Western Highlands

mountain range

Western Spine

Major western mountain spine and mineral belt. A long wall of dark, iron-heavy rock runs north to south through the Western Highlands,...

About 3,800

forest

Western Forest

Western forest region. An old-growth forest of lumenwood fills the land between the Spine's foothills and the heartland. Lumenwood sap...

About 2,900

Common · Lv 3–6 · draft

Mossback Boar

Heavy forest boars with moss growing on their backs. Good meat, bad temper.

Drops: Boar Hide, Mossy Tusk

Common · Lv 2–5 · draft

Sapskitter

Twig-legged crawlers that drink lumen sap straight from the bark. Their bellies glow with what they've eaten.

Drops: Lumen Sap, Skitter Shell

Common · Lv 1–4 · draft

Shalecrawler

A long, plated grazer that scrapes ore-lichen off rock faces. Harmless unless cornered, but its plates are half...

Drops: Tetsuei Ore, Shale Plate

Uncommon · Lv 6–10 · draft

Cragmaw Lynx

A big grey cat of the scree slopes that ambushes from above at dusk. Beastkin guides count its scratch-marks before...

Drops: Cragmaw Pelt, Lynx Fang

Uncommon · Lv 5–9 · draft

Gloamhart

Silver deer whose antlers glow under moonlight. Where a herd beds down, Getsugyoku lies in the streambed.

Drops: Gloam Antler, Getsugyoku Ore

Uncommon · Lv 5–9 · draft

Quartzback Ram

Mountain rams whose horns grow out in clear Hakusho crystal. Rutting season fills the high meadows with the sound of...

Drops: Hakusho Ore, Crystal Horn

Uncommon · Lv 7–11 · draft

Thornweaver Spider

Long-legged spiders that string thorn-barbed webs between lumenwood trunks. The webs catch the glow and are almost invisible.

Drops: Thornsilk, Spider Fang

Rare · Lv 9–13 · draft

Bramble Stalker

Wolves of bark and thorn that hunt in packs of three. The Thornmark clans and the Stalkers have been at war for...

Drops: Bramble Pelt, Heartthorn

Rare · Lv 8–12 · draft

Lanternwisp

Floating lights that look exactly like a traveller's lantern. Follow one and you wake up in the Weeping Glade.

Drops: Wisp Light, Echo Dust

Elite · Lv 14–16 · draft

Barkhide Sentinel

Ancient guardians the Fae can wake from fallen lumenwood. They ignore travellers and fall on anyone who cuts living trees.

Drops: Lumenwood Heartplank, Gyokusai Crystal

Elite · Lv 14–17 · draft

Ironhide Basilisk

A heavy lizard that eats Tetsuei ore and grows a living iron hide. Its stare sets anything it watches too long as...

Drops: Tetsuei Crystal, Basilisk Eye