Rime Wraith

In game

The frost left behind when the Tide puts out a fallen's ember for good.

Life: 25 at depth 1
Damage: 4.5 Cold per hit
Attack: Melee
Speed: 5.3 tiles/s
Armour: 0
Resistances: 60% Cold
Size: 0.76 tiles across
Packs: 2 to 4
First appears: Depth 3
Experience: 13 at depth 1

A Rime Wraith, a hooded shape of cracked ice with no face, its body trailing into a frozen tail above a ring of frost

Art in progress

Lore Concept

The frost on its face keeps the shape of a smile.

A fallen who gutters can be relit. A fallen whose ember the Tide puts out for good is gone, and the Hearthfolk say this is what is left: frost in the shape of a memory. A Rime Wraith has no feet and no weight. It drifts toward warmth the way the fallen it came from once did.

The Stilled say the wraiths are at peace and that their cold is a kindness. Fallen who have been touched by one say it feels like forgetting something important, all at once.

They haunt the High Pass above the Barrow Moors, where the snow keeps what the frost remembers.

Where it is met

Act 1, the High Pass: in the snowbound pass from the Barrow Moors down to the coast.
In the build: from depth 3. The build has no acts yet; every depth is the same endless cave.

Model

The Rime Wraith 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	`wraith_near.glb` 135 KB	2,958 (84 ember)	5,028	4,000 vertices	under 30 tiles	1.43 × 2.11 × 0.74
Mid	`wraith_mid.glb` 67 KB	1,482 (34 ember)	2,247	1,500 vertices	30 to 38 tiles	1.43 × 2.10 × 0.74
Far	`wraith_far.glb` 18 KB	400 (10 ember)	430	400 vertices	beyond 38 tiles	1.37 × 2.12 × 0.74

Attack

Gets within 0.6 tiles of you and winds up for 0.5 seconds; if you are still in reach when the windup ends, the hit lands. Then it waits 1.6 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. Its cold hits always chill.

By depth

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

Depth	Life	Magic life	Rare life	Damage	Experience
3	31	50	94	5.3	16
4	35	56	105	5.7	17
5	39	63	118	6.2	19
10	69	111	208	9.4	31
15	122	195	367	14.1	49
20	215	345	646	21.2	80
30	669	1,070	2,006	47.9	206

Rarity at depth 3

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

Rarity	Life	Damage	Experience	Items dropped	Currency dropped
Normal	31	5.3	16	0.12	0.06
Magic	50	5.3	39	0.3	0.15
Rare	94	6.1	94	1.18	0.36
Guardian	141	6.1	189	2.39	0.9

How often it appears

The chance that a new pack is Rime Wraiths, by depth. Spawn weight 45.

Depth	Share of packs
1	–
2	–
3+	12%

Other monsters: Hollow Ghoul, Bone Archer, Cavern Brute, Cinder Imp, Gloom Spider