As you wade into the river, your foes attempt to repel you with sling and spear. The Dunlending chieftain Grimrede shoulders his axe and steps before you, growling. “The land of green hills shall be ours again. It was taken from us by iron and flame. So will we reclaim it.”

When Revealed: Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards until X enemies are discarded. X is 1 less than the number of players. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.

Grimrede engages the first player. Enemies get –10 engagement cost and cannot be optionally engaged.

Narrow Crossing cannot have more than 15 resource tokens on it.

Grimrede cannot be defeated while this stage has any quest points remaining. This stage cannot be defeated unless Grimrede is in the victory display.