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"Mother, please calm down." Taqren rests a hand on Z'hana's shoulder
as they exit the gates of New Gravehold for what might be the last tirne in
his life. She is shal<ing, shoulders trembling from the strain of holding in her
indignation.
"I wouldnt mind being exiled," Z'hana snaps, pulling her shoulder out
from beneath Tbqren's hand. "I wouldnt even begrudge Brama exilingyou
and Qu from the onl;z home you've ever known. It isnt her actions that I
find unforgivable, it's her intentions. The moment a city has a leader who
will not listen, who is not open to debate and change but would rather
silence any dissenting opinion, that is when she has been in power too long.
Shet putting all of her people at risk for her own, selfish, outdated beliefs."
"But she is the leader the people follow," Taqren looks behind him, tilting
his head back to take in the towering expanse of New Gravehold's mighg,
wall. It is an irnposing structure, standing out tall from the cleared forest
around it. He can just barely see the colored pennants of the marketplace
peeking up over the stone.
"The people don't know what she stands for. They follow her blindly.
Unquestioningly."
"That's quite the high opinion of your people you have there," Kel
says, clearly unirnpressed. "How long have you all been liwing so deeply
entrenched in ignorance?"
"Too long." Z'hana reaches the treeline of the forests to the south of New
Gravehold and stops, turning to face the ragged team she has assembled
here. FIer son, Taqren, and Xaxos'own daughter, Qu, as well as the pair of
Tethers from Azer, Kel and Ilya.
"This doesnt have to be your fight " Z'hana begins, but Qu cuts her off.
.We -
were withyou in the Void, Z'hana. 'We saw the Fountain of
Souls taking the aether of our fallen mages and twisting it into something
monstrous. We decided together that we'd return to Brama and try and
change her mind. Our world and the world of the Nameless are already
'We
entangled. can't just go back to hiding our heads in the sand and
pretending they're not."
"Besides," IISra adds, slipping her arm through Kel's and resting
against her side. "New Gravehold isnt an island. The actions ofyour ci5r,
intentional or not, have been disrupting the natural patterns of Nameless in
the forest. Everyrthing has become more dangerous, and it won't stop unless
we make it stop."
"What are you all implying, that we should attack New Gravehold?"
Thqren takes a step back, looking over the group with a vague horror in his
eyes. "Those are our people. Our friends."
"Your friends," Kel mutters.
"I dont want there to be bloodshed." Z'hana reaches up instinctivel;z to
pull her cloak tighter around her shoulders, but she doesnt have it anyrnore.
Xaxos has it, wherever he is now, wandering through the Void. "But I'm not
naive enough to think this will be peaceful."
"We cant fight against New Gravehold, Mother. There are only five of
us."
"Then let's hope fighting isnt necessary." Z'hanapulls her hood up,
casting her face into shadows. "Until then, I'm going to gather as much help
as I can find. Brama has made more enemies than just me in her time in
command."
"And us?"
"You four should head back to Azer. We can regroup there and figure out
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what to do. If it isnt too late alrea$2."
- to ask what Z'hana means by that, but before she can, Z'hana
IIya begins
is already racing off, ducking into the treeline and vanishing from sight. Ilya
sighs deeply before turning to the others. "Back to Azer, I suppose?"
"Keep your eyes peeled for Nameless," Taqren cautions as he begins
Ieading the group south. "This area is dangerous to travel through, no matter
how many times you've done it."
"Maybe foryou," Kel snorts. "Us Azerians have spent generations
learning how to safel;z traverse the forest."
The small band of mages begin their travel, with Kel and IIya leading
them confidently through the woods to the south of New Gravehold. As they
go, they carve magical Sb?h. into the trees to subtly influence any Nameless
who might be out there in a different direction.
"See? As long as you dont make a huge nuisance of yourself by cutting
down half the forest and building a big city in the middle of it, you can travel
easily enough." Kel holds up a dangling vine and waits as the other three
duck beneath it.
"Sure, but that's easy to say when Azer has a third of the population of
New Gravehold," Thqren counters amicably. "'We need space for farms, or
wouldn't be able to feed everyone."
else we
"Well have you considered not- " Kel cuts off as Ilya grabs her arm
and tugs her sharply backward. The prewiously open path in front of them
is suddenly cracked down the center by a mess of black veins pulsing in
midair. The mages stare in horror as a Void portal coils into existence in
front of their very eyes.
"This is exactly what I meant," Kel snaps. "Your cursed ciqr is disrupting
eveg,thing!"
"Not our ciqz an;rmore," Qu says.
"Not the time !" Illza grabs Kel's hand and their matching tattoos begin
to glow with a powerful light. The four mages stare forward at the dark,
swirling portal in front of them as a humanoid figure steps out from it.
The man, or creature, whatever it is, seems to take in a long, deep breath,
although it's impossible to see through the heavy draping fabrics obscuring
its entire form. When it speaks, the voice is undeniably female, and she
sounds as though she is smiling.
"You smell like the Void." The cloaked figure lifts a hefr;z tome in front
of her, easing it open to a page somewhere near the center. "And yet, you do
not comprehend its truth."
"And what, you do?" Kel snaps. "Who even are you?"
"I am simply here to help, of course. To help you discover the limits
ofyour true abilities." Through the Void portal still swirling behind her,
creatures begin to pour like water, their bodies composed of a thick and
viscous liquid that starts to slowly form into individual shapes.
"My creatures, " the woman coos, as if the purple monstrosities swirling
all around her were her own children. "I think it is tirne for them, Iike you, to
reach their full potential."
Open Envelope {. These are your mages for this ts-ame. Open Deck
AZ-Ia. This is your starting supply. Open Deck AZ-lb. These are
the starter cards and turn order cards for -your mag'es, along with
plal,rs1 .i4..
Then open envelope I and deck BS. Do not shuffle deck BS. Set
aside the top nine cards ofthat deck. Those cards are the unuamed
 deck. The remaining can'ds are the nemesis deck. If you are playing
vtth l/2/5 players, discard the top 7 /5/3 cards of the nemesis deck.
Defend the Forest Clearing from Bishop of Scrolls.
If you win your garne versus Bishop of Scrolls, read section 74.
Ifyou lose, read sectionTT.
sEcTroN - 2
The mages spread out across the scorched battleground, searching for
fragments of gems or powerful artifacts that may have been left behind
by the mages of Southpost before they left this stronghold seemingly
abandoned. Ilya is poking through the grass with her foot, clearing aside
a small shrub to check for an;rthing useful beneath it, when she knocks
up against something solid. She leans over, expecting a rock or perhaps a
powerful aether-conducting geode if she's lucky, and then recoils with a
sharp yelp.
"IIya?" Kel runs over immediately at the sound of her Tether's distress,
and the rest of the mages follow quickly. "What's wrong?"
"It's one of those things ! Those horrid, skittering, Void creatures ! " On
the ground, still faintly twitching, is a metallic crab-like monster. It chitters
lightly, legs spasming in a futile attempt to move.
"We must have missed one," Qu says. "It shouldnt take us long to
dispatch it as well."
"Almost a little sad," Razra says quietly. "It's just a little guy, and itt
injured. We dont have to utterly destroy it, do we?"
"It's from the Void," Taqren says with enough open disgust in his voice
to make his opinion on that very clear. Qu frowns visibly and raises an
eyebrow at him.
"Actually, Razra has a point." IIya taps her fingers against her thigh
as she slow\r forms an idea. "We Azerians know how to imbue creatures
with pieces of our own aether. It's how Kel and I share magic, and it's
how Z'hanawas able to herd the monster Necroswarm to drive it into
your Southern Outpost. With just a little bit of magic, I could make sure
this creature stays here, and if Brama truly does try to travel south and
threaten Azer, we'd have an early warning system, maybe even a deterrent
that could slow them down."
"I thought we all agreed that what my mother did with Necroswarm
was wrong," Taqren says, incredulously, spreading his hands. "People
died."
"People die in wars," Thraxir intones, the words sounding ominous
rattling out through the hollow metal of his helmet.
If you want to kill the skittron, read section 91.
If you want to leave it
as a sentinel, read section 55.
sEcTtoN - 3
'Well. That is an unpleasant sensation." Qu rests her monstrous hand
on her hip and leans over it to the side, trying to stretch out an impossible
ache.
"What is?" Taqren asks, turning back to look at her.
"I think one of the monsters we just fought had some form of lasting
effect on me. I can't seem to summon up my breach magic at all."
Taqren looks alarmed. "Permane ndy? "
"I don't knowyet. Hopefully it won't b"." Q" digs in her pack and pulls
out her twin stones. "Until then, hopefully someone else in the group might
find these useful. Oh and of course, I've still got these." Qu lifts her jagged,
Void-touched claws, and smiles. "Not entirely useless, I would say."
Find Vestige 7 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage mat
immediately.
sEcTloN - 4
The beast lets out one final scream as it collapses in a pile of bones
and antlers, black fluid dripping from its wounds like blood. As the battle
finally ends, the people of Faen begin to emerge from where they'd fled
into the swamp. The mages rush to check on everyone, making sure each
willager is safe and uninjured.
"We cant stay long," Mazra reminds everyone. "'We need to get back to
New Gravehold and prepare to hold the line."
Claudia lets out a Iong sigh. "This is going to be a miserable fight, no
matter which way it goes."
"But Iook what these portals are doing to everyone," Soskel says, his
voice hard and pitiless. "If Z'hana truly brought this upon us, then we
need to take her down."
"Let's get home," Kadir says, and the mages all begin the journey back
to New Gravehold, prepared to defend their home from whatever man or
monster might threaten it.
Ifyou won your first game versus Paradox of Bone, your group
gains 4 experience per player. Othenvise, your g'roup gains 2
experience per player. Either w,ay, do not spend this experience yet.
Record the results of this g'ame on the back of this booklet. \\rrite
the number of fires on the Faen location on the map, then discard
all fire tokens. If you played this game trvice, *rite the higher
number of fires.
Ifany unbanished rnages hane severed stickers, find the number in
the upper-right corner of the back of their mag'e mat and read the
narrative section matching that number'.
Banish the Paradox of Bone nemesis mat, the Bone track, the spell
and gem./relic tokens, and all nemesis specific cards.
Return all market cards, enhanced breaches, starter cards, mage
mats, enhanced starter cards, and enhancement stickers to the
Gravehold barracks. Banish all basic and upgraded basic nemesis
cards. Save any unspent experience cards in the Gravehold
harracks.
When you're ready to begin the {inal g'ame, read section 76.
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Yan Magda stops walking, and tilts her head back in contemplation. By
her side, her student Indira stops as well, waiting patiently for her master
to say whatever she is thinking. After years of training together, she knows
how Yan Magda's mind works.
"There are strange magics in this world," Yan Magda says, finally.
"Ones that even I have only rarely encountered. I knew a mage, once, who
could block the flow of aethet but I have never seen a Void creature with
the same capability. And yet, I think I have met one today."
"Your aether is blocked? " Indira asks, alarm growing in her voice.
"It appears to be." Paradoxically, a smile grows across Yan Magda's
face."It is nice to know that even in my old age I can still experience
something new in this world. Take my artifacts to the others, child. They
will be able to find
some use from them."
Find Vestige 2l on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any breach
imrnediately.
SECTION -6
As the group approaches the Southern Outpost, the entire forest
clearing almost seems to be holding its breath. There is no one walking
around, and no one calls down to them from the fort itself. It's as though
everyone is in hiding.
The reason for this becomes suddenly apparent as they round the side
of the building and catch sight of another pulsing, purple portal torn in the
air, just like the one that had opened up in the forest. A small flood of tiny,
writhing metallic creatures pours from the bottom of the portal, pooling in
a loose pile on the ground. They look grotesque, a mound of wriggling legs
and snapping jaws that slowly starts to come together into a solid form.
It almost looks like a woman, but her flesh is made of skittering, copper
creatures that gleam unpleasantly under the midday sun.
"Readyyourself," Razra says, resting a hand on Rip's head. "This looks
like it's gonna be nasfr."
You may norv spend your experience on enhancements.
Build the supply using cards from your Azer Barracks following
the rules on page 14 ofthe rulebook. Return any cards that you did
not use to your Azer Barracks.
Open envelope 10. Open deck MR. Follorv the setup instructions
on the back of the nemesis mat. Construct the nemesis deck
following the deck construction rules on page l2 of the rulebook.
Be sure to use as many upgraded nemesis cards as possible.
Defend the Southern Outpost from Mother of Rust. If you won
your firstg'ame, read section 17.
If you lost your first game, record that game on the back of this
booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Your group gains 5
experience per player. You may use that experience immediately.
Then, replay this garne.
If you rvin the second game, read section 17. Otherwise, read
section 50.
SECTION -7
"Don't forget, we need to get to the ruins and help Claudia," Malastar
says, staring off into the woods as if he can see through it to where his
daughter and Nook are holding off a Nameless all on their own.
"We should get going as soon as we can," Talix agrees, rolling his
shoulders back. "If the Nameless attacking them is anyhing Iike this one,
we've got our work cut out for us."
Open envelope 7. Add both of the mages there to your Gravehold
barracks. Open deck CN. Add them to your Gravehold barracks.
Set aside all of the Upgraded basic nemesis cards from the nemesis
deck. Open deck GH-SO. Add all of the upgraded basic nemesis
cards to the nemesis cards you have set aside. You will ahvays use
as many of the upgraded nemesis cards as possible when building
the nemesis deck moving forward.
If there rvere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards GH-SO-25
through GH-SO-29. If there rvere 8 or more, also banish cards
GH-SO-IS through GH-SO-22. Add any remaining cards from
this deck to your Gravehold barraclrs along with your supply cards
from this game. If any unbanished nag*es have severed stickers, find
the number in the upper-right corner of the baek of their mage mat
and read the narrative section matching that number'. ff you rvon
your g*ame and there u'ere 2 or fewer fire tokens, place card L2-E-
26 into your Gravehold barracks.
Find sticker sheet { section I and add these enhancements to your
Gravehold barracks.
Whenyou're ready to begin the next garne, read section 15
SECTION -8
It s hard enough for the mages to bring themselves to fight against their
fellow humans, but it's even harder for them to beat back the sheer ferocity
of trained and Tethered mages of Azer. Before long, they find themselves
exhausted and on the brink ofdefeat, but they are spared in the very last
moment when the hypnotized mages stop in place, froren, as the mask that
hovers above them ceases to give orders.
The mages watch in exhausted, though anxious relief, as the great
golden mask turns and drifts away, returning to the Void portal that it
once emerged from. The crack in realig, closes tight behind it, severing
the golden chains all at once. The Tethered mages collapse like puppets
without a master, crumpling to the ground in unmoving heaps. The chains
still wrapped around them begin to break away and dissolve into nothing,
and as they do, the people they once restrained begin to slowly blink
awake, rising to sitting and coming to terms with their surroundings. In
spite of their injuries, the mages of New Gravehold stagger over and check
on them each in turn, making sure they're all healthy and safe.
"We cant stay long," Mazrareminds everyone. "We need to get back to
New Gravehold and prepare to hold the line."
Claudia lets out a long sigh. "This is going to be a miserable fight, no
matter which way it goes."
"But look what these portals are doing to everyone," Soskel savs, his
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voice hard and pitiless. "If Z'hana truly brought this upon us, then we
need to take her down."
"Let's get home," Kadir says, and the mages all begin the journey back
to New Gravehold, prepared to defend their home from whatever man or
monster might threaten it.
Your group gains 2 erperience per player. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this game on the back of this bool<Iet. Write
the higher number of fires betrveen your two games on the Faen
location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
If any unbanished mages have severed stickers, find the number in
the upper-right corner of the back of their mag'e mat and read the
narrative section matching that number.
Banish the Paradox of My.th nemesis rnat and all nemesis specific
cards.
Return all market cards, enhanced breaches, starter cards, mage
mats, enhanced stanter cards, and en}ancement stickers to the
Gravehold barracks. Banish all basic and upgraded basic nemesis
cards. Save any unspent experience cards in the Gravehold
barracks.
When you're ready to begin the final game, read section 76.
sEcTroN - 9
"'Woah," Razra drapes an arm over her pet silvopede, Rip, using him
to keep her balance. "Got a lil dizzy there. I think one of those monsters
we fought knocked the mojo right out of me. I need a serious nap before
even think about doing magic again."
Rip makes a concerned warble, pressing up against her with the smooth
top of his head.
"Thanks for the concern, boy. I'm lucky that you aren't bound to me by
magic, just my general charm, great personaliqy, and dashing good looks."
Rip chirps happily, and Razra laughs. "I guess I ought to go see what
I can do to help the others, now that I'm wiped out on combat potential.
There's no way I'm sendingyou in without me being able to backyou up."
Find Vestige 8 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage mat
immediately.
SECTION - IO
Gygar is the first to notice when the flame inside Lost begins to flicker,
He rushes over and supports his friend before he falls to the ground.
"Magic... gone..." Lost shudders out, the words echoing through the
hollow inside of his armor.
"Areyou going to be all right? Willyour flames go out?" Gygar asks.
Lost shakes his head slowl;r. "No. Can sustain." With one hear.y hand,
Lost unhinges the front of his armor and swings the chest plate open. He
reaches inside and retrieves a glowing stone.
"You take," he says, pushing it toward the rest of the mages. "Have
power."
Find Vestige 5 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage rnat
immediately.
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SECTION - I I
The sharp metal pincers of the tiny creatures dig painfully into your
skin as they start to climb your Iegs and threaten to overwhelm you.
Focusingyour magic, you begin to demolish them one by one until they
finally turn and flee, seeking other targets.
Gain a charge
SECTION - 12
"For freedom ," Z'hana says, nodding to you all before turning to face
Brama's mages with fire in her eyes.
Find sticker sheet 7 section 2. If the mag'es listed in these
relationship enhancements han e the same affiliation, add therr to
that affiliation's barracks. Other*'ise, banish these enhancements.
You may no*. spend any remaining experience in the Azer barracks
on enhancements.
Open envelope 20 and deck FB. Do not shuffle deck FB. Take the
top 21 cards off deck FB. This is the mag'e attack deck. Go through
the mag'e attack deck and remove all mages that are severed, and all
mag-es currently affiliated with Azer'. Shuffle the mage attack deck
and set it next to Brama's nemesis rrat. Then banish the top 4 cards
of deck FB. Take the next .{ cards from the top of deck FB and
set them facedown in order next to your Gravehold life dial. This
is the Z'hana Cornmander deck. These cards *,ill be revealed the
first time the Gravehold life dial reaches the arnount of life shorr..
I on the back of each card. The remaining cards in deck FB are the
nemesis deck.
Finall;a if you are playing with 1/2/5 players, discard the top 7/515
cards of the nemesis deck.
Retake New Gravehold from Brama. If you win, read section 56.
Ifyou lose, read section 28.
SECTION - 13
As the group approaches the ruins, Claudia pulls them aside to
duck into a small alcove that must have once been the top floor of some
guard tower. It reaches up high enough to come up out of the water that
submerges much of what is left of OId Gravehold. Nook is crouched
inside, along with a group of scholars and laborers who had been assisting
in the excavation.
"You arent hereyetl" Nook says, relief flooding his voice.
"Oh, yeah, that's Nook talk for hello." Claudia leans over to Kadir and
Ioudly whispers, "Nook s a little bit weird. Terible at telling the time. You
get used to it."
"Has an;,thing come out of those portalsyet?" Gygar asks, leaning
for-ward to peek around the edge of the ruin. He can see dozens and
dozens of swirling purple portals hanging menacingly in the air, but
everyrthing around them is silent.
As Nook is shaking his head, a figure steps from one of the portals. It
looks almost human in silhouette, but any details are obscured by thick,
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draping robes, and a gigantic, imposing mask.
"Ah, old Gravehold," the figure says, in a muffled but unmistakably
female voice. She rests a hand against a chunk of rubble. "Rather pitiful in
the end, weren'tyou? But we need bones before we can begin to build."
"Who are you?" Gygar demands, leaping out from behind the piece of
- The rest of the mages follow closely on his heels.
rubble.
"Me?" The woman laughs, the noise muffled oddly by the hearSr mask
she wears. "I am the hopeful future that will arise from this sad and tragic
chaos. What is it that Xaxos always said? That true power is found in the
Void?"
The figure spreads her arms and glistening, purple creatures begin to
pour from every open portal, gathering threateningly behind their master.
"The new children Z'hana's followers have given me should help prove the
truth of that."
Find sticker sheet 6 section ,i and add these enhancements to your
Gravehold barracks.
You may now spendyour experience on enhancements.
Build the supply using cards from your Gravehold barracks
follorving the rules on page l{ ofthe rulebook. Return any cards
that you did not use to your Gravehold barracks.
Open envelope 15 and deck BR. Follow the setup instruetions on
the back of the nemesis mat. Construct the nemesis deck following
the deck construction rules on page 12 ofthe rulebook. Be sure to
use as rnany upts^raded nemesis cards as possible.
Defend the Ruins from Bishop Returned. If you rvon your first
ts^ame, read section 98.
If you lost your first game, record that g'ame on the back of this
booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Your group gains 5
experience per player. You may use that erperience imrnediately'
Then, replay this game.
If you win the second game, read section 98. Otherrvise, read
section 50.
SECTION - 14
Xaxos meets up with the group before they even reach Azer, they find
him crouched with Dezmodia and Arachnos beside him in the thick, jungle
undergrowth just outside the village. The odd, unnatural pale of Dezmodia
and Arachnos' skin reflecting in the sun does not look any less unsettling
here than it did in the Void, where Taqren, Qu, Kel, Ilya, and Thra-xir had
so recentl;z left them.
"The situation is precarious," Xaxos explains as the mages join him
in his hiding spot spying out at the village. "This Nameless isn't as
straightforward as we've come to expect."
"What are you talking about?" Kel asks. She peers out towards
the village and catches sight of a gigantic beast with hands reaching up
towards the sky that stretch farther than the roofs of Azer. A swarm of tiny
beasts crowd in behind it, flooding up and over the houses in an unsettling
wave.
"I alreadlz helped the people evacuate," Xaxos explains. "But this
creature seems more intent on consuming the village itself."
"What do you mean consuming? " Indira asks.
"It's been spreading like a plague, grabbing at and overwhelming
eveq,.thing in its path. There's no safe way to approach it."
"There's no safe way to approach any Nameless," Razra says, punching
a fist into the open palm of her other hand. "You just gotta go in headfirst."
"I'll admit, I feel a lot better about doing that now thatyou are all here."
Xaxos turns to Qu and flashes his daughter a brief smile. "Let's teach that
monster a lesson."
Open envelope 1{. Add all of the mages there to your Azer
barracks. Open deck XA. Add them to your Azer barracks.
Find sticker sheet { section 5 and add these enhancements to your
Azer barracks.
You may now spend your experience on enhancements.
Build the supply using cards from your Azer barracks following the
rules on page 1{ ofthe rulebook. Return any cards thatyou did not
use to your Azer barracks.
Open envelope 15 and deck GW. Follow the setup instructions on
the back of the nemesis mat. Construct the nemesis deck following
the deck construction rules on page 12 ofthe rulebook. Be sure to
use as many upgraded nemesis cards as possible.
Defend Azer from Griefrveaver. If you rvon your first game, read
section 84.
If you lost your first game, record that game on the back of this
booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Your group gains 5
experience per player. You may use that experience immediately.
Then, replay this game.
If you rvin the second game, read section 84. Otherwise, read
section 65.
SECTION - 15
The village of Faen is built half in and half out of the swamp, each of
the small, carefully disguised houses edged with stinging nettles and ringed
in thorn bushes to dissuade any casually rowing Nameless from coming
near, while also almost entirely hiding their existence. Without Kel and
Ilya guiding them, the mages would never have managed to stumble across
this tiny, isolated settlement.
They would have been even less likely to find it, considering that the
entire village sits utterly silent. No smoke curls from the small chimneys,
no warm lights fill the windows of the assorted huts. The only sound that
cuts across the clearing is the sucking sound of the mages's footsteps as
they trek through the swampy mud.
"I dont like this," IIya says, slipping her hand down until it slots into
Kel's and squeezing tight.
As the group steps into the village, they catch sight of a gigantic purple
Void portal, easily twice as big as the last. Black flame ripples up and
down its edges, smouldering silently, a dooru,ay open with no resident in
sight. Taqren glances around, his shield already raised, but he doesn't see a
Nameless.
 A door creaks open from one of the houses and everyone jumps,
rushing into battle positions, but instead of a Nameless, a woman looks
out, glancing nervously around the clearing.
"Tyreesia?" Kel steps forward, recognizing the woman as a fellow
Azerian mage who lives in Faen. "What's going on, where is everyone?"
"Kel? " Tyreesia steps entirel;z out of the house, rushing over to
them with an air of panic around her. "You all have to get out of here.
The village is under attack by two different Portalborn at once. They
overwhelmed us. We tried to evacuate everyone safely and in all the chaos
I lost Kiryra. I don't know where she's gone."
"It's going to be okay." Kel rests a calming hand on Tyreesia's arm.
"You go find your Tether and the rest of the evacuees. We'll take care of
the Portalborn. Both of them."
Tyreesia takes a moment to give a grateful, exhausted smile before she
turns and sprints off into the murky swamp in the direction the rest of the
village must have headed. Silence falls for only a second before something
that sounds like a tree snapping in halfresonates out from beyond the
village borders. Another crack follows, and another, in a pattern that is
disconcertingly reminiscent of footsteps.
Rising above the treeline, the mages just barely catch sight of an eerie
golden face, frozen in a smile.
Find sticker sheet 5 section 5 and add these enhancements to vour
Azer barracks.
You may now spend your erperience on enhancements.
Build the supply using cards from your Azer barracks following the
rules on pag'e li of the rulebook. Return any cards that you did not
use to your Azer barracks.
Open envelope 18 and deck PM. Build the nemesis decks following
the instructions on the back of the nemesis mat.
Defend Faen from Paradox of N\rth and Bone. Ifyou defeat M).th,
read section 95. Ifyou defeat Bone, read section 81.
Ifyou lose your first game, record that garne on the back of
this booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Your group gains 5
experience per player'. You may use that experience immediately.
Then, replay this g'ame.
If you defeat M;,th in the second B^ame, read section 95. If you
defeat Bone in the second game, read section 81. If you lose and
Myth had the same or lorver life than Bone, read section 52. lf you
lose and Bone had lower life than M;rth, read section 65.
SECTION . 16
"Oh good, I found you." The group turns as they see Mazra, out of
breath, rushing up to meet them. Soskel follows just in her wake, Iooking
as immaculately pulled together as always. "Brama sent us down here to
fetch you. We need to get back to New Gravehold. She thinks Z'hana
might be gearing up to attack soon, and she wants us all returned and
prepared."
"All right," Gygar begins sal ng, but, before he can continue, a litany of
screams ring out through the forest.
"Where did that come from?" Kadir gasps, looking around wildly.
Talix furrows his brow in confusion. "We don't have any outposts in
that direction, I don't know who would be in the swamp over there."
"Brama wants us back immediately, " I/razra says, shifting nervously.
"For all we know, that battle could be with our enemies."
"Z'hana can't really be our enemy. She's our friend," Claudia insists.
"Sure, she's a little misguided right now, but if Brama is asking us to ignore
people in danger because of their petfr power struggle, then I dunno, I'd
rather blo*. her off. Helping is what mages are here for."
"You're right," Mazra nods. "It's our duqy."
Set aside all of the upgraded basic nemesis cards. Open deck GH-
SO. Add all of the upgr-aded basic nemesis cards to the nemesis
cards you have set aside. You rvill ahvaJ,.s use as many of the
upgraded nemesis cards as possible rvhen building the nemesis deck
moving forward.
If there *'ere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards GH-SO-25
through GH-SO-29. If there rvere 8 or more, also banish cards
GH-SO-l8 through GH-SO-22. Add any remaining cards from
this deck to your Gravehold barracks along u,ith your supply cards
from this game. If any unbanished mag'es have severed stickers, find
the number in the upper-right corner of the back of their mage mat
and read the narrative section matching that number'. If you rvon
your garne and there were 2 or felver fire tokens, place card Lz-E-
26 intoyour Gravehold barracks.
Find sticker sheet 4 section 1 and add these enhancernents to your
Gravehold barracks.
When you're ready to begin the next game, check the forest on the
left side of your map. If there is a MSrth sticker there, read section
52.
Otherwise, read section 57.
SECTION . 17
The pile of squirming machinery finally collapses, each indiwidual
piece broken open and bleeding an oily black residue that stains the grass
beneath it.
"Did we get all of them?" Razra asks, struggling to catch her breath.
"It looks IiIe it," Kel answers, casting a cursory glance around the
battlefield, but with all the kicked up dirt and battle debris it's hard to see
the tiny machines.
"We should gather an;rthing we can salvage from around here before
we go," Taqren says, slowly lowering his shields. "These portals are
ever;rr,vhere.
'We're
going to need all the firepower we can get."
If you won your first g'ame versus Mother of Rust, your group gains
{ experience per player. Otherrviser }our gl'oup gains 2 experience
per player. Either wa;4 do not spend this experience yet.
Record the results of this garne on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Southern Outpost location on the map,
then discard all fire tokens. If you played this game twice, write the
higher number of fires.
Read section 2.
sEcTroN - r8
"I1'Xa*os is already it Azer, I think we should check on Faen," Ilya
says, gripping the sleeve of Kel s shirt tight as if concerned she'd run away.
"The_v dont have nearly as many mages defending them. If one of these
portals opened up, it could destroy the entire village. And all of the people
in it..."
Ilya trails off, her eyebrows screwing together tight with concern.
"I agree," Taqren says, after a quiet moment. "People are people, and
they need defending. The war can wait until we make sure they're safe.
"While we're in Faen we can pick up more volunteers and supplies
anlnvay. It'll be worth it." Ilya steps to the front of the group and begins to
lead them to the east.
As they travel, the forest floor grows softer and the trees thin out as
they begin to pass into swampland. The air is heavy and still, with only the
buzzrng of insects and their shuffling footsteps disturbing the silence. Ilya
leads confidently, using a stick when she needs to part a prickly bush in
their path, or sweep aside low-hanging branches.
"Why, is that little Taqren?"
The group turns as one to face the unexpected voice and sees an older
woman picking her way through the undergrowth towards them, one hand
braced on a walking stick and the other braced on the arm of a younger
woman beside her, with starlight silver hair. Indira.
"The last time I sawyou, you were just a little boy," the old woman
says, and Taqren squints his eyes and focuses and slowly a childhood
memory begins to float to the surface of this woman he once knew.
"Yan Magda?" Taqren blinks and shakes his head. "What areyou doing
here?"
"Your mother was just by *y shack not hardly an hour ago," Yan
Magda explains, her deeply wrinkled face pulling into a smile. "It was nice
to have a visitor. Even nicer to hear we're finally making a move against
the witch who drove me out of the only home I've ever known for daring
to dabble in magic she was too frightened to attempt."
"She told us to head south to meet you all," Indira adds. "What are you
doing this far east?"
"There's a village near here," Ilya steps in to answer. "'We're just coming
to check in on it, since there have been Void portals opening everSrwhere."
"Probably wise," Yan Magda says with a sage nod. "I feel a dark enerS/
emanating from southeast of here."
Kel's eyes widen and she grabs Ilya's hand. "Come on. There's no time
to lose."
Open envelope 9. Add both of the mages there to your Azer
barracks. Open deck YI. Add them to your Azer barracks.
Set aside all of the Upgraded basic nemesis cards from the nemesis
deck. Open deck AZ-SO. Add all of the upgraded basic nemesis
cards to the nemesis cards you have set aside. You x.ill always use
as many of the upgraded nernesis cards as possible rvhen building
the nemesis deck rnoving fonvard.
Banish the Mother of Rust nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
If there were 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards AZ-SO-21 through
LZ-SO-2\.If there were 8 or more, also banish cards .{.2-50-16
through AZ-SO-20. Add any remaining cards frorn this deck to
your Azer barracks along w,ith your supply cards from this garne.
If any unbanished mages han e severed stickers, find the -number
in the upper-right corner of the back of their mage mat and read
the narrative section matching that nurnber. If you won your game
and there were 2 or fewer fire tokens, place card L2-E-28 into your
Azer barracks.
Find sticker sheet 7 section 1 and add these enhancements to your
Azer barracks. Find sticker sheet 6 section 5 and add sticker H to
your rulebook.
' When you're ready to begin the next game, read section 15.
SECTION . I9
"These arent all the mages in the world," Z'hana says with a wild bark
of laughter. "I have new friends now, Brama!"
Place card L2-E-35 into play.
SECTION . 20
"Thankyou," Inco says, letting out a relieved breath. "I don't know
how much longer we could have held out."
Claudia steps forward and hugs her parents. "I have to go back and
help Nook hold off whatever comes out of those portals. We'll do our best
until you come, alright? Just be quick about it, if you can."
"Of course," Kadir promises.
"Let's get going," Inco says, turning around to face south. "There's no
time to lose."
Open envelope 12. Add both of the mages there to your Gravehold
barracks. Open deck IT. Add thern to your Gravehold barracks.
Whenyou are ready to play the next game, check the Southern
Outpost location on your map for the Sentinel sticker'. If there is a
Sentinel sticker present, read section 92.
Otherwise, read section 57.
SECTION - 2I
"Mrazra, areyou feeling alright?" Inco slows his pace to fall in step with
Mazrawhere she's begun to trail behind the rest of the group.
"Inco, I think something is wrong with me," Mazrawhispers, her hands
shaking slightly. "I cant perform magic. What good am I without my
magic?"
"You are plenty. Just because the blossom has dropped doesnt mean
the plant has died, Mazra. And the flower always blooms again." Inco
bumps his shoulder comfortingly into Mazra's. "Your sister would say it
better, if she were here."
"Ptazrawould beat me up if she heard me talking like this."
"She'd beat us both up," Inco agrees with a somber nod.
Mazra cracks a small smile. "You're right. Even without magic, I still
have something to contribute."
Find Vestige 19 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Spark
immediately.
SECTION - 22
Inco lifts a hand and catches a dead leaf as it drifts slowly free of his
arm. He stares at it in confusion and dawning horror. "I'm wilting."
"What?" Talix is at his son's side in an instant, checking him over for
wounds. "What s happening?"
"I think one of those creatures bit through something in my soul,"
Inco says, pressing a hand to his chest as more of the vegetation begins to
crumble away. "Its not... I'm not dying, I dont believe, but I can no Ionger
feel my magic. My plants are not natural, they feed off my ambient aether.
Without it, I fear they will die."
Inco stares sadly down at the green on his body slowl;,. turning brown.
"But that is the way of nature. And in their place, in the future, new
blossoms will grow Until then, take a piece before it dies, it may help you
when I cannot."
Find Vestige l5 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Crystal
immediately.
SECTTON - 23
"You thought all your supporters were stalwart, Brama, but there are
other people in your city who cant stand the wayyou've oppressed us all
these years!" Z'hana grins, beginning to pant a bit from the ferociSz of the
battle. "Garul"
Place card L2-E-51into play.
SECTION - 24
"'Wait." Arachnos grabs Xaxos by the sleeve, pulling him to a halt. He
stares down at his own hands, moving them in slow, experimental circles.
"I can't feel my magic. I've been cut off at the source."
"It's entirely gone? " Xaxos asks, almost disbelieving that someone as
drenched in magic as Arachnos could truly be severed from it.
"I'm afraid it appears to be." Arachnos looks up at Xaxos, and then the
rest of the mages with a smile. "You'll all have to finish our mission without
my assistance. I'll give you what I can to help."
Find Vestige 1 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mag-e mat
immediately.
SECTION - 25
The mages begin to collapse under the weight of the strange metallic
creatures crawling across their skin, grafting themselves onto every piece
of exposed flesh until they can't help but fall to their knees. The great
metal beast directing them howls in victory, but before it can call out for
the killing blows, something seems to catch its attention.
It turns with robotic stiffness to stare back at the forest behind it, but
the mages can hear nothing that might be capturing its attention. It cries
out again and suddenly, all the miniature machines detach from the mages
and scuttle back to their master. The mages gasp for breath in the sudden
reprieve, and can do nothing but watch as the Nameless rushes off into the
woods, seeking something they cannot see.
"Well that s concerning," Talix says, finally. "I feel like we should be
concerned."
"We don't have time to be concerned," Kadir shakes her head and
pushes herself up to standing. "'We have a mission to complete. New
Gravehold is still in danger."
Talix turns to look around at the devastation surrounding them. The
fight has taken a toll not only on the fighters, but also on Southpost itself.
"We should gather whatever is salvageable," Inco says. "If our
enemies were here, we need to make sure that they can't get their hands on
our resources."
"Right, plus they might be useful in protecting New Gravehold,"
Kadir says.
Your group gains 2 experience per player. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet.
Write the higher number of fires between your tlvo games on the
Southern Outpost location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
Banish the Rust Amalgam nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
If you just fought your second nernesis of the Gravehold carnpaign,
read section 7.
If you just fought your third nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 16.
sEciloN - 26
"We'd better hurry on to Azer," Ilya says, putting her hands
decisively on her hips. "If these portals are as plentiful as they seem to be,
then we can't rely on the village's natural defenses to protect it."
"Hopefully my father has managed to hold the line in our
absence," Qu says.
"Your father is a man of many talents." Yan Magda wraps both
her hands around her staff and leans heawi-ly over it. "Though perhaps it is
onfr in his age that he learns the skill of defending that which matters."
"I wonder if my mother still wants to stand against Brama, even
now with all these attacks stretching across the land." Taqren turns back
I

