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Common foe

Gate Acolyte

Gate Acolyte portrait

A hooded novice who tends the gate's lamps — it kneels behind its ward and hushes the defiance out of you, so your blows land soft. What it hushes best is fire: its dampening litany settles over your banked embers each turn and smothers them down to a bare handful (Ember Eater 5).

Common foe 87 HP hits for up to 9 2.3 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
kneels behind its ward (+7 Guard)defend7—
hushes your defiance (Chill 2)debuff2Chill
marks where your guard hangs open for the Warden's ledger (Shatter 3: the next hits you take land harder)debuff3Shatter
rebukes you for 9attack9—
How it scalesFloors 6–7, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 189 HP and its attacks carry +3. On the deepest, 206 HP and +3. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

Keywords on this page
🛡 Guard
Absorbs incoming damage. Resets at the start of its turn.
❄️ Chill
This unit's next attack deals HALF — one stack is spent per attack.
💜 Shatter
The next hits on this target each deal +3 bonus damage — one stack is spent per hit.
🔥 Ember
Deals that much damage at the end of each turn. Does NOT decay — it burns until the target dies.
Where you meet it
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