Morgen
| Morgen | |
|---|---|
 | |
| A long dead thing that comes up out of the ash at a sprint. | |
| Biome | Ashlands |
| Alignment | Aggressive |
| Faction | Demon |
| Health | 1600 |
| Damage |
Bite: 160 Blunt |
| Weak To | Lightning |
| Resistant To | Blunt, Slash, Pierce, Fire |
| Immune To | - |
| Stagger | 30% |
| Tameable | No |
| Trophy | Morgen trophy |
| Spawn ID | spawn Morgen
|
Things in the Ashlands lie perfectly still until you walk past, and often enough that thing is a Morgen. It is a huge, gaunt, long-limbed corpse that passes for a heap of bone and rubble until you get close, then unfolds and comes at you fast. It is the biome's ambusher, far quicker than its size suggests, and it shrugs off nearly everything you would instinctively swing at it. A starred one guarding a ruin can end an unprepared run in about four seconds.
Behaviour
A Morgen starts the encounter disguised, half buried and almost impossible to tell apart from the bones scattered across the Ashlands floor. It breaks cover when you come within reach, hauling itself out of the ground much like an abomination does. From there it does not let up. It closes with a leaping bite that deals 160 damage in a short arc in front of it, and swipes with either forelimb for the same through a wider sweep. It also rolls left or right straight through you for a lighter blunt hit, which mostly serves to reposition it and knock you down. Between attacks it moves with an agility large creatures rarely have, cutting sideways and coming back in instead of committing to a straight charge. It never flees, never calls for help and has no ranged attack, so the whole fight happens within seven metres and comes down to whether you can hold that space. It also hits anything nearby: its attacks damage other creatures, so a Morgen pulled into a crowded fight will maul whatever is standing beside you.
Where to Find It
Morgens spawn only in the Ashlands. A very rare unstarred one may wander the open middle of the biome at any hour, day or night, but the ones that matter are placed, not rolled. Every Ashlands ruin has a starred Morgen burrowed somewhere near its centre, and putrid holes hold one as well. Those are one-time spawns, which cuts both ways. A ruin is lethal exactly once and quiet afterwards, but the starred Morgen is a guarantee, not bad luck, so treat every ruin as if something with three or five thousand health is asleep under your feet. One-star and two-star variants both exist, with health and damage scaling straight up from the base. Reaching the Ashlands is the only thing that gates them, and that is gate enough for most players.
| Where and When | At Once | How Often | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| In the middle of Ashlands, both day and night | 1 | Very rare | No |
| Burrowing in the middle of some Ashlands ruins | 1 | One time | Yes |
| Inside Putrid Holes | 1 | One time | Yes |
Strengths and Weaknesses
Physical damage is mostly wasted here. Blunt, slash and pierce all land at half damage, and so does fire, which is the one thing everybody brings to the Ashlands. Lightning is the big exception: it lands at half again, which makes the Morgen the creature the lightning weapons were built for. Himminafl, carried down from the Mistlands, is excellent, and Dundr is close to purpose-made, since its spread of bolts wants a big target and a Morgen is nothing but big target. Parrying is the cleanest melee answer, because a staggered Morgen gives you a long opening you will not get any other way. It does demand a shield that can really hold those blows, and the rolls are awkward to time. Do not stand and trade hits, because it recovers faster than you do. An unstarred one is manageable in full Ashlands armour with a good shield and a lightning weapon. A two-star Morgen is not worth meeting head on even with maxed armour, maxed health and a perfect shield. The honest answer there is range, a choke point, or leaving it in its ruin until you are better equipped.
Drops
Sinew and hearts both drop reliably enough to plan a trip around, while the trophy turns up on roughly one kill in twenty.
| Item | Image | Base | 1 Star | 2 Star |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgen sinew | 
|
1 | 2 | 4 |
| Morgen heart | 
|
80% | 2 | 4 |
| Morgen trophy | 
|
5% | 5% | 5% |
Level Variants
A creature can spawn at one of three levels, shown as stars beside its name. Each level is rolled separately at spawn, so a two-star is rarer than a one-star. The difference is only in the numbers: a starred Morgen looks exactly like the base one.
| Level | Stars | Image | Health | Damage | Drops |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | 
|
1600 | 100% | x1 |
| 2 | ⭐ |
|
3200 | 150% | x2 |
| 3 | ⭐⭐ |
|
4800 | 200% | x4 |
Notes
- The 0-star, 1-star and 2-star Morgen all look the same.
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