and scans the northern treeline, as if he'd be able to see straight through
to wherever Z'hana is. "Shouldnt we all be standing together?"
Kel folds her arms. "Until we change the wayyour city is run,
none of this will ever stop. It's necessary to start as soon as possible."
"Right." Qu shoulders her pack and begins the trek southward. "So
we'd better get going."
Set aside all of the Upgraded basic nemesis cards from the nemesis
deck. Open deck AZ-SO. Add all of the upgraded basic nemesis
cards to the nemesis cards you have set aside. You rvill ahvays use
as many of the upgraded nemesis cards as possible when building
the nemesis deck moving forrvard.
Banish the Mother of Rust nemesis mat amd all nemesis specific
cards.
If there rvere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards AZ-SO-21 through
AZ-SO-25,If there'rvere 8 or more, also banish cards AZ-SO-16
through AZ-SO-20. Add any remaining cards from this deck to
your Azer barracks along with your supplv cards from this game.
If any unbanished mages have ser.ered stickers, find the rrrmber
in the upper-right corner of the back of their mag€ mat and read
the narrative section matching that number. If you won your game
and there rvere 2 or ferver fire tokens, place card L2-E-28 into your
Azer barracks.
Find sticker sheet 7 section I and add these enhancements to your
Azer barracks. Find sticker sheet 6 section 5 and add sticker H to
your rulebook.
When you're ready to begin the ner-t garne, read section 14.
SECTION . 27
Brama frowns, her frustration with the tide of the battle apparent on
her face. "Lash I" she calls, "'We need you l"
Place card L2-E-31 into pla;,,.
SECTION .28
"All right! All right," Z'hana drops her swords to the ground and lifts
her hands in surrender. "I admit it then. The people stand foryour ideals.
And what will become of us, will you exile us all again?"
Brama opens her mouth to respond, but before she can, the sky above
her goes entirely black.
If you lost the game against Brama, choose one of the follou,ing:
AnJ, sxhau.ted player sets their life to 10, Gravehold gains 15 life,
or remo\.e 8 fire tokens from your location on the map.
Reveal and discard cards from the nemesis deck until you reach
card L2-FB-25. Resolve that card.
I
it SECTION . 29
"Thanks for the assist there, squirt," Talix says with a pained laugh as
- his hand on top of Inco's head to keep his balance. "I just got....
he rests
very, very tired there, all of a sudden. "
-
"Every leaf withers and decays," Inco says, unhelpfully, looking up at
his adoptive father.
"Ouchl Heyl I'm not that oldyetl I'm just a bit injured somehow.
Internally. I think my magic is bruised. Or maybe fractured. Maybe it's
got magic indigestion." Ttlix grins at his own jokes, and Inco stares back
at him, unamused. "The point is, I'm gonna have to sit out the next few..,
days? Of battles. You'll all have to go on without me."
Talix drapes a hand dramatically over his forehead as he sighs. "I'll
leave you all something, to remember me by."
Find Vestige 9 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage mat
immediately.
SECTION - 30
Each individual creature is tiny, but taken altogether they become
a terrifiiing wave that fully overwhelms the mages. The flood threatens
to destroy them entirely, but just before they are taken under, each little
automaton stops in its tracks simultaneously as if commanded by a central
hivemind.
As one, the flood reverses, flowing bacL up and into the portal, which
snaps shut behind them.
"H-hey," Razra pants, struggling to catch her breath. "Did all those
Iittle things go back inside?"
"Not sure," Qu answers, wiping the sweat off her brow. "But I cant
see any, and honestly, I dont think I could fight one single more of those
things."
"We should gather an;,thing we can salvage from around here before
we go," Taqren says, slowly lowering his shields. "These portals are
ever;,,where. We're going to need all the firepower we can get."
Your group gains 2 experience per player'. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet.
Write the higher number of fires betrveen your trvo games on the
Southern Outpost location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
Read section 2.
SECTION - 3I
"For peace," Brama says, nodding to you all before turning to face
Z'hana's mages with fierce determination.
Find sticker sheet 7 section 2. Ifthe rnages listed in these
relationship enhancements have the same affiliation, add them to
that affiliation's barracks. Othenvise, banish these enhancements.
 You may now spend any rernaining erperience in the Gravehold
barracks on enhancements.
Open envelope 21 and deck FB. Do not shuffle deck FB. Thke the
top 2l cards off deck FB. This is the mage attack deck. Go through
the mage attack deck and remove all mages that are severed, and
all mages currently affiliated rr.ith Gravehold. Shuffle the mage
attack deck and set it next to Z'hana's nemesis mat. Take the next {
cards from the top of deck FB and set them face dolr,n in order next
to your Gravehold life dial. This is the Brama Commander deck.
These cards will be revealed the first time the Gravehold life dial
reaches the amount oflife shoxm on the back ofeach card. Then,
banish the top 4 cards of deck FB. AII remaining cards in deck FB
are your nemesis deck.
Finally, if you are playing with l/2/5 players, discard the top 7/5/5
cards of the nemesis deck.
Defend New Gravehold from Z'hana.If you win, read section 28.
Ifyou lose, read section 56.
SECTION - 32
The golden mask wobbles in the sky, almost dipping for a second
before it regains itself. It has nearly fallen, but it isn't enough, and the
beast that it is chained to is sti-ll a dangerous threat. It paws at the ground,
readying another charge at the mages, one they are sure they will not
survive, not with how exhausted and battered they already are.
However, before the beast can atlack, it sudden\r freezes in place, its
not-quite-a-head tipping to the side as it appears to listen to something the
mages cannot hear. With a sudden twist of its powerful torso, the beast
wrenches itself around and runs back towards the Void portal that is still
swirling behind it. It kicks off the ground and leaps entirely through it.
Just as it passes through the border of black flame, the portal snaps shut,
severing the golden chains that once restrained it.
The great floating mask writhes in pain, whipping its amputated chains
back and forth as it struggles to get its bearings. But alone, and already
weakened, the creature is no match for the mages, even with their wounds,
With the last of their strength, the mages focus their spells on the golden
mask and blast it with magic until it is nothing but a smouldering pile of
dust on the ground.
Your group gains 2 experience per player. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the higher nurnber of fires tretween your two garnes on the Faen
location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
Find the Bone sticker on sticker sheet 5 section { and place it on
the blank space in the forest on the left of your map.
If you just fought your second nemesis, read section 66.
If you just fought your third nemesis, read section 80.
SECTION - 33
You feel a shiver creep down your spine as the strange purple creature
turns and begins to stalk toward you. You don't know what you did to
catch its attention, butyou're not one to ignore a direct challenge. Tirrning
to face it fully, you focus all of your magical acumen and engage the
creature in combat. As you fire off your final spell, the creature s liquid
body dissolves beneath your assault and melts away into nothing.
Gain 2 charges.
SECTION - 34
It s horrible to watch the mage you were forced to fight collapse to
the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. The woman next to her,
her Tether, slowly opens and closes the hand that had so recently been
entwined with her partner's. There is still no mind, no consciousness
behind her eyes, but it does not stop the scream ofpure rage and pain as
she turns and lashes out atyou.
The player who discarded IGl1n'a suffers 5 darnag'e. Discard
T;,reesia and return Tethered to the event deck.
SECTION - 35
"What is this," Dezmodia says with a gasp as she falls to her knees. To
her side, the conjured right hand that had been floating in the air at the
end of her missing arm flickers once, and then disappears.
"What is it, what's happening?" Indira kneels by her side and tries to
take some of her weight onto her own shoulder.
"I have never felt so empty before. My magic, it has fled me."
Dezmodia's voice wavers with grief, and for once she actually Iooks like
the child she never got a chance to grow out ofbeing. "I can no longer
fight with you. I can give you some of my strength, for the battle ahead,
but that is all I have to offer."
Find Vestige 16 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Spark
irnrnediately.
sEcTtoN - 36
"Stop. I surrender." Brama closes her breaches and hangs her head in
defeat, her chest heawing as she struggles to catch her breath. "Apparently
the world has gone on without me. There is nothing left for me to do but
stand by ihe wayside and watch as you condemn my city to destruction."
Z'hana opens her mouth to respond, but before she can, the sky above
her goes entirely black.
If you lost the game against Z'hana, choose one of the following:
Any exhausted player sets their life to 10, Gravehold gains 15 life,
or remove 8 fire tokens fi'om your location on the map.
Reveal and discard cards from the nemesis deck until you reach
card L2-FB-25. Resolve that card.

