How this chapter fills
Kill it once. Depths bosses, their minions, and every World Boss file themselves.
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Rotfang the Gnoll
legendarySent down to map the first gallery and report back by supper. Came back eleven months later, on all fours, and has been extremely territorial about the supper question ever since.
Widow Queen
legendaryShe does not spin to catch. She spins to keep records — every thread a name, filed by the date they came down the stair. The archive is enormous and growing and she is, by any reasonable measure, very good at her job.
Ironjaw Golem
legendaryBuilt to hold a door shut. Nobody wrote down which door. Nobody has been able to ask since the jaw fused, and it is not taking questions.
Shade of Malachar
legendaryMalachar himself died on the fourth floor, quietly, of something boring. What waits there is the dent his absence left in the room, and it has had two hundred years to practise the walk.
Emberclaw Drake
legendaryOther drakes hoard gold. Emberclaw hoards warmth. It has been drawing the heat out of that chamber since before your grandmother, and the walls are now cold enough to take skin off.
The Frost Lich
legendaryDoes not freeze you in order to kill you. Freezes you in order to keep you. Has a great many of you already, arranged by height, and is beginning to run out of shelf.
Voidborn Sentinel
legendaryWas not born and was not built. It arrived, in the way a hole arrives, and has stood on that one flagstone ever since. It has never explained the flagstone and nobody has pressed the issue.
Queen Arachnia
legendaryThe only thing in the Depths that keeps a court. The court is beautifully dressed, impeccably mannered and has been dead for some time. Nobody has had the heart to mention it.
Obsidian Titan
legendaryA titan is not a large person. It is a piece of the world that stood up one afternoon, and the world has been politely asking it to sit back down ever since.
Veilbreaker Xal'Thor
legendaryPut both hands into the seam to find out what was on the other side. Found out. Is now on both sides at once, and the half you fight is the smaller and considerably more reasonable half.
Grand Fromage
mythicUndefeated in the Cheese Pits for eleven consecutive seasons. The pits are real. The seasons are real. The belt is real and quite heavy. Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained the cheese.
Lord Sockington III
mythicThird of his name. The first two are still in the dryer. He does not talk about it and it would be a kindness not to ask.
Admiral Quacksworth
mythicCommands a fleet of one. Undefeated in naval engagements, having taken great care never to be in any. The medals are self-awarded and the paperwork is immaculate.
El Taco Grande
mythicArrives at the hour of the third meal, uninvited and enormous. Leaves nothing standing and — more upsettingly — no crumbs.
The Toilet Paper Titan
mythicWound from every errand you have ever put off until tomorrow. It gains a layer each day. In a real and unflattering sense you are feeding it right now.
Professor Magnetoast
mythicForty years of published research into the attraction between bread and inevitability. Peer review was hostile. Peer review is now buttered.
Gnoll Runt
uncommonToo small for the pack, too loyal to leave. Has been promised a promotion for six years.
Cave Spider
uncommonEight eyes, no depth perception. Compensates with enthusiasm.
Scrap Automaton
uncommonAssembled from three earlier automatons and the leftovers of a fourth. Walks with a limp it did not earn.
Restless Spirit
uncommonDied mid-argument. Still winning it.
Shambling Skeleton
uncommonGuards a door that was bricked up two centuries ago. Nobody has told it. Nobody will.
Fire Imp
uncommonHatched too close to the forge and came out wrong in an extremely useful direction.
Magma Lizard
uncommonCarries embers in its mouth like a promise. Has never once dropped one.
Frozen Rat
uncommonWas a person. Has kept the coat.
Frost Husk
uncommonFrozen mid-step on the way out. Still facing the stairs.
Void Mite
uncommonArrived with the Sentinel and stands eleven paces behind it. Always eleven. Nobody knows why eleven.
Rift Imp
uncommonMakes no sound at all, including when struck, which several veterans describe as the worst part.
Warp Hound
uncommonReflects light wrong. Look at it twice and you will stop looking at it.
Spiderling Swarm
uncommonCourt attendant. Fetches, carries, bows. Has been dead for a hundred and forty years and remains impeccably professional.
Web Lurker
uncommonWeaves the court's clothing. Only knows one pattern. Has had a long time to perfect it.
Cocoon Creeper
uncommonThe Queen's taster. The job is exactly as bad as it sounds and it has never once complained.
Rubble Golem
uncommonA chip off the Titan. Still the size of a cart.
Lava Slug
uncommonRolls rather than walks. Gets there.
Stone Beetle
uncommonHolds up a ceiling that stopped needing holding a long time ago. Will not be talked out of it.
Veil Wisp
uncommonCame through the seam behind Xal'Thor and has been trying to go back ever since.
Torn Shade
uncommonExists on both sides. Fights on this one. The other side is reportedly also having trouble with it.
Chaos Sprite
uncommonSpeaks constantly in a language that has not been invented yet. Grammatically flawless.
Dimensional Warden
uncommonThe last thing Xal'Thor made on purpose.
Shadow Imp
rareSmall, quick, and entirely convinced it is the dangerous one in the room.
Void Hatchling
rareHatched on the wrong side and has never been told which side that was.
Dark Wisp
rareA light with opinions. The opinions are bad.
Reef Stalker
rareHunts the shallows at the exact depth where you stop being able to run.
Tide Crawler
rareMoves sideways, which nobody is ever ready for.
Coral Drone
rareOne of nine identical drones. The other eight are also here.
Ember Sprite
rareLives in the ash and takes it personally when disturbed.
Flame Hound
rareDoes not breathe fire. Simply is fire, in a hound-shaped arrangement.
Magma Slug
rareSlow, hot, and completely unbothered by anything you have brought with you.
Bone Walker
rareGuards a vault that was emptied years ago. Nobody has updated the roster.
Soul Fragment
rareStruck from a single sheet of something that was never meant to be sheeted.
Crypt Rat
rareWas the first thing through the breach and has not stopped since.
Stone Shard
rareSpeaks in the voice of whoever it killed most recently. Currently: nobody you know.
Crystal Bug
rareMade from the seam itself, which is why it keeps almost not being there.
Rune Beetle
rareThe last one out. Waiting to be the last one in.