# Activating & Deactivating Heroes
In order to use their heroes in-game, players will need to ‘Activate’ their heroes.
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**Important: Activating and Deactivating heroes will incur a gas fee.**
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After registering an eligible wallet, players can access their account management page. When accessing the game for the first time, none of the players heroes will be activated. The player will see messaging in their `Active Heroes` tab that informs them to activate their heroes:
Upon navigating to the `Hero Reserves` tab the player will either see the heroes they have in their wallet or messaging that directs them to OpenSea to acquire heroes:
When players select a hero it will highlight with an ‘On’ symbol and the 'Activate' button will become enabled:
Pressing the ‘Activate’ button will deploy a transaction popup. Signing the transaction and **paying the gas fee** will start the process of transitioning the hero into Skyborne Genesis. Once the transition has started, the hero will be moved to the `In-Transit` tab:
Once the transition has been completed, the hero will appear in the `Active Heroes` tab and is ready to be used for questing in Skyborne Genesis:
To 'Deactivate' heroes, the flow is the same but in-reverse. Players need to select the hero they want to deactivate from the `Active Heroes` tab. When the deactivation process is initiated and the **gas fee has been paid**, the hero will be moved to the `In-Transit` tab until the transaction is complete. After which, the hero will be moved to the `Hero Reserves` tab and will no longer be usable for questing in Skyborne Genesis.
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Note: Sometimes the player will need to hit the `Refresh` button during each of these steps.
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