Monster families

In game

Lore Concept

Fire remembers. The tide forgets.

The Hearthfolk sort what lives below by the old line between the two forces. Hollow Ghouls and Rime Wraiths belong to the Tide, and the Bone Archers to Orrin's Drowned Court. Cavern Brutes and Cinder Imps are Cinderborn, things the Ember made or remade. Gloom Spiders grew in the dark between and belong to neither. See Fire and Tide.

• Hollow Ghoul

  The drowned of Velmarch, walking toward the warmth of your ember. They come in crowds and they don't stop.

• Bone Archer

  Keeps its distance and shoots. Break its line of sight or close the gap.

• Cavern Brute

  Slow and armoured, and it warns you: a circle fills on the ground, then the slam lands. Step out of it.

• Cinder Imp

  Lives close to the heat. Its firebolts can set you alight, and fire barely hurts it.

• Gloom Spider

  The fastest thing in the dark, in swarms of up to ten. Fragile alone, never alone.

• Rime Wraith

  Cold that moves. Its touch chills you, and everything you do slows down.

At a glance

Values at depth 1. Speed is movement in tiles per second; windup is the delay between starting an attack and its hit, which is your window to dodge. Resistances are fire / cold / lightning, in percent. Spawn share is each family's chance to be picked for a pack once all of them can appear (depth 3 and below).

Scaling by depth

A monster's level is the depth it spawns at. Each depth multiplies life by 1.12, damage by 1.085 and experience by 1.1, compounding. Armour grows linearly, by 10% of its depth-1 value per depth.

Life of a normal monster

Average damage per hit (each hit rolls 80% to 120% of this)