SECTION - 37
The mages would never have found the tiny willage in the swamp if
not for the chaos that was currently running rampant through the middle
of it. A gigantic stag-like monster rampages through the village, driving
civilians fleeing left and right as it topples houses and tears its way through
everything in its path.
"That thing looks even more destructive and crazed than your average
Nameless," Claudia says.
"It's entirely mindless. There's no strategz to its movements." Soskel
Iifts a hand to his chin as he peers at the beast. "It seeks only to destroy,
not to fight."
'Well, either way," Talix says with a shrug. "It's our job to take it
downl"
Open envelope 17. Add all of the mages there to your Grar.'ehold
barracks. Open deck MS. Add them to your Gravehold barracks.
Find sticker sheet 7 section ,{ and add these enhancements to your
Gravehold barracks.
You may norv spend your experience on enhancements.
Build the supply using cards frorn your Gravehold Barracks
following the rules on pag'e l,{ of the rulebook. Return any cards
that you did not use to your Gravehold Banacks.
Open envelope 5 and deck PB. Follow the setup instructions on the
back of the nemesis mat. Construct the nemesis deck following the
deck construction rules on page12 ofthe rulebook. Be sure to use
as many upgraded nemesis cards as possible.
Defend Faen from Paradox of Bone. If you won your first game,
read section {.
Ilyou lost your first game, record that game on the back of this
booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Your group gains 5
experience per player'. You may use that experience immediately.
Then, replay this game.
If you win the second game, read section 4. Othenvise, read section
59.
SECTION - 38
"Okay," Taqren concedes. "You know these woods best, after all."
"While we're in Faen, we can pick up more volunteers and supplies
anJ Vay. It'll be worth it." IIya steps to the front of the group and begins
to Iead them to the southeast, away from the top of the Southern Outpost
where it looms above the treeline.
As they travel, the forest floor grows softer and the trees thin out as
they begin to pass into swampland. The air is heaqy and still, with only the
buzzing of insects and their shuffling footsteps disturbing the silence. Ilya
leads confidently, using a stick when she needs to part a prickly bush in
their path, or sweep aside low-hanging branches.
"Why, is that little Taqren?"
The group turns as one to face the unexpected voice and see an older
woman picking her way through the undergrowth towards them, one hand
I
r-
braced on a walking stictrr and the other braced on the arm of a younger
woman beside her, with starlight silver hair. Indira.
"The last time I saw you, you were just a little boy," the old woman
says.
Taqren squints his eyes and focuses, and slowly a childhood memory
begins to float to the surface of this woman he once knew.
"Yan Magda?" Taqren blinks and shakes his head. "What are you doing
here?"
"Your mother was just by *y shack not hardly an hour ago," Yan
Magda explains, her deeply wrinkled face pulling into a smile. "It was nice
to have a wisitor. Even nicer to hear we're finally making a move against
the witch who drove me out of the onl;r home I've ever known for daring
to dabble in magic she was too frightened to attempt."
"She told us to head south to meetyou all," Indira adds. "What areyou
doing this far east?"
"There's a willage near here," Ilya steps in to answer. "We're just coming
to check in on it, since there have been Void portals opening everSrwhere."
"Probably wise," Yan Magda says with a sage nod. "I feel a dark eners/
emanating from southeast of here."
Kel's eyes widen and she grabs Ilya's hand. "Come on. There's no time
to lose."
Open envelope 9. Add both of the mages there to your Azer
barracks. Open deck \tI. Add them to your Azer barracLs.
Find sticker sheet r{ section 2, add, stickers E and F to your
rulebook, and read them.
'When
you're ready to begin the next game, read section 15.
SECTION . 39
"Talix, may I speak to you in private for a moment?" Soskel tips his
head backwards quickl;r, gesturing for his husband to follow him a little
ways away from the group. Once they're out of earshot, Soskel slips his
eyes to the side and begins to fidget minutely with his fingers. "I have
a bit of an embarrassing confession to make. Ever since that last battle,
the longer we've walked, the more I've become sure of it. Something has
happened to my magic."
Talix shakes his head a bit, trying to rattle his thoughts out. "I'11 admit,
that is not what I was expectingyou to say."
"Everyone looks up to me as a leader, Talix! They'll be crushed to learn
that I've fallen so low."
"Hun, they'll still respect you, I promise." Talix does his best not
to laugh at how melodramatic Soskel is being. It would be deep\z
inappropriate. "You never had very much breach magic before your
incident with Arachnos anJrway. You don't need it in order to be a leader."
The light in Soskel's eyes reignites and he rolls his shoulders back.
"You're right. Of course you're rightl And while I myself may be out of
commission, I have valuable lessons I can pass on to everyone else to aid us
in our battle."
Find Vestige 15 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Crystal
immediately.
sEcTroN - 40
As the metal beast finally falls, Talix turns to look at the devastation
around them. The fight has taken a toll not on\z on the fighters, but also on
Southpost itself.
"We should gather whatever is salvageable," Inco says. "If our enemies
were here, we need to make sure that they can't get their hands on our
resources,"
"Right, plus they might be useful in protecting New Gravehold," Kadir
says.
If you won your first game versus Rust Amalgam, your group gains
4 experience per playen Otherwise, your group gains 2 experience
per player. Either way, do not spend this experience yet.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the nurnber of fires on the Southern Outpost location on the map,
then discard all fire tokens. If you played this game twice, write the
higher number of fires.
Banish the Rust Amalgam nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
If you just fought your second nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 7.
If you just fought your third nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 16.
SECTION - 4I
"No, no, this cannot be," Xaxos mutters to himself as he begins
straining to the edges ofhis focus, flexing his dark, corrupted fingers as far
as they will go. "Not now. How can this be happening now?"
"Father?" Qu asks, Iooking over at him with concern. A few steps
away, Arachnos looks on, curiously. "Is everlrthing all right?"
"One of those blasted creatures must have had the ability to block my
magic," Xaxos spits. "The moment before my triumph, the moment before
the battle to decide ever;,thing I have stood for, to validate my life's work,
and I am suddenly struck powerless."
"Maybe it will help to remember that it isn't just your work anymore."
Qu turns and gestures to the group of waiting mages. 'We "It's my legacy, and
your students'Iegacies, and it's Z'hana's mission, too. all believe in it.
-We're
all fighting for a more tolerant world, together."
"You're right," Xaxos says with a tired nod. "When did you grow to
be so wise? I'm sure I never gave you such good adwice while you were
growing up. Here, take these to the others. I want to give what little I still
can to contribute to our cause."
Find Vestige 20 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Spark
immediately.
SECTION - 42 -
"Ilyal" Kel has her arms outstretched to catch her Tether when she
falls even before she starts to wobble. Together, they sink to the ground in
a puddle, Kel bracing Ilya's weight against her chest. "What's happening,
what's wrong?"
"I think these monsters might have the abiliS, to interrupt a person's
flow of aethea" Ilya says, before breaking down in a coughing fit. "I
wonder how they could have attained it."
"If they interruptedyour aether then-"
"Yeah," Ilya leans her head against Kel's vr.ith a sigh. "I don't think I
can do magic anymore, for a while at least. I'm sorry, everyone."
"I need to take care of IIya," Kel adds, above Ilya's protests. "But I'll
teach you how to use the Azerian artifacts that power our breach magic.
Hopefully they will helpyou."
Find Vestige 5 and Vestige 18 on sticker sheet 5. Add Vestige 5 to
any mage mat and Vestige 18 to any Spark immediately'
SECTION - 43
It's horrible to watch the mage you were forced to fight collapse to
the ground Iike a puppet with its strings cut. The woman next to het
her Tether, slowly opens and closes the hand that had so recently been
entwined with her partner's. There is still no mind, no consciousness
behind her eyes, but it does not stop the scream ofpure rage and pain as
fire spreads from her in a sudden inferno.
Place 2 fire tokens on your location on the map. Discard IGryra and
return Tethered to the event deck.
SECTION - 44
"Hey, Mal?" Kadir rests a hand on her husband's arm, using him for
balance. "Remember when I was wondering what it would be like to be
without breach magic? WeIl I have a new data point and it's not a very
enjoyable one."
"Are you all right?" Malastar asks, pressing the back of his hand gently
against Kadir's forehead.
"Oh physically fine, yeah, just entirely incapable of combat." Kadir
waggles her fingers demonstratively in the air, to no effect. "I figure the
best thing I can do for the team is to pass out rr5/ gems, see if anyone
else can use them to enhance their own combat but," Kadir pulls an
exaggerated face, "I really dont want everyone mucking up my gems."
"I'll make sure they're properly washed before being returned to you,"
Malastar says with a chuckle, kissing his wife on the forehead.
Find Vestige 4 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage met
immediately.
SECTION - 45
"It's almost funny," Thraxir says, half to himself, half to Razrawhere
she walks beside him. "Once you have felt death, everlrthing else is but a
paltry echo. A drop in an endlessly deep pond."
"Areyou d;ring again?" Ptazra asks. "Because ifyou are we should
definitely tell the others."
"No, Iittle one, I am not dying. I am merely cut off from my magic. This
body will sustain, but I can no longer cast spells."
"That sucks," P.azra responds, sticking out her tongue.
"Indeed. But I have spent centuries in battle. I can persist a few
days without it until my spirits recover. Until then, perhaps what I have
accumulated in my many travels can be of assistance to the others."
Find Vestige I I on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage mat
immediately.
SECTION . 46
The fetter curls in on itself as it withers like a flower shriveling
up in the sun. It must have been powerful, because the release of its
magic spreads through the swarming fetters like a ripple on a pond. For a
moment, they loosen their grip, and you have time to recover.
If this w,as discarded during any player's turn, Gravehold gains 5
life.
sEcTloN - 47
"You don't even know whatyou're up against," Brama snaps. She
lifts her staff to the side in a broad gesture and a woman darts out of the
shadows, blade bared and read;z for battle.
Place card L2-E-52 into play.
SECTION - 48
"Uhhhhh, this is not great," Claudia says, waving her arms around in
wider and more dramatic patterns. She jumps up and down and wiggles
her full body, but nothing happens.
"Whats happening?" Malastar asks, watching his daughter as she flails
around wildly.
"I'm doing eveqrthing I can think of, but my magic is poofedl" Claudia
gestures outward with her hands like an e*plosion. "One of those creatures
must have mixed something up inside me with one of those attacks.
Hopefully it shouldn't last forever, but...."
Claudia shrugs. "I'm basically useless for now. But heyl You can have
my stuff until I'm better."
Find Vestige 12 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Crystal
immediately.
SECTION . 49
As the metallic Nameless finally falls, Tirlix turns to look at the
devastation around them. The fight has taken a toll not only on the
fighters, but also on Southpost itself.
"We should gather whatever is salvageable," Inco says. "If our enemies
were here, we need to make sure that they can't get their hands on our
resources."
"Right, plus they might be useful in protecting New Gravehold," Kadir
says.
If you won your first game versus Rust Superion, your group gains
{ experience per player'. Otherwise, your group gains 2 experience
per player'. Either way, do not spend this experience.yet.
Record the results of this garne on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Southern Outpost location on the rnap,
then discard all fire tokens. If you played this game trvice, write the
higher nurnber of fires.
Banish the Rust Superion nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
If you just fought your second nemesis of the Gravehold carnpaign,
read section 7.
If you just foug'ht your third nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 16.
SECTION - 50
The constant stream of monsters is overwhelming, and eventually, the
mages simply cannot hold out any longer. First one, then another falls
to the ground, exhausted, as the laughing, masked woman directs her
creatures towards their throats.
"Wait," she says, holding up a hand, and every monster freezes in its
tracks. One by one, she folds the fingers ofher upraised hand in, cracking
her knuckles leisurely as she mulls over the fate of the mages before her.
"This is better, but still not strong enough. It's not time for you all to
crumble just.yet."
"'We're not done with you," Kadir spits, and the woman simply laughs.
"Correct. You most certainly are not." The woman snaps her fingers
and mutters a few *ords, and the creatures turn away from the mages and
rush back towards the portal, leaping through and back into the Void. The
woman is the Iast to leave, stepping gingerly into the portal and letting it
close behind her. Just before it shuts, she turns around and calls out, "Give
your Brama my regardsl"
"Did she say Z'hana's followers helped her make these creatures? To
throw at us?" Malastar rounds on the group, his face growing red with
rage.
"No way, she wouldnt do that, would she?" Claudia kneels to the side
of one of the felled monsters, poking at its remains. It looks just like a
normal Void creature as far as she can tell. "She might be a little upset but

