Arboris
Every creature of the ten open floors: where it lives, how it fights, and what it leaves behind. Levels, haunts and drops are the game's own.
A small, hollow thing of grey bark with a dull amber light inside, raised by the Withering in Mosslight Meadow and the Hearthfields. It fights only when struck first, and crumbles into the bone dust Brann uses to temper iron.
Found in Mosslight Meadow, Hearthfields, The Rootlands
Husk-hide Boots
A long-legged spider, brown with amber markings, that hunts the Amber Hollows west of Rootfall. It attacks on sight, is quick, and usually comes in pairs: never fight with your back to one of them.
Found in Amber Hollows, In the Labyrinth of Roots
Stalker Horn Helm
Amber Ring
A figure of grey bark lit violet from within: one of the Old Watch's wardens, who never left their post because the Withering keeps them standing. They guard the Watch and Thornwood, attack on sight and cleave wide and slow.
Found in Thornwood, The Rootlands, The Old Watch, In the Labyrinth of Roots
Sapfire Edge
Heartwood Pendant
Rootwood Blade
Warden Bulwark
Withered Mail
A rhino-horned beetle with a shell of bark gone green with moss. It roams the Rootlands, the Amber Hollows, Thornwood and Mirrormere, attacking on sight; in the Labyrinth, its Heart calls more out of the walls.
Found in The Rootlands, Amber Hollows, Thornwood, Mirrormere, In the Labyrinth of Roots
Husk-hide Boots
A mantis the colour of embers, dark red with orange markings, that hunts the open Rootlands. It attacks on sight and spits gobs of burning sap that leave you burning.
Found in The Rootlands
Sapfire Gauntlets
A tree-shaped tangle of bramble, roses red in its crown of thorns, roaming the far Rootlands and the Labyrinth. It attacks on sight, its two-fisted slam slows whoever it catches, and the Bramble Matriarch's shriek calls brutes to her side.
Found in The Rootlands, In the Labyrinth of Roots
Bramblewood Aegis
A golem of grey cinder with fire still smouldering inside it, found in the far Rootlands, Thornwood, the Amber Hollows and the Labyrinth's crypt. It attacks on sight, and a blow from it rings in the skull and stuns.
Found in The Rootlands, Thornwood, Amber Hollows, In the Labyrinth of Roots
Ashen Greathelm
Ashen Greaves
An ooze of amber-brown sap gone bad, roaming the far Rootlands and the Labyrinth's nave. It attacks on sight and sprays rotten sap over whatever stands in front of it, and the spray poisons.
Found in The Rootlands, In the Labyrinth of Roots
Thornsteel Blade
A spiked golem of grey stone with a violet light inside, an old guard that still knows its drill. It attacks on sight in the far Rootlands, the Amber Hollows and the Labyrinth's throne room, striking hard enough to stun.
Found in The Rootlands, Amber Hollows, In the Labyrinth of Roots
Reaver of the Old Watch
Thornplate Cuirass
A great walking tree in full leaf, found at the far edges of the Rootlands and by Mirrormere. It shakes the ground until roots seize every foot near it, tears up roots to throw, and answers the Rootwarden's call.
Found in The Rootlands, Mirrormere
Band of the Hollow King
Rootbound Amulet
A great hairy-legged spider, dark brown marked with red, that sleeps in Thornwood and wakes from time to time; the whole wood shudders when she does. She slams the ground, sprays rotten sap and hurls roots; her shriek calls bramble brutes, and near the end thorns burst from her hide.
Found in Thornwood
The first of the Labyrinth's two masters, keeping its nave: a spiked golem of grey cinder with fire showing through its cracks. It stuns with a ringing blow and cleaves wide; wounded to half, it begins to spit burning sap and calls two ashen wardens to its side.
Found in In the Labyrinth of Roots
Ashen GreathelmAshen Greaves
What waits at the end of the Labyrinth of Roots, in its throne room: a vast leafless tree of dark bark with a red light beating inside it. It shakes roots up through the floor, hurls them and slams; roots tear loose from the walls to crawl at you, and as it weakens it beats faster and faster.
Found in In the Labyrinth of Roots
Rootfall's guardian, waiting on the Crown of the Keep atop the Labyrinth: a giant tree in full leaf with a green light in it. It shakes the stones until roots seize every foot, hurls roots and calls rootbound colossi to its side; when it first falls, the Hearth Gate opens the way to the floor above.
Found in The Crown of the Keep
A dark red moth with orange markings and a dust on its wings that burns slow and bright. It swarms round the lantern posts of Lanternfall Glade and the Sapfall, eating the light and anyone who carries one.
Found in Lanternfall Glade, The Sapfall, The Boughlands
Mothwing Cowl
A beetle whose shell grows from the bough itself, harder than oak and light as leather. It grazes the Leafdrifts and the edge of Lanternfall Glade and never starts a fight, but finishes one: the swing of its shell stuns.
Found in The Boughlands, The Leafdrifts, The Sapfall, Lanternfall Glade, Cloudrest, The Russet Weald
Barkback Greaves
Fallen leaves of the Russet Weald, got up again as husks of leaf and bark that walk like trees and grab like roots. They attack on sight; when the ground stirs underfoot, step off before the roots take hold.
