Hollow Ghoul

In game

The drowned of Velmarch, their embers washed out by the Tide, walking toward the warmth of yours.

Life: 18 at depth 1
Damage: 2.5 Physical per hit
Attack: Melee
Speed: 4.6 tiles/s
Armour: 0
Resistances: None
Size: 0.76 tiles across
Packs: 4 to 7
First appears: Depth 1
Experience: 8 at depth 1

A Hollow Ghoul, bent and dripping, standing in black water with a hollow in its chest where an ember was

Art in progress

Lore Concept

It still wears its mended coat, buttoned to the throat against the cold.

The Hearthfolk say the Hollow Ghouls were the people of Velmarch who stayed in their houses on the Night of the Tide. The water took their breath and then their embers. What walks now is the shape that was left.

They don't hate you. They are cold, and you are warm. A fallen's ember is the brightest thing on the Drowned Coast, and the drowned walk toward it the way people once walked toward a hearth. Some walk farther: up the river into the green Vale, where the Hearthfolk see them wading at dusk. The Stilled call them the rested and will not let anyone in Hearthold speak ill of them. Coalwrights call them the hollows and burn what they bring back.

They come in crowds. Velmarch was a crowded city.

Where it is met

Act 1, the Vale of Velmarch: wading up the river at dusk, the first cold thing in a warm country.
Act 2, the Drowned Coast: in the salt marsh and the flooded streets of Saltreach, in crowds.
In the build: from depth 1. The build has no acts yet; every depth is the same endless cave.

Model

The Hollow Ghoul 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	`ghoul_near.glb` 136 KB	2,929 (24 ember)	5,246	4,000 vertices	under 30 tiles	1.84 × 1.27 × 0.70
Mid	`ghoul_mid.glb` 69 KB	1,492 (10 ember)	2,536	1,500 vertices	30 to 38 tiles	1.84 × 1.26 × 0.70
Far	`ghoul_far.glb` 19 KB	391 (10 ember)	507	400 vertices	beyond 38 tiles	1.80 × 1.19 × 0.69

Attack

Gets within 0.5 tiles of you and winds up for 0.45 seconds; if you are still in reach when the windup ends, the hit lands. Then it waits 1.5 seconds before the next attack. Stepping away during the windup avoids the hit. Hasted monsters wind up faster and chilled ones slower. Each hit rolls 80% to 120% of its damage.

By depth

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

Depth	Life	Magic life	Rare life	Damage	Experience
1	18	29	54	2.5	8
2	20	32	60	2.7	9
3	23	36	68	2.9	10
4	25	40	76	3.2	11
5	28	45	85	3.5	12
10	50	80	150	5.2	19
15	88	141	264	7.8	30
20	155	248	465	11.8	49
30	481	770	1,444	26.6	127

Rarity at depth 1

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

Rarity	Life	Damage	Experience	Items dropped	Currency dropped
Normal	18	2.5	8	0.12	0.06
Magic	29	2.5	20	0.3	0.15
Rare	54	2.9	48	1.18	0.36
Guardian	81	2.9	96	2.39	0.9

How often it appears

The chance that a new pack is Hollow Ghouls, by depth. Spawn weight 100.

Depth	Share of packs
1	47%
2	30%
3+	27%

Other monsters: Bone Archer, Cavern Brute, Cinder Imp, Gloom Spider, Rime Wraith