she wouldn't try and kill us all!"
"How much can any of us really say we know her anymore?" Malastar
furrows his brow. "She's been off traveling the Void, working with Xaxos.
We know she can control Nameless and use them to attack us, she's done it
already. Can we really say this is truly out of character for her?"
The mages fall into an uncomfortable silence as they each realize their
comrade may be beyond the point of no return.
Your group gains 2 erperience per player'. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this garne on the back of this booklet. Write
the higher number of fires betrveen your t$/o ganes on the Ruins
location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
If 5,s11 just fought your second nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 70.
If you just fought your third nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 96.
SECTION - 5I
"Oh, good," Claudia says, wiping the sweat frorn her brow. "I was
try^.rg to be cool and pretend I could handle this, but we are in way over
our heads out there. You guys are lifesavers."
Inco tosses his head and pushes himself to standing. "I understand, the
ruins hold powerful artifacts that can help you protect more people. I just
hope that my and Talix's strength is enough to hold out on our own."
Malastar puts a hand on his daughter's shoulder. "As soon as we finish
helping Claudia, we will come lend our aid to you."
"Come on!" Claudia slips out from beneath Malastar's hand and rushes
forward, before turning around with an exasperated expression. "It's life or
death here, peoplel
'We
have to movel"
Find the Ruins sticker on sticker sheet 5 section 2 and place it in
the blank space on the Ruins on your map.
Open envelope 7. Add both of the mages there to your Gravehold
barracks. Open deck CN. Add them to your Gravehold barracks.
' When you are ready to play the next game, read section 15.
sEcTroN - s2
The mages would never have found the tiny village in the swamp if not
for the chaos that was current\z running rampant through the middle of it.
Drifting over the village is a gigantic golden mask in the shape of a human
face, suspended in midair. As the mages watch in horror, a long chain
whips out from the creature and wraps itself around the tattooed arm of a
mage trying to fight back and the mage goes limp in its grasp.
The mask pulls the captive mage back, dangling it beside a host of other
E
puppets who are mindlessly destroying the town around them.
"Are they alive?" Claudia asks with horror in her voice.
"I dont know," Malastar says, putting a reassuring hand on his
daughter's shoulder. "But we need to protect everyone we still can. No
matter what it takes."
Open envel ope 17 . Add both of the mag'es there to your Gravehold
barracks. Open deck MS. Add them to your Granehold barracks.
Find sticker sheet 7 section { and add these enhancements to your
Gravehold barracks.
You may norv spend your experience on enhancements,
Build the supply using cards from your Gravehold barracks
follorving the rules on pag'e 14 of the rulebook. Return any cards
that you did not use to your Gravehold barracks.
Open envelope 6 and deck PY. Follorr. the setup instructions on the
back of the nemesis mat. Construct the nemesis deck following the
deck construction rules on page 12 ofthe rulebook. Be sure to use
as rnany upgraded nemesis cards as possible.
Defend Faen from Paradox of A\rth. If you win, read section 72.
If you lose your first game, record that game on the back of
this booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Youl group gains 5
experience per player. You may use that experience irnmediately.
Then, replay this game.
If you win the second game, read section 72. Otherwise, read
section 8.
SECTION - 53
"It will be all right, Taqren," Qu says, slinging an arm around Taqren's
waist and squeezing him into her side. "Just because you cant seem to do
magic doesn't mean we're going to leave you behind. I'll be atyour side
until it returns to you."
"I know, Qu," Taqren sayswith a tired smile. "I'm just sad because....
because this is probably the most important fight of my life. New
Gravehold is on the brink, my mother is fighting for our right to our
own home, ever;,thing is at stake and here I am. Forced to the sidelines.
lJseless. "
"Every fight seems like the most important fight of your life, Taqren.
Almost all of them aren't. And just because you cannot fight doesnt mean
you have to sit on the sidelines." Qu gives Taqren a knowing look. "There
are plenty of other ways you can help the team."
Find Vestige l0 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage rnat
immediately.
SECTION - 54
With a powerful burst of magic, you rip your arms free of the chains.
For a moment, you feel a spark of something powerful, some kind of
ener$/ surging through the metal. Perhaps it's the same magic that is
empowering the great hulking beast the floating mask is attached to. Even
just a little touch of the magic is enough to send energy surging through
you. There's no doubt it could be dangerous if someone was left exposed to
that amount of magic for a long enough period of time.
Gain a charge
SECTION - 55
"I suppose I'm outnumbered then," Taqren concedes. He steps back
and lets IIya kneel to the ground beside the twitching creature. She
reaches out and begins tracing a complicated looking rune onto its back,
her fingers leawing glowing trails of magic in the air behind them.
"Just a little bit of power," Ifza murmurs. The golden energy sinks
down, slipping into the cracks running along its metallic casing. "To help
you survive."
Find the Sentinel sticker on sticker sheet 5 section 5 and place it in
the blank space on the Southern Outpost location on your map.
If you just foug'ht your second nemesis, read section 18.
If you just fought your third nemesis, read section 26.
SECTION - 56
"This is more than bad luck." The mages turn to see Brama, making
her way through the rubble towards thern. "Z'hana comes back and
immediately afterwards a portal opens in the middle of my ciqy? I refuse to
accept that it's a coincidence.
Z'hana is back?" Kadir asks.
"She was in the Void. With Xaxos. She's the traitor mage as well
as one of his power hungry followers. I exiled her only a few hours ago,
and now she must be continuing her plan to overthrow New Gravehold.
We know she has the abiliS, to control Nameless. She did the same thing
when she was attacking our Southern Outpost, and she's found some new
mages somewhere who must be able to do the same. I didn't recognize the
people with her. Perhaps she's discovered an entire new force of recruits,
enough to overwhelm our defenses."
"Why would she do that?" Gygar recoils. "Send monsters into a crowd
of civilians? That's awful."
"There can only be one explanation." Brama sets her staff firmly in the
ground. "This is a declaration of war."
"Wa.," Kadir breathes out, taking Malastar's hand. "Don't we already
have enough troubles without mages fighting mages?"
Brama's stern expression softens. "I don't like it any more than you
do. But if it is true, we cannot be caught undefended. You four, take what
accoutrements for battle you can salvage from the marketplace and go
find what mages you can. 'We need to consolidate our forces here in New
Gravehold."
"Brama... not coming?" Lost asks.
"New Gravehold needs a leader, and a defender if worst comes to
worst. Besides," Brama looks sad\z down at her staff, "I would only slow
you down."
"You can count on us." Malastar steps forward. "New Gravehold is our
'We're
home. not going to let it go without a fight."
If you are playing w.ith 1-2 players, banish all of the tier 2 basic
cards from the nemesis deck. Set aside the remaining upgraded
basic tier 2 and tier 5 cards and all ofthe basic tier I and 5 cards
that rveren't already banished. Open deck GH-lc. Add all of the
upgraded basic nemesis cards to the nemesis cards you have set
aside. You will akvays use as many of the upgraded nemesis cards
as possible rvhen building the nemesis deck mowing forward.
Banish the Fate Shepherd nemesis mat and all nernesis specific
cards.
If there rvere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards GH-l c-27 through
GH-lc-51. If there were 8 or more, also banish cards GH-lc-22
through GH-lc-26. Add any remaining cards from this deck to your
Gravehold barracks along w.ith your supply cards from the prer.ious
game.
Your group gains 4 experience per player. If you won this garne and
there were 2 or felver fire tokens, your group gains an additional
2 experience per player. Add sticker sheet 1 section I (all starting
enhancements) to your Gravehold barracks. Do not spend your
experience yet.
Read section 90.
SECTION - 57
As the group approaches the Southern Outpost, they can already see
the metallic glint of the sun off the exoskeleton of the creature prowling
the outskirts of the fort. The ground is littered with massive pieces of stone
and broken pieces of architecture. The remains of a fight.
"I know a back entrance," Inco says. "Follow me."
Following Inco's lead, you sneak around the back of the massive stone
structure and down into the basement. Tialix is waiting there in the light of
his own burning gem, keeping guard over the people of the outpost. Some
civilians, some scouts, some hunters, none trained to fight against an actual
Nameless.
"Oh, Inco, you made it," Talix says, relief breaking in his voice as he
steps for-ward to fold his son up in his arms. "The Ou{>ost came under
attack whileyou were gone."
"It was already being attacked before I left," Inco tries to protest, but
Talix shakes his head and cuts him off.
"It was being attacked, yeah, and I made sure to keep everyone inside
and safe until you returned. But that's when things got really weird. I
didn't see most of it because I was down here, but I could see just the
edges of the fight. Some mages I didn't recognize were out there and also
Taqren, maybe? They defeated the Nameless and headed back into the
forest and that's when the second Void portal opened."
"The second one?" Inco's eyes widen.
"A person came out of this one," Talix continues explaining. "All draped
in robes and such. Picked up one of the little tiny metal creatures those
other mages had just defeated and started whispering to it and feeding
magic into it. Next thing I know, boom, it's as big and bloodthirsqr as its
predecessor."
"That must be one of the new people Z'hana has recruited to fight
against New Gravehold," Gygar says, tapping his chin with his finger. "It
sounds like a similar power to Z'hana's ability to control Nameless, after
all."
"Fight against New Gravehold?" Talix tries to ask, but Inco shakes his
head.
"Not important right now. 'What is important is protecting these people,
and this place."
"You're right," Talix agrees. "Is everyone ready to fight?"
calling.
With one {inal howl, the Nameless turns away from the battered and
beaten mages and leaps back through the portal.
"Well. That's certainly something." Gygar steps back from the
battlefield and rolls his shoulders slowly, stretching them out.
"I didn't think Void portals could manifest inside the ciqr," Malastar
says as he picks through the shattered planks of wood that once were
a marketplace. "'We've always had weeks of warning from our scouts,
tracking these monsters before they could attack."
"I guess we've just always been lucky," Kadir says, shaking her head
Record the results of this garne on the back of this booklet. \Vrite
the number of fires on the Nerv Gravehold location on the map,
then discard all fire tokens.
Read section 56.

Find sticker sheet 5 section 5 and add these enhancements to your

Gravehold barracks.

You may norv spend your experience on enhancements.

sN\
tl
Build the supply using cards from your Gravehold barracks
following the rules on pag-e 14 of the rulebook. Return any cards
that you did not use to your Gravehold barracks. Vl Z
Open envelope 16. Open deck RA. Follorv the setup instructions on \ =$j
the back of the nemesis mat. Construct the nemesis deck follorving
the deck construction rules on pag^e 12 of the rulebook. Be sure to
use as many upga'aded nemesis cards as possible.
_1
'a
W S
Defend the Southern Outpost from Rust Amalgam. If you won

rtr
your first game, read section 40.
If you lost your' first game, record that g'ame on the back of this
booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Your group gains 5 \
\
s -
experience per player. You may use that experience imrnediately \r

Then, replay this game.

./
If you N.in the second game, read section 40. Otherwise, read /i/.
section 25.
/'
\
-58
The feathered creature roars again, but the mages are too exhausted
to do an;rthing but watch in horror as the creature descends. Malastar
reaches out and grabs Kadir's hand tight, squeezing it as he waits for the
final blow. A long moment of waiting passes, but no teeth come snapping
shut. When he peeks an eye open, the beast isn't even paying attention
anymore. Instead, it is staring backwards into the black {ire of the Void
portal it came through, its head straining towards it as though something is
g
SECTION - 59
The beast is relentless, just an unending barrage of pain and carnage,
and eventually the mages begin to flag in the face of it. Exhausted and
standing in a ruined village, they can't summon the strength to fight any
longer.
Suddenly, the monster begins to scream, a long, horrific noise dragged
straight from the core of it, with no visible mouth to let it out. It tries to
set its feet against the ground, but it cannot stop its own inexorable slide
backwards as it is dragged unwillingly back towards the Void portal it
came through. The mages watch in fascinated confusion as the Nameless is
forced back into the portal and it seals shut behind it.
"That is concerning and unnatural behawioc" Mazra says into the
silence that falls over the village.
"What s important is we defeated it," Inco answers before heading off
to check on the willagers as they begin to filter nervously back from where
they'd fled into the woods.
"We can't stay long," Mazra reminds everyone. "'We need to get back to
New Gravehold and prepare to hold the line."
Claudia lets out a long sigh. "This is going to be a miserable fight, no
matter which way it goes."
"But look what these portals are doing to everyone," Soskel says, his
voice hard and pitiless. "If Z'hanatruly brought this upon us, then we
need to take her down."
"Let's get home," Kadir says, and the mages all begin the journey back
to New Gravehold, prepared to defend their home from whatever man or
monster might threaten it.
Your group gains 2 experience per player. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this g'ame on the back of this booklet. Srrite
the higher number of fires between your two g-ames on the Faen
location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
If any unbanished mages have severed stickers, find the number in
the upper-right corner of the back of their mag'e mat and read the
narrative section matching that number.
Banish the Paradox of Bone nemesis mat, the Bone track, the spell
and gem/relic tokens, and all nemesis specific cards.
Return all market cards, enhanced breaches, starter cards, mage
mats, enhanced starter cards, and enhancement stickers to the
Gravehold barracks. Banish all basic and upgraded basic nemesis
cards. Sar.e any unspent experience cards in the Gravehold
barracks.
When you're ready to begin the final game, read section 76.
SECTION - 60
The tiny machines don't seem intelligent, but they spread like sludge,
wrapping around your Iegs and interlacing themselves into your skin. It
takes almost all the energ/ you have to keep your focus on running your
magic through your own bodlz and forcing them out ofyour flesh.
Place a parasite card into your hand.
E
sEcTroN - 6r
Z'hana snarls, focusing on the fierce battle. "That's not the last of our
comrades who you've betrayed with your refusal to grow," she shouts, and
from the shadows behind her, a glowing blue figure floats into the fray.
Place card L2-E-35 into play.
SECTION - 62
Fate Shepherd screeches in fury and reaches out again for the powerful
artifacts surrounding it. It whips them wildly around, magic and aether
surging dangerously to the surface and spilling out in a fi,ery deluge that
quickly catches and spreads.
Boost the top card of a supply pile that can be boosted.
SECTION - 63
The gigantic Nameless lifts its many, bulbous fists, holding them in the
breathless moment before dropping them for the killing blow. A killing
blow that never comes as the Nameless turns suddenly to regard the
gaping Void portal from which it came.
The mages, weak and all but defeated, wait and watch and hold their
breath as the monster before them turns its back and lumbers back
through the portal, bringing all its horrific grasping followers along with it.
The portal shuts behind it, and after a long, tense moment, everyone
finally lets out a collective breath.
As silence and peace fall over the village once again, the Azerians begin
to emerge from where they'd fled deeper in the woods. Kel and I\za rush to
check on everyone, making sure each villager is accounted for.
"Is my mother here yet?" Taqren asks Xaxos as he pulls him aside.
Xaxos shakes his head and shades his eyes against the blinding sun beating
down on them.
"We'll be ready for when she arrives. 'Whatever needs to be done."
"Are you willing to stand against Brama again?" Taqren lowers his
shield to the ground and leans against it. "What happened to regretting
your actions from the past?"
"I regret many of my actions. But the simple act of trying to learn more
about my world? That I do not, and will never regret." Xaxos turns to face
the woods to the north , as if Z'hana might walk out of them any second. "I
think it's finally time we fought for what we believe in."
Your group gains 2 experience per player. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this ts-ame on the back of this booklet. Write
the higher nurnber of fires between your two games on the Azer
location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
If any unbanished mages have severed stickers, find the number in
the upper-right corner of the back of their mage mat and read the
narrative section matching that number.
Banish the Griefrveaver nemesis mat and all nemesis specific cards.
Return all market cards, enhanced breaches, starter cards, mage
mats, enhanced starter cards, and enhancement stickers to the Azer

