The Broodmother
The matriarch of the Hollows, fat and patient above her wrapped larder. She walls the exits in fresh web, and when she wants you slower she does not spin - she combs the shed floss of a hundred generations off her own legs and lets it settle over you, and it burns in the skin from that moment on, through armor, through any wall you raise, until the fight ends one way or the other. Her anchor-lines run through everything: at the start of each of your turns she draws a course out of whatever you are raising and slings it into her larder - what you build, she unbuilds. And the cold is hers, not yours: she has hung below the frost line for a hundred years, and the dry floss sheathing her joints drinks whatever Chill you lay on her - when she comes down, she comes down at full weight.
| Move | Type | Value | Applies |
|---|---|---|---|
| lunges fangs-first for 13 | attack | 13 | — |
| unwraps one of the older bundles and drinks it dry (+8 HP) | heal | 8 | — |
| walls the exits in web (+20 Guard) | defend | 20 | — |
| the brood gathers beneath her, climbing her anchor-lines (+1 Wrath) | buff | 1 | — |
| combs a bead of thornmilk into the wound (Thornmilk 3) - it rears back a full beat before it lands, then the barbed sap keeps working after the leg lifts | debuff | 3 | Thorn-Milk |
| feels the thrash in the web and DESCENDS for 20 (only below 60% HP) | attack | 20 | — |
On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 92 HP and its attacks carry +0. On the deepest, 128 HP and +1. The printed move text never changes — the number does.
- 🛡 Guard
- Absorbs incoming damage. Resets at the start of its turn.
- 💪 Wrath
- Adds its value to every attack it makes. Lasts the whole fight.
- 🌿 Thorn-Milk
- Whenever you gain Guard from a card, the foe heals that much. Decays by 1. Every course you raise in the Hollows is fed straight back across the web: the wall goes up and the thing behind it closes..
- ❄️ Chill
- This unit's next attack deals HALF — one stack is spent per attack.
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