You have reached the crossing, but some of your enemies anticipated this course of action and raced here ahead of you. They fight to delay your escape while their comrades close in from behind.

When Revealed: Add Warriors of the East to the staging area. Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck and discard cards from the top until X enemies are discarded, where X is the number of players. Add each enemy discarded this way to the staging area.

You must fight your way past the Easterlings to cross into Dorwinion.

Each enemy in the staging area gets -10 enagement cost.

While at least one player is engaged with an enemy, no more than 5 progress can be placed here each round.

When this stage is defeated, the players win the game.