Monsters, bosses and drops

Monsters give Veyrenth’s roads and dungeons a life beyond the main conflict. Beasts defend territory, machines repeat work, mythical creatures keep old habitats and the Maddened preserve traces of people consumed by dangerous knowledge. A player should remember where a creature belongs, what warned them and what a useful find reveals about it.

Encounter hierarchy

Great Old One Manifestations exceed Fallen, and Fallen exceed world bosses, in intended threat and overall card/equipment usefulness. Different niches and costs preserve useful regional finds. Roughly one hundred prepared maximum-level Ascendants are the world-boss encounter target. Creature size or a title does not create an extra cosmic tier.

Three-form Manifestations

A Great Old One's A → B → C forms are successive phases of one avatar occurrence. Continue one HP/progress record, contribution history and final reward settlement. A phase change grants no extra card/World Item roll, fresh finite support allowance or full heal. Boss skills owns the four core actions and their three source/delivery variants, disclosed transitions and persistent body eligibility. Exact thresholds and timings remain deferred; these proposals do not establish computed balance or architecture.

Creature and skill contract

Each creature record defines a stable ID, family, race, size, level, defense and attack affinity, body archetype, AI, attacks, materials and habitat. A race follows the body, rather than the region or a card’s target bonus. Variants change at least one encounter decision as well as appearance. Normal and elite numerical records below are planning inputs; their tuning and formulas remain untested.

Every attack declares targets, shape, warning, timing, damage type, element, statuses, application chance, displacement, interruptibility and recovery. The skill catalogue and status catalogue own the shared behavior. A plant shape does not automatically Root; a flame does not automatically Burn; an area is not a status; repeated direct hits are not automatically a DoT.

Ground warnings show an outline and pattern above effects and occluding scenery. Proposed minimum preparation is 500 ms for an area, 800 ms for hard control or a threat of at least a quarter of a comparable character’s health, and 1,500 ms for a room-wide pulse. Content authoring must raise any conflicting skill’s tell to the applicable minimum. Critical hits always bypass evasion against valid targets. Boss damage respects the character full-health safety rule; current avatar attacks retain the same player-recipient safety; the former low-health Toll is a historical candidate, not part of Ulgath’s Hunger kit.

Boss resistance and body immunity

PvE bosses have stronger declared protection against repeated lockdown and damaging ailments than comparable ordinary creatures. Their encounter profiles distinguish the chance of applying a condition, its duration after application and the damage of its periodic ticks. Existing category and nature immunities in the status catalogue remain full rejection. Stronger resistance applies to eligible effects that are not already immune; it does not turn an immune row into partial susceptibility.

Registered Apex, Law, World, Event, Fallen and Great Old One Manifestation encounters use the declared Boss-category policy. Mini-boss encounters also receive stronger declared resistance, but the mini-boss title alone does not assign the Boss immunity cells or change card targeting. Each mini-boss profile explicitly registers its combat, status and card-target categories. The combat target-class contract and status category determine those results, not inferred threat or anatomy.

If the declared body lacks what a named effect needs, its profile must fully reject that effect; partial resistance is not a substitute. A body with no circulating vulnerable tissue can justify full Gash immunity; a body with no susceptible metabolism can justify full Rotsick or Blackrot immunity. Those properties must be authored for the actual creature and checked against the catalogue's existing nature rules. Armor over living tissue does not alone establish a bloodless body. A dead appearance, a hollow silhouette or Madness does not automatically assign a race, affinity or every immunity. Mixed bodies declare which effect can reach their vulnerable parts rather than applying an unlisted universal exemption.

Inspect information and encounter cues disclose covered effects and body reasons before commitment. Combat feedback distinguishes immune, resisted, a shortened condition and reduced periodic loss. A phase that changes a declared immunity announces the change through a readable body or state cue; appearance alone never changes the rule. The remaining legal attacks, controls and interruptions stay visible so a specialist can choose a useful response. Fallen signatures follow the same target eligibility: a guaranteed critical can land its direct damage while its separate ailment is rejected, and rarity never bypasses a boss's condition immunity.

Resistance magnitudes and the placement of the new boss-specific contributions in the retained damage and timing expressions remain an explicit numerical and implementation handoff in combat and conditions. The declared qualitative protection is not a calculated balance result or a new tuning coefficient.

