BESTIARY · THE VALE

The Fed Dark

The blind, bloated thing at the bottom of the Skritch Deep that the warren feeds — older than the Gnash-King, older than the goblins, and grown vast on a hundred generations of tribute in the dark.

No goblin has a word for it that isn't a flinch. It dens at the very bottom of the Skritch Deep, past the thickest ring of lamps, and it does not come up — it does not need to. The warren brings the meat and the coin and the oil down to it, and has for longer than any goblin memory, and the thing has swelled on that tribute into something the size of the king-hole itself: pale as a grub that has never seen light, blind, its hide gone soft and translucent over a bulk that shifts and gulps in the dark. It hunts by sound — by the fall of a coin, the scuff of a boot, the ring of anything that sounds — and what it cannot reach it waits for, because the frightened always bring it closer in the end. The goblins did not make it and do not rule it, whatever the Gnash-King's boast says. They found a mouth already open in the deep, cut with older marks than any goblin hand, and did what the frightened do: they fed it, and called the feeding theirs.

KIND

monster

DANGER

Tier IV

HAUNT

The Skritch Deep

TEMPER

Hostile

Connected

The Skritch DeepPLACE · It dens at the very bottom of the Skritch Deep.The Skritch WarrenFACTION · The warren feeds it — the tribute economy runs down …The Gnash-KingCHARACTER · The Gnash-King's boast that he masters and feeds it …The SunderingCONCEPT · The older marks cut into its den echo the barrow's s…A Scout's Lamp-TallyTEXT · The fence of light exists to hold back the thing at …Daubed Across the ThroatTEXT · The warning — the ring of lamps and the dark past it…

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model — troll.glbrig_kind 'troll' → body_kinds.json · file missing on disk

Game Data (1)

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data/content/enemies.json

idthe_fed_dark

sfx_profiletroll

uniqueyes

nameThe Fed Dark

rig_kindtroll

kindmonster

familyskritch_deep

factionskritch_warren

model_scale2.4

tint0.86, 0.82, 0.71

health8200

damage240

speed2.5

detect_range20

on_hit_statusbleeding

canon_refcreature.the-fed-dark

loot{"id":"pale_ichor","name":"Pale Ichor","type":"ingredient","rarity":"common","value":8,"weight":0.2,"effects":["damage_health","restore_fatigue"],"lore":"A thin, cold, translucent fluid wept from the thing at the bottom of the Skritch Deep. It never quite warms in the hand, and it hums, very faintly, if you hold it to your ear."}

actions{"id":"gorge_bite","damage":216,"attack_range":2.4,"attack_windup":0.36,"weight":3,"cooldown":1100,"postDelay":{"time":200}}, {"id":"heavy_slam","damage":322,"attack_range":2.9,"attack_windup":0.62,"weight":2,"cooldown":2200,"postDelay":{"time":360}}, {"id":"sweeping_heave","damage":286,"attack_range":3.2,"attack_windup":0.55,"weight":1,"cooldown":2800,"postDelay":{"time":320},"min_range":1.8}

difficulty7

rankboss

level_band16, 22

reference_level22

Type Fields

kindmonster

habitatplace.the-skritch-deep

danger_tier4

hostileyes

spawn_stats_refthe_fed_dark

rankboss

secretsIts den is cut with marks in a patient, even, non-goblin hand — the same shape as the Asheni sealing-walls of Vallen's Barrow. Whatever it is, it was being fed here before the goblins came, and it answers to the same broken god the barrow walls away. Nobody living knows this; the demo poses the question and does not answer it.

voice_notesWordless. It does not taunt; it gulps, shifts, and turns toward sound. The dread is that it is alone and vast, not that it speaks.

All Relationships (8)

located_in

→The Skritch Deep — It dens at the very bottom of the Skritch Deep.

references

←The Skritch Warren — The warren feeds it — the tribute economy runs down to its den.
←The Gnash-King — The Gnash-King's boast that he masters and feeds it by choice; his own mark never gets close to the lamps.
←A Scout's Lamp-Tally — The fence of light exists to hold back the thing at the bottom.
←Daubed Across the Throat — The warning — the ring of lamps and the dark past it — is about the fed thing.
←The Gnash-King's Own Mark — The 'thing the king masters' his mark stands over.
←Under the Newest Offerings — The offerings that feed it, older the deeper you dig.

foreshadows

→The Sundering — The older marks cut into its den echo the barrow's sealing-walls — it answers to the same broken god. Kept ambiguous.

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