Found in The Boughlands, The Russet Weald, The Amberpools
Husk-heart BandRusset Blade
Sap of the Amberpools that spoiled as it cooled and woke up hungry. It crawls the pools and the Heart of the Bough, lobbing sticky sap that slows, and nearly always holds a bead of clear amber at its heart.
Found in The Amberpools, In the Heart of the Bough
Amberglass CharmRusset Blade
A spider of the Weaving Hollow, grown huge since the hollow went grey and spreading into the Weald. It flings web on the ground to hold you, then bites with burning venom; the silk it spins is stronger than mail.
Found in The Boughlands, The Weaving Hollow, In the Heart of the Bough
Russet BladeSilkstrider Boots
A spark of the Autumn King's fire, come loose. Ember wisps swarm like moths round a lamp at the foot of the Heartwood Knot and over Cinder Rise; they flick fire, and flare white-hot when you come close.
Found in The Boughlands, Cinder Rise
Wispfire Gloves
Burnt bark of Cinder Rise, where the Autumn King's first embers fell, risen to walk and as hard as iron. It hurls smouldering slabs of itself, and when it lifts both fists, the ground round it is about to burn.
Found in Cinder Rise
Cinderbark Cuirass
A pale grub in a shell of chitin, found only inside the Heart of the Bough. Grubs crowd its nest and spill from its walls, spitting sour, half-chewed sap that slows; the Matron and the Heartrot both bring out more.
Found in In the Heart of the Bough
A golem of glowing amber guarding the sap channels inside the Heart of the Bough, never leaving them. Its fists shatter amber from the floor to slow you; its spear of hardened sap goes through whatever stands in line.
Found in In the Heart of the Bough
Amberguard Helm
The great spider at the middle of the Weaving Hollow, among dead grey trees hung with webs like sails and cocoons the size of a man. When she wakes, silk shivers across the hollow. She webs the ground, whips silk in a line and bites with venom; her brood comes at her shriek.
Found in The Weaving Hollow
Mantle of the Mother WeaverSilkcutterWeaver's Eye
Mother of the grubs, keeping her chamber halfway through the Heart of the Bough: a great beetle in a dark red-brown shell. She drops her whole weight on the floor to slow you and her mandibles tear until you bleed; at half strength she rears up, shrieks, and her grubs pour out of the walls.
Found in In the Heart of the Bough
Chitin GreathelmMatron's Carapace
The rot that took the Autumn King, grown at the heart of the bough into a tree of its own: dark, sickly bark lit by a green glow. It lashes with rotten boughs, roots you and bursts poisonous spores; grubs spill from its wounds, and as it weakens it drinks the rot itself and the floor splits around you.
Found in In the Heart of the Bough
Heart of the BoughHeartsplitter
Emberleaf's guardian: the Autumn King, who kept the leaves turning, climbed the Heartwood Knot to burn the rot out of himself, and burns still on the Pyre of Leaves. A towering tree with a crown of fire, he sweeps burning boughs, rains embers and tears up the roots; wisps and fallen leaves rise to fight for him.
Found in The Pyre of Leaves
Crown of Falling LeavesCrownfireMantle of the Autumn KingThe King's Ember
A broad-winged moth, pale blue and glowing, drifting through the Lumen Hollows and the dark beyond them. It attacks on sight, beating glowing dust into your eyes until for a while you strike at what you cannot see.
Found in The Lumen Hollows, The Underboughs
Lumen LongbowLumenwing Cowl
A walking cap the Gardeners bred to carry light into dark places, glowing cyan under dark blue. Untended and gone sour, it wanders the Lumen Hollows; strike one and it will not stop until one of you is down.
Found in The Underboughs, The Lumen Hollows, The Mosswold, Sporefall Grove
Capstalk BandGlimmerbrand
Lampbearer's Rod
A round, horned beetle grazing the Mosswold in peace with a little garden of moss on its shell. It fights only when struck, tossing you on its horn and trampling all round; when the horn drops, you have one breath.
Found in The Mosswold
GlimmerbrandMosshorn Greaves
Spores of Sporefall Grove that stopped sleeping and gathered into a green, glowing ooze with eyes. Close by, its sacs burst and the spores settle into your wounds, and it spits clouds of them that hang where you stand.
Found in Sporefall Grove, The Fogmere, In the Mycelium Halls
Sporeguard Hood
Sporewood Staff
A body no bigger than a cooking pot on legs taller than a lamp-pole. It waits in the Dripping Roots for a light to pass below, stabs down with a needled leg, and rears to reach you in three strides.
Found in The Underboughs, The Dripping Roots, The Pale Warren
Longreach Gloves
Strider's Needles
A cold blue flame with no lamp beneath it, drifting over the Fogmere and the dark between. It leads the unwary out over deep water; in a fight it flicks numbing fire, winks out, and flares again at your back.
Found in The Underboughs, The Fogmere
Wisplight Charm
A bone-pale centipede that has dug the ground hollow round the Pale Warren's great stump. Its poisoned strike runs the whole length of its body, so never stand before one that is coiling; its rattling legs slow you.
Found in The Underboughs, The Pale Warren, The Dripping Roots, In the Mycelium Halls
Crawlerplate Cuirass
A slender, dusky worm with glowing eyes that lives among the threads of the Mycelium Halls. Its bite leaves threads caught in the wound that slow you, and it goes under the moss to burst up beneath your feet.
