You are playing Nightmare mode.
For at that time the realm of Angmar arose in the North beyond the Ettenmoors. Its lands lay on both sides of the Mountains, and there were gathered many evil men, and Orcs, and other fell creatures.
–The Return of the King
Begin with the standard quest deck and encounter deck for The Dread Realm scenario.
Remove the following cards, in the specified quantities, from the standard encounter deck:
3x Witch of Angmar
2x A Fell Dread
1x Unholy Crypt
1x Sinister Dungeon
2x Dead Lord
3x Terror of the North
Then, shuffle the encounter cards in this Nightmare Deck into the remainder of the standard The Dread Realm encounter deck.
Finally, flip this setup card over and place it next to the quest deck. Its effect remains active throughout the game, which is now ready to begin.
While you are engaged with Silent Guardian it gains:"Forced: The first time you play an event card each round, instead of discarding that card after playing it, reanimate it."
Forced: When Necromancer of Carn D–m would attack you, instead reanimate the top card of your deck and deal it each of the Necromancer of Carn D–m's shadow cards.
Progress cannot be placed on Inner Sanctum while it is in the staging area.
Travel: Discard the top 3 cards of the encounter deck. Resolve the 'when revealed' effects of each Sorcery card discarded by this effect.
While Cursed Halls is in the staging area, Sorcery attachments are immune to player card effects.
Shadow: Until the end of the phase, attacking enemy gets +1 and +1 for each Reanimated Dead engaged with you.
When Revealed: Attach All is Lost to the first player's threat dial. (Counts as a Condition attachment with the text: "Each time you attack a Reanimated Dead, raise your threat by 1.")
Shadow: If attacking enemy is a Reanimated Dead, it attacks again after this attack.
Daechanar is powerful in the art of necromancy. His army will not rest until you join them in death.
Time 5. Forced: When the last time counter is removed from this quest, reanimated each card in each player's discard pile. Then, remove The Witch-king's Gift from the game.
When this quest is defeated, place it in the encounter discard pile.