Amalga

A book bound in rat hide, stuffed with loose pages

The Beastpedia

Spoilers ahead. This book holds every creature of the first floor, its elites and its bosses: what they were before, where they wait, and how they fight.

The game wants you to meet them in the dark first. If you have not walked the first floor yet, you may want to turn back.

Turn back

Abel's notebook, and everyone else's

The Beastpedia

The Urn - Floor 1 Deeper floors: not written yet

Nothing down here is a guard. Every creature is another thing in the jar, grown on whatever fell before it. They eat, they are eaten, and what is left grows stronger.

In the game the book fills in as you go. A page you have only been told about holds the creature's name, its shape in ink and what someone said of it. Stand in front of it once and the page holds everything. Here, every page is open.

NOTHING HERE IS HUNTING. EVERYTHING HERE IS BEING FED.

FED TO WHAT?

Cards pinned to a wall on the first floor, in a scholar's hand

How to read a page

Every page names one threat, worked out from how long the creature lasts and how hard it hits.

Low
A nuisance. Fight it whole and it will not cost you much.
Medium
It can hurt you. Do not walk into it half dead.
High
Dangerous. Come rested, with something in the bag.
Deadly
It kills candidates. Be ready, or be somewhere else.

Who tells you

Seven people on the floor will tell you about what they have seen, each in their own way. Their words are on the pages, one tab a teller.

  • Abel
  • Henry
  • Jerome
  • Kate
  • Carl
  • Hollis
  • Dober

Creatures 19

Sporeling Low The spores go round a guard. Hollow Husk Low Still waiting. Rat Swarm Low Eat what the others leave. Rattling Dead Low Gets up when moved. Starved Hound Low Duke. Cellar Spider Medium Keeps. Does not eat. Congregant Medium The chapel under the open-eye banners Brood Angler Medium Lays, then waits. Graven Medium Turns your hand to stone. Grave Warden Medium Walks the line. Crescent Wolf High Let it sleep. The Drowned High The flooded cistern rooms, at the bottom of the puddles Sporeback Boar High Grows what it is fed. Cellar Moth High The moths' nest, around the dead campfire Rattling Knight High The bone pile at Jerome's door The Mortared High The south kennels, built into the stonework Ratfly High Over the locked chest by the battlefield The Kept High A sealed urn on the cult's altar Gaunt Deadly Too many knuckles.

Elites 3

Hollow Man High Reads you before you move. Tarialisk High Nowhere, until you call it to a campfire Scaled Knight Tyler Deadly Good gold on him.

Bosses 2

The First Body Deadly What the Urn has been growing The Spider Queen Deadly What the larder was feeding

There is more under this floor. Its pages are not written yet.