Kingdom Death: Monster – Lion Knight Expansion

About this expansion

Kingdom Death: Monster – Lion Knight Expansion is a 2016 board game expansion for 1–6 players, with an approximate play time of 180 minutes.

The Lion Knight is incapable of emotion and seeks to understand the world through bizarre, self-serving stage productions. Detached from the ordinary world between performances, it observes life from a distant, unaffected perspective.

When the time comes for another performance, the Lion Knight’s masked retinue gathers “actors” to join it onstage. These survivors are drawn into a strange theatrical world where excitement, fear, and death become the experiences the Lion Knight wants to capture and understand.

The central tension of the Lion Knight Expansion lies in the question of obedience. The performers may have been given scripts, but the survivors are not necessarily bound to follow them. Their choices determine whether they remain within the Lion Knight’s intended drama or resist the role assigned to them.

With its unsettling theatrical premise, this Kingdom Death: Monster expansion presents a distinctive encounter built around performance, observation, and mortality. The Lion Knight is not simply a distant presence: it is the director of a disturbing spectacle, using its masked retinue and unwilling actors to pursue an emotion it cannot experience for itself.

Players who enjoy dark fantasy themes and ominous narrative situations will find a memorable concept in this expansion. Every performance carries the possibility of fear and death, while the survivors retain the crucial decision of whether to stick to their scripts.