Found in In the Mycelium Halls
Threadwoven Gloves
The great stump's own wood, risen round a glowing heart; it keeps to the Mycelium Halls beneath. It hurls slabs of its heartwood that burst into splinters where you stand, and glowing threads lash out to bind your feet.
Found in In the Mycelium Halls
Stumpheart Bulwark
A thing of spores and no shape, as big as a boathouse, on the Fogmere's east shore. When she wakes a sweet rot rolls off the mere, and everything near her dies. She pours out spores, rolls over whoever is closest and rains spores like snow; at the end she swells until her skin splits.
Found in The Fogmere
Bloom Ring
BloomstringSpore-felt MantleSporemaw
Sporemother's Rod
Staff of the Sleeping Spore
A great dark moth roosting under the stump's crown, midway down the Mycelium Halls, faint cyan markings on her wings. One beat of them and the dark rushes at you; she sweeps a wing along the floor, and wounded, calls the lumen moths of the deep down to her and sheds a dust that drinks the light.
Found in In the Mycelium Halls
Gloamwing CloakMoth-eye Circlet
A vast white centipede lying wound round the Wellspring at the bottom of the Mycelium Halls, the spring the threads of the deep drink from, where the Withering comes up into the lights. It crushes in its coils, sprays a pale venom and drives itself through the moss at you; hurt, it thrashes blindly.
Found in In the Mycelium Halls
CoilbreakerPale Coil Greaves
Pale Fangs
The Burrower's Bow
Threadheart RodWellspring Pearl
Glimmerdeep's guardian, in the Gardener's Ring: the Last Gardener, who bound himself into the threads to feed the first light with his own life, and was found there by what came up them. Now a dark cap taller than a house, he sweeps the Ring, binds you with threads, and wakes the dead caps around you.
Found in The Gardener's Ring
Gloomcap CrownLightwarden's BowMantle of the Last Gardener
Staff of the First LightThe First LightThe Gardener's Crook
Pollen the sun has set alight, drifting over Briarfield's dry grass; one in the wrong place could burn the whole field. When it swells and brightens it flares, and the burning pollen takes the strength from your arms.
Found in Briarfield, The Reach
Sunmote Pendant
A stag-jawed beetle grazing Briarfield, its shell lined with spines the sun bakes harder than forged iron. It never starts a fight; struck, it heaves you up on its jaws, or turns and rakes everything near with its spines.
Found in The Reach, Briarfield, Sunscorch Flats
Thornback Greaves
A crimson wasp that nests under the Rose Arches and hangs round the Briar Queen like red smoke. It attacks on sight with a sting as long as a finger, and its venom burns all the way up the arm.
Found in The Rose Arches, The Reach, In the Rosethorn Maze
Noonday KnivesWaspwing Cowl
A sand-gold scorpion lying under the dust of the Sunscorch Flats; you see the sand twitch before you see it. Its claw closes on you and holds, and its tail comes down as hot as the noon sun.
Found in Sunscorch Flats
Noonday LongbowScorchtail Buckler
A green mantis of the hedges and the shade of the northern arches, whose forearms cut thorn like grass and never dull. Its low scythes make you bleed, and it folds small before it strikes: when one goes still, move.
Found in The Reach, The Hedge Ward, The Rose Arches, Thorn Tunnels, In the Rosethorn Maze
Mantis-hook GauntletsNoonday Blade
A green serpent with a red belly and glowing eyes, nesting in the Thorn Tunnels until they close behind it. When the ground stirs underfoot, brambles are rising to hold you; it also spits thorns as long as a hand.
Found in Thorn Tunnels, Bloodroot Hill, In the Rosethorn Maze
Noonday StaffSerpentbriar Band
Kaelthorn's walking thorn, crowned with roses, that comes down Bloodroot Hill at every change of the watch to plant thorn at the walls. It is slow; its thorns are not: when its crown shakes, they are already in the air.
Found in The Reach, Bloodroot Hill, The Hedge Ward, In the Rosethorn Maze
Bloodroot HauberkNoonday Rod
A round green beetle that eats the roses of the hedge-lords' old garden, the Rosethorn Maze, and is never found outside it. It lowers its head and rams you shell first, hard enough to stun.
Found in In the Rosethorn Maze
Chafer-shell Helm
A butterfly of deep crimson with rose-pink markings that drinks from the roses of the Rosethorn Maze and never leaves it. It attacks on sight; its wings beat a red dust over you, and your limbs grow heavy.
Found in In the Rosethorn Maze
Rosewing Mantle
A rose grown into a tree in the middle of the Sunscorch Flats, all that is left of the rose-fields: when the rain stopped, she drank what the others could not reach. When she wakes and opens, her wasps pour out like red smoke; she rains thorns, binds every foot with briars, and at the last breathes a red poison.
Found in Sunscorch Flats
Mantle of the Briar QueenQueensthornRosebriar BowRosebriar CircletRosecrown Sceptre
Staff of the Crimson Bloom
A great straw-coloured mantis in the sundial court at the middle of the Rosethorn Maze, keeping the walks clipped. Its scythes close like shears and it strikes down the length of the court faster than the eye; at half strength mantises drop from the hedges, and it spins, clipping everything around it to one height.
