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The Undertow

The Undertow portrait

The drowned will of the sunken cellars made flesh of black floodwater — it raises the tide to cap your breath and your hand alike, deepens the water into a wall, then hauls you under to finish it. The longer you wait, the higher it climbs.

Elite 74 HP hits for up to 22 8 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
floods your lungs (Soak 1: one less mana for 1 turn)debuff1Soak
the water deepens into a wall (+10 Guard)defend10—
hauls you under for 18attack18—
THE TIDE CLIMBS (+2 Wrath) — it does not strike this turnbuff2—
drowns you for 22attack22—
How it scalesFloors 0–2, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 74 HP and its attacks carry +0. On the deepest, 103 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.
🛡 Guard
Absorbs incoming damage. Resets at the start of its turn.
💪 Wrath
Adds its value to every attack it makes. Lasts the whole fight.
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