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Common foe

The Keyward

The Keyward portrait

A junior warden trusted with exactly one key and not much else. It turns the lock, it repeats the hush it was taught, and it hopes very hard that this will be enough.

Common foe 98 HP hits for up to 13 5.7 damage per turn on average
Its move kitNumbers re-derived from the engine, not the authored text.
MoveTypeValueApplies
turns the key against you for 13attack13—
repeats the warden's hush at you (Chill 5: your next strike lands at half)debuff5Chill
panics and swings the key for 4attack4—
How it scalesFloors 6–7, the band its biome owns.

On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 213 HP and its attacks carry +3. On the deepest, 232 HP and +3. The printed move text never changes — the number does.

Keywords on this page
❄️ Chill
This unit's next attack deals HALF — one stack is spent per attack.
Where you meet it
Others behind the same doors
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