barracks. Banish all basic and upgraded basic nemesis cards. Save
any unspent experience cards in the Azer barracks. These cannot be
used rvhile playing the Gravehold campaign.
- their heads out of the surrounding vegetation. T;,reesia limps back into the
When you're read;r to begin the Gravehold campaign, read section
97.
sEcTloN - 64
Mist screams with laughter as the final Nameless fragment fuses into
place and the monstrosiq, she has sculpted comes to life with a roar. From
across the battlefield, Brama and Z'hana lock eyes and communicate in a
single instant built up over a shared lifetime of battles fought side by side.
As one, they leave the rest of the mages to distract the giant, hulking
Nameless and run around behind Mist, finding their way to her flank.
Z'hana slashes glowing golden Sb?h. into the air, focusing all her ener6/
to hold Mist's creation in place while Brama rushes past her and stabs the
burning end of her staff directly into Mist's heart.
Read section 82.
SECTION - 65
The antlered monstrosiqz stumbles, almost collapsing for a second
before it regains itself. It has nearly fallen, but it isn't enough, and the
great, golden mask floating above it keeps it standing, suspended by the
chains that connect them. The mask fi-xes its sightless eyes on the mages
and prepares another attacl<, one they are sure they will not survive, not
with how exhausted and battered they already are.
However, before the beast can be urged forward, the mask suddenly
freezes in place, its hollow face tipping to the side as it appears to listen to
something the mages cannot hear. Just as suddenly as it came, the mask
begins to float backwards towards the Void portal that is still swirling
behind it. It slips entirely through the border of black flame and the portal
snaps shut, severing the ends ofthe golden chains, and leaving the great
hulking beast stranded on the other side of the portal with the mages.
The beast shakes its head in pain, tryang to refocus after losing its
partner. But alone, and already weakened, the creature is no match for the
mages, even with their wounds. With the last of their strength, the mages
focus their spells on the beast and blast it with magic until it is nothing but
a pile of blackened bones.
Your group gains 2 experience per player. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this garne on the back of this booklet. Write
the higher number of fires betw,een your two g*ames on the Faen
location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
Find the M;,th sticker on sticker sheet 5 section 4 and place it on
the blank space in the forest on the left of your map.
If you just fought your second nemesis, read section 66.
If you just fought your third nemesis, read section 80.
I
I
SECTION - 66
As silence falls over the abandoned village, survivors begin to poke
village, her Tether helping her stand.
"It! over," Ilya says, crossing to them quickly and supporting T;rreesia
from the other side. "You're all safe to come back."
"Thank you," Tyreesia responds, the exhaustion ewident in her words.
"We'll start gathering everyone who scattered into the woods and make
sure they make it back safe."
"'We can help," Kel begins to say, but Yan Magda lifts a hand into
the air, and just the single motion is powerful enough to draw everyone's
attention.
"There is another darkness. To the west. A powerful Void essence that
would match even this one."
"The Southern Outpost," Taqren realizes with dawning horror.
"That's New Gravehold territory." Kel crosses her arms tight and kicks
at a piece of rubble that used to be a house. " Can't they take care of their
own? This is their problem. They caused it; they should at least be able to
deal with the repercussions."
"People are people." Taqren settles his shield onto his back. "We
protect them. It's the right thing to do."
"And who knows," Indira adds, her voice full of quiet wisdom.
"Conflicts are never as simple as they first seem. An enemy today could be
an all;z tomorrow."
Kel tosses her head. "Fine. Let's hurry then. We sti,ll need to get back to
Azer."
"Before you go," T;,reeisa pipes up, "not ever;rthing was destroyed by
that Nameless. Let us give you what we can, to help you in your fight. It's
the'least we can do to thank you. "
Open deck AZ-FA. Add all of the upgraded basic nemesis cards to
the nemesis cards in your Azer barracks. You'will alr.vays use as
many of the upgraded nemesis cards as possible rvhen building the
nemesis deck moving forward.
Banish the Paradox of Myth and Bone nemesis mat and all nemesis
specific cards. Banish the M;rth and Bone turn order cards and
return the normal nernesis turn order cards to the turn order deck.
Banish the M;rth life dial.
If there were 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards AZ-FA-23 through
AZ-RA-27 . If there were 8 or more, also banish cards AZ-FA- l8
through AZ-FA-22. Add any remaining cards from this deck to
your Azer barracks along with your supply cards from this game.
If any unbanished mages have severed stickers, find the number
in the upper-right corner of the back of their mage mat and read
the narrative section matching that number. If you rvon your game
and there were 2 or ferver fire tokens, place card L2-E-27 into your
Azer barracks.
Find sticker sheet 6 section 1 and add these enhancements to your
Azer barracks. Find sticker sheet 6 section 2 and add sticker G to
your rulebook.
Read section 94
SECTION - 67
"What. Was that." Kel stares into the thin air where moments ago a Void
portal had sliced open the fabric of reality.
"Probably another mage exiled by Brama," Taqren reasons. "Just like
Xaxos or Arachnos turned mad and attacked people."
"Didyour mom send that monster?"
"She rvould nevet" Taqren answers quickly, though he cant help but
look away, unable to maintain eye contact.
"That's not important," Ilya snaps, her usual cheerful demeanor stripped
away as she paces with barely contained agitation. "She made it sound like
something big was coming. What if New Gravehold is already planning an
attack?"
"Bramawouldn't..." Taqren tries to defend the leader of the ci5z he'd
devoted his life to, but when he remembers the scathing cruelty he'd seen
as their leader banished his mother without even Ietting her explain herself,
he finds it hard to dismiss the potential. Ever since the Fall, his mother told
him, Brama had become stricter and stricter in her precautions to protect
the ciqy. Taqren had always thought it was worth the sacrifices, but New
Gravehold shouldnt have to be protected from its own people.
"If we don't even know what Z'hana is planning, we cant assume what
Brama will do," Qu reasons.
"'We need to talk to her. My mother. I need her to explain."
Qu reaches out and takes Taqren's hand with her own human one,
entangling their fingers in a quiet attempt at comfort. "We don't have time
to go hunting through the forest for her. She told us to meet her at Azer, so
we'll see her once we get there and make sure eveq,.thing is all right."
"Before we go, we should see what we can scavenge from the
surrounding area. There might be something useful." Kel glances around at
the ravaged forest, scarred from the battle. "That is, if there's anl,thing left."
If you are playing rvith I -2 players, banish all of the tier 2 basic cards
from the nemesis deck. Set aside the rernaining upgraded basic tier
2 and tier 5 cards and all ofthe basic tier I and 5 cards that werent
already banished. Open deck AZ-lc. Add all of the upgraded basic
nemesis cards to the nemesis cards you have set aside. You will
allvays use as many of the upgraded nemesis cards as possible when
building the nernesis deck mowing forrvard.
Be sure to follou, the rules regarding the end of the game on the
nemesis rnat, then banish the Bishop of Scrolls nernesis mat and all
remaining nemesis specific cards.
If there x,ere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards AZ-lc-29 through
AZ-1c-53.If there rr.ere 8 or rnore, also banish card,s AZ-lc-22
through AZ-lc-28. Add any remaining cards from this deck to your
Azer barracks along with your supply cards from the prewious game.
Find sticker sheet I section 2, and sticker sheet 5 section I in the
Insights folder. Sticker rulebook stickers A, B, C, and D into the
rulebook (experience and sticker enhancements) and read them.
Your group gains { experience per player. If you rvon this game and
there rvere 2 or ferver fire tokens, your group gains an additional 2
experience per player'. At the beginning of each game, you will be
able to spend erperience to gain enhancements. Add sticker sheet 2
section I (all starting enhancements) to your Azer Barracks. Do not
spend experience 1,et.
Read section 95.
I
SECTION , 68
Set aside the Mist Revealed nemesis mat. Return all cards and the
nemesis mat you set aside this game. Return the three cards rvith a
card number beginning with L2-Eyou removed this garne to deck
E. Remake the Mage Attack deck with all mages not severed or
affiliated to the side you are currently pla;nng. Shuffle these and
set the deck to the side of the nemesis rnat. Rebuild the nemesis
deck with all the remaining cards with L2-FB in the bottom left
corner. Rebuild the deck in numerical order, using that code, so that
card L2-FB-57 is the top card. Then if you are playing with l/2/5
players, discard the top 7/5/5 cards of the nemesis deck.
Defend New Gravehold again. If you won, read section 82.
Ifyou lost, read section 64.
sEcTroN - 69
The battle comes to a sudden halt as the sky above the mages goes
black. They turn and look up as one as a Void portal, dark and swirling
and massive enough to entirely block out the sun, rips itself into existence,
and that same masked figure holding that giant tome steps out from it and
descends slowly to the ground.
"No, no, nol What is happening here?" The figure asks, her voice
choked with fury.
"Look at what meddling with Void magic has done!" Brama shouts,
turning to rall;r the mages. "Corrupted what was once human and turned it
into an enemyl"
"Look at what Brama has donel" Z'hana counters, cr)rrng out even
louder. "Turned someone who we probably once knew into an enemy,
driwing them to the end of their rope I "
"You're both wrong!" The figure shouts, ripping the mask from her
face and dropping it roughly to the ground. Brama and Z'hana stare on
in horror as the woman underneath shakes out her dark hair and glares at
them.
"Mist?"
"You're both wrong," Mist snaps again, and then slowly her expression
softens into a wide smile. Her eyes are hazy, swirling strangely purple.
"Or maybe, or maybe you're both right. The answer was in the Void, the
strength was there, the abiliqr to save us all was there, but I couldnt have
found it without my beloved Brama's helpful push!"
"What didyou do to her?" Z'hana demands, rounding on Brama.
"She did nothing but give me what I needed," Mist cuts in. "Back in
Gravehold, she was always so proud of me, her good little Void walkec
killing the Nameless where they lived, before they could reach our cit;r."
Brama stares at Mist, speechless, shaking with emotion at coming face
to face with the mage she'd once considered a daughter.
"But after everlrthing Xaxos did," Mist glances over at Xaxos where
he lingers near the back of the fight and wiggles her fingers in a friendly
wave, "she didnt trust it an;rmore ! She thought eveqrthing that touched
the Void was tainted, was dangerous, was bound to kill us all! She didnt
want me Void walking aryrnore, but it's really the only skill I've ever had,
and I couldn't just stand back and watch people get hurt."
"So she exiled you when she found out whatyou'd done?" Z'hana spits
the words like acid from her tongue.
"No, no," Mist shakes her head. "No, I exiled myself. Into the Void
forever with mel If I couldn't practice my skills in New Gravehold where
they might hurt people, I just needed to do it where the only ones I could
hurt deserved it. Just like Dezmodia, one h"ppy sacrifice to unite the
world, to make us all safe. Didyou notice I was gone?"
"I didn't know what had happened," Brama breathes, reaching out a
hand toward where Mist floats, beyond her reach.
"And with all that time in the Void, I had plenry of time to think."
Mist's smile widens as she begins to giggle manically, her eyes swirling
with that strange purple haze that is the only evidence of the Void madness
that must have taken root deep inside her. "After the Fall, we were all so
scared, werent we, weren't we Brama? So scared, but all together. Afraid
and united. We were h.ppy then. Mages never fought against mages."
"We were sufferingl" Z'hana argues back, gripping the hilts of her
swords tight.
"'We were bonded by a common goal," Mist corrects, her laughter
giving way to a mournful tone. She stares over at New Gravehold and
shakes her head. "Necessiqz, as they say, is the mother of creation. AII I
want is for us to be that way again. I'm here to make all the fighting stop.
You are both wise, Brama, Z'hana, but you are also nearsighted. I will give
you the true answer to your petty squabble."
Mist lifts her arms above her to the dark and swirling sky, and
around her come pieces of Nameless, all the monstrosities that had been
rampaging through the world, the bodies of those the mages had defeated
and ever;,thing that vanished back into those dreadful Void Portals that
they had hoped to never see again.
"I will create the ultimate Voidbeast, the flesh and blood of Nameless
knit together into the most powerful threat of all." Mist laughs as the
pieces of the fallen Nameless begin to attach themselves to each other and
fuse. "You will all be blood brothers, bonded in adversiqr, brought together
by tragedyl And from the ashes of our cigz, whoever remains will truly rise
to create the utopia we always dreamed of. Gravehold, perfected I "
Set aside all nemesis cards in pla;,, the nemesis discard pile,
and the mage attack deck. Do not banish the nemesis deck or
the Commander deck. Set aside the current nemesis rnat. Open
envelope 19. Set up the Mist Revealed mat, set the nemesis health
to be her health, and skip nemesis deck setup. First, set aside
the top 7 cards of the nemesis deck. This is the Fragrnent deck.
If the Sentinel sticker is on your map, banish the top card of the
Fragment deck, otherwise banish the bottom card of the Fragment
deck.
Refer to the back of this book rvhere you recorded your games. If
you recorded a loss in the final game against any nemesis that is not
Bishop of Scrolls or Bishop Returned, reveal cards from the top of
the Fragrnent deck until you reveal one that references a nemesis
you lost ag'ainst. Place that card into play, and return the rest to the
facedown Fragrnent deck. Then, ifthere are no Fragrnent cards in
play, place fivo Fragment cards into play.
If you are playing w:rth l/2/5 players, discard the top 3/2/l cards of
the nemesis deck.
I
If you r.vin your game versus Mist Revealed, read section 82.
Ifyou lose, read section 68.
SECTION - 70
Gygar falls to his knees and presses a hand against the exposed
stonework of the ruins. "So much history," he moans, "lost in a pointless
battle."
"Hey, I mean, they were already ruined," Claudia says, cheerfully.
"Now they're just more ruinedl"
"There will be helpful artifacts here. There were helpful artifacts here.
There are helpful artifacts here."
"Good idea, Nook." Claudia turns to the group. "We should get
eveqrthing we still can out of here. It'll probably come in useful for
defending New Gravehold.
"It! despicable for Z'hanato be sending Nameless after innocent
people, no matter what her goals," Kadir snaps, her hands tightening into
fists. "I can't believe she would do something like this."
"Inco," Lost pipes up.
"Right, of course," Malastar nods. "As soon as we ve got everyrthing we
can, we need to get to Southpost. Inco still needs our help."
Open envelope 12. Add both of the mages there to your Gravehold
barracks. Open deck IT. Add them to your Gravehold barracks.
Set aside all of the upgraded basic nemesis cards from the nemesis
deck. Open deck GH-R. Add all of the upgraded basic nemesis
cards to the nemesis cards you have set aside. You rvill alw,ays use
as many of the upgraded nemesis cards as possible u,hen building
the nemesis deck mowing forrvard.
Banish the Bishop Returned nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
If therervere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards GH-R-25 through
GH-R-29. If there rvere 8 or more, also banish cards GH-R-18
through GH-R-22. Add any remaining cards from this deck to your
Gravehold banacks along with your supply cards from this game.
If any unbanished mages have severed stickers, find the number
in the upper-rig'ht corner of the back of their mag'e mat and read
the narrative section matching that number. If you rvon your g'ame
and there rvere 2 or felver fire tokens, place card L2-E-25 into your
Grar.ehold barracks.
Find sticker sheet 2 section 2 and add these enhancements to your
Gravehold barracks.
\44ren you're ready to begin the next game, check the Southern
Outpost location on your map. If there is a Sentinel sticker there,
read section 92. Otherwise, read section 57.
SECTION - 7I
"Oh. Something is about to happen." Nook freezes in place where he
stands.
"Nook? Is eveg,thing good?" Claudia stops
as *ell, doubling back to
check on the odd, tirne-jumping mage.
Nook nods his head. "It has been, prewiously, I remember it once being
so and now in this moment there is no longer a past where it will have been
all right."
Claudia blinks. "Uh huh."
"Maybe the lack of magic will have improved the clariqy I once and will
lack again."
"I dont think I'd use you and clariqy in the same sentence, Nook."
Nook contemplates this for a moment. "You are as wise as you once
could have been when you would have grown, Claudia. Take my orb, it
might be the thing that has already saved someone in our group."
Find Vestige 6 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage mat
irnmediately.
SECTION - 72
The golden mask falls from the sky, clattering to a rough landing on
the forest floor. Its chains go slack, the metallic sheen fading from them as
they corrode away into nothing before the mages'very eyes. As the chains
dissolve into nothing, the people they once restrained begin to slowly blink
awake, rising to sitting and comihg to terms with their surroundings. The
mages go around, helping the victims up and fetching water, making sure
everyone is all right.
"'We cant stay long," Mazra reminds everyone. "We need to get back to
New Gravehold and prepare to hold the line."
Claudia lets out a long sigh. "This is going to be a miserable fight, no
matter which way it goes."
"But Iook what these portals are doing to everyone," Soskel says, his
voice hard and pitiless. "If Z'hana truly brought this upon us, then we need
to take her down."
"Lett get home," Kadir says, and the mages all begin the journey back
to New Gravehold, prepared to defend their home from whatever man or
monster might threaten it.
If you lvon your first game versus Paradox of M;,th, your group gains
{ erperience per player'. Otherrvise, your group gains 2 erperience
per player. Either N,ay, do not spend this erperience yet.
Record the results of this g'arne on the back of this booklet. \Vrite the
number of fires on the Faen location on the map, then discard all fire
tokens. If you played this game tw'ice, rvrite the higher number of
fires.
If any unbanished in
mages have severed stickers, find the nurnber
the upper-right corner of the back of their mage mat and read the
narrative section matching that number.
Banish the Paradox of tr\.th nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
Return all market cards, enhanced breaches, starter cards, mage
mats, enhanced starter cards, and enhancement stickers to the
Gravehold barracks. Banish all basic and upgraded basic nemesis
cards. Save any unspent experience cards in the Gravehold barracks.
When you're ready to begin the final game, read section 76.
SECTION - 73
"Ohatl Ulgimorl" Brama calls, and in a swirl of darkness the mage
appears, flanked by the shadow creature bound to his soul. Brama turns to
Z'hana with a grin. "What, did you think the rest of the mages hadn't made
it back yet?"
Place card L2-E-50 into play,
SECTION .74
"Enoughl" The masked woman grabs the nearest Void creature to her
by the viscous scruffofits neck and drags it backwards. "Enough," she
repeats again, staring down each of the mages. In spite of the fierce battle,
she doesn't even appear winded, although it's difficult to tell through the
heaqy covering obscuring her face. "You are strong already, and sooner than
I anticipated, I'll give you that, but this is only a fraction of the true power
of my children. Next time we meet, you will see the true potential of the
Void. At last, Brama will recognize the wonderful power that rvill unite all of
Graveholdl"
"Who areyou?" Taqren demands, stepping forward. "Ifyou're a mage,
why are you attacking us?"
"Oh, little Taqren. So taken in by the stories your mother weaves. She
seeks only to destroy what we are trying to buildl I cannot allow these
malcontents to tear us apar-t any longer. I will be the savior Gravehold
needs ! "
With a crack, the masked woman snaps her book shut and leaps back
into the Void portal alongside her menagerie of monsters. Before the mages
can react, the rift narrows to a single point and then winks out of existence.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the nurnber of fires on the Forest Clearing location on the map, then
discard all fire tokens.
Read section 67.
SECTION - 75
"Kell" Ilya has her arms outstretched to catch her Tether when she falls
even before she starts to wobble. Together, they sink to the ground in a
puddle, IIya letting Kel rest on top of her thigh. "What's happening, what's
wrong?"
"Some monster mucked up my abiliqy to draw and channel aether," Kel
says, spitting on the ground beside her. "I'm useless to you now."
"Kel, you're never useless to me," IIya says, Ieaning over her Tether to
press a kiss to her cheek. "I'll take care of you until you recover, I'm not very
well trained in solitary combat anJ vay. And until then," Ilya looks up at the
other mages, "I'll teach you all how to use the Azerian artifacts that power
our breach magic. Hopefully they will help you."
Find both Vestige 5 and Vestige 18 on sticker sheet 5. Add Vestige l8
to any Spark and Vestige 5 to any mage mat immediately.
SECTION - 76
The air is thick with si,lence as Z'hana approaches the gates of New
Gravehold. The assorted discontented mages she has gathered like strays
trail behind her. The uncertaint;z of what is to come hangs heavily around
their heads. This could be it, the snapping point ofyears of tension, the
final boiling point after generations of tiny, unsuccessful rebellions. Xaxos's
betrayal. Arachnos's insurgency. Z'hana's attempted siege. But now the
outcasts are united. Now they have a leader.
"Mother," Taqren says, speeding up enough to catch pace with Z'hana
where she walks at the head of the group. "'We havent discussed the plan
at all. You're not really planning to wage war on New Gravehold, are
you?"
"I cant say," Z'hana responds, not looking away from her goal, the
stone walls rising high above the thinning treeline. "I suppose that's up to
Brama. She can be reasonable and accept our demands or she can try and
banish us again. Her friends, her comrades." Z'hana's hands tighten into
fists at her sides. "The ones who dare to refuse to bow to her every whim."
"What about all these portals that are opening up?" Taqren tries again,
not backing down. "We still don't know why they're appearing. Are you
sure this is the time for this?"
"This is the perfect time for this. There will always be another
catastrophe. It's time our people had a new kind of leadership to face this
one."
Z'hana sets her jaw, the picture of determination, ready for anything
that is waiting for her at New Gravehold. But when Taqren glances
behind him and scans the faces of the mages trailing them, all he sees is
uncertaint;r. And he cant help but feel it echoed in his own heart.
'When
Z'hana's mages reach the clearing in front of New Gravehold,
Brama is there to meet them. Behind her is her own assortment of mages,
the faces of their family and friends cut with the same wariness Z'hana's
followers feel. No one wants a war, but the tension of it dangles like heat
lightning in the air. Brama is the first to step forward, planting her staff
firmly in the soft earth, daring Z'hanato try and move her.
"Stop this."
"Stop what? Stop questioningyou? Stop trying to learn about our
world?" Z'hana flings an arm out to the side, gesturing to all the mages
arrayed behind her. "How many of us have suffered because we dont fit
into your irnpossible standards?"
"I meant the portals," Brama snaps. "Look whatyou've brought to us,
to our city. Are you so blind that you cant see all the destruction raining
down aroundyou?"
"I didnt cause this," Z'hana hisses, narrowing her eyes.
"Right. You come back from an ill-prepared trip to the Void and then
by pure coincidence portals begin popping up left and right, and Nameless
are attacking at unprecedented rates. Haveyou learned nothing from the
mistakes of the past?" Brama stabs a finger forward accusingly at Xaxos.
"He also thought it would be innocent to experiment with the Void, and we
Iost our home. You lostyour husband."
"Don't bring Soren into this." Z'hana's hand drifts down to grip tightly
around the hilt of the sword at her hip.
"This mage you've sent to attack us is just another one of your qrye
who think that they can control the horrors of the Void. Just as Xaxos
SNr*:'-'-'.ffi1,-, .,- -. ...*
destroyed Gravehold, are you really willing to stand by and excuse yet
another Void-addled exile while she takes ever;,rthing from us?" Brama
gestures behind her at the heaqr plume of smoke still rising from the
rubble of New Gravehold's marketplace.
"I haven't sent anyone," Z'hana counters, raising her voice. "All this
devastation is your fault. You think this mage would have been driven
to this level of madness if she had community? Support? Who have you
exiled recently, Brama? Who have yo, d.i.r,".r fro* thei. home for d"".i.rg
to think? Our cities are burning, and you are the one who forged the
monster."
Find sticker sheet 7 section 5 in the Insights folder.
If Kel and Il5,a are not severed and Azer fias fir.e 01 1nole lires, read
the follou'ing section.
"You're both so entitledl" Z'hana and Brama break from their
argument to stare over at Kel as she steps forward, boldly. "Acting like
we have the luxury of standing around debating this while your petfiz
argument has spilled over and impacted people who had no say in this.
Our village is burningl"
IIya steps forward as well, linking her hand with Kel's. "New
Gravehold itself is a plague upon the surface. 'We took you rn, Z'hana,
taughtyou our magic, in the hope thatyou were our ally in this fight. And
now we learn that you seek to defend the corrupted monster that has been
killing our people?"
Ilya's glare tightens. "For once, I agree with Brama. Our feud is less
important than stopping that human turned monster before it takes more
from us all than it already has."
Place Gravehold stickers on Kel and I\ra's affiliations.
is not severed and the Southern Outpost has eight or
total, read the follorving section.
" Z'hana, I can never forgive you for leading Necroswarm to Southpost.
You destroyed my home, you endangered my family." Talix rests a hand
on his adoptive son, Inco's, shoulder. Then he glances behind him, and
Soskel's milky white eyes meet his own. "But almost losing my home again
has reminded me how important that all is. I cant imagine what I would
be like without the support system I've always had, without Southpost to
grow up in, and the people who love me. This enemy isnt mindless, she's
a mage, someone we must have all known. It's just ignorant to pretend the
same thing couldn't have happened to any of us if we'd taken the same
path."
Talix turns to face Z'hana. "You're right. If we don't change how we
treat our people, the same thing is just going to keep happening."
Place an Azer sticker on Thllx's affiliation.
is not severed and the Ruins have three or more
the following section.

