Bestiary

What lives in the dusk, what it can do to you, and what it leaves behind. Drop tables are the ones the live world uses today; each line is rolled on its own, so a lucky kill can drop several.

Slime

Level 1 · Beginner · Beginner Zone

A wobbling heap of green jelly. Slow, hungry, and quick to take offence at anyone who strays too close.

Health: 4 to 10
Damage: 1 to 4
Experience: 4 to 10
Hit ratio: 30
Defence ratio: 20
Magic resistance: 5
Temper: Attacks on sight
Notices you at: 2 tiles
Gives chase: 8 tiles
Strikes every: 2.1 s
Steps every: 2.5 s
May flee at: 25% health

When it dies

Slime: drops when it dies
Item	Chance	Amount
Resurrection Wand	90%	1 to 5
Stamina Potion	90%	1
Health Potion	7.3%	1
Mana Potion	7.3%	1
Gold	30%	1 to 5

When its body fades

Slime: drops when its body fades
Item	Chance	Amount
Slime Jelly	15%	1 to 5
Stone of Merien	1%	1
Stone of Xelima	1%	1
Zemstone of Sacrifice	10%	1
Small Pouch	4%	1
Traveler's Bag	3%	1
Adventurer's Pack	0.2%	1
Gold	2%	1 to 5

A monster's loot is yours alone for two minutes if you dealt at least 35% of its health; share it and the party rolls for it. Each level a pit raises a monster above its own adds 30% health, 20% damage and 40% experience.

Special abilities

A monster may be born with up to 2 of these. Each adds danger points; every point raises its experience and the chance of each drop by 25%, and any ability at all lifts the gold it carries by 100%. Strengths below are the usual range; each spawn pit can set its own.

Anti-Magic

Takes 21 to 80% less damage from magic.

1 danger point

Anti-Physical

Takes 21 to 80% less damage from weapons and fists (at least 1 still lands).

2 danger points

Invisible

Unseen, and cannot be targeted, until it first strikes.

2 danger points

Berserk

Deals 40 to 60% more damage (always at least 1 more), shown as the extra over the blow.

2 danger points

Poisonous

Its blows poison: 1 to 2 health lost every 2 seconds for 10 seconds. Poison never takes the last point.

2 danger points

Explosive

Bursts when slain, dealing 3 to 6 damage to everyone beside it.

1 danger point

Splitting

Splits into two small ones when slain, each with 30 to 50% of its health; they go for its killer, and only one of the three ever drops anything.

1 danger point

Vampiric

Heals 50 to 100% of the damage it deals.

1 danger point

Swift

Moves and strikes 20 to 40% faster.

2 danger points

Thorned

Returns 20 to 50% of the damage it takes to whoever struck it.

1 danger point

Regenerating

Heals 5 to 10% of its health every 2 seconds, even mid-fight.

2 danger points

Giant

Has 50 to 100% more health, and is larger.

2 danger points

Elusive

Is 25 to 50% harder to hit.

1 danger point

Clairvoyant

Notices heroes 2 to 3 tiles farther off, whatever their level.

1 danger point

Leader

Monsters within 4 tiles of it deal 10 to 25% more damage while it lives.

2 danger points

Draining

Each blow drains 2 to 5 stamina and 2 to 5 mana.

1 danger point

World boss: the Sovereign Elemental Knights

Battle mages twice a hero's height, at level 180, with 500,000 health. Only one is ever alive, and each time one comes it is any of the five. Each is immune to its own element, shrugs off two others by half and takes more from its opposite. Below 70% and again below 35% of its health it grows fiercer, and 10 minutes after the first blow it enrages and strikes twice as hard. Built for at least ten heroes at the level cap, fighting for about eight minutes.

Their signature mechanics (Drowning Orb, Chain Lightning, Immolate, Stoneskin, Mirror Aegis and more) are designed and arrive as the systems they need are built.

Tidecaller, Sovereign of the Deep

Water · Level 180 · World boss

A knight of living sea in silver and blue. He drowns those who stand alone and calls the tide to mend him.

Health: 500,000
Damage: 20 to 600
Hit ratio: 300
Defence ratio: 250
Magic resistance: 60
Experience: 8000 to 20000

Elements

Water: immune
Earth: 50% less
Light: 50% less
Fire: takes 50% more

Drops

Tidecaller, Sovereign of the Deep: drops
Item	Chance	Amount
Gold	100%	20,000 to 50,000

Stormlord, Sovereign of the Tempest

Lightning · Level 180 · World boss

Lightning crawls over his midnight plate. Crowd around him and it leaps from one of you to the next.

Health: 500,000
Damage: 20 to 600
Hit ratio: 300
Defence ratio: 250
Magic resistance: 60
Experience: 8000 to 20000

Elements

Lightning: immune
Light: 50% less
Water: 50% less
Earth: takes 50% more

Drops

Stormlord, Sovereign of the Tempest: drops
Item	Chance	Amount
Gold	100%	20,000 to 50,000

Infernal, Sovereign of the Pyre

Fire · Level 180 · World boss

Black iron cracked with fire. His burns stack on whoever holds him, so it takes two shields to outlast him.

Health: 500,000
Damage: 20 to 600
Hit ratio: 300
Defence ratio: 250
Magic resistance: 60
Experience: 8000 to 20000

Elements

Fire: immune
Earth: 50% less
Light: 50% less
Water: takes 50% more

Drops

Infernal, Sovereign of the Pyre: drops
Item	Chance	Amount
Gold	100%	20,000 to 50,000

Earthwarden, Sovereign of Stone

Earth · Level 180 · World boss

Moss and gold over plate like a mountainside. Stone skin turns aside nearly every blow until his runes are broken.

Health: 500,000
Damage: 20 to 600
Hit ratio: 300
Defence ratio: 250
Magic resistance: 60
Experience: 8000 to 20000

Elements

Earth: immune
Fire: 50% less
Water: 50% less
Lightning: takes 50% more

Drops

Earthwarden, Sovereign of Stone: drops
Item	Chance	Amount
Gold	100%	20,000 to 50,000

Radiant, Sovereign of Dawn

Light · Level 180 · World boss

White and gold, too bright to look at. His judgement grows each time it falls, and spells turn back from his aegis.

Health: 500,000
Damage: 20 to 600
Hit ratio: 300
Defence ratio: 250
Magic resistance: 60
Experience: 8000 to 20000

Elements

Light: immune
Lightning: 25% less
Earth: 25% less
Fire: 25% less
Water: 25% less

Drops

Radiant, Sovereign of Dawn: drops
Item	Chance	Amount
Gold	100%	20,000 to 50,000