Found in In the Rosethorn Maze
Mazewalker BootsShearclaw Gauntlets
The serpent at the heart of the Rosethorn Maze, wrapped round the Rosethorn, the first rose of the Reach, above the bloodroot that feeds Kaelthorn. Dark red with eyes of gold, it crushes in its loops, sweeps its thorned tail and spits bitter sap; when it drinks from the bloodroot, the hedges close in.
Found in In the Rosethorn Maze
Rosethorn BladeRosethorn LongbowRosethorn Sceptre
Rosethorn StaffRosethorn TwinsThe First Rose
Thornreach's guardian, grown by the first hedge-lords from the oldest bramble on Bloodroot Hill, and called the Unbowed in praise. The Withering found him on the summit, where he has stood inside his ring of thorns since the Silence. He hurls thorns like spears, and for a few breaths blows glance off him like rain off bark.
Found in Kaelthorn's Stand
Bark of the UnbowedBloodroot FangsCrown of the UnbowedSceptre of the ReachSeal of the ReachStaff of the Bloodroot
A red-shelled beetle the size of a cartwheel, chewing the windfalls in the Orchards. It does no harm unless struck, but pressed hard it bleeds a bitter yellow poison from every joint; the dyers grind its shell for red.
Found in The Orchards
Shellback GreavesStonecutter's Edge
A black-and-gold wasp as long as a hand, feeding on the Orchards' windfalls and on whoever picks them. When it hangs still in the air, it is about to dart in and sting, wet with the juice of rotten fruit.
Found in The Orchards, The Highfields, Millwind Terraces
Grafter's KnivesWaspwing Cowl
An orchard tree older than the city that pulled up its roots when the sap went strange, and walks the upper terraces in blossom, trampling the young trees. It swings boughs heavy with fruit; its petals make the arms heavy.
Found in The Orchards
Blossomwood BracersBlossomwood Rod
A moth the colour of raw silk, gone wild on the Millwind Terraces, whose wild silk Highbark's weavers want. It leaves you be until struck, then sheds a pale dust that makes the limbs slow and the eyes heavy.
Found in The Highfields, Millwind Terraces
Sailspar Bow
Wild Silk Robe
A many-legged thing the colour of turned earth that comes up under the Millwind Terraces and takes the ground with it going back down. When the earth bulges underfoot it is coming up; its hooked jaws bite, hold and tear.
Found in The Highfields, Millwind Terraces, The Old Kilns, The Quarries, In the Undercroft
Burrower-scale BootsGrafter's Knives
Pitch from the tar pits of the Old Kilns that woke and crawls, black and warm, with eyes. It lobs globs of pitch that hold your feet, and when the pitch in it catches, the ground around it smoulders.
Found in The Old Kilns
Kilnfire StaffPitchblack Gloves
A masons' work-golem of barkstone, its heart a chip of the Hall's sapstone set under the chest-stone. Since the sap soured it works the Quarries for no one; when its fist goes high, the ground splits in a line.
Found in The Quarries, The Warden's Yard
Barkiron GauntletsSapstone AmuletStonecutter's Edge
A great horned beetle, black as iron, come up over the bough's edge to ram Bramblegate's walled arch night and day. It lowers its horn to charge, marking the ground under the one it means to hit: roll aside.
Found in The Highfields, Bramblegate, The Warden's Yard
Gatebreaker HelmSailspar Bow
A pale effigy of bark, carved over a tomb by those who loved the dead beneath, keeping its own vigil in the Undercroft. It lashes with splintered boughs, and its hollow toll takes the strength from your arms.
Found in In the Undercroft
Mourner's Shroud
Wax of the Undercroft's grave-candles, which burned for every soul for centuries and pooled in the vaults, now crawling with a warm light inside. It lobs hot wax where you stand that sets as it cools and slows you.
Found in In the Undercroft
Waxlight Band
A giant the masons began to carve from the living stone at the head of the Quarries, a king or a saint, and never finished. Now and then it pulls itself out of the face and walks; it shakes the quarry floor, throws boulders and brings rockslides down in a line.
Found in The Quarries
Colossus PlateHeartstone of the QuarryStonecarver's Gauntlets
Centuries of grave-candle wax, pooled in the Undercroft's wax vault and woken as one great, eyed mass with wicks caught all through it. It floods the floor with hot wax and lobs more where you stand; at half strength every wick in it catches at once, it rolls over you, and the wax gets up and crawls.
Found in In the Undercroft
Wax-sealed TreadsWick-and-Wax Charm
The rot that came up the Hallroot and grew among Highbark's dead into a tree of pale, splintered bark, grave-candles burning in its crown, at the bottom of the Undercroft. It sweeps and grasps with pale roots and tolls like the Hall's great bell; it raises the mourners from their tombs, and its candles pour hot wax.
Found in In the Undercroft
Circlet of Pale BarkKnellstringOssuary RodShroud of the UndercroftStaff of the Last CandleThe Last Rites
Highbark's guardian, once its pride: a giant of iron and barkstone the masons and smiths built together to keep the south road, its heart of sap drawn from the Hallroot. The rot reached that heart; now it holds its walled yard against all comers, charging like a falling rampart and lashing with its broken chains.
