You and your compatriots have united around a common goal in service of your liege, the Queen of Hearts: liberate Le Palais de L’Amour, so that the people of your land may unfreeze their hearts and find romance again. Successfully besieging Le Palais will benefit each one of you, but the Queen has promised special influence and favor to whoever blossoms most under her adoring gaze.

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Enchantement, Vanité, & Tendresse is a romantic new take on Tyler Crumrine’s map-labeling game Beak, Feather, & Bone, inspired by Georg Matthaüs Seutter’s “Allegorical Map of the Siege of the Castle of Love,” published in 1735.

Players start with an unlabeled map of a besieged heart, and are assigned community roles that represent the stakeholders in the battle for Le Palais de L’Amour — the Castle of Love.