Overhead, the final rays of sunshine are beginning to succumb to blood–red dusk. The trees push you into a small clearing at the very heart of the Old Forest. A stately old grey poplar tree stands here, resolute and defiant. She is at once beautiful and terrible; you feel like criminals brought before a queen for grim judgement.

When Revealed: End the current phase. Shuffle the encounter discard pile into the encounter deck. Make Grey Lady Poplar the active location (keeping all locations currently attached to her).

Something is deeply wrong here; this tree is not the source of the forest's madness, but you know that her righteous fury will swallow you whole in the night unless you can discover what ails her.

Grey Lady Poplar is considered to be engaged with each player.

Non-unique enemies get -20 engagement cost and return to the staging area at the end of the combat phase.

After Grey Lady Poplar is explored, the players win the game.