Found in The Warden's Yard
Heartcage StaffHelm of the Iron Warden
Iron TalonsPlate of the Iron WardenRivet of the Old PlateRod of the Iron Heart
A blue-grey dragonfly, Galewing's kind grown small, hunting over every spire on wings clearer and tougher than glass. It hangs in the air and beats all four wings at you, a gust that drags at every step.
Found in The Windward Ledges, Heather Saddle, The Shrieking Spires, Ropebridge Gap, The Crag Teeth, In the Hollow Spire
Glasswing Hood
A slate-grey crab in every crack, that has learned a rope is something to cut. Struck, it snaps a claw shut like a door in the wind; when it pulls its legs in, blows glance off until it opens again.
Found in The Windward Ledges, Ropebridge Gap, The Shrieking Spires, In the Hollow Spire
Slateshell Greaves
A purple beetle of the Heather Saddle that rides out the gale hooked into the heather by its spines. It lifts its shell for the wind to throw grit in your eyes; its hooked feet close on yours and hold.
Found in Heather Saddle
Chimewood RodClinger's GripKestrel TalonsKestrel's EdgeKestrel-wing BowWindreader's Staff
A grey mantis of the Shrieking Spires, so still in the wind that kestrels take it for rock and land on it. It springs from ten paces off, scythes first: when it crouches, roll aside or be under it.
Found in The Shrieking Spires, In the Hollow Spire
Chimewood RodKestrel TalonsKestrel's EdgeKestrel-wing BowMantis-eye BandWindreader's Staff
A horned beetle that bores the holes the Shrieking Spires sing through, and chewed through the Hollow Spire's old door from inside. When it lowers its horn it comes straight at you: never stand in line with it.
Found in The Shrieking Spires, In the Hollow Spire
Borer-horn HelmChimewood RodKestrel TalonsKestrel's EdgeKestrel-wing BowWindreader's Staff
A grey serpent of the Crag Teeth, all muscle and patience, striking out of cracks with fangs that burn going in. It coils before it lunges its whole length, so step out of line; its sinew makes the best rope.
Found in The Crag Teeth
Chimewood RodCragscale HauberkKestrel TalonsKestrel's EdgeKestrel-wing BowWindreader's Staff
Stones the gale heaped together until they stood up and stayed: rock with the wind trapped inside, tearing the bridge anchors out of the Ropebridge Gap. When both fists rise, the wind bursts out and knocks you flat.
Found in Ropebridge Gap, Stormcrest, In the Hollow Spire
Galestone Amulet
A spark of the Stormward's lightning, spilling down Stormcrest where the storm hangs so low it walks. Its threads of lightning leave you charged, and the storm's bolts strike the charged hardest; it bursts with a thunderclap that stuns.
Found in Stormcrest, In the Hollow Spire
Sparkweave Gloves
A sentinel of white glass that the lightning grew in the Hollow Spire's Glass Veins, and that never leaves them. It shrugs splinters of glass off its shoulders, and the lightning caught in it leaps out all at once.
Found in In the Hollow Spire
A dragonfly as long as a bridge that hunts the wind itself over the Crag Teeth, the first of the galewings or the last; the old songs disagree. She wakes when the gale is high, and the whole floor hears her shriek. She stoops like a falling stone, pins you with a downdraft, and calls her kind down the wind.
Found in The Crag Teeth
Dragonfly NeedlesGalestringGalewing's EyeMantle of the GalewingRod of Still AirStaff of the Long Gale
A great pale mantis waiting among her brood in the Still Hall, midway up the Hollow Spire. She goes as still as the stone, and against anyone she has not yet touched her next strike finds the gap in any guard; she crosses the hall in a single bound, and at half strength her brood drops from the walls.
Found in In the Hollow Spire
Mask of the StillhunterStillhunter's Carapace
A serpent coiled round the shaft of the Grounding, at the bottom of the Hollow Spire, where the storm once went down into the Tree; it has fed on the pent storm until it is more glass than serpent. It cracks lightning from its coils, breathes the spire's wind at you and bites with fangs of glass.
Found in In the Hollow Spire
Fulgurite BladeGlasswyrm FangsHeart of the GroundingRod of Pent Lightning
Staff of the GroundingStormglass Bow
The Galewind's guardian on the Seat of Storms: the Stormward, a crystal giant that drank the lightning into its hide for a thousand years so the bolts never fell on the spirefolk's ropes. Since the sap went sour it throws the storm instead, calling the bolt down on the charged and flinging lightning from one climber to the next.
Found in The Seat of Storms
Crown of the StormwardEye of the StormForked BoltSceptre of the CalmSkyrenderStaff of the Stormward
Resin bled from the shore's bark at the Tapping Grounds that climbed out of its cups to crawl, setting round two tappers where they stood. When it heaves up, it is about to throw resin at your feet: keep moving.
Found in The Tapping Grounds, The Merelands, The Glassflats, Honeywood
Clear-hearted CharmStaff of the Clear Drop
A flat beetle caught grazing when the Glassflats set, its shell grown under the amber layer on layer, clear as glass and harder. Struck, it tilts the shell skyward, and the glare takes the strength from your arms.
Found in The Merelands, The Glassflats, The Tapping Grounds
Glassback GreavesSunken Bronze
A honey-gold wasp of Honeywood, one of the Swarm's children that were not over the water when the mere set. It flies at anyone near and hums toward the Frozen Swarm by night; its honey-thick venom drags at the limbs.
