Cactus Game Design Message Boards

This one releases "all captured heroes and resurrects a hero" for each player.  "If a character is in battle, you may banish this card to take THESE heroes to territory and add any  to the battle.   1.  If I choose to do this (since it's one of those cards that says "you may..."), ALL the released and resurrected heroes can join the battle on my side--even those of my opponents?   I'm still getting the hang of using cards in my opponent's territory for my own benefit, which I can see is a pretty useful mechanism!  I just don't want to overstep or misread a rule.   2.  If I choose NOT to put said heroes into the battle, where would they go back to?  The owner's territories?  Back to the owner's hand?   

Bobbert is correct, except for one correction specific to the wording of the card.

Valley of Dry Bones

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The first sentence puts the resurrected characters in their owner's territories and the released characters to whichever territory they belong it (usually whoever had permanent control when they were captured). If you choose to banish, all of those characters are taken to your territory, unless they are protected (so the stop in a different territory can be important). And the add to battle is technically mandatory, but since it's "add any number of those Heroes to battle", you can choose to add 0 and functionally skip it.