Behavior and spawning

The shared AI moves between idle, wander, aggro, chase, attack, cast, return and dead states. Passive creatures react to attack; aggressive creatures detect valid targets; assisting families respond within declared range; linked groups have explicit bounds. Cast-sensing reacts to an announced interruptible cast rather than predicting input. A leashing creature returns to a defined home and resets its encounter under explicit rules. Ordinary Call Kin summons inherit an owner, yield 10% of the corresponding ordinary EXP and give no drops. Boss adds, revived bodies and hostile player shades give neither EXP nor rewards. Player-owned summons assign eligible damage to their player root.

Threat uses damage and effective support with range and eligibility rules. Boss-owned summons remain attributed to their encounter root. Player-owned summon contributions remain attributed to the owning player; hostile summons never acquire a victim’s ownership merely by damaging that player. No card proc, self-damage, overheal or summoned shade manufactures contribution. Threat changes do not force a human player’s controls.

The planned ordinary windows are 8–12 minutes for elites, 30–40 minutes for mini-bosses and 60–70 minutes for Apex/Law bosses. Persist occurrence schedules so restart cannot reroll a spawn. Mini-bosses select among declared anchors; elite placements use valid walkable ground. Apex/Law arenas announce 60 seconds before spawn and have a short spawn shield. World occurrences use a calendar, announced 30, 10 and 1 minute before arrival and at spawn, with slots outside Guild War windows.

Veyrmaw’s proposed Saturday 20:00–20:40 and the Host’s Tuesday 20:30–21:10 slots use Asia/Manila time. These are scheduling defaults; all eight world-boss schedules, current max-level tuning and occurrence arenas need explicit content allocation. Caldrovar’s Throne and the Riftheart are Realm-shared occurrences rather than per-party copies. Vaelith currently uses THA-F10; moving it to a dedicated arena is an open decision.

Content-planning parameters

Normal-family formulas below preserve the level-1–99 planning basis. The level-100–255 catalogue needs its own reviewed values; extrapolating these expressions does not establish endgame balance. Body, role and affix factors use per-thousand values. Content tooling produces stored integers; encounters read them.

Threat tables plan for 16 candidate entities per creature. Damage contributes actual HP loss adjusted by its threat modifier; effective healing contributes half its value, shared over monsters engaged with the healed target. A taunt raises the source to at least 110% of current top threat. A boss changes its ordinary target only when another valid candidate reaches that threshold. Goaded uses the common reduced boss policy, requiring a valid top-three threat source and shared 10-second acceptance recovery. Invalid, departed or dead targets are removed. After ten idle seconds, each whole idle second removes 5% of the entry, at least one point; timestamps preserve elapsed-time behavior.

Assist calls at most four same-family idle creatures within seven tiles, without cascades. Linked swarms act within their three-member spawn group. Normals return after 14 tiles from a target, 20 from their anchor, eight seconds without path progress or a safe-cell boundary; mini-bosses reselect when one target warps. Bosses remain within an authored arena polygon and reset after ten seconds with no valid attacker inside. Cast detection uses line of sight within twelve tiles. Ordinary coward behavior is one four-second retreat below 20% health; bosses never flee.

Call Kin has at most six active summons, places them on valid ground within three tiles and removes them with the owner’s death/reset. Summons cannot summon. A looter scans free ground tokens within six tiles, carries at most ten and returns surviving tokens with the same identity; expired carried tokens do not return. Carrying a token creates no duplicate item instance.

Normal field respawn is 20 seconds and dungeon respawn 15 seconds, each with a proposed ±10% interval; a swarm waits for its last member. Spawn cells stay at least eight tiles from portals and five from players, with a bounded retry before a one-second delay. Swarm allocation weights are 1,500, stationary 700 and other bodies 1,000; allocation uses the map’s declared target and stable remainder ordering. Coverage, spawn totals and performance checks remain deferred.

Waking World and Guild mini-bosses

The listed target values preserve the creature plan without claiming completed balance checks. Lampmother is Lanternfall’s dungeon boss, and Lumenspire retains both Glyphstone Colossus and Errant Constellation. Aldrevane and Qarzhenn Undercroft Wardens belong to the war territory templates.

Twelve Echo Realm mini-bosses

These full local concepts retain their names, placements and Greater Echo sources. Proposed movement and material names need final skill/item registration; no extra status, gear break or guaranteed recipe follows from a visual motif. Each Greater Echo remains an ordinary card, using the mini-boss card contract rather than the Fallen signature rate.

