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Nucleic Core Boss

The Nucleic Core boss has four types of guardians to impede your heroes; 

The Templar (name under review) will directly guard the core and apply stuns to heroes to draw out the fight 

The Spiker (name under review) generates damage reflection on itself and allies

The Flower (name under review) debuffs your party's random target chance and dodge

The Jaws (name under review) deals significant direct damage to heroes, and reacts violently when it sees that the c...

Toad Tier Sketch 3.5

Our last Toad Tier sketches for this month.

This first sketch is for Wingflier, who requested a Shiba Inu on top of the Kvartoz Golem in a comical manner.

The second sketch is for Jomonkey 27, who requested a sketch of a very large bat.

Artwork was done by @itz_zap

Toad Tier Sketch 3

Of our seven toad tier patrons, six requested a sketch this month. Two of them requested a little late, so they'll be included in a follow-up post towards the end of the upcoming week.

These sketches are for Gabriel radford, Jowel Grant, BigGuy_0901, and Mat

Gabriel radford's request was Reynauld and Dismas surrounded by fiends.

Jowel Grant's request of of the Janissary relaxing.

BigGuy_0901's request was just a simple sketch of the first mate.

Mat's r...

Cactonid Savage Duplicant

The Savage Duplicant Cactonid is the wildlife counterpart to the Hominid Duplicant. From its hornet-like state, it mutates its behaviors to act like other arachnid and insectoid enemies found within Darkest Dungeon.

Cactonid Aspiciac

The Cactonid Aspiciac is a formidable frontliner with generous defensive properties. It is able to batter your heroes into submission, spew a leeching status onto them, and deal substantial stress. This facial abomination is prepared to make you think twice about what your priority targets are.

Cactonid Supterpath

The Cactonid Supterpath appears as a trap triggered fight. Within its arsenal, it features a multi-target stun, a party-wide guard, and a nasty blight attack. Statistically, it's a durable opponent as well, making it an unpleasantly aggressive combatant. Remember to bring trap disarmers and scouts to steer clear of this vicious foe.

Yngolian (Shambler Replacement)

The Yngolian is BR's response to the Shambler, and it will be summoned (and appear) in the same way.  Current gameplay design is still being worked on, but current plans are: 

-A simple attack only to deal damage 

-A 2-round stun against a single target 

-A team-wide AoE which deals small damage and high stress 

-A single-target damage with extremely high damage and/or increased deathblow chance 

-A bonus-action attack that triggers ...

Toad Tier Sketch 2.5

Our last Toad Tier Sketch for this month! 

This one was a little bit later than the others because it was requested late.

This sketch is for Pingu Senpai!
Pingu asked for a penguin in the Darkest Dungeon art style. 

Artwork was done by @itz_zap 

Cactonid Hominid

Wearing the skin of a bloated human corpse, the Homonid Duplicant emulates abilities from various humans in The Valley. It imitates the healing of a Crusader, the status application of a Friar, and the debuff blast of an Appraiser. This corpse-wearing Cactonid tries to stay in the backlines to harass your party and bombard them with stress and statuses.

Toad Tier Sketch 2

Of our four toad tier patrons, only three requested a sketch this month. One of them requested a little late, so they'll be included in a follow-up post towards the end of the upcoming week.

These sketches are for Winglfier and Gabriel radford!

Wingflier's request was a picture of a Hellion with with an affliction, facing the viewer with the beating heart of a Swinetaur (swinetaur is not depicted due to scope issues) in her hands. 

Gabriel radford's request was an ostve...

Misc. New Curios

The Blade of the Mountain King curio is an extremely rare curio found in the Exposed Interior which will provide a special trinket. It carries the spirit of a man who was enslaved as a boy, then freed himself through bloodshed. After a great many exploits, he became a legendary ruler, only to tire of the throne and return once more to the call of adventure.

The Dune Lilies curio is able to yield unique items which have some moderate monetary value, but passively buff your heroes whilst ...

Cactonid Verterephile

The Verterephile can pull your heroes, from the rear, coat them in hallucinogenic ooze to cause them to stumble, and slaps your heroes with its tongue for stress and minor damage.

Cactonid Arcanoid

One of the Treasury's many tempting deceptions, this monster in treasure's skin voraciously feasts on any victims fool enough to open it. The enormous teeth of the Arcanoid are not only a danger to its enemies, but to itself. To offset its reckless behavior, this Cactonid restores its health by devouring the flesh of your heroes.

Cactonid Hemophyll

The Cactonid Hemophyll serves as both an offensive and defensive enemy. Not only is it directly aggressive, it guards allies and increases its natural damage reflection, making any approach against it certain to cause suffering.

Cactonid Necrobiote

The Necrobiote is a chiefly backline harasser, applying healing to its allies and the Cactonid-specific "Leeching" status to heroes. Due to its weaknesses in the front, it is able to quickly retreat and return to being a thorn in the side of your team.