Found in The Merelands, Honeywood, The Tapping Grounds, The Frozen Swarm, In the Sunken Hive
Combwax HoodFowler's Bow
A scorpion dark as old resin, nesting in the drowned houses of the Sinking Reach and dragging fishers off their rafts. When its pincers close on your leg, roll free before it pulls you down into the soft resin.
Found in The Merelands, The Sinking Reach
Gaff and HookMire-black Gauntlets
A sickly yellow-green light over the Sinking Reach that leads fishers out where the resin is soft: do not follow it. It flicks motes at you, then swells and bursts like the gas off a marsh, poisoning all around.
Found in The Sinking Reach
Fen-lantern RingThe Old Spile
A great dragonfly Queen Resinna sealed in the Frozen Swarm, breaking out of its wall with old amber still on its wings. When it hangs still before you, a spray of that amber is about to cut along the ground.
Found in The Merelands, The Frozen Swarm, The Amber Shore
Amberwing MantleFowler's Bow
An amber golem of Queen Resinna's that keeps her shore and the Swarm's wall, and by night sets the north causeway behind it, plank by plank. When it stamps, resin wells up and sets on every foot it reaches.
Found in The Amber Shore, The Frozen Swarm
Golem-heart AmuletResinplate HelmSunken Bronze
A grub of the Sunken Hive's brood cells, pale as wax and fat on honey that soured, never seen outside the hive. It rears and spews half-made honey over everything in front of it, and the honey slows you.
Found in In the Sunken Hive
Brood-wax Treads
A soldier of the Sunken Hive, dark with the dark it has lived in. It drops on you out of the comb sting first, and its wings drone until the comb shakes and the strength goes out of your arms.
Found in In the Sunken Hive
Hive-guard Cuirass
A beetle the size of a house with a horn like a ship's prow, caught grazing when the mere set and sealed in the Glassflats. Now and then the glass round it breaks like thunder and it walks, charging and cracking the flats in rings; when it settles, the amber closes back over it.
Found in The Glassflats
Eye of the Long SleepGlasshornHorn-crowned HelmShell of the Entombed
A brood grub that never hatched from its sealed cell midway through the Sunken Hive, swelling there for an age on royal honey. It lets its swollen length fall on the comb and spews soured, burning honey; at half strength its skin bursts off in stinging rags, and its own brood crawls out.
Found in In the Sunken Hive
Brood-wax RobeShield of the Unhatched
Mother of the Swarm, sealed in the Old Hive's royal cell since the end. The rot found her there and soured her honey, and it seeps up through the mere into everything, Queen Resinna included. She stings from above with a sting as long as a spear, drones until the hive shakes, and brings the comb down on you.
Found in In the Sunken Hive
CombstringCrown of the HiveHeart of the Old HiveMandibles of the HiveMotherstingRoyal Comb Rod
Ambermere's guardian, once its queen: when the Swarm came over the water at the end of her world, she called the resin up from the bottom of the mere and stopped it, and everything else. The Tree made her of amber for it. The rot is in her, and she sets the mere round all who come to her Mirror.
Found in The Queen's Mirror
Bow of the MirrorDiadem of the Amber QueenMantle of the Amber QueenResinna's MercyRod of the Amber QueenShard of the Mirror
A near-black moth banded with gold, come up from the dark to drink the lamps on Deepvault's ledges and leave them cold. Its gold dust takes the strength from your arms; the light it drank flares out all at once.
Found in The Hollows, The Crystal Gardens, The Glowmoss Deeps
DeepstringGilded Dust Charm
A root of the Tree come loose: the sap went out of it, and something else came in. It walks the rims of the Root Bridges, pulling at them; when the wood underfoot moves, step off it.
Found in The Hollows, The Root Bridges
Rootwight BracersSeamsplitter
A dark, gold-bellied serpent coiled in the shallows of the Sapvein Gorge, drinking the river of living sap until it slows. It spits that sap, as hot as a forge, and throws a loop of itself round you to squeeze.
Found in The Sapvein Gorge, The Hollows, In the Core Chambers
Tapper's RodVeinscale Boots
A flat, dark violet spider of the Crystal Gardens that spins crystal as others spin silk. It spits slivers of it as sharp as a glazier's offcuts, and throws webs of glass thread that set hard round your feet.
Found in The Hollows, The Crystal Gardens, The Shard Fields, In the Core Chambers
Gad and PickGlass-thread Hood
A crawler as long as a cart, come up from below to eat the moss of the Glowmoss Deeps and wear it on its back; where it grazes, the Deeps go dark. Its moss flares to weaken you.
Found in The Glowmoss Deeps
Crawler-shell BucklerSeamfinder Staff
Violet crystal of the Shard Fields, risen in a shape like nothing that ever lived and walking north, always north, carrying crystal to the Hollow King. When it points at you, a lance of crystal is coming in a line.
Found in The Hollows, The Shard Fields, The Heartward, In the Core Chambers
Geodeplate CuirassSeamsplitter
A mantis of pale violet crystal keeping the Heartward, so still you take it for part of the crystal. Its glassy forelimbs sweep low, edge first; when it goes perfectly still, step out of line: it is about to strike.
