There are 29 place cards. Each card shows a short summary; the full text appears in the info panel on the right once the card is selected. Card kinds:

Road — on a road cell (not the beacon): grove, shelter, rift, hamlet, graveyard…
Roadside — on a cell next to the road: lair, ruins, lantern, forge…
Void — on any cell off the road: rock, mountain, meadow, thicket…
Special — with their own rules: Ebb removes a place or creatures, Signal fire burns creatures away, Courier cache grants resources.

Places grant health, healing and resources, but many spawn creatures: such places show how many days remain until the next one. Every card adds shards. The hand holds up to 10 cards; an extra old card turns into resources. A cell the Wave has passed over cannot be used for two days.

Burn. Each completed loop charges the flint (charges do not stack); in the first loop it flares up as soon as three flammable places stand together. Click “Burn” in the hand or press G, then a flammable place: grove, thicket, meadow, farmstead, shelter, hive, den. The fire spreads to neighbouring flammable places by itself; bare road, rock and water are firebreaks. Each burned place pays out loot at once, and from the third place on all loot of the burn grows, up to ×2. Creatures on a burning tile and on the road next to it burn; a beast gives rations. The warden gets singed next to the fire. A card placed on ash gives double shards.

Burning the herald. When the herald comes to the beacon, the flint flares up by itself. Each place burned while it is there takes 2% of the herald's health, up to 30%: at the start of the fight if it is still waiting, at once if the fight is on. The price is the meadows and shelters that would have healed the warden on the way to the beacon.