Apex and Law encounters

Boss levels and placements remain: Durmothe 31 AUR-D03; Ilyra 44 MOS-D03; Pelravane 50 SAL-D03; Ulvarane 64 SUN-D04; Vharos 76 AUR-D05; Sidrel 78 LUM-D01; Ilsavene 80 FRO-D03; Ninefold 92 CIN-D03; Caldrovar 99 SCR-D03; Aubrethe 131 ECH-D03; Mirrowmere 156 IMB-D04; Skarnvald 181 HLV-D04; Olvessa 185 ORS-D03; Ennadrel 206 ORS-D04; Pyrrhaval 233 IGN-D04; Thaurek 255 THA-D04. A Law-bearing boss requires level 40 or higher. The deeper Apex arenas can exceed their region’s ordinary field band.

Eight world-boss samples

The roster and encounter concepts describe original regional threats below the Fallen. These identities retain the creature families and current art briefs. All eight require max-level encounter tuning; older level-99 reward bands do not establish their final threat.

Echo concepts for the five regional samples are qualitative, with trigger eligibility, durations, costs and numbers awaiting item registration. Their proposed materials are not guaranteed drops. Their table can use the established world ordinary pool below with a level-appropriate equipment band; that is a proposed structure rather than a computed economy result.

Chorus Stormsinger remains a separate Event boss in EVT-I01. Performer tools and practical clothing are distorted into forced unison. Visible phrase sectors provide damage warnings; any Silence or other status must be explicitly defined. Torn Chorus Score remains its named event trophy. The Tuning Fork of the Chorus belongs to the Identity/Dominion Manifestation special source proposal, rather than automatically dropping from this event boss.

Eight Maddened samples

Each preserves a former occupation and a readable moving body. The encounter teaches that most victims once had ordinary lives. Newly Blessed and Fourfold Copyist show that exposure happens today, not only in ancient ruins.

These sample cards use ordinary family-card rarity and explicit opportunity costs, never the Fallen signature probability. Vendor parts, materials and cards enter the normal table only after registering their IDs and behavior. Victim equipment is recovered salvage; an Echo is a residual pattern. Revived bodies and summoned copies do not create repeated rewards.

Fallen and Manifestation rewards

The eight were Vhalerion/allied Ascendant champions secretly sacrificed during concurrent battles on four world fronts. Their followers were ritual fuel, not consenting ritual volunteers. The champions' return is the Concordance of Ash's curse, distinct from ordinary Madness. Their current encounter form is Fallen; their historical form is Ascendant.

Core fields are Echo approaches to world-distributed original battle anchors. The survey names survive; Volunteers' Hearth records volunteers for war, never consent to ritual murder, and Last Cut no longer assigns a Samurai class. These are eight return sites from one synchronized global rite, not eight locally completed voluntary ceremonies, copies of the champions or new Veyr boundary objects. The atlas owns routes and evidence. Selvanthe preserves records rather than a shared resurrection room.

Compounds keep distinct encounter admission and visible warnings; ordinary field traversal grants no participation or reward roll. Parent-map access/PK flags remain. Occurrence schedules, boss stats, threat and geometry require later registration; a field's ordinary band is not the Fallen's encounter level. Finalward's records expose betrayal without a boss kill, rare signature or contested compound.

Fallen attacks corrupt former techniques into destructive compulsions. Their new main poses telegraph uncontrolled violence; the encounter still needs authored readable tells and recovery. Fallen boss kits are separate from ordinary playable nodes. Defeating the present body settles one occurrence and grants respite without ending the soul-anchor curse, weakening the Veyr or paying a new sacrifice. Stronger boss lockdown/DoT resistance and justified body-specific immunity remain mandatory, not automatic universal immunity from a dead appearance.

Exactly eight signatures remain: Caedric's Burden Carried, Ren's Unfinished Shot, Shio's Unseen Hand, Brakkus's Unbroken Breath, Hedda's Ironvow, Seliane's Veiled Interval, Oriel's Unclosed Page and Kindrava's Cold Hearth. Items owns their above-ordinary scopes, triggers, drawbacks and counters. Equip at most two different signatures/one copy each; no one-card-per-third-job rule.

Personal relics preserve evidence, not ownership of souls: Caedric's oath-strip, Ren's spent sight cartridge, Shio's unused antidote case, Brakkus's frayed Breathwrap, Hedda's maker's gauge, Seliane's broken watch arrow, Oriel's field lens and Kindrava's cracked reliquary. They need explicit trophy/equipment registration rather than eight automatic extra rewards.