Found in The Heartward, In the Core Chambers
Gad and PickStalker's Facet
The sap of the trunk's core, caught halfway to crystal and crawling; it keeps to the Core Chambers. It lobs half-set sap that sets round your feet, and where it flows over you, you begin to set.
Found in In the Core Chambers
Stillsap Locket
A worm as long as the Sapvein Gorge is wide, living in its river and eating the sap: waxy and pale, gold where the sap runs under its skin. When it rises the whole river boils; it lashes the banks, bursts burning sap up beneath you, and dives to come up under its prey.
Found in The Sapvein Gorge
Goldvein SignetRivergut BowRod of the Living VeinSapfangsStaff of the SapveinWormhide Mantle
A beetle of the core whose shell set into crystal round it, flat and spined, stag-jawed, violet glass lit from within; it lies in the Hollow halfway down the Core Chambers. It charges with its shell ringing and drops its weight until crystal shatters up around it; at half strength its shell splits and the stillsap in it gets up.
Found in In the Core Chambers
Geode ShellGeodeback HelmFacet-studded Gauntlets
Mother of the shard spiders, pale as frosted glass and high on long legs over her dark brood, who spun the Confluence at the bottom of the Core Chambers shut with crystal thread. She draws taut threads that set round whatever they cross, brings down the crystal overhead, and strikes her threads until every crystal in the chamber sings.
Found in In the Core Chambers
BroodfangsEye of the ShardmotherMantle of Glass ThreadRod of the ConfluenceSpun-glass BowStaff of the Still Core
Hollowheart's guardian: the last king of the deep folk, who asked the Tree to take his people in and was made the warden of its sap, which ran through him for a thousand years. When it stopped, it set in him; now he is smoky crystal round the place his heart was, and his crystal spears keep growing in you.
Found in The Hollow Throne
Bow of the HeartwardCrown of the Hollow KingCrownshardsKingsglassPlate of the Hollow KingSceptre of the Deep Holds
A white moth that drinks warmth: it settles in a cloud on a sleeping woodcutter of the Rime Woods, and by morning he is cold and does not wake. If one lands on you, strike it off before it drinks.
Found in The Rime Woods, Hoarfrost Fields, The Icefalls, In the Frozen Sap Caves
Snowdust Veil
A beetle as broad as a sledge, its shell smooth as old ice, grazing bark under the snow at the edges of woods and fields. Left alone, it leaves you be; struck, it comes at you like a loosed sledge.
Found in The Rime Woods, Hoarfrost Fields, The Drifts
Runnerback Shield
A pale scorpion under the snow crust of the Hoarfrost Fields that comes up beneath the sledges. When the crust heaves round it, step away; when its tail rises over its back, roll: the sting freezes you where you stand.
Found in Hoarfrost Fields, Aurora Ridge, The Drifts, In the Frozen Sap Caves
Crust-sting RingIcecutter's BladeLongnight BowSpile KnivesStaff of the Frozen FallSugarwood Rod
A spider furred like a winter hare, legs and all, lying in the drifts, only its eyes above the snow, waiting for something warm. It throws freezing silk on the ground, then bites with fangs as cold as the drift.
Found in The Drifts, The Rime Woods, The Frozen Boughs, The Crown of Frost, In the Frozen Sap Caves
Frostsilk WrapsIcecutter's BladeLongnight BowSpile KnivesStaff of the Frozen FallSugarwood Rod
Clear ice broken off the Icefalls round a gold heart of frozen sap, walking since the Silence toward any warmth. Its fists bring the ice down like a fall coming loose, and it throws icicles snapped from its shoulders.
Found in The Icefalls, The Crown of Frost, Aurora Ridge
Icefall Greaves
An old tree of the Frozen Boughs, grey with frost, that let its frozen leaves go at last and walks the south-west road toward Wintersap. When its crown shakes, the rime in its twigs falls in shards edged like glass.
Found in The Frozen Boughs
Icecutter's BladeLongnight BowRimebark CuirassSpile KnivesStaff of the Frozen FallSugarwood Rod
A piece of the lights of the long night, come down to Aurora Ridge and never gone back up: a green core in a violet halo. It strikes from afar with cold green fire and bursts when it swells.
Found in The Drifts, Aurora Ridge, The Crown of Frost
Lightglass Band
A borer that eats through the frozen sap in the caves under the Crown and has chewed passages in their ice. It drives through whatever stands before it as it drives through ice, and spits a hail of chewed ice.
Found in In the Frozen Sap Caves
Icebore Helm
Frozen sap of the caves under the Crown, half thawed and crawling: clear blue with a dim gold heart. It lobs slush that sets on you as it cools, and spreads flat so its cold seeps into everything near.
Found in In the Frozen Sap Caves
Sapglass Charm
The great white spider nesting in the deep of the Frozen Boughs, mother of the snowlurkers; when she wakes, frost cracks through the wood tree after tree. She throws frost-silk as wide as a barn floor, and her fangs, as long as a forearm, freeze you where you stand.
Found in The Frozen Boughs
FrostfangMantle of the Winter MatronRime NeedlesStaff of the White NestThe Long StrandThe Matron's Mercy
The oldest of the snowcrust scorpions, dark as ice that has never thawed; the last sapice cutters woke it when they cut too deep into the Cutters' Deep. Its claws close and hold, its sting comes up through the ice beneath your feet, and at half strength its brood boils up out of the cracks.
