1) Arrange the 4 landscape tiles into a circular path in the middle of the table.

2) Place Ravenskeep centered on its starting space, where crumbling black walls are depicted.

3) Going clockwise along the track from Ravenskeep, place a tower centered on each of the next 9 spaces as follows:

Start with a raven tower, then alternate normal and raven towers.

(i.e. Ravenskeep, then the towers: raven, normal, raven, normal, raven, normal, raven, normal, raven)

4) Set up the magic spells:

• For your first game: Place the 2 magic spells, Advance a Wizard and Advance a Tower, face up near the circular path. Return the other 6 magic spells to the box.

• For more excitement: Randomly select a desired number of magic spells (the more spells, the more tactical the game becomes). Place them face up near the circular path. Return the rest to the box.

5) Shuffle the 90 movement cards.

Deal each player 3 cards for their hand.

Place the rest of the deck in the infield of the circular path, with space beside it for a discard pile.

6) Place the die in the infield of the circular path.

7) Choose a starting player, who places the starting player token in front of them. Turn order is clockwise, starting with this player.

8) Each player chooses a player color then takes the number of wizards and magic potion bottles indicated for your player count.

Your potions go in front of you, empty side up. Your wizards go into your hand. Return the unused wizards and potion bottles to the box.

9) Each tower’s space depicts a number of tiny blue ghost lights: the first three spaces in clockwise order have 3 each, the next three have 2, and the final three have 1.

These lights indicate the number of wizards that start atop each tower. Fill each tower to its number as follows:

- Starting with the first tower clockwise along the path from Ravenskeep, do the following:

- In turn order, place 1 of your wizards on this tower.

If the number of wizards on that tower matches the number of blue ghost lights in the tower’s space, skip to the next tower clockwise.

- Continue like this until everyone has all of their wizards on towers.

6 player complete setup example