These are acknowledgements distinct from signatures. Ordinary eligibility/twenty-hour account trophy lockout stays unchanged; registration decides whether each uses that category. Stable old technical material IDs can remain compatibility aliases with revised display names, not additional champions or source rolls.

The four are external predators expelled beyond the Veyr at the Progenitor’s death. Millennia later, avatars crossed cracks in the north, south, east and west. The Concordance seized those avatars and bound their remote masters more tightly; it also gave the oracle’s Outer God partial boundary control. Current encounters are limited Manifestations, never the whole beings. Earlier Chaos/Death/Life/Order art and source labels are historical; their replacement concepts are Stillness/Oblivion, Hunger/Flesh, Dreams/Revelation and Identity/Dominion.

These are proposed source associations and bounded qualitative rewards. Exact ordinary-card parameters and final equipment registration remain open; they do not create four additional World Item definitions. Great Old One ordinary Echo cards are outside the Fallen signature limit.

Each eligible Manifestation makes one special roll for its designated World Item, and each Fallen makes one roll for its own signature, at the fixed base 0.000001%: probability 1e-8, one in one hundred million. The special rate has no pity, adaptive replacement, wild-roll pool, luck or gameplay-drop modifier. Crowd size, party splitting, summoned adds and resets never add rolls. Recipient selection and any declared item-supply eligibility follow successful encounter settlement. A roll chance is not a promise that a limited-supply item can issue while unavailable.

Ordinary rewards and settlement

Ordinary boss tables use a fixed encounter budget: Mini-boss 3 table draws, Apex 6, Law 8, World 12 and Event 4. These are table-selection draws, not independent special attempts per player. Every ordinary named card has one separate card opportunity per encounter. For tables with a card shown in the pool text, exclude that entry from repeated draws and use only the separate card roll. Boss tables and all cards ignore gameplay drop bonus.

An eligible character contributes at least 1% of the encounter’s total contribution; support includes effective healing and bounded boss damage taken, with bounded debuff credit. Linked account sets count once through their top eligible character. Recipient weights aggregate the same eligible character scores into parties, so changing group size cannot multiply the encounter budget. Participation shards are bound, require positive damage contribution and use Mini-boss 1, Apex 3, Law 5, World 10 or Event 2. Special World Item recipient eligibility uses the item chapter’s declared contribution threshold.

Vanquisher trophies are account-bound and go to the highest eligible character whose account is outside that boss’s 20-hour trophy lockout; ties use a stable character ID. A locked leader yields to the next eligible account. Trophy identity and award are separate from the random pool; a party loot mode cannot transfer this named acknowledgement away from its selected character. Party loot mode determines delivery of the party's ordinary rolled goods instead. Shared occurrence identity, kill sequence and stored contribution/party snapshots ensure one durable settlement; recovery repeats that settlement rather than rerolling it.

Ordinary baseline probabilities below are parts per million. For example, 1,000 ppm is the ordinary Greater Echo base, not the special signature probability. Normal family cards use 100 ppm base, elites 200 ppm base; the normal/elite card-class factor is 1,500 per thousand and ignores gameplay bonus. Other ordinary common drops can use the common factor and capped gameplay bonus. Neither conversion applies to special signatures or World Items.

The late-region ordinary pools preserve Edgestone/Greater Edgestone, Wardstone, Echo Solvent, Blessed Ore and tiered equipment. The six Echo Apexes and Olvessa need explicit level-appropriate pool registration; their already named cards/trophies remain above. Proposed world and Maddened samples use the same pool rules after content registration, without inventing tested probabilities for new materials.

Ground-token rights last 3 seconds for the holder and 2 more for the party, with open pickup until expiry at 60 seconds; bosses use 10 seconds plus 10 seconds. Pickup is one atomic delivery. Overflow rewards follow the Claim Box rules, preserving bound/market eligibility; a full inventory never justifies rerolling a special reward.

Normal species catalogue

Stable species IDs, family links, maps and planning values are retained here. Ordinary families may contain wildlife, Constructs, transformed people or other threats. Appearance and background do not silently add Madness to every species.

Family cards and materials

Each family supplies one ordinary Echo identity across its species. Vendor parts, crafting materials and card identities remain separate entries, with trade/bind/value rules in the item and economy chapters.