Bestiary

Found in: Emberhold Vale

A quivering blob of the Vale's leftover mana. Harmless alone, a nuisance in numbers.

Found in: Emberhold Vale

Vermin grown bold and big where the Ember's warmth still lingers.

Found in: Emberhold Vale

Its silk is prized by weavers — if you can take it without being wrapped in it.

Found in: Emberhold Vale, Gloomwood

Scavengers of Gloomwood's edge. They fear fire and covet shiny coin.

Found in: Gloomwood

Pack hunters twisted larger by the wood's lingering void-taint.

Found in: Gloomwood

It drinks the dark and screeches in a register that curdles courage.

Found in: Gloomwood

A tree the Gloom hollowed out and wears like a puppet. It remembers being alive, and hates you for it.

Found in: Gloomfang's Den

The wolf that swallowed a shard of the Void. First true test of any adventurer.

Found in: Gloomfang's Den

A hound that died in the Den and never quite left — its howl comes from nowhere and everywhere at once.

Found in: The Frostmere

The Frostmere's wolves hunt in the whiteout, their breath freezing where it falls.

Found in: The Cinderpeaks

A mote of the living fire, half-tame, wholly hot. Catch one and you carry a piece of the Ember.

Found in: The Frostmere

A mote of living cold that drifts over the frozen lake, luring the lost off the safe ice.

Found in: The Frostmere

You never see the stalker until the snow it wears turns and lunges.

Found in: The Frostmere

Lake-ice and old stone, walking. It guards something buried under the Frostmere.

Found in: The Cinderpeaks

Slag and black rock woken by trapped Ember. It mines itself back together if you leave it standing.

Found in: The Frostmere

The Warden was set to keep the Frostmere frozen and forgotten. It still keeps its post.

Found in: The Cinderpeaks

It runs in packs down the lava channels, breathing embers, hunting anything that still holds warmth.

Found in: The Shattered Spire

It does not live in the Spire. The Spire lives inside it. Endgame.

Found in: The Great Forge

The smoke of the Great Forge, given grief and a grudge. It remembers being a smith.

Found in: The Cinderpeaks

The ghost of a Forgefolk smith who never let the fire go out — even after the Gloom took him.

Found in: The Great Forge

A slag-golem grown too large for its moulds — it walks the forge floor leaking fire from every seam.

Found in: The Shattered Spire

A shard of raw aether that learned to want. Small, fast, and far too curious about your soul.

Found in: The Shattered Spire

It hunts at the edge of the world, where the Spire tears and the stars leak through.

Found in: The Great Forge

The last and largest of the Forgefolk's guardians, built to keep the deep forges burning. The Gloom turned its purpose against the living. Beat it, and the great forge is yours.

Found in: The Sunken Mire

It waits beneath the black water for the careless.

Found in: The Sunken Mire

She trades in whispers and drowned names.

Found in: The Sunken Mire

A lesser cousin of the dragons, all poison and spite.

Found in: The Sunken Mire

Rusted armor and a grudge that outlived him.

Found in: The Sunken Mire

Contagion given hide and hunger.

Found in: The Sunken Mire

The mire itself, coiled and ancient, roused at last.

Found in: The Astral Reach

A mote of starlight with a mind of its own.

Found in: The Astral Reach

A guardian of the Reach, wings of burning light.

Found in: The Astral Reach

A mountain that walks between the stars.

Found in: The Astral Reach

Cast down from the firmament, and furious for it.

Found in: The Astral Reach

To look upon it is to forget your own name.

Found in: The Astral Reach

Ruler of the Reach, crowned in dying suns. The last trial.

Found in: The Emberdeep

A knot of living coals that walks on two legs.

Found in: The Emberdeep

It swims through molten rock as a snake swims through water.

Found in: The Emberdeep

Cooled magma given a giant's shape and a giant's temper.

Found in: The Emberdeep

Its spine is a ridge of hardened lava; its breath is worse.

Found in: The Emberdeep

The crowned heart of the Emberdeep. Where it walks, the stone runs like water.

Found in: The Voidscar

It reaps not lives but the space where lives once were.

Found in: The Voidscar

A mote of pure decay, drifting where the world thins.

Found in: The Voidscar

It guards the edge of the scar, though nothing lies beyond it.

Found in: The Voidscar

To meet its gaze is to be quietly forgotten.

Found in: The Voidscar

The end at the end of the world. It does not kill you; it unmakes that you ever were.