Queen of Dust

The Queen of Dust is the third Court boss in Hand of Fate, as well as a Monster Card which can be encountered normally after her defeat.

Lore

 * The Bandit Queen was taken by slavers as a child and raised in the desert. Over the years, she has bribed and murdered her way to her current position as second-in-command of the desert thieves, proving herself capable of ruthless cunning.

Queen of Dust Court

 * Encounter deck size: 16
 * Encounter Cards added: 2x random Merchant Cards, 3x Rock Fall!
 * Equipment deck size: 16
 * Maximum stair count: 2

Curses

 * Money Bags: In combat, the player's movement speed is reduced by how much gold they possess.

Challenges

 * 3 x Rock Fall!
 * 3 x Good Fortune:

Token unlocks

 * 4 Encounter Cards
 * Jack of Plague
 * Asleep in the Forest
 * Mage's Tower
 * Field of Poppies


 * 3 Equipment Cards
 * Armour of Cold
 * Fleet Cuffs
 * Huge Hammer

Court Reward

 * The Goblet

Queen of Dust enemy
The Queen of Dust is a female bandit, armed with a large sword, and accompanied by three other bandits. She spawns with a unqiue, immobile crossbow turret that shoots at the player every few seconds. The crossbow is considered an additional enemy and must be killed to end the encounter. It has about as many hit points as a bandit, but does not suffer from stun-lock. When encountered as a boss, the Queen of Dust will be accompanied by one monster card.

Most of the Queen of Dust's attacks cannot be blocked and must be dodged. She has three attacks - one is a single attack, which deals above-average damage for a bandit, a variant of that that can be blocked, and the third is a series of five attacks which can easily trap the player into being struck five times, with each attack doing about as much damage as a normal bandit's attack. After she has been defeated the first time, she will throw knives in subsequent encounters. These can be deflected.