Root Zombie

Root Zombie

Enemy

• Damage25
• Health80

• 5
• -10
• 0
• 0

• Experience Gain

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  100
• Weakspot

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  Head
• World

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  Yaesha
• Location

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  Undead Tombs
• Added in

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  Base Game

Behavior

The Root Zombie can be found standing dormant in Undead Tombs, or embedded in the environtment—camouflaged by the surrounding growth. Once alerted, it will slowly approach the Traveler.

It has only a few basic melee attacks, striking with either limb. Sometimes, it will attempt to grab the Traveler, forcing them into a quick time event if successful. Failing to defend against this will result in instant death, bypassing the downed state and any type of revive.

A danger lies in their fragility, as each limb can break after taking a mere 1% of their total health as damage. What may sound like an impediment actually enhances the Zombie, as lost arms are replaced by tendrils of greater reach; and loosing a leg counter-intuitively increases its movement speed—allowing it to crawl low to the ground.

A slain Root Zombie can be resurrected by nearby Root Cultists, granting it a HASTE buff, as well as causing it to explode into ROOT ROT spores once it dies again.

Locations

• Yaesha
  • Undead Tombs
    • The Twisted Chantry
    • The Lament
    • The Chimney
  • Other:
    • The Lost Temple - guarding a flooded passage

Trivia

• They behave near identical to the Iskal Zombies of Corsus, even using a number of the same sounds.
• They have a number of randomized head shapes.

See Also

• Aberrations of this enemy type:
  • Fester