"I am just returned from the Void. And just returned to myself, in
mind and spirit." Thraxir's voice commands attention, hollow and echoing
through his helmet. "I see ruins. I see devastation. I see my home, the only
home I ever knew, reduced to rubble at the hands of something much like
myself."
Thraxir lifts his great sword and plunges it decisively into the ground at
his feet. "Creatures of the Void know only destruction, and I cannot turn
away from that anymore. I have nothing left to return to, and this is due
to the selfish egotism of mages who thought they could control that which
stripped the heart from me."
"There is still hope," Brama says, gently. "You can use this second life
to protect what we have left. There will still be a place foryou, ifyou fight
for it."
Place a Gravehold sticker on Thraxir's affiliation.
is not severed and the Ruins sticker is not on the map,
the following section.
"I'm really not into all of this political posturing," Gygar interrupts with
a shrug. "I'm not cut out for leadership or government, so it isn't my place
to judge. But this squabble has erupted far beyond the point of politics.
This monster, whoevtjr is more at blame for creating hec is destroying
our very history. Any hope we have at understanding our past, gone up in
smoke."
Gygar rounds on Brama, glaring directly at her. "Maybe we could have
protected it if we'd been there sooner. Maybe we could have saved it if you
hadnt been so focused on your obsession with warring against her." Gygar
points violently at Brama. "Butyou couldn't see pastyour paranoia, and
look where it's gotten us. Another former ally, driven into destroying my
life's workl"
Place an Azer sticker on Gygar's affiliation.
is not severed and Faen has seven or more fires total,
follou,ing section.
"Brama." Brama turns to face Mazra at the sound of her quiet, stern
voice. "I have always admired your leadership. I worked harder than
anyone to achieve my position on the Council at my young age. I saw you
as my mentor."
"I am your mentor," Brama starts to respond, but Mazra cuts her off,
anger threading through her words.
"Butyou didn't consult with anyone before exiling Z'hana. You didn't
stop to consider the safet;r of the surrounding outposts and settlements
before recalling everyone for the safeqz of New Gravehold from a threat
you can't even recognize your own hand in making."
"Mazra," Brama says, her voice turning soft a.td pleading.
"I thought you were my mentor," Mazra snaps. "But I would never
want to grow up to be as close-minded and paranoid as you are."
Place an Azer sticker on Mazra's affiliation.
READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION.
I E
E
"Enough I" Brama slams the bottom of her staff down on the ground,
glaring across the clearing at Z'hana. "This is not about places. Places
can be rebuilt. We lost one home and we gained another, and we can gain
another again after Z'hana destroys this one."
"How dare you," Z'hana snarls. "New Gravehold was doomed from the
-
start underyour narrow minded leadership. That which does not evolve
will crumble."
"Yet more threats." Brama shakes her head slowly. "You will never
understand the sacrifices I make, the difficult choices that are forced upon
me. It is easy to be selfish from your own power-hungry perspective.
You think you should have the choice to meddle in the magic of the
Void. But that choice does not merely affectyou alone. That decision has
repercussions for everyone around you, for the ciqr you live in, for the
people you love. It is easy to spew sweet-sounding philosophies about
freedom. It is harder to face the reality of what your decisions mean for
everyone else."
"You claim to be protecting people, but whatyou're doing is reinforcing
your own restrictive status quo." Z'hana holds an arm out to the mages
arrayed behind her. "Didyou protect me? Yan Magda? Xaxos and
Arachnos? The Void gave us back Dezmodia, Brama, how can you
possibly close your eyes and pretend that everything the Void touches is
corrupted when it is already so wrapped up in all of our lives? "
Brama stares at Dezmodia, a momentary hesitance in her eyes at the
sight of the young prodigu standing like a ghost returned from the grave.
"You are a minority, who made your choices. I protect all the people."
"You protect no one," Z'hana counters. "Ald if you keep exiling
everyone who doesnt agree withyou, soonyou'll have no one left."
If A.r'achnos is not severed and Xaxos is severed, read the following
section.
"Brama is right." Brama and Z'hana's argument comes to a sudden
stop as they both turn to stare in open faced amazement at Arachnos's
interruption.
"Arachnos?" Z'hanatries to say more, but the words catch in her
throat.
"Brama is right," Arachnos says, again. "I made the choice to study
Void magic. Nobody forced me. I knew it was dangerous and I chose
to accept that danger for everyone around me, without their consent. I
may have been exiled, but Brama did not force me to begin injecting my
experiments into my best friend. Into myself. I cost myself everyrthing I
Ioved because I thought I knew better."
Arachnos glances over at Xaxos where he stands, pale and drained of
power. "And now the same poor decisions have taken my teacher's magic
entirely. How much more does the Void have to take from me before I
recognize that I was in the wrong? It's time to repent for the actions of my
past. It's time to stop hurting people for my own selfishness."
Place a Gravehold sticker on Arachnos's affiliation.
Claudia is not severed and either IGdir or Malastar are
the lollou.ing section.
 "That's all well and good," Claudia interrupts, her voice swimming
on the edge of tears, "but we've all been fighting horrible Void monsters
all day because of someone you exiled, Brama. You claim that you're
protecting people by getting rid of folks who dabble in Void magic, but
how are you protecting them if those exiles just keep coming back and
hurting us worse?"
Claudia scrubs furious\r at her eyes, t$,lng to keep her focus. "I had to
watch those things hurt my parents. And we dont even know how being
cut off from your magic works. Maybe someone would know if they had
done research, but they can't because if they had, you would have kicked
them outl It's not worth a short term safegz if all you're doing is dooming
us in the long term. And I can't very well call myself an inventor if I'm
going to hide away in fear from progress."
Place an Azer sticker on Claudia's affiliation.
If Dezmodia is not severed and Indira is severed, read the following
section.
After a moment of silence, Dezmodia herself speaks up. "I may be from
the Void now, but I did not choose this second life. I chose to give my life
to fight back against what Xaxos's indiscretion had forced upon us. My
own explorations into the Void notwithstanding, I see now that my original
assessment was correct. Dipping our toes into the darkness Ied to pain
and suffering in the past, and in this time I have returned to, nothing has
changed. Another mage following in the path of Xaxos has now taken yet
more friends from us. And I will make the same choice as I did before, to
fight against it and protect the people I care about."
Place a Gravehold sticker on Dezmodia's affiliation.
IfRazra is not severed and Inco is severed, read the following
"This is all making my head hurt," Razra whines, sliding an arm
around Rip and resting the side of her head against his. "There's so much
arguing and debating, when it feels like it should be simplel This masked
ladv who's been running around opening portals is hurting all of us, she's
attacking the people we care about, and she made my Inco's flowers wilt
which is a reall;z bad look on him."
Inco shoots his girlfriend an unamused look, and she shrugs,
unaffected. "Clear\2, the masked woman is the bad guy. Brama is obwiously
right to think she's dangerous, because how can we argue that she isn'tl
She's dangerous, and it's our job as mages to keep the danger away from
the innocent people. Feels prett;r cut and dry to me."
Place a Gravehold sticker on Razra's affiliation.
If Inco is not severed and the Ruins sticker is on the map, read the
follorving section.
"I am still a simple bud, yet to bloom into the flower of adulthood, and
I have only come to this place and you people recently. Until this point,
however, I stood as the child of a Nameless, who cared for me. The roots
of understanding the divide betr,veen what is truly ewil and what is good
are not simple. I do not think one philosop\z or another can truly protect
everyone."
Inco lifts a hand to the sky, a gentle breere ruffling through the
leaves wrapped around his wrist. "All I can judge by is the actions taken
'Who
now. is protecting the people I care about at this moment. And
the followers of Brama left my father and I to fend for ourselves at our
home when we needed protection. Sometimes, the world must be wiewed
simply."
Place an Azer sticker on Inco's affiliation.
READ THE FOLLOWING SECTTON.
"How can any of you follow her?" Brama demands, anger growing
in her voice. "Do none ofyou see what she's doing? Don't any ofyou
remember what she's done? Z'hana is the traitor magel She is the very
one who wrote the Sb?hr that herded Necroswarm up from the south and
caused the destruction of our Outpost! How can you believe her actions
are good?"
"Ihave made mistakes in my past, Brama, but I'm not afraid to admit to
them." Z'hana rolls back her shoulders, standing to her full height. "What
aboutyou?"
"Of course I've made mistakes." Brama glowers. "But exilingyou was
not one of them."
"Soyou refuse to repent?"
"It is pure arrogance that makes you think you aren't making the same
mistakes as you have made before." Brama lifts a hand to encompass the
entire world, the attacks that have been raining down around them all this
time. "You brought one Nameless to New Gravehold, and nowyou have
brought another."
If Kadir is not severed and the Sentinel sticker is on the map, read
follou,ing section.
"Maybe there's some truth to that, Brama," Kadir says, stepping
forward and speaking in a stern voice. "But I'm a scientist. I always
have been. Maybe it's nothing but luck that my interests fell in accepted
pursuits lile gem studies, rather than something forbidden like Void
research. What I saw out there, a Void creature being controlled by aether,
that is something we've never accomplished before. Just imagine what we
could do with that kind of magicl. Z'hana influenced Necroswarm, and her
followers accidentally made the monstrosity we had to battle, sure, but just
imagine what that kind of magic could be used for if we accepted it, and
gave its users the proper resources and support."
Place an Azer sticker on Kadir's affiIiation.
I
If Malastar is not severed and the Sentinel sticker is on the map,
read tl.rc following section.
I
 "Hiding our heads in the sand doesn't help anyone," Malastar says,
running a thoughtful hand down his beard. "If there is magic and
technologr out there beyond our current capabilities, how does it help
anyone to decry it as ewil? We could use the capabiliqr of controlling
Nameless to achieve all kinds of thingsl Progress isn't the enemy, and
neither is learning things outside the little bubble we've trapped ourselves
within."
Place an Azer sti&er on Malastar's affiliation.
If Qu is not severed and the Sentinel sticker is on the map, read the
follou'ing section.
"No, Brama is right," Qu says, almost too quietfr to be heard. "I was
there when Ilya offered to leave that Void creature behind to guard our
flank. It was wrong, and I felt it. I grew up in the Void, I know how
it works, and I know how dangerous it is to think we have complete
control over any piece ofit that we take. I do not know if I can, in good
conscience, continue to follow along with a philosophy that believes any
action taken with good intentions is excusable."
Place a Gravehold sticker on Qu's affiliation.
Indira is not severed and the Azer campaign recorded more lost
than the Gravehold campaign, read the following section.
"Yan Magda always taught me that true strength, true conviction,
comes from full belief in yourself and your path," Indira says, nodding
slowly. "I follow Z'hana's beliefs, my master's beliefs because they led
me to strength when I could not master the sister-words and traditional
breach magic. I stayed in New Gravehold even when Yan Magda was
exiled because it was a stronghold, the position of the greatest power. I will
believe in strength again, and then make my way in the new world once all
the towers have toppled."
Place a Gravehold sticker on Indira's affiliation.
Nook is not severed and Indira is affiliated to Azer', read the
sectron.
"It seerns foolish to look into the past when that was once the future
and will be our future again." Nook places a hand flat against his chest and
closes his eyes. "I have never, will never, did never see the truth of what
would happen in the end. How can I presume to know what would have
happened in the beginning? I follow where I once followed, and can follow
again."
Place an Azer sticker on Nook's affiliation.
Taqren is not severed and Nerv Gravehold has 7 or more fires,
the follorving section.
"Mother," Taqren begins, gravely. Z'hanawatches him silently as he
walks forward from the group of waiting mages, approaching her with a
firm gaze and a proudly lifted chin. "I'm sorry."
"Taqren," Z'hana's voice breaks just a bit, over the name. "Please."
"You always taught me, above ever;rthing, that I need to protect-my
people. The innocent people, who cant protect themselves. You wanted me
to be the shield of New Gravehold, do you not rememb er that?"
"I am protecting them," Z'hana argues. "You can do it by my side."
"I'm afraid I cannot. Not anymore." Taqren turns to the side and stares
at the smoke rising slowly from the wreckage of New Gravehold. "It's time
I decided for myself what I believe in."
Place a Gravehold sticker on Taqren's affiliation.
READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION.
"So where does that leave us?" Brama asks, the weight of her many
years weighing down in her voice.
"If you won't listen to your people when we ask for change, then we
will have to demand it from you." Z'hana takes a step forward and there is
a promise of violence in the motion.
"You do not speak for the people," Brama snaps.
"I speak for enough. I speak for the people you want to ignore and
overlook. For the people you think dont deserve to belong in your perfect
world. For the people who are yet to come, future generations who deserve
better than the box you'd like to trap them inside of."
"Z'hana, please." Brama reaches out a hand. "You stood by my side
as we watched the destruction of Gravehold. Another monster just Iike
that has come and is threatening our new home, why can we not stand
together? Give up this silly feud and fight her with me. Protect everyone."
"You don't get it, Brama. You never will." Z'hana shakes her head
slowly, regretfull;z. Silently, Xaxos steps up behind her and pulls out her
cloak, the or,e Z'hana had returned to him in the Void when she resolved
to convince Brama instead of fight against her. With one fluid motion, he
drapes the cloak back over her shoulders. "I am going to protect everyone.
And when I say everyone, I actually mean everyone. Not just the chosen,
pure few who meetyour standards."
"You think you can defend against this threat better than I can? You
have no idea how hearSr the burden of leadership rests."
"Then I guess I'm about to find otfi." Z'hana reaches down and draws
her blades out, leveling one in front of her, directly at Brama's chest.
"Brama, I challenge you for leadership of New Gravehold. Let's see whose
philosophy is strong enough to protect our people."
Mages affiliated with Azer are on the side of Z'hana. Mages
affiliated u.ith Gravehold are on the side of Brarna. If you side with
Z'hana, you w.ill only be able to play with the mages, enhancements,
and rnarket cards in the Azer barracks. If you side with Brama, you
rvill only be able to play with the mages, enhancements, and market
cards in the Gravehold barracks.
If you want to side with Z'hanaand fight against Brama, read
section 12.
If 5.6s $,ant to sidelvith Brama and fight against Z']r'ana, read.
section 51.
SECTION . 77
The masked woman snaps her book shut suddenly, and the bang
ricochets through the forest clearing. All at once, the creatures freeze in
place, their fangs inches from sinking into the throats ofthe exhausted and
defeated mages.
"There now, I think that's enough, don't you?"
The mages can do nothing but watch in confusion as the woman begins
to reel her creations back in towards her with nothing but a few careful
words and incantations.
"I appreciate your cooperation," the woman says as her creatures wind
in between her legs like affectionate cats. Ilya can hear the smile in her
voice even though her face is obscured by her mask. "But all I needed
was to properly name my creations. Though powerful already, this level
is not nearly enough to accomplish our greater goals. When we meet
again, perhap s Z'hana will finally see the futiliqz of her petqz crusade. And
together, we will see the world unified."
"Wait!" Taqren steps forward. "What crusade? Is my mother planning
something?"
"Oh, little Taqren." The masked woman shakes her head. "The war is
coming whetheryou want it or not. You cannot pretend it away. Ifyou
want to save the world, you need to take action. Do what must be done,
even when you feel like the villain in your own story."
With that, she snaps her fingers and leaps back into the Void portal,
with her menagerie of monsters following in her wake. Before the
mages can react, the rift narrows to a single point and then winks out of
existence.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Forest Clearing location on the map,
then discard all fire tokens.
Read section 67,
SECTION - 78
"Woah, didyou guys feel that?" Gygar asks as he stumbles over his
own feet.
Kadir turns back to look at Gygar. "Feel what?"
"It was like vertigo, the world tilting entirely on its axis, and then
righting itself in or,e drzz5ing moment. Except, it left me entirely drained."
Gygar presses his fingertips together and focuses, trJnng and failing to
summon up a breach. "I think I might be entirely sapped of magic. That
would be a fascinating discovery if it weren't currently happening to me at
this very inopportune moment."
Gygar looks up at the other mages with an apologetic smile. "I guess I to the brink, and this new mage is even worse. Your precious traditions are
ought to showyou how my artifacts work, huh?"
Find Vestige 2 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any mage rnat
immediately.
sEcTtoN - 79
Kel steps forward. "Faen is safer than Azer, it's well defended by the
thorn shield. It's better to head straight to Aze4 no matter the risk."
Ilya shrugs and nods along. "Alright then. I'll trustyou."
"Just follow my lead this time," Taqren says. "If the people at the
Southern Outpost try to give us any trouble, I know how to handle them."
The group continues along with Taqren using the visible top of the
Southern Outpost where it pokes out from the forest canopy to guide their
path. Ever since it came under attack by Necroswarm, the people who live
in Southpost have been hard at work repairing it, but the once imposing
and defensive guard tower is still looking a little worse for wear. In a world
like this, nothing can ever survive for long.
"Carefull" Kel's hand closes around Taqren's wrist and tugs him
backwards and he immediately drops his gaze from the sky to focus on
what's right ahead of him.
"A silvopede i' Ilya says quietly, pointing through the undergrowth to
a flash of reflective silver skin that's barely visible. "They're a very feral,
dangerous animal. We should give it a wide berth."
"Hold on, that's Ripl" Q" steps forward, ignoring Ilya's warnings and
pats her knees invitingly. The smooth, featureless head of Razra's constant
companion pokes out ofa bush and lets out a happy squeak. Rip turns and
waggles his tail, a clear invitation to follow.
Taqren and Qu hurry after Rip and, after a moment's hesitation, Kel
and Ilya follow as well. It isnt long before they emerge into a clearing and
spot Razra herself. Rip rushes up to his master and headbutts her happily,
waiting for pets and scratches. Razra blinks in confusion as she looks at
the group of mages approaching.
"Thraxir?" Qu says with a gasp and the heap of metal beneath Razra
shifts a bit and lets out a groan. "Razra, what are you doing?"
Razra shrugs. "I caught him wandering around here all suspicious and
Voidy and I thought maybe he was the traitor mage.
"Z'hana is the traitor mage." Qu steps forward and reaches out to try
and help Thraxir up, displacing Razra from her seat. "This is Thraxir,
he's an old mage of Gravehold who was turned into a Nameless and is
regaining his saniqz."
"Ohl I get it." Razra says, and then screws her face up tight in
confusion. "No, wait, I don't get it at all. Z'hana is a traitor? Why?"
"Because of stuff Iike this," Qu explains as she gets Thraxir to his feet
and helps him straighten out his helmet. "Z'hana's methods may be a little
misguided, but all shet been tSnng to do is get Brama to acknowledge that
there is room for a middle ground between our world and the Void." Qu
touches the black scales on her own face gingerly. "It's not so black and
white as tradition would have us believe."
"Plus there's another one of Brama's malcontents out there opening
Void portals and putting everyone in danger," Kel adds. "She drove Z'hana
unsustainable. But Brama wont listen to us."
"Huh." Razra crosses her arms. "That all does sound pretgz bad."
"I came back from the Void," Thraxir says, his voice slow and halting.
"I came back to tellyou. There are portals opening everynvhere. Xaxos
went to Azer."
I

