Hex__.  see __Patrolling Guard Start__.

**Stationary Guard** - A type of __Guard__.  Shown on the board with a blue meeple.

**Status** - see __Statuses__.

**Status Marker** - A hexagonal counter you place underneath the __Guard's__ meeple to show its status and which direction it is looking.

**Statuses** - There are six statuses a __Guard__ may have.  __Distracted__, __Bored__, __Interested__, __Alert__, __Pursuing__ and __Returning__

**Sword, The** - A __Treasure Card__

===== T =====
**Taffer** - Derogatory term.

**Taffer Making Noise** - A __Guard Card__.

**The Armour** - A __Treasure Card__.

**The Eye** - A __Treasure Card__.

**The Hammer** - A __Treasure Card__.

**The Lantern** - A __Treasure Card__.

**The Sword** - A __Treasure Card__.

**Thief** - Your character in the game.  Usually their location on the board is unknown, but occasionally a __Thief Marker__ will be placed to show where they were when __Spotted__ or __Resting__.  If your thief is ever in the same __Hex__ as a __Guard__ your thief is captured and you lose the game.

**Thief Cards** - The default cards for each player.  There are twelve cards.  These cards are __Nor-East__, __Nor-West__, __East__, __West__, __Sou-East__, __Sou-West__, __Rest__, __Pick Pocket__, __Run__, __Hide__, __Rope Arrow__ and your __Exit__ card.

**Thief Deck** - The cards a player may use.  This includes unplayed and unspent __Thief Cards__ and any __Guard Cards__ the player has bought in the __Resource Phase__ or __Pick Pocketted__ in the __Players Movement Phase__

**Thief Marker** - The translucent marker the same colour as the player's __Location Dial__ and __Thief Cards__.  Used to show where their __Thief__ was last seen and at the start of the game, which __Map Tile__ they will be entering.

**Thrown Rock** - A __Guard Card__.

**Treasure** - What your thief needs to steal to win the game.  Treasure is stolen from the __Vault Hex__ on the __Vault Map Tile__ and represented with a __Treasure Card__ which also limits your movement when revealed.
 
**Treasure Cards** - There are five treasure cards. These cards are __The Armour__, __The Eye__, __The Hammer__, __The Lantern__ and __The Sword__.

**Trip** - A __Guard Card__.

**Turn** - One turn consists of three __Phases__.  The __Initiative Phase__, the __Resource Phase__ and the __Movement Phase__ which is repeated five times.  The movement phase is broken down into the __Guards Movement Phase__ and the __Players Movement Phase__

**Turn Sequence** - see __Sequence of Play__.

===== V =====
**Vault** - see __Vault Hex__.

**Vault Hex** - The __Hex__ with a yellow crown symbol on it. You reveal your __Treasure Card__ when you enter the hex, But it only effects you when you leave it. 

**Vault Map Tile** - The __Map Tile__ that has the __Vault Hex__ on it.

**Vault Tile** - see __Vault Map Tile__

===== W =====
**Wandering Guard** - A type of __Guard__.  Shown on the board with a red meeple.

**Wandering Guard Route** - The red arrow on a __Hex__ of a __Map Tile__ that signifies the route a __Wandering Guard__ will follow.

**Wandering Guard Start** - The red shield on a __Hex__ of a __Map Tile__ that signifies where a __Wandering Guard__ might start when first placed on the tile.

**Wandering Route** - see __Wandering Guard Route__.

**Wandering Start** - see __Wandering Guard Start__.

**Water Arrow** - A __Guard Card__.

**West** - A __Thief Card__.