THE SCALED ANCESTOR

MONSTER
THE RIFT
HELLBORN

THE SCALED ANCESTOR does not live on THE RIFT at all. It is dragged through a hellgate — the rifts the horde tears open once a rampage runs hot enough — and it fights at elite weight.

The lizard gods' own grandfather, who ate his seven worlds outright where his grandchildren merely lease theirs. The tribute road exists to keep him fed, which is the ugliest available answer to where Ada was being taken.

The numbers

BASE HEALTH620
CONTACT DAMAGE60
HITS EVERY0.80s
SPEED21/s
SIZE34 across
CRIT CHANCE20%
DODGES0%
ABOVE THE HORDE+3 levels
NOTICES YOU AT540

The monster at its baseline, before a venue has placed it. What it really fields on each difficulty is under “Where you meet it”.

Where you meet it

THE SCALED ANCESTOR, monster of THE RIFT in Ada's Trail, shown on the map of the level it patrols — THE SCALED ANCESTOR — where it patrols in THE RIFT.

What to know

HELLBORNComes through a rift, and is the one kill a rampage pays for instead of taxing.
WHAT IT WAS CARRYINGNothing. It has no pockets, and never had wages — a kill pays in gear, not in coin.
WHEN STRUCKIt bleeds. A blow that overwhelms it bursts it into meat and bone — no face in it, whatever it was.

What it drops

A heavy hitter rather than a set piece: 7% more likely to drop at all and 9% better on the rarity roll when it does.