Toad Tier Sketch 1

Of our two toad tier patrons, only one requested a sketch this month.

This sketch is for Wingflier! 

Wingflier's request was to see a more fleshed out version of the Wildlander Bombard, specifically mentioning her face. 

Moving forward, we'll be adding tags for the individuals that request sketches, as well as having the "Toad Tier Sketches" tag for all sketches that we post. 

Oblivion Buzzer

The Oblivion Buzzer: This mutated bee is one of the native guardians of the Treasury. Heavily corrupted by the eldritch influence on the region, the buzzer's body is coated in a familiar type of growth. Unlike its more simplistic counterpart, this Buzzer will utilize its warped physiology to lay down marks and stress on heroes.

New Toad Tier has been Released!

Greetings, everyone! We're pleased to announce a new Patreon tier: The TOAD tier!
The new tier will feature regular lore posts and custom sketch requests from artists on the Black Reliquary development team, and is set at the price of $30 USD.
Please read up on the details of Toad tier's features:

General Info for Sketch Requests:  

You will receive a Sketch Request DM from us on the first of each month. You will have a week to DM us back your sketch re...

Carrion Bee

The Carrion Bee: A new member of the valley's wildlife, this colossal insectoid terror will harass marked heroes from the front, and dive in with a toxin-loaded stinger if pushed to the rear. 

Possible Higher Membership Tier and Rewards

Hello, wonderful patrons! We're considering adding a new membership tier past Janissary tier, and we'd like to know what you would find most desirable! We've come up with some ideas that allow us to create more meaningful content for our patrons. So, please let us know via this poll what rewards of this potential tier excite you the most!

Monster Skill Icons (pt. 2)

We present to you the full list of custom icons that will be listed by enemy abilities in combat! They will be implemented with the upcoming Treasury Update!

Lost Legion Punisher

The Lost Legion Punisher: This fanatical foe brutalizes frontline heroes with his cat-o-nine-tails, expiates multiple heroes, and can mend the wounds of his allies. Only appearing in Veteran+ difficulties, his power befits that role.

Cactonid Temptress Boss Concept

We're a bit strapped for content this week, so we've only got this concept to show off. We'll have a lot more to show next week though, so look forward to that :))

The following is a redesign of one of S-Purple's older boss concepts, drawn by Marvin Seo. She continues the theme of a false temptress as before, this time as a shifting mass of cactonid material, and flanked by twisted servants to strike out at your heroes. Further design adjustments are to be expected as the boss is develo...

Leeching Status

The new status to be introduced by Cactonids is "Leeching". Its functionality is still being experimented with, but its current implementation causes harm to whoever is leeched whenever the victim uses a friendly skill, then heal enemies.

The Start of a Cinematic and Some Concepts

Something we've been itching to do since the very beginning is a custom intro cinematic for a new campaign. Now we finally can, and are starting work on the West Wind cinematic. The West wind cinematic will take the place of the Old Road, and we'll be working on it over the course of the Treasury update. 

This Cactonid enemy currently has no gameplay design concepts connected to it. One potential application could be a miniboss which focuses on applying frantic, but details at this...

Addons and Enemy Movement Indicators

We're still hard at work sorting out some of the new content, and there's a few things we're not quite ready to show off yet. So we only have one post again this week.

With our new main menu interface, we're experimenting with an add-on content system to include optional features for your campaigns! (The Veiled class is currently being used for the purposes of testing this new system.)

Along with the more informative icon system we're implementing, positional requiremen...

Treasury Hallways and Curios

We're a bit strapped for content still as we're working out artwork for the Treasury. As such, we're doing another preview/concept combo post this week.

The hallways of the new Treasury Region are well underway. Additional hall and room assets are still in the works.  

As most of the Cactonid enemies will be encountered via curio interactions, these new foes will feature additional art for their untouched and used curio sprites.

New Amber Curios Concepts and Treasury Obstacle

New Curio Concepts: Dune Lilies are a native flora overtaken by amber, but not suffering from amber corruption. Region of appearance is undetermined at this time. Amber Cluster is as simple as its name suggests, a natural deposit of amber crystals. The Poison Peddler is possibly the least-developed curio concept at this time, but potential outcomes would include unique amber/ beverage-themed consumables, amber-related treasure, or buffs for the user/ party.  

Early conce...

Treasury Curios

Before and after curio sprites for some of the encounters to be found in the Treasury. The first would activate the fight against the Necrobiote enemy, and the second would trigger the Hemophyll.

Upgraded Monster Skill Info

We are working on a set of new icons for the various attributes associated with enemy abilities to better denote their functionality. Additionally, we are able to denote the targeting and friend/foe nature of enemy abilities to help players better understand enemy behavior.