Alderking

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HP	82-167
HD	17
XP	1978
Speed	10
AC	16
EV	12
Will	100
Attack¹	50 (hit: plain)
Attack²	40 (hit: plain)
Resistances	rPois+ rDrown rTorm
Vulnerabilities	Fire
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Human
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Plant
Size	Giant
Type	alderking, alderking
Flags	Speaks Unbreathing Evil

A self-styled monarch of a shambling black alder, half respected and half ridiculed by other fae. It backs up its aspirations to sovereignty with unearthly vile magic quite close to a touch of death.

““My father, my father, he seizes me fast,
Full sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last.”

The father now gallops, with terror half wild,
He grasps in his arms the poor shuddering child;
He reaches his courtyard with toil and with dread,
The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, _Erlkönig_, 1782.
trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, 1853.

Useful Info

Alderkings are walking trees that can constrict with their roots and deal damage with both melee and short-range spells. They natively appear in Depths as an out-of-depth spawn, but they can also spawn in forested, necromantic, and magical vaults in Depths and rarely Crypt.

Spells

Name	Damage	Range	Flags
Grasping Roots	—	LOS	Natural flag
Siphon Essence	—	2	Magical flag
Dispel Undead	3d23	1	Magical flag

Tips & Tricks

History

In 0.33, alderkings will be added to the game.