Found in In the Frozen Sap Caves
Deepsting VisorRing of the Last Cutter
The cold at the bottom of the Frozen Sap Caves, grown round the heart of the Sapwell where the high boughs' sap froze first; it is what holds Hoarfrost on its throne. It floods the floor with slush, drops blocks of gold sapice, and when its heart stops, everything round it stops too.
Found in In the Frozen Sap Caves
Heart of the SapwellHearticeRod of the Rising SapSapice GreavesSapshardsStaff of the Sapwell
Frostcrown's guardian, the Warden of the Crown, who brought the snow down every winter and was sung home every spring. When the Heart fell silent at Midwinter it sat down on the Frost Throne and would not go. Dark ice that has never thawed, the green of the sky's lights in its chest, it holds the winter in its fists.
Found in The Frost Throne
Crown of HoarfrostCrownstringMidwinter RingPlate of the Warden of the CrownSceptre of the ThawShield of the Frost Throne
A grey moth drifting over the Ashen Approach and the Grey Boughs; its pale dust burns to a smoke as white as bone. It leaves you be until struck, then beats you back with its wings, and its dust chokes.
Found in The Ashen Approach, The Grey Boughs, The Ashfall
Dustwing CowlSeedmark Bow
An ash-grey scorpion sleeping under the man-deep drifts of the Ashen Approach, that comes up when a foot comes near. When the ash heaves at your feet, step back: the sting is coming up out of it.
Found in The Ashfall, The Ashen Approach, The Whispering Barrens
Driftplate GreavesSeedmark Knives
A dead tree of the Grey Boughs, where the crown died first, risen to walk and seize the woodcutters as if it wanted to be burned. It drinks from whatever it holds, so do not let it hold you long.
Found in The Grey Boughs, The Throne of Silence
Greywood BracersSeedmark Rod
A pale, long-legged spider that hangs its grey silk wherever it can on the crown; the ash does not stick to it, but you do. It throws web where you stand, then rears up and drops on you, fangs first.
Found in The Ashfall, The Fallen Keep, The Bone Orchard, The Grey Boughs, The Ashen Approach, In the Silent Archive
Pale Silk RobeSeedmark Staff
The burned walls of the Fallen Keep, risen from the ash to walk the ruins with the keep's iron inside. When both fists come down, the ground throws you; when it leans forward, a wave of ash comes: stand aside.
Found in The Fallen Keep, The Throne of Silence
Cinderplate GauntletsKeepstone AmuletSeedmark Blade
A shade of the Whispering Barrens that speaks with the voices the Silence took, and says one word as it goes out. When it draws every sound in around itself, get clear: inside that circle you cannot lift your hand.
Found in The Ashfall, The Whispering Barrens, The Throne of Silence, The Fallen Keep
Seedmark StaffShadeglass Band
A centipede black as the inside of a grave, legs like rows of finger-bones, that opens the Bone Orchard's graves one after another as if looking for someone. When it rattles its whole length, the next blow lands harder.
Found in The Bone Orchard
Marrowbone SabatonsSeedmark Knives
A moth with wings the colour of old vellum, eating what pages are left in the Silent Archive; it never leaves the stacks. It beats a flurry of torn and empty pages at you, edged like knives.
Found in In the Silent Archive
Palimpsest Hood
Ink that ran from the Silent Archive's books when their words were taken, crawling now as a black serpent with violet eyes. It spits ink that clings like tar and strikes from the coil, the ink going into the wound.
Found in In the Silent Archive
Inkscale Gloves
An iron-and-slate warden the chroniclers set among the Archive's stacks, still keeping the catalogue. It topples forward like a falling shelf of stone; one dull toll on its chest, and you cannot hear even your own breath.
Found in In the Silent Archive
Lectern Shield
A great grey flame of many voices over the Whispering Barrens; when it rises, the whispering stops all at once. It sings without a sound, and the song goes through you; its voices cry out together and throw you back, and when it falls still, the stillness spreads like a ring on water. Be outside the ring.
Found in The Whispering Barrens
ChoirshroudHushed GauntletsVoice of the Choir
A great grey spider that has strung the Long Stacks of the Silent Archive shut with its silk. It pins you to the floor with sheets of grey silk and bites with fangs as long as a forearm; at half strength it hauls on its silk to bring whole shelves of stone down, and its brood drops from them.
Found in In the Silent Archive
Binder's Silk TreadsGrey Binding
Every word the Silent Archive lost, run down through the stacks into the Inkwell and woken there: black ink with words swimming in it, too many to read. It rolls tides of ink across the floor, drops blots as heavy as stones, and swallows you into the dark with all the words.
Found in In the Silent Archive
Circlet of Blank PagesHushstringInkwell StaffPenknives of the ArchiveRod of the ChronicleThe Last Word
The Withered Crown's guardian, the great foe of the first ten floors: a knight of iron as tall as a house who has sat on the Throne of Silence since the night the Silence came down. Arrows ring off him like stones off a bell; when he stands, the ash stops falling, and the Silence comes out of him.
Found in The Throne of Silence
CrownfallSeedbearerThe Long VigilThe Unbroken HearthTwin EmbersAshcrown Staff