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title: "Rise of Governors – Game Mechanics"
description: "Annual Special 2026 - Rise of Governors - Game Mechanics"
url: https://support.travian.com/en/articles/232-rise-of-governors-game-mechanics
collection: "Rise of Governors"
updated: 2026-11-05
language: en
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# Rise of Governors – Game Mechanics

Annual Special 2026 - Rise of Governors - Game Mechanics

Rise of Governors is the **2026 Annual Special** of Travian: Legends. This guide gives an overview of how this special differs from regular game worlds. 

## Main Features Kept from Previous Annual Specials 

Rise of Governors continues to use several established Annual Special mechanics: 

-   **Ancient Europe map** with **region-based spawning**, and the map **edges can be crossed**. 
    

-   **87 conquerable regions** that generate **Victory Points (VPs)** instead of a World Wonder endgame. 
    
    -   [Special Servers - Regional Map](https://support.travian.com/articles/27) 
        
    -   [Special Servers - Regions and Population](https://support.travian.com/articles/26)  
        

-   **Victory Points stored in villages**. 
    
    -   [Special Servers - Ancient Powers and Victory Points](https://support.travian.com/articles/106) 
        

-   **Item Crafting**: Smelt, forge and refine items 
    
    -   Including latest balancing changes 
        
    -   [Special Servers - Item Crafting](https://support.travian.com/articles/22) 
        

-   **Item Rarity:** Items in 4 rarity levels, combined with the usual three quality tiers. 
    
    -   [Special Servers - Common, Uncommon, Rare and Epic Items](https://support.travian.com/articles/23) 
        

-   **More Adventures**:  
    
    -   adventures are generated twice as fast 
        
    -   they are half as difficult and provide half the hero experience
        
    -   you must complete 15 adventures (instead of 10) before accessing the Auction House 
        
-   **Better Loot**: Adventures give better rewards 
    

-   **Adjusted Hero Damage Model** 
    
    -   If **initial damage is 95 or more**, the hero dies immediately (before reductions). 
        
    -   If **initial damage is below 95**, item bonuses apply, and the hero only dies if the final damage equals or exceeds the hero’s remaining health. 
        

-   **Keep Tribe on Conquer** feature. 
    
    -   [Special Servers - Keep Tribe on Conquest](https://support.travian.com/articles/29) 
        

-   **Choose the tribe** of your **first three settled villages.** Conquest does not count. This choice cannot be reused even if those villages are lost. 
    

-   **Troop forwarding** (including bulk forwarding) and **troop merging**. 
    
    -   [Special Servers - Keep Tribe on Conquest](https://support.travian.com/articles/72) 
        
    -   [Special Servers - Merging Troops](https://support.travian.com/articles/73) 
        

-   **Cities** and **Watchtowers** remain part of gameplay. 
    
    -   [Special Servers - Cities](https://support.travian.com/articles/79) 
        
    -   [Special Servers - Watchtowers](https://support.travian.com/articles/78) 
        

-   **Alliance attack and raid visibility** in the alliance member list. 
    
    -   [Special Servers - Alliance Attack Notifications](https://support.travian.com/articles/31) 
        

-   **No confederacies**. 
    

-   **Faster construction:** All resource fields plus the Main Building, Granary, and Warehouse (including great variants) build **25% faster**. 
    

-   **Improved alliance bonuses:**
    
    -   The **commerce bonus** increases merchant speed and capacity. 
        
    -   The **philosophy bonus** improves Town Hall celebrations and artworks, and increases their limits. 
        

## New Features in Rise of Governors 

### Season Pass 

Permanent progression system for your lobby account. Play on participating game worlds to do missions, which unlock rewards that you can use on any participating game worlds. 

-   [**Learn more about the Season Pass, Missions & Rewards**](https://support.travian.com/articles/229)
    

### Cleopatra 

The first of Governors in Travian: Legends, Cleopatra increases crop production of a village. Unlock her by getting Cleopatra Stars as a reward in the Season Pass. Keep Cleopatra permanently for future game worlds. 

-   [**Learn more about Governors**](https://support.travian.com/articles/228)
    

-   [**Learn more about Cleopatra**](https://support.travian.com/articles/226)
    

### Shards 

Use Shards received from Season Pass on any participating game world to shorten building time construction, skip videos or gain extra Travian Plus duration. 

-   [**Learn more about Shards**](https://support.travian.com/articles/227)