The foothills of Ered Luin are your first resting place since leaving the Three Farthing Stone to help the late Falaїn. Exhausted, you take a look at the message he handed you in his dying moments. It's time to know what's inside.

Setup: The first player takes control of Robin Smallburrow. Set Chieftain of the Trollriders and Troll Desolation aside, out of play. Shuffle Eroc into the bottom 25 cards of the encounter deck (bottom 15 if there are 3 or more players in the game). Then, reveal 1 encounter card per player.

Combat Action: After dealing shadow cards at the beginning of the combat phase, the first player may deal all engaged enemies 2 additional shadow cards. Then, the first player may look at X facedown shadow cards in play, where X is the number of engaged enemies in play. The first player may discard the chosen shadow cards.

When the players control Eroc, advance to stage 2.