Cinder Imp

In game

Sparks from the Ember with a will of their own, calling in the voices of the people they burned.

Life: 15 at depth 1
Damage: 4 Fire per hit
Attack: Ranged
Speed: 4.2 tiles/s
Armour: 0
Resistances: 50% Fire
Size: 0.6 tiles across
Packs: 3 to 6
First appears: Depth 2
Experience: 10 at depth 1

A Cinder Imp, a small charred figure with a burning head and a wide glowing grin, leaping

Art in progress

Lore Concept

It calls you by your mother's name, in your mother's voice.

Imps are Cinderborn. The Hearthfolk say they are sparks that leapt from the Ember during the Hunger, when whole districts of Velmarch burned from the inside out, and that each one kept something of what it burned. That is where the voices come from.

They talk while they fight. Mostly it is names, called the way someone calls across a street. Hearthfolk who go down to the Cinderworks, under the Underhalls, stop their ears with wax, and still come back sure they heard someone they lost.

In Harrowwood the coals glowing in hollow trunks are the kings' lamps, and the imps are the false ones. Fire made them, so fire does them little harm.

Where it is met

Act 1, Harrowwood: the first ones, drifting between the trees like will-o'-the-wisps.
Act 3, the Underhalls: swarms in the Cinderworks foundries.
In the build: from depth 2. The build has no acts yet; every depth is the same endless cave.

Model

The Cinder Imp as the game draws it, at each level of detail, under a warm light like the party's ember. Every model, with its numbers: Models, or with each level's numbers in the asset explorer.

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Model	File	Vertices	Triangles	Budget	Drawn at	Size (tiles)
Near	`imp_near.glb` 133 KB	2,920 (171 ember)	4,918	4,000 vertices	under 30 tiles	0.94 × 1.04 × 0.65
Mid	`imp_mid.glb` 67 KB	1,495 (143 ember)	2,211	1,500 vertices	30 to 38 tiles	0.93 × 1.04 × 0.65
Far	`imp_far.glb` 19 KB	398 (81 ember)	505	400 vertices	beyond 38 tiles	0.90 × 1.03 × 0.64

Attack

Shoots from up to 10.5 tiles away when it can see you, after a 0.7-second windup. The projectile flies at 11 tiles per second for up to 14.7 tiles and stops at the first player it touches. It fires every 2.8 seconds. Hasted monsters wind up faster and chilled ones slower. Each hit rolls 80% to 120% of its damage. Its fire hits have a 15% chance to ignite.

By depth

Values for a normal Cinder Imp, with magic and rare life for comparison. Modifiers come on top.

Depth	Life	Magic life	Rare life	Damage	Experience
2	17	27	50	4.3	11
3	19	30	56	4.7	12
4	21	34	63	5.1	13
5	24	38	71	5.5	15
10	42	67	125	8.3	24
15	73	117	220	12.5	38
20	129	207	388	18.8	61
30	401	642	1,204	42.6	159

Rarity at depth 2

Before modifiers. Drops are per player within 30 tiles of the kill; see Drops.

Rarity	Life	Damage	Experience	Items dropped	Currency dropped
Normal	17	4.3	11	0.12	0.06
Magic	27	4.3	28	0.3	0.15
Rare	50	5	66	1.18	0.36
Guardian	76	5	132	2.39	0.9

How often it appears

The chance that a new pack is Cinder Imps, by depth. Spawn weight 60.

Depth	Share of packs
1	–
2	18%
3+	16%

Other monsters: Hollow Ghoul, Bone Archer, Cavern Brute, Gloom Spider, Rime Wraith