Bestiary
What hunts where, by region and level. Exact strengths are left for you to find out: ASSESS a creature in the game to see how it compares to you. Every creature has a trophy that sells for full price at the trophy counters.
Greyveil Moors Levels 1–6
Mangy moor rat
Level 1 · trophy: mangy rat tail
A rat the size of a small dog, patchy with mange, its yellow teeth bared.
Carrion crow
Level 1 · trophy: glossy black crow feather
A ragged black bird with a cruel beak and beady, intelligent eyes. It watches you as if measuring you for a meal.
Gaunt moor-wolf
Level 2 · trophy: grey moor-wolf pelt
All ribs and sinew under matted grey fur. Hunger has made it bold, and its eyes shine with a sickly yellow light.
Greyveil bandit
Level 3
A hard-faced outlaw in a patched leather coat, with a grey scarf pulled over the lower half of the face.
Bog lurker
Level 3 · trophy: slimy lurker tendril
A bloated, scaly mass of the bog's colors, ringed with grasping tendrils. Bits of swallowed things glint inside its translucent belly.
Barrow ghoul
Level 4 · trophy: yellowed ghoul fingerbone
A hunched, grey-skinned thing in the rags of a burial shroud. Its fingers end in yellowed, filth-caked nails.
Barrow-wight
Level 5 · trophy: tarnished grave-ring
A tall corpse in rusted mail and the rotted finery of a forgotten lord. Pale fire burns in its eye sockets, and it mutters spells in a dead tongue.
Hollow shade
Level 6 · trophy: vial of grey shade-essence
A man-shaped absence in the air, edged with grey mist. Where its face should be, there is only a hollow that pulls at your eyes. It whispers the name of the Hollow King.
Silverbough Eaves Levels 8–18
Grey eaves wolf
Level 8 · trophy: thick grey wolf pelt
A big grey wolf with a white blaze on its chest, lean and clever. Where there is one, there are more.
Sly poacher
Level 10 · trophy: coil of poacher's snare-wire
A hard-faced man in mottled green and brown, smelling of woodsmoke and blood. He has a hunter's patience and a thief's eyes.
Nightwing owl
Level 11 · only at night · trophy: silent owl feather
An owl with a wingspan wider than a man is tall, utterly silent in flight. Its eyes are like two lanterns.
Thornback bear
Level 12 · trophy: thornback bear claw
A massive brown bear whose back is covered in a hard, barky growth bristling with thorns. It stands taller than a door.
Rot-sick dryad
Level 15 · trophy: vial of black heart-sap
A slender woman of grey wood and black leaves, her face cracked and weeping sap. Once she tended this grove; now she hates everything that lives.
Weeping Oak
Level 18 · trophy: shard of living heartwood
The ancient oak itself has woken, its face a knot of black bark streaming with sap. Every step shakes the ground.
Ironroot Foothills Levels 18–30
Ore-goblin
Level 18 · trophy: nugget of iron ore
A stocky, grey-skinned goblin with forge-burns on its arms and a helmet hammered from a cooking pot. Stronger and smarter than its thicket cousins.
Grey mountain cat
Level 20 · trophy: smoke-grey cat pelt
A lean grey cat as long as a man, with tufted ears and pale green eyes. It moves without a sound.
Warty hill troll
Level 23 · trophy: cracked troll tusk
A huge grey-green troll with a nose like a turnip and a hide like rock. Its wounds close as you watch.
Young wyvern
Level 26 · trophy: bronze wyvern scale
A dragon-cousin the size of a horse, with leathery wings, two clawed legs and a tail ending in a barbed sting. It is young, which only makes it reckless.
Grukk, ore-goblin warchief
Level 28 · trophy: Grukk's crown of nails
A massive ore-goblin in a patchwork of stolen dwarf armor, a crown of bent nails on his head. He has a dwarf-forged war axe and knows how to use it.
Mossdown Hills Levels 3–10
Thicket goblin
Level 3 · trophy: pointed goblin ear
A scrawny green goblin no taller than a halfling, wearing a stolen tea-cosy as a helmet. Its teeth are filed to points.
Bristly hill boar
Level 4 · trophy: curved boar tusk
A barrel-chested wild boar with yellow tusks and a ridge of black bristles. It snorts and paws the ground.
Enormous burrow badger
Level 5 · trophy: striped badger pelt
A badger the size of a wolfhound, with a striped face and claws like garden forks. It is extremely bad-tempered.
Flickering marsh wisp
Level 5 · only at night · trophy: bead of wisp-glass
A ball of pale, shifting light that bobs over the water. It hums when it comes near.
Goblin hexer
Level 6 · trophy: goblin hex-charm
An old goblin draped in feathers and chicken bones, its eyes milky with cataracts. It mutters constantly in a cracked voice.
Hulking hedge-ogre
Level 9 · trophy: massive ogre tooth
Ten feet of warty muscle wrapped in stitched cowhides. It carries a club made from a whole young tree.
The Undercroft Levels 5–12
Gnawing crypt rat
Level 5 · trophy: bundle of crypt-rat whiskers
A grey rat as big as a dog, its fur patchy and its eyes white and blind. It finds you by smell.
Restless skeleton
Level 7 · trophy: tarnished burial ring
A skeleton in rotted burial clothes and a few rings of old mail, moving with a dry clatter. A faint grey light flickers in its eye sockets.
Hollow cultist
Level 8 · trophy: hollow cultist's iron circlet
A gaunt figure in black robes, a crown of iron wire on their shaven head. Their eyes have the empty look of someone who has stopped sleeping.
Bloated crypt ghast
Level 10 · trophy: ghast's blackened nail
A swollen, grey-green corpse that moves with horrible speed. Its stench alone makes your eyes water.
Deacon of the Hollow Crown
Level 12 · trophy: Deacon's iron mask
A tall man in robes embroidered with silver crowns, his face hidden behind a mask of beaten iron. He speaks the Hollow King's name like a prayer.
Wreckers' Coast Levels 12–22
Spiny reef crab
Level 12 · trophy: giant crab claw
A crab as wide as a cart wheel, its shell crusted with barnacles and spines. One claw is much bigger than the other.
Drowned sailor
Level 14 · trophy: drowned sailor's luck-charm
A dead sailor in rotted oilskins, seawater streaming from his mouth and eyes. Crabs have been at his face.
Screeching cliff harpy
Level 16 · trophy: greasy harpy quill
A woman's head and shoulders on the body of a filthy grey seabird, with talons like fishhooks. Its screech hurts your teeth.
Scarred wrecker
Level 17 · trophy: wrecker's brass key
A weather-beaten man with a scarred face and a shuttered lantern at his belt. He has drowned more sailors than he can count, and he likes it.
Sea Hag of the Grotto
Level 21 · trophy: black hag-pearl
A hunched old woman with skin like wet sharkskin and hair of tangled kelp. Her eyes are black from edge to edge, and she smells of the deep sea.