Abomination

Abomination

A swamp stump that stands up on four roots and swings a tree at you.
Biome	Swamp
Alignment	Aggressive
Faction	Undead
Health	800
Damage	Swing: 60 Blunt Slam: 80 Blunt Ground slam: 80 Blunt
Weak To	Fire
Resistant To	Pierce, Blunt
Immune To	Frost, Poison, Spirit
Stagger	33%
Tameable	No
Trophy	Abomination trophy
Spawn ID	`spawn Abomination`

What looks like a waterlogged stump among the reeds is very often an Abomination. It is a tower of dead branches balanced on four thick roots, and it lies dormant in the Swamp until something walks within reach. Then it unfolds to twice a player's height and starts swinging. Most players meet their first one by accident, and that meeting usually ends with a single heavy blow from a creature they never saw move.

Behaviour

Left alone, it sits perfectly still, hunched into the shape of a rotting stump. The only tells are the faint green haze rising off it and the fact that the stump is standing in open water among the reeds. Its senses reach further than the idle pose suggests, so it often rises before you have spotted it. Once awake it lumbers rather than sprints, but it never loses interest, never calls for help and never flees. It has three attacks. The Swing sweeps a root through an arc eleven metres wide, and it is the attack that catches players who think they are safely out of reach. The Slam drives a limb into the ground for a four metre shock. At point blank range it throws its whole body down in a Ground slam that covers even more ground. All three deal heavy chop and pickaxe damage on top of the blunt, so trees, fences, carts and half a longhouse break apart while it is trying to hit you. It hunts alone and wades through water without slowing down. Its stagger threshold is high, so you will not easily knock it out of its rhythm.

Where to Find It

Abominations spawn only in the Swamp, anywhere across the biome rather than at a set structure. They favour the flooded ground where reeds break the surface, which is exactly where a real stump would look at home. Only one can be active in an area at a time, and the game waits over an hour of real time before it allows another. That makes them rare compared with the Draugr and Blobs you run into constantly. Time of day and weather change nothing, so they do not hide by day or roam by night. They never spawn inside Sunken Crypts, and no boss kill or raid event unlocks them, so one can ruin your first careful trip into the Swamp just as easily as your tenth. They never spawn with stars, so every one you meet has the same eight hundred health.

Where and When	At Once	How Often	Stars
Anywhere in the Swamp	1	Rare	No

Strengths and Weaknesses

Bring an edge and bring fire. Slash weapons such as axes, swords and knives cut it down far faster than anything blunt. Ordinary arrows are close to wasted on it, with one exception: Fire Arrows hit the one thing it really suffers from. Because it sits still until provoked, you get a free opening. Sneak up from the low side of the stump and open with a sneak attack for the backstab multiplier before a single limb moves. After that the fight comes down to reach, and the counter to its long swing feels backwards: walk in and stand right against its body. From there both the Swing and the Slam pass over and around you, and only the close Ground slam can still land. A Banded Shield or better parries any of its attacks and leaves it wide open for several seconds. A player in bronze gear who parries cleanly can take one down, and with iron gear and a good axe it becomes routine. If a fire geyser is burning nearby, lead it over the vent and let the fire do half the work for you. Never fight one in deep water with your boat behind you, because the chop damage on every attack will smash a Karve to splinters.

It takes extra damage from Fire.
It shrugs off Blunt.
It is barely troubled by Pierce.
It ignores Frost, Poison and Spirit.

Drops

Root is the reason to farm them: nothing else in the game drops it, and a full Root Set of armour takes fourteen kills.

Item	Base	1 Star	2 Star
Abomination trophy	50%	-	-
Guck	3-4	-	-
Root	5	-	-

Notes

In its idle form the Abomination looks a lot like a tree stump. They tend to spawn in open water, sometimes among reeds, and they give off the Swamp's typical green gas, which is a big giveaway.
Only a few spots match their spawn rules, so they often seem to spawn in the same places. They will not respawn in a zone during the 4000 second cooldown, around 66 minutes.
Abominations are quite perceptive, but their activation range reaches further than their detection range.
If you kill one in deep water, the Guck sinks and may be lost, but the Root and any trophy it drops will float.
The Root drop unlocks the Root Set, which needs 66 Root in total to craft and fully upgrade. At a fixed 5 Root per drop, that takes 14 Abomination kills.
Despite how they look, the power of The Elder does not count Abominations as trees.

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All Swamp Creatures

Name	Biome	Alignment	Health	Very Weak To	Weak To	Resistant To	Very Resistant To	Immune To	Drops	Level Variants	Spawn ID
Abomination	Swamp	Aggressive	800	-	Fire	Blunt	Pierce	Frost, Poison, Spirit	Abomination Trophy, Guck, Root (item)	-	`spawn Abomination`
Blob	Swamp	Aggressive	50	-	Blunt, Frost, Lightning	Slash, Pierce, Fire	-	Poison	Ooze, Blob trophy	-	`spawn Blob`
Draugr	Swamp	Aggressive	100	-	-	Fire	-	Poison	Draugr trophy, Entrails	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Draugr`
Draugr Elite	Swamp	Aggressive	200	-	-	Fire	-	Poison	Draugr Elite trophy, Entrails	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Draugr_Elite`
Kvastur	Swamp	Neutral	700	Fire	Chop	-	-	Poison, Spirit, Pickaxe	Resin, Wood, Kvastur trophy	-	`spawn BogWitchKvastur`
Leech	Swamp	Aggressive	60	-	-	Poison	-	Fire, Spirit	Bloodbag, Leech trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Leech`
Oozer	Swamp	Aggressive	150	-	Blunt, Frost, Lightning	Slash, Pierce, Fire	-	Poison	Ooze, Scrap iron	-	`spawn BlobElite`
Surtling	Swamp	Aggressive	20	-	Frost	-	-	Fire, Poison, Spirit	Surtling core, Coal, Surtling trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Surtling`
Wraith	Swamp	Aggressive	100	-	Fire, Spirit	Blunt, Slash, Pierce	-	Frost, Poison	Chain, Wraith trophy	-	`spawn Wraith`
Writhan	Swamp	Aggressive	400	-	Slash	Blunt, Fire	-	Poison	Writhan Roots, Writhan Trophy	⭐ ⭐⭐	`spawn Writhan`

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