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What does the favored card type on the characters do?

I have just started, and have a lot of questions. I notice I am confused, so what am I misunderstanding? First: How does perma-death work? I tried doing a solo run of just the rogue (Merisiel), figuring that the backstab-when-alone ability would help me kill things. Naturally, it failed badly -- ran out of cards, and died. I did not have perma death, so I can try again. But ... If there are only 11 characters (not sure if the others are DLC or game unlocks), and you only get one of each (character was locked after being selected), and you've lost a few to perma-death? I did not see a "start over" button anywhere. Second: How do you use the blessing deck? Each turn a blessing is revealed, but I can't see any way to use it, other than blessing of the gods letting me replace that text with the text of the blessing deck. Is that the only way, or is there something else I'll find later? Third: Do I have the basics of the resource mechanics right in this summary: 1, each character starts with 15 cards/hit points, and can expect to spend about 1 card per location card, 2, each location has 10 cards, 3, the number of locations is 2 + number of characters, 4, so the number of cards you might have to go through is 20 + 10*characters, 5, but you have a maximum of 30 turns, possibly less, before the blessing deck runs out Implying that while more characters gives you more firepower and hitpoints for defeating and closing, the increase in number of cards to go through makes bigger parties harder? (Which gets to the recommended size of 3-4 characters?) This also implies that free explorations becomes very important, yet so far each free exploration I've seen requires discarding (not recharging), so there's a limit if you can't heal. And finally for now, is Kyra the only person that can heal/recover cards? Given the timing of things, does that make her the only one capable of solo, or required in small parties (few party member cards)? Equally, is the paladin ("crusade") required on large parties as the only one capable of skipping less important explores?

(bump) So from reading the forums, it seems that party size only matters for gold reward on the highest difficulty; the first two only pay out once and ignore party size.

When Merisiel uses hide to evade an encounter, the monster is undefeated -- but is shuffled back in, instead of being banished.

The blessing deck turned up Blessing of Calistria on this turn. And that says, if the top card of the blessings discard pile has the Calistria trait, recharge instead of discarding. Ok. So, I played a Blessing of the gods, made sure it was in copy mode, and was expecting it to recharge back to my deck. Nope, it went to the discard pile. Doing a search, I could not find this exact problem. But I did find a *lot* of issues with BotG and Merisiel (trying her as a solo). Stock deck, first deck, first scenario, second location (woods). Playing on steam. Steam's forums said to report bugs here.