Hangman Vine
Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries
A bark-skinned worm up to 20 m long, hanging from ceilings like a dead vine
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Known Creatures
Everything delvers have reported seeing. Search by name, habitat or description.
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Lantern Grub
Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries
A soft, finger-long grub that glows pale green from inside
Scorched Beetle
Layer 1 · Habitat: Shrine Road
A beetle with limbs of stone and a body of glass glowing red-hot, trailing embers when it flies
Cliff Gleaner
Layer 1 · Habitat: Descent Wall
A flyer so thin it is almost flat; at rest it hangs from the cliff edge like old cloth drying in the wind
Sleeper's Shroud
Layer 1 · Habitat: Hanging Terraces
A thick carpet of green-gold moss, soft and warm to the touch
Offering Moths
Layer 1 · Habitat: Shrine Road
A cloud of moths with ash-grey wings that shed choking dust
Echo Hound
Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries
An eyeless, lean hunter with huge cupped ears and grey, hairless skin
Arrow Pebbles
Layer 1 · Habitat: Descent Wall
A swarm of obsidian insects shaped like arrowheads, 2 to 7 cm long
Penitent
Layer 1 · Habitat: Congregation
A kneeling Keeper of stone, head bowed, identical to the real ones
Drill Centipede
Layer 1 · Habitat: Hanging Terraces
A centipede 2 to 3 meters long whose head is a spiraling drill
Bubble Ooze
Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries
A cluster of giant soap bubbles that hold their shape too well
Hanging Stalker
Layer 1 · Habitat: Descent Wall
A gaunt, long-armed creature that follows climbers along the underside of ledges for hours before it strikes
Hushwing
Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries
A bat-winged flyer with a flat, mask-like face and no mouth
Mortar Spider
Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries
A pale spider the size of a pony, with a swollen, chalky abdomen
Light Ray
Layer 1 · Habitat: Open air
A huge, manta-shaped glider with thin, nearly translucent skin; herds circle the light rod for days without landing
Lacquerfin
Layer 1 · Habitat: Resting Place
A fish about 1 m long from mouth to tail that hovers up to 1 m above the ground, skimming over the grass. Sharp teeth; huge bright-red scales plated like lacquered samurai armor. Delvers call it the land barracuda
Bell-Throat
Layer 1 · Habitat: Shrine Road
A lanky, eyeless biped with a throat sac that rings like a bell
Swarm of Scorched Beetles
Layer 1 · Habitat: Shrine Road
Dozens of Scorched Beetles heaped together, like a roaring bonfire
Devote Ox
Layer 1 · Habitat: Resting Place
A stone ox lying in a shrine like a carved statue, its joints sealed with gold alloy.
Flying Eel
Layer 1 · Habitat: Open air
A pale, milky eel as long as a rowboat, swimming through the air in circles around the light rod
Drifting Bladder
Layer 1 · Habitat: Open air
A floating creature the size of a house, held up by gas sacs and trailing long tendrils that sift the air
Spire Crane
Layer 1 · Habitat: Open air, Hanging Terraces
A tall, long-legged crane with a long neck and a beak like a spike of glass; it stalks the ledges and impales prey on the Keepers' broken spires
The Bowed
Layer 1 · Habitat: Congregation
A tall, stooped Keeper of stone, robed and bent almost double
Grassmane
Layer 1 · Habitat: Resting Place
A gorilla-like brute on four legs, its front limbs far larger and heavier, with the face of a lion and long hair the same golden color as the grass
Hollow Kite
Layer 1 · Habitat: Open air
A huge flyer built like a kite, skin stretched over hollow bone with almost no body, hanging motionless high above the light shafts
Gallery Wyrm
Layer 1 · Habitat: Dim Galleries
A pale, eyeless serpent as long as a ship, its skin crusted with stone