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Cellar Leech

Cellar Leech portrait

A dog-sized bloodleech bloated on the drowned — it latches, gorges, and heals itself fat, turning a slow fight into a war of attrition.

Common foe 44 HP hits for up to 18 6 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
latches on and hangs dead-heavy (Soak 1: one less mana for 1 turn)debuff1Soak
rakes deep and gorges for 18 (heals for what it lands)attack18—
swells fat on what it took (+6 HP)heal6—
How it scalesFloors 0–2, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 44 HP and its attacks carry +0. On the deepest, 61 HP and +1. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

Keywords on this page
💧 Soak
At the start of your turn you lose 1 mana, then one stack fades. Slows you down; it never lasts forever.
Where you meet it
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