Willowmere
Chapter 8

Elsewhere

7 creatures, from the smallest up.

Cinder Blob.

Cinder BlobMosses and slimes

Level
9
Element
Ember
Weak to
Frost
Resists
Ember
Drops
Small Potion, Faint Essence, Ash Beret, Ash Breeches, Ash Sage Pendant
Made for
One adventurer

Cinder Blobs are what is left when a furnace forgets to go out. They are warm, slow and very pleased with themselves, and they leave a scorch on whatever they sit on.

Soot Bat.

Soot BatWings

Level
10
Element
Plain blows
Weak to
Light Gale
Drops
Ether, Flax Fiber, Clear Essence, Bronze Boots, Bronze Bracers, Bronze Grace Cape
Made for
One adventurer

Soot Bats roost in old chimneys and come out grey all over. A sneeze from one leaves you squinting for a while, which is the whole of its plan.

Kiln Newt.

Kiln NewtScales and fen things

Level
11
Element
Plain blows
Weak to
Frost
Resists
Ember
Drops
Small Potion, Bronze Ore, Clear Essence, Bronze Greaves, Bronze Breastplate, Bronze Hawk Ring
Made for
One adventurer

Kiln Newts sun themselves on warm brick that has not been warm for two hundred years. Nobody has told them, and they would not listen.

Wrong Bell.

Wrong BellWisps and little lights

Level
45
Element
Plain blows
Weak to
Stone Light
Resists
Dark
Drops
Steel Ore, Vivid Essence, Steel Breastplate, Steel Sabatons, Steel Hawk Ring
Made for
One adventurer

A little handbell on legs of shadow. It knows exactly one note, and it is the wrong one.

Notorious and bosses

Tap one to read its box. You have been warned.

Spoiler: tap to peek A boss, level 12
The Night Porter.

The Night PorterStone, iron and clockwork

Level
12
Element
Plain blows
Weak to
Light Stone
Resists
Gale
Drops
Ether, Old Iron
Made for
One adventurer

The Night Porter is a suit of founder's armour still walking its rounds, lantern swinging, though nobody is inside it. It straightens the tongs as it goes.

Spoiler: tap to peek A boss, level 13
Old Bellows.

Old BellowsOddities

Level
13
Element
Ember
Weak to
Frost Light
Resists
Ember
Drops
Ether, Old Iron
Made for
Two together

Old Bellows kept the great furnace breathing for the founders, and kept on after they left. It is not cross with you, exactly. It is cross with the dark, and you are standing in it.

Spoiler: tap to peek A boss, level 24
Old Clatter.

Old ClatterStone, iron and clockwork

Level
24
Element
Plain blows
Weak to
Gale Frost
Resists
Stone
Drops
Old Iron
Made for
Two together

Old Clatter is the first lift's counterweights, chained together by the crews for the last part of their drill. The children of Stonewake say he walks the shaft at night. He does not walk anywhere. He is mostly weights.