"Xaxos is working with you?" Razra's eyes widen.
"He's not ewil, he just wants to understand the Void so we can defend
better against ;1," Q, answers. "It's half our world, we ought to understand
rt.
"I'm all for connecting with another half, even when it seems scary."
Razra scratches the side of Rip's neck and he rubs his head up and down
her side. "Especially when it helps us kick butt. What do you need me to
do?"
Open envelope 8. Add both of the mages there to your Azer
barracks. Open deck TR. Add them to your Azer barracks.
Find sticker sheet 4 section 2, add stickers E and F to your
rulebook, and read them.
'When
you're ready to begin the next game, read section 6,
SECTION - 80
As silence falls over the abandoned village, survivors begin to poke
their heads out of the surrounding vegetation. Tl.reesia limps back into the
willage, her arm looped over the shoulders of her Tether, who is helping her
to stand.
"It's over," Ilya says, crossing to them quickly and supporting Tirreesia
from the other side. "You're all safe to come back."
"Thankyou," Tyreesia responds, the exhaustion evident in her words.
"We'll start gathering everyone who scattered into the woods and making
sure they make it back safe."
"We can help," Kel begins to say, but Yan Magda lifts a hand into
the air, and just the single motion is powerful enough to draw everyone's
attention.
"There is a darkness. A Void essence as powerful as this one, emanating
from the south."
Kel and Ilya look at each other in the same moment, panic reflecting
back through their eyes. " Azer."
"My father is there. He should be able to hold the line until we arrive."
Qu steps forward, resting a comforting hand on Kel's arm.
Open deck AZ-FA. Add all of the upgraded basic nemesis cards to
the nemesis cards in your Azer barracks, You will ahvays use as
many of the upgraded nemesis cards as possible when building the
nemesis deck moving forrvard.
Banish the Paradox of M5rth and Bone nemesis mat and all nemesis
specific cards. Banish the Myth and Bone turn order cards and
return the normal nemesis turn order cards to the turn order deck.
Banish the M;,th life dial.
If there lvere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards AZ-FA-25 through
AZ-FA-Z7.If there rvere 8 or more, also banish cards AZ-FA-IS
through AZ-FA-22. Add any remaining cards from this deck to
your Azer barracks along rvith your supply cards from this g'arne.
If any unbanished mages hane severed stickers, find the number
H
T-
in the upper-right corner of the back of their mage mat and read
the narrative section matching that number. If you won your game
and there were 2 or fewer fire tokens, place card L2-E-27 into your
Azer barracks.
Find sticker sheet 6 section I and add these enhancements to your
Azer barracks. Find sticker sheet 6 section 2 and add sticker G to
your rulebook.
When you're ready to begin the next game, read section 14
SECTION - 8I
The gigantic beast stumbles and collapses, a thick black fluid leaking
from its wounds like blood. The chains that had been embedded in its flesh
slowfz slide free with a sickening squelch and the great face in the sky
floats silently for a long moment, the chains pushing at the unresponsive
body of its former partner. Finally, it seems to understand, and the chains
suddenly lash out wildly, toppling stone work and leaving the mages diving
to the ground to avoid their violent swinging.
The mages gather themselves together, readying more spells, but before
they can do anyhing, the golden mask twists itself around and floats back
through the Void portal still swirling behind it.
The portal snaps shut, and the mages are left in a stunned silence.
If you won your first game versus Paradox of Myth and Bone, your
group gains 4 experience per player. Otherwise, your group gains 2
experience per playen Either rvay, do not spend this experience yet.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Faen location on the map, then discard
all fire tokens. If you played this game trvice, write the higher
number of fires.
Find the l\,th sticker on sticker sheet 5 section 4 and place it on
the blank space in the forest on the left of your map.
Ifyou just fought your second nemesis, read section 66.
If you just fought your third nemesis, read section 80.
sEciloN - 82
Mist falls to her knees as the great fused Nameless creature shatters
into pieces before her and evaporates into dust. Above her, the gigantic
swirling Void portal still hangs in the air, and Mist stares up into it as she
collapses entirely to the ground.
"But why?" Mist pants out, staring up at Brama and Z'hana as they
approach her. "Don'tyou want everyone united?"
"Oh, Mist," Brama drops down to her knees beside Mist and rests a
gentle hand on her cheek. "I'm so sorry. I drove you to this, didnt I?"
"I need to help everyone," Mist whimpers, her eyes darting around
in confusion. "I need to use these powers for something. I need to help
everyone."
"You did." Brama smooths the messy hair out of Mist's eyes. "You
helped. You can rest now."
"I helped?" Mist clutches at Brama's arm tightly, blinking rapidly as the
purple fog slowly bleeds out of her eyes.
Suddenly, the ground beneath them starts to shake, a rumble like
something massive is approaching. Mist stares up in horror at the sky full
of purple fire. "Brama, Brama, we need to close that portal. There's more
coming. Every Nameless who has attacked us, I called to them all. They're
still coming."
Brama's blood goes cold as she looks up at the darkness, their
impending doom hanging huge and inescapable above them. "Mist, I don't
know how to close Void portals," she says, nervously. "You have to show
us how. Please, please tell me how to fix this."
"I'm so sorry," Mist says, a tear running down her cheek. "I'm so sorry,
Brama." With a final squeeze of her fingers around Brama's wrist, Mist
falls still, slumping entirely to the ground. As she goes silent, magic rushes
through the mages like taking in a sudden breath. Ever;,thing that had
been cut off and stolen by Mist through her creations drifts back out like a
breath, exhaled.
"Leave this one to me." Xaxos steps up behind Brama, squaring his
shoulders as he stares up at the Void portal. "If all my expertise isnt useful
now, there was no point to any of it."
Brama watches, transfixed, as Xaxos digs the tips of his corrupted
claws into the emp$r air and tears reality open into another Void portal,
dark purple and ringed in black flame.
"What are you doing? We dont need another onel" Brama cries,
starting to rise to her feet, but Z'hanaputs a hand on her shoulder.
"Just trust hrrn," Z'hana says. "He wants the same thingyou do. To
protect people."
His eyebrows furrowed in determination, Xaxos dives into his Void
portal. A few feet up, the air shimmers and with a crack, another Void
portal opens and Xaxos tumbles back out. Before he can fall, he forms
another portal just beneath himself and drops back into the Void. Higher
and highea Xaxos continues his zig-zagging path upwards from portal
to portal, toward Mist's huge black rift in the sky. Beneath Brama, the
ground shakes harder, the rumble traveling up her legs and rattling
through her chest. She puts a hand flat against the grass and stares up at
Xaxos. She can trust him. Just this once. She has no other choice.
Xaxos appears just above Mist's huge portal. He falls for just a second
before grabbing onto the edge of the portal and sinking his monstrous
claws into the edge of it. He brings up his other hand and starts to force
them closer together. With a single scream of rage and concentrated force,
Xaxos claps his corrupted hands together and the entire Void portal snaps
shut.
When Xaxos makes his way safely to the ground, Brama rises to her
feet and walks past Mist's body to meet him.
"I have made so many mistakes," Xaxos says, looking Brama directly in
the eyes. "I have killed so many people. I can't ever repent for that, but I'd
like to try. Give me a chance to use what strength I have to help the people
who are left."
Brama settles her staff in the ground. Her shoulders are stooped with
age and exhaustion. "I have seen many things in my long life. I have
seen the world change. And yet, after all that time, I still fell prey to
complacency. I refused to see the pain my own actions had caused." Brama
glances behind her briefly, mournfully, toward Mist's body, and then she
looks back at Xaxos. "And I refused to see how the Void could be used to
help. I do not forgive your actions of the past, Xaxos. But for today, all I
can say is thank you. If no one had been here with knowledge of the Void,
we all would have perished."
"You weren't wrong, though," Z'hana says, walking up behind Brama.
"The Void is dangerous. It got in Mist's brain and drove her mad. We
wouldn't have been put in this situation in the first place if we'd avoided
it."
"l\{ist was right, though. Back in Gravehold, I'd encouraged her Void
walking, and it protected us. I'm sure she was out there these past thirfr
years, protecting us even when we didn't know it. I only saw the bad of
working with the Void. I refused to see the good."
Z'hanagazes over the scorched and blackened battlefield that once
was her home. The stones of New Gravehold lie cracked and scattered. "I
suppose there's nothing left to fight over anymore."
"That! not true." Taqren steps forward and smiles at his mother. "'We're
all still alive, aren't we? 'We can rebuild again."
"Gravehold perfected?" Brama asks, ruefully, echoing Mist's earlier
promise.
"There is no such thing as a perfect Gravehold." Z'hana crosses the
battlefield to stand by her son.
Brama nods, slow\2. "I understand whatyou mean. We used to think
we were the last bastion of humanity. I thought I had to keep us all safe.
But that's not true, is it?"
" Azer already exists, and Faen too, and who knows how many other
communities and villages and people there are scattered all across the
surface." Z'hana scans the edges of the treeline, the forest stretching out all
around New Gravehold. "We ve barely explored an;r of it."
"No one person can lead this many people, or keep them safe," Brama
agrees.
"'We have Southpost already, or at least what's left of it," Talix chimes
in.
Soskel steps forward and rests a hand on his shoulder. "And we have
the Northern outpost as well."
"Parts of the ruins are definitely livable," Gygar adds. "And some of the
tunnels beneath old Gravehold are uncollapsed. I don't even know how far
they go."
"There are places for people to live," Z'hana says, gazing out at the
horizon, dimly lit by the setting sun. "Until we all get back on our feet.
And this time, we can build something more realistic."
"So what, we all just...go our separate ways?" Claudia tries and fails to
keep a waver out of her voice. "This is our home. You guys are my fami\r."
"No," Brama shakes her head. "We'll still be connected. We'll travel,
we'll cooperate. No single communiqz will ever have to stand on its own
and be all things to all people."
Brama pushes herself to her feet and turns to face the assembled mages.

Her stooped and aged figure is silhouetted black against the setting sun
behind her. The sky is stained in brilliant reds and oranges, and far in the
distance, the dark blue ofapproaching evening.
"The world is too large and too new for us to resist growth," Brama
says. "Change is inevitable. Change is healthy. It is time we welcomed
it. It is time that I welcomed it. But we will always be the children of
Gravehold. Each and every one ofus."
Brama rests a hand on Z'hana's arm and squeezes it once. A vestige of
their long friendship, that even war could not break. And when she smiles
at Z'hana, Z'hana smiles back.
Congratulations! You have completed the campaign of Legacy o/
Gratelaol). You may now open the End of Campaign booklet to
learn how to integrate the Legacy of Grae,ehol) components into
your other-4eon? En) products.
SECTION - 83
"Master," Indira says, pulling Yan Magda aside. "I know I am far from
the days of being your student, but there is still much in this world that I
havent come across. May I ask a question?"
"You will never stop being my student, Indira," Yan Magda says with
a fond smile. "No matter how old you get, or how powerful, I will always
answer your questions."
"After that beast attacked me, I felt a sort of draining within me,"
Indira explains, holding her hands against her stomach. "Arrd now it seems
I have lost my connection to my magic."
Yan Magda nods slowly, thinking it over. "It is rare for a creature to be
able to sever the flow of aether, but I've seen it in my time. From mages
though, not Void creatures. It should wear off in time."
"That is a relief," Indira responds, "though it is a shame to have to Ieave
you all to battle without me. I'[ pass on my weaponry at least, in the hopes
that it might come to aid someone."
Find Vestige 17 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Spark
immediately.
SECTION - 84
The hulking monstrosity finally falls, and one by one each of its fetters
fall alongside it, shriveling into dust as their master dies. Everyone drops
their stance, taking a moment to relax after the long battle.
As silence and peace fall over the village once again, the Azerians begin
to emerge from where they'd fled deeper in the woods. Kel and Ilya rush to
check on everyone, making sure each villager is accounted for.
"Is my mother here yet?" Taqren asks Xaxos as he pulls him aside.
Xaxos shakes his head and shades his eyes against the blinding sun beating
down on them.
"We'll be ready for when she arrives. 'Whatever needs to be done."
"Are you willing to stand against Brama again?" Taqren lowers his
shield to the ground and leans against it. "What happened to regretting
I
your actions from the past?"
"I regret many of my actions. But the simple act of trying to learn more
about my world? That I do not, and will never regret." Xaxos turns to face
the woods to the north, as rf Z'hana might walk out of them any second. "I
think it's finally time we all joined together to fight for what we believe in."
If you avon your first game versus Grief-weaver, your group gains
{ experience per player. Otherrvise, your group gains 2 experience
per player. trither rvay, do not spend this experience yet.
Record the results of this g'arne on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Azer location on the map, then discard
all fire tokens. If you played this game twice, write the higher
nurnber of fires.
If any unbanished mages have severed stickers, find the nurnber in
the upper-right corner of the back of their rnage mat and read the
narrative section rnatching that numben
Banish the Grief-weaver nemesis mat and all nernesis specific cards.
Return all market cards, enhanced breaches, starter cards, rnage
mats, enhanced starter cards, and enhancernent stickers to the Azer
barracks. Banish all basic and upgraded basic nemesis cards. Save
any unspent experience cards in the Azer barracks. These cannot be
used while playrng the Gravehold campaign.
When you're ready to begin the Gravehold campaign, read section
97.
SECTION - 85
These machines dont fight like normal Nameless, it feels almost as
though they've been designed to absorb the aether generated by breaches
and turn it into magical fuel. When you break through the metallic armor
of the monster, golden ener5/ flows out of the cracked metallic casing. You
cant irnagine who could have imbued them with aether, butyou do know
how to turn it to your own benefit.
Focus your breach with the lowest focus cost trvice.
SECTION - 86
The feathered creature stumbles back, its legs giving out beneath it as
it collapses under the weight of its grievous wounds. The mages jump back
as it collapses entirely to the ground, throwing up a massive cloud of dust
and debris where it lands.
"Well. That's certainly something." Gygar steps back from the
battlefield and rolls his shoulders slowly, stretching them out.
"I didnt think Void portals could manifest inside the city," Malastar
says as he picks through the shattered planks of wood that once were
a marketplace. "'We've always had weeks of warning from our scouts,
tracking these monsters before they could attack."
"I guess we've just always been lucky," Kadir says, shaking her head.

Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Nerv Granehold location on the map,
then discard all fire tokens.
Read section 56.
SECTION - A7
"Kadir, I think something is a bit wrong with me," Malastar says with
forced jovialiqz as he rests a hand on his wife's shoulder for balance. She
turns to him, her eyes full of concern. "You see, I think I might be rather
abruptly cut off from my magic."
"Oh." Kadir says, eloquently. "What can I do?"
"Not much," he admits with a shrug. "But I'd appreciate your
assistance in instructing the others in how to use my machines since I The terrified willager Iooks up atyou with gratitude in his eyes. "Thank
wont be able to run them very well in this condition."
"Of course, sweetheart." Kadir grins. "And I'll happily take them off
your hands until you're better."
"Please, please don't tinker with them," Malastar says, but he knows it's
a losing battle.
Find Vestige 14 on sticker sheet 5. Add this to any Crystal
immediately.
SECTION - 88
The mages begin to collapse under the weight of the strange metallic
creatures latching onto their breaches, eating tway at the edges of their
magic until they can barely hold their breaches open. The great metal
commander directing them stares the mages down with its empty, artificial
gaze,but before it can call out for the killing blows, something seems to
catch its attention.
It turns with robotic stiffness to stare back at the forest behind it, but
the mages can hear nothing that might be capturing its attention. As if
with one singular mind, the horde of miniature machines detach from the
breaches and scuttle back to their master. The mages gasp for breath in the
sudden reprieve, and can do nothing but watch as the Nameless rushes off
into the woods, seeking something they cannot see.
"Well that's concerning," Talix says, finally. "I feel like we should be
concerned."
"We dont have time to be concerned," Kadir shakes her head and
pushes herself up to standing. "'We have a mission to complete. New
Gravehold is still in danger."
Talix turns to look around at the devastation surrounding them. The
fight has taken a toll not only on the fighters, but also on Southpost itself.
"We should gather whatever is salvageable," Inco says. "If our
enemies were here, we need to make sure that they can't get their hands on
our resources."
"Right, plus they might be useful in protecting New Gravehold,"
Kadir says.
I I
Your group gains 2 experience per player'. Do not spend this yet.
Record the results of this garne on the back of this booklet.
Write the higher number of fires between your trvo garnes on the
Southern Outpost location on the map, then discard all fire tokens.
Banish the Rust Superion nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
If you just fought your second nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 7.
If you just fought your third nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,
read section 16.
SECTION - 89
you, thank you so much. Please, let me help a little. I got separated from
my Tether, but I'm still a mage. I can give you some of my aether to help
you fight."
The man grasps you by the hand and for a moment, the tattoos on his
arm seem to swirl with the faintest bit of energr. Warmth flares beneath
your skin, and you feel empowered.
The player who discarded this minion may gain a spell that costs 6 $
or less.
sEcrroN - 90
As the group reaches the outskirts of New Gravehold, they find a few
mages already waiting for them. Inco is leaned up against the gate, out of
breath, and a few feet away, Claudia is far more anxious looking than her
usual chipper self.
"Moml Dadl" Claudia calls out as she sees them.
"Claudial" Malastar rushes up to check on his daughter and make
sure she's alright. "What's wrong, why have you come back from your
expedition to the ruins?"
"Eveq,thing was going super great for so long but all of a sudden out of
the blue," Claudia makes a huge gesture with her hands like an explosion.
"All these portals started opening up I Nothing's coming out of them yet,
but I've never seen so many portals open all at the same time, it's super
concerning. I came back here to find you guys, we need help right away!"
"At the ruins?" Gygar asks, looking pale at the news of his life's work
being threatened.
"A portal opened at Southpost as well," Inco says, his voice and
expression dark. "We're pinned down by a Nameless that came out of
nowhere. Our scouts didn't have a chance to see it, the thing appeared
right in front of us. We have some fortifications, but they've never been the
same since Necroswarm attacked. We won't hold out much longer without
help."
Gygar steps forward. "All these Nameless, they're being summoned by
Z'hana. She was a traitor to the Council all along. Brama sent us to gather
as many mages as we could to defend New Gravehold in case she attacks
outright."
Inco scowls and spits on the ground. "Hasn't Z'hanaalready hurt
Southpost enough? One poisoned root infects the whole plant."
"Nook and I would be happy to help defend New Gravehold, but we
can't let the ruins be destroyed, they're too important. And letting these
Nameless just run rampant isn't good eitherl"
"Yes, I am willing to help as well," Inco agrees. "As soon as I know the
Outpost is secure."
Ifyou lvant to help Inco, read section 20.
If you want to help Claudia, read section 51.
SECTION - 9I
"You're right, Tlaqre"," IIy" agrees, shaking her head. "'We're trying to
be better than our mistakes of the past."
"Thank you." With a decisive movement, Taqren brings a fist of
crackling ener6/ down on the metallic creature and crushes it. The hard
metallic shell casing splits open and a dark, inky essence soaks down into
the ground beneath it.
Ifyoujust foughtyour second nernesis, read section 18.
If you just fought your third nemesis, read section 26.
SECTION - 92
As the group approaches the Southern Outpost, they can already see
the metallic glint of the sun off the exoskeleton of the creature prowling
around the fort. The ground is littered with massive pieces of stone and
broken pieces of architecture. The remains of a fight.
"I know a back entrance," Inco says. "Follow me."
Following Inco's lead, you sneak around the back of the massive stone
structure and down into the basement. Tllix is waiting there in the light of
his own burning gem, keeping guard over the people of the outpost. Some
civilians, some scouts, some hunters, none trained to fight against an actual
Nameless.
"Oh, Inco, you made it," Tallx says, relief breaking in his voice as he
steps forward to fold his son up in his arms. "The Outpost came under
affack while you were gone."
"It was already being attacked before I left," Inco tries to protest, but
Talix shakes his head and cuts him off.
"I heard the sounds of fighting outside, and I thoughtyou'd come back
with reinforcements, but when I peeked out, I saw something strange.
Instead of a battle, I saw that woman I didn't recognize crouched over a
creature from the Void. She was," Talix fumbles with his hands, trying
to proper\r explain. "I think she was funneling aether into it? After they
left, another Void portal opened up, a second one, and the Void ener5/
mixing with that aether, it did something strange to the creature. It started
consuming the edges of the portal, and getting bigger as it went."
Tiallx shakes his head helplessly. "It did not look like a healthy diet."
"So what," Inco asks, "this monster might feed off our breaches?"
"That's certainly new," Gygar chuckles.
"We'll just have to do our best," Malastar cuts in. "What is important
now is protecting these people, and this place." -
"You're right," Talix agrees. "Is everyone ready to fight?"
Find sticker sheet 5 section 5 and add these enhancements to your
Gravehold barracks.
You may norv spend your experience on enhancements.
Build the supply using cards fi'om your Gravehold barracks
following the rules on page 1{ of the ruleboo]r. Return any cards
that you fid not use to your Gravehold barracks.
Open envelope 2. Open deck RS. Follorv the setup instructions on
the back of the nemesis mat. Construct the nernesis deck follo.rving
the deck construction rules on page 12 ofthe rulebook. Be sure to
use as many upgraded nernesis cards as possible.
Defend the Southern Outpost frorn Rust Superion. If you win, read
section 49.
Ifyou lose your first game, record that garne on the back of
this booklet and then discard all fire tokens. Your group gains 5
experience per player'. You may use that erperience irnmediately.
Then, replay this game.
If you win the second garne, read section,l9. Otherrvise, read
section 88.
SECTION - 93
"All right, let's go." Kel stares off into the forest impatientl;r. "Azer
might be in danger."
"You're right," Taqren agrees. "Let's head south."
"Well, hold on," Ilya counters, holding up a hand. "If we go straight
south we'll pass right byyour ciSr's Southern Outpost. We risk being seen
Maybe even stopped. It's better if we avoid it."
Taqren rests his hands on his hips. "There's no problem with being
seen, the people at the Southern Outpost know Qu and I, we can get by
fine."
"But they don't know Kel and IV"," Q" pipes up. "Not to mention our
recent exile."
"It s unlikely they would have already heard aboutyour exile," Kel
says, stepping to the side to stand next to Taqren, offering her support.
"Besides, it's the most direct route. Azer needs our help as soon as we can
give it."
"Orly hypothetically." Ilya folds her hands in front of her resolutely.
"I think it's safer to swing out to the east. 'We can wisit the village of Faen
while we go and make sure they're all right as well."

Ifyou rvant to go directly south, read section 79.
Ifyou rvant to travel around to the east, read section 58.
SECTION - 94
The group travels quickly through the forest, but just before they reach
the Southern Outpost, Kel grabs Taqren's wrist and tugs him backwards.
"Careful," she says in a hushed whisper. "That's a silvopede ahead of us.
They're a very feral, dangerous animal."
"Hold on, that's Ripl" Qu steps forward, ignoring Ilya's warnings and
pats her knees inwitingly. The smooth, featureless head of Razra's constant
companion pokes out ofa bush and lets out a happy squeak. Rip turns and
waggles his tail, a clear inwitation to follow.
Taqren and Qu hurry after Rip and, after a moment's hesitation, Kel
and Ilya follow as well. It isnt long before they emerge into a clearing and
spot Razra herself, sitting on a heap of metallic armor. Rip rushes up to his
master and headbutts her happily, waiting for pets and scratches. Razra
waves at the mages as they approach.
"Thraxir?" Qu says with a gasp and the heap of metal beneath Razra
shifts a bit and lets out a groan. "Ptazra, what are you doing?"
Razra shrugs. "I caught him wandering around here all suspicious and
Voidy and I thought maybe he was the traitor mage."
"Z'hana is the traitor mage." Qu steps forward and reaches out to try
and help Thraxir up, displacing Razra from her seat. "This is Thraxir,
he's an old mage of Gravehold who was turned into a Nameless and is
regaining his sanity."
"Oh! I get rt." Razra says, and then screws her face up tight in
confusion. "No, wait, I dont get it at all. Z'hara is a traitor? Whv?"
"Because of stuff like this," Qu explains as she gets Thraxir to his feet
and helps him straighten out his helmet. "Z'hana's methods may be a little
misguided, but all she's been t$ri"g to do is get Brama to acknowledge that
there is room for a middle ground between our world and the Void." Qu
touches the black scales on her own face gingerfr. "It's not so black and
white as tradition would have us believe."
"Plus we're trJnng to stop New Gravehold from opening all these Void
portals that are pouring Nameless into our world," Kel adds. "Your way of
life is unsustainable. But Brama wont listen to us."
"Huh." Razra crosses her arms. "That all does sound preff;z bad."
"I came back from the Void," Thraxir says, his voice slow and halting.
"I came back to tell you. There are portals opening ever;zr,r.here. Xaxos
went to Azer"
"Xaxos is working *ith yor?'; Razra's eyes widen.
"He's not ewil, he just wants to understand the Void so we can defend
better against i1," Q, answers. "It's half our world, we ought to understand
it."
"I'm all for connecting with another half, even when it seems scary."
Razra scratches the side of Rip's neck and he rubs his head up and down
her side. "Especially when it helps us kick butt. What do you need me to
do?"
Open envelope 8. Add both of the mages there to your Azer
barracks. Open deck TR. Add them to your Azer barracks.
When you're ready to begin the next giune, read section 6
The golden mask falls from the sky, clattering to a rough landing on the
marshy ground. Its chains go slack, the metallic sheen fading from them as
they corrode away into nothing before the mages'very eyes. As the chains
dissolve, the beast they once restrained breaks free and screams with pain
and anger, tossing its head wildly as if seeking the partner it can no longer
The mages gather themselves together, readying more spells, but before
they can do anyhing, the monstrous beast turns, runs back toward the
still-swirling Void portal, and leaps entirely through it.
The portal snaps shut behind it, and the mages are left in a stunned
silence.
If you rvon your first game versus Paradox of l\.th and Bone, your
group gains 4 erperience per player. Othenr.ise, your group gains 2
experience per player. Either u,ay, do not spend this experience yet.
Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Faen location on the map, then discard
all fire tokens. If you played this game twice, write the higher
number of fires.
Find the Bone sticker on sticker sheet 5 section 4 and place it on
the blank space in the forest on the left of your map.
Ifyou just fought your second nemesis, read section 66.
If you just fought your third nemesis, read section 80.
SECTION - 96
Gygar falls to his knees and presses a hand against the exposed
stonework of the ruins. "So much history," he moans, "lost in a pointless
battle."
"Hey, I mean, they were already ruined," Claudia says cheerfully. "Now
they're just more ruinedl"
"There will be helpful artifacts here. There were helpful artifacts here.
There are helpful artifacts here."
"Good idea, Nook." Claudia turns to the group. "We should get
eveqrthing we still can out of here. It'll probably come in useful for
defending New Gravehold.
"It's despicable for Z'hana to be sending Nameless after innocent
people, no matter what her goals," Kadir snaps, her hands tightening into
fists. "I cant believe she would do something like this."
"Oh good, I found you." The group turns as they see Mazra, out
of breath, rushing up to meet them. Soskel follows just in her wake,
looking as immaculately pulled together as always. "Brama sent us down
 here to fetch you, we need to get back to New Gravehold. She thinks
Z'hana might be gearing up to attack soon, she wants us all returned and
prepared."
"Alright," Gygar begins saying, but, before he can continue, a litany of
screams ring out through the forest.
"Where did that come from?" Kadir gasps, looking around wildly.
Talix furrows his brow in confusion. "'We don't have any outposts in
that direction, I don't know who would be in the swamp over there."
"Brama wants us back immediately, " Mazra says, shifting nervously.
"For all we know, that battle could be with our enemies."
"Z'hana cant really be our enemy, she's our friend," Claudia insists.
"Sure she's a little misguided right now, but if Brama is asking us to ignore
people in danger because of their pet$z power struggle, then I dunno, I'd
rather blow her off. Helping is what mages are here for."
"You're right," Mazra nods. "It's our duty."
Open deck GH-R. Add all of the upgraded basic nemesis cards
to the nemesis cards you have set aside. You will always use as
many of the upgraded nemesis cards as possible when building the
nemesis deck mowing forrvard.
Banish the Bishop Returned nemesis mat and all nemesis specific
cards.
If therervere 5 or more fire tokens, banish cards GH-R-25 through
GH-R-29. If there were 8 or more, also banish cards GH-R-18
through GH-R-22. Add any remaining cards from this deck to your
Gravehold barracks along with your supply cards from this game.
If any unbanished mages have severed stickers, find the number
in the upper-right corner of the back of their mage mat and read
the narrative section matching that number'. If you won your game
and there were 2 or fewer fire tokens, place card L2-E-25 into your
Gravehold barracks.
Find sticker sheet 2 section 2 and add these enhancements to your
Gravehold barracks.
When you're ready to begin the next game, check the forest on the
left side of your map. If there is a M;rth sticker there, read section
52. Otherwise, read section 57.
SECTION - 97
MEANWHILE...
"Really, Kadir, you're an adult, can you try to have a bit of decorum?"
Malastar takes his wife by the shoulder and pulls her back away from the
jewelry display she is bent nearly in half over.
Kadir grins. "Dontyou just find it fascinating how aether can come
together in so many geometric shapes and forms, contain immense power,
and also be so incredibly shiny?"
' Malastar looks over at Kadir, exhausted. "You are why our daughter is
so gem crazy."
Kadir snickers. "Oh, come on. It's taken long enough to get the markets
up and running here, we might as well enjoy them. I've missed the dirt
market so much, I'm owed a little bit of overindulgence."
"Fine," Malastar says with a long suffering sigh.
"Besides," Kadir continues, a teasing note in her voice. "You're the gem
crazy ofle here. That is entirely on you."
-
"My work with gems is pure\r professional."
"Uh huh, and I've never caughtyou cooing over them inyour
workshop."
Malastar's cheeks redden and he scowls.
"Giving them little voice," Kadir adds, mockingly.
"Alright, alright. I give in. I'm a little invested in my gems." Malastar
wraps an arm around his wife and pulls her into his chest, pressing a kiss
to the side of her head. "You win."
"Ah, Kadir, Malastarl Did you come to see the new market too?"
Malastar and Kadir looL forward to see Gygar, standing beside the
gigantic metal form of his friend, Lost.
"We did," Malastar replies. "Good to seeyou both returned safe from
your trip to the ruins of Gravehold."
"The excavation process is really coming alo.g," Gygar says, his eyes
sparkling. "Your daughter is a wonder with a pickaxe. I expect we'll be
heading back to rejoin her and Nook out there in a few days.
"Portal," says Lost, his voice creaking out from beneath the suit of
armor encasing his form.
Gygar looks up in confusion. "What was that, Lost?"
"Portall" Lost repeats, more emphaticall;r.
Kadir looks past him and sees a thin black line cracking down through
the open air in the middle of the market. "Portal I Everybody run ! "
The merchants and market goers start to run as Malastar and Kadir
shoulder their way forward, weapons drawn to face whatever monstrosifr
is about to come out of the breach. The tear widens until it is a vivid purple
swirl, and a creature steps from it, strangel;r bird-like and elongated. With
each sweep of its wings, timbers shatter and goods go flying, the town
square descending into chaos. It reaches out towards one ofthe colorful
market stalls surrounding it and grabs for the gems piled up all around,
greed reflected in the shine ofits eyes.
"Oh, you'll pay for that," Kadir says, pulling out her emerald and
readying herself for battle. "Nobody messes with our gems."
Open Envelope I l. These are your rnages for this game. Open Deck
GH-1a. This isyour starting supply. Open Deck GH-lb. These are
the starter cards and turn order cards for.your mages, along with
player aids.
Then open envelope 5 and deck FS. Do not shuffle deck FS. Ifyou
are playing :ivith I /2/5 players, discard the top 7 l5l5 cards of the
nemesis deck.
Defend New Gravehold from Fate Shepherd. Ifyou rvin, read
section 86.
Ifyou lose, read section 58.
 SECTION - 98 i,L,
"How?" The masked woman snarls as her final monstrosifr falls
beneath the onslaught. Furious, she opens her thick, leather book and
begins to flip through the pages, frantically looking for something. "No
no," she mutters, "this cannot be as powerful as they become when fully
named. This won't be nearly strong enough."
"Nowyou tell us whoyou are," I(adir demands, stepping forward and
crossing her arms.
The woman laughs, high and reedy in her throat. "No, I don't think so.
There's still so much to dol"
She turns and rushes towards the Void portal still pulsing behind her,
Iaughing as she goes. Kadir lunges for her, but misses, and then she's \ 1r
too far away, already leaping into the portal. As it begins to close behind
\
her she turns around and calls back through it, "Give your Brama my
regards l "
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"Did she say Z'hana's followers helped her make these creatures? To
throw at us?" Malastar rounds on the group, his f'ace growing red with
rage.
"No way, she wouldn't do that, would she?" Claudia kneels to the side
of one of the felled monsters, poking at its remains. It looks just like a
normal Void creature as far as she can tell. "She might be a little upset but
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she wouldn't try and kill us all l"
"How much can any of us really say we know her anymore? " Malastar I
furrows his brow. "She's been off traveling the Void, working with Xaxos.
'We
know she can control Nameless and use them to attack us, she's done it
already. Can we really say this is truly out of character for her?"
The mages fall into an uncomfortable silence as they each realize their T
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comrade may be beyond the point of no return.

If you won your first game versus Bishop Returned, your group
gains 4 experience per player. Otherrvise, your group gains 2
experience per player'. Either way, do not spend this experience yet

Record the results of this game on the back of this booklet. Write
the number of fires on the Ruins location on the map, then discard
all fire tokens. If you played this game t'rvice, rrtite the higher
number of fires.

If you just fought your second nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,

read section 70.

If you just fought your third nemesis of the Gravehold campaign,

read section 96.

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numlrer
Affiliation Nemesis the beglnning of Location Result # of Hres at the end of the
the fight fight
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