The Sun Never Sets

The Sun Never Sets contains the Orient and Strongholds modules for Splendor.

What is included

Use the official 2024 English rules. This expansion includes 30 Orient development cards and 12 Strongholds. The official 2024 English booklet describes both modules and their combinations with the base game and the other Splendor modules.

Orient

Add two Orient cards beside each level’s base market row. Orient cards include conditional discounts, extra bonuses, card acquisition effects, and special discard requirements. Resolve each card’s printed instruction at its stated point in the purchase; an extra card gained by an effect does not consume another normal action.

Strongholds

After buying a card, place or move a stronghold to control a face-up card, or remove an opponent’s lone stronghold. A card protected only by your own strongholds is reserved for your use. Three of your strongholds on a card let you purchase it after your regular action.

Combining modules

The current booklet allows Strongholds on Orient cards. A protected card cannot be taken through an Orient free-card effect, and an Orient card that grants a free extra card does not trigger another purchase power or another Stronghold placement. A Trading Post that grants a token after a card purchase triggers once for an Orient purchase; it also triggers on a Strongholds Conquest purchase, and that token may help pay for the Conquest card. The Trading Post power that reserves one of two blind cards also works with Orient decks. If the two-virtual-gold Orient effect is used with the Trading Post that doubles spent gold, those virtual pieces remain wild.

The full printed card and tile faces are not available as a verified, readable public set, so exact face-by-face costs remain undocumented.