Where every hero starts: the Grass Lands' burrows and clearings, overrun with rats, plague and the Rat King's brood.

• Rat RatA small, vicious rat that never fights alone.
• Brown Rat Brown RatA larger scavenger rat that circles round to bite the ones at the back.
• Plague Rat Plague RatA diseased rat that spits plague from a distance before it closes in.
• Infected Rat Infected RatSwollen with plague. It bursts when it dies, so don't stand over it.
• Quillback Brute Quillback BruteA hulking quilled rodent that lords over the warrens. Its spiny tail lashes everything in front of it.
• Ratling Hexer Ratling HexerA rat that learned to pray to something. It hurls shadow and mends its kin; stop its casting.
• Alpha Rat Alpha RatA territorial alpha that drives weaker rats into battle and leaps on the careless.

Mini-boss · In the lairs

Rat Matriarch

An oversized broodmother that anchors an entire infestation, spraying venom at anyone in front of her.

Boss · In the arena

The Rat King

A bloated tyrant crowned in bone that sleeps beneath the altar until its wardens fall. Watch the ground.

The Mossgrin tribe's hunting grounds: goblin camps ringed with snares, wolves broken to the saddle, trolls in the deep grass, and a chained god in the ritual circle.

• Mossgrin Cutter Mossgrin CutterA small, quick goblin with a rusty knife and no sense of fair play. It always ends up behind you.
• Mossgrin Slinger Mossgrin SlingerKeeps its distance and lobs clay pots of burning pitch. Where one lands, the ground burns for a while.
• Mossgrin Trapper Mossgrin TrapperRings its camp with snares before anyone comes, and throws more at your feet once you do. It hunts the Hollows' beetles for their plates. Watch where you step.
• Mossgrin Sapper Mossgrin SapperRuns at you with a lit keg on its back. Kill it, stun it or get clear before it goes up; killed, it goes up on its own kind.
• Mossgrin Hexmonger Mossgrin HexmongerThe tribe's shaman: it spits mossfire, hexes your hands and slaps grubs on its kin's wounds. Stop its casting, then kill it.
• Grey Wolf Grey WolfHunts in packs along the tree line, tearing at whoever falls behind.
• Veilmaw Warg Veilmaw WargA wolf the goblins' Veil-ember got into. It flickers through the thin places at whoever looks softest, and bites where the healer stands.
• Mossgrin Wolfrider Mossgrin WolfriderA goblin on a saddled wolf, riding the trails. Bring the wolf down and the rider tumbles off to fight on foot.
• Dire Wolf Dire WolfThe pack's leader. Its howl sends the pack mad, and it leaps from out of reach.
• Mossgrin Beastmaster Mossgrin BeastmasterIt cracks the whip over the tribe's wolves and bears, and whistles more out of the trees. Kill it and they slip their leashes.
• Bramble Bear Bramble BearBrambles grow through its fur, and the Mossgrin keep it chained. Its maul tears everything in front of it, and its roar drives the tribe on.
• Moss Troll Moss TrollA troll grown over with moss, knitting itself back together as fast as you cut it. Fire stops its blood; nothing else does.

Mini-boss · In the lairs

Chief Snagtooth

The Mossgrin's war chief, riding Gnashfang into the fight. At half his Health the wolf throws him, and then there are two of them.

Boss · In the arena

Grukk the Veilbound

The Mossgrin's chained god: a vast troll their shamans bound to the Veil in the ritual circle. He slams, hurls and charges, and heals through the shamans who feed him; kill them and stop his ritual.

The upper crypt of the Last Choir: bone-lined halls where the dead will not lie still, the things that eat them, and the Lantern Guild digging through it all for the abbey's gold.

• Ossuary Skeleton Ossuary SkeletonThe abbey's dead, up and armed. Its cleave bleeds, and it braces behind its shield; holy fire and a mace break it best.
• Ossuary Bowman Ossuary BowmanA dead bowman who still keeps his distance. Its pinning bolt holds you on the line; close in and it has nothing.
• Ossuary Acolyte Ossuary AcolyteAn acolyte of the Last Choir, still at its prayers. It shells the dead round it in bone; stop the casting, then kill it.
• Shambler ShamblerThe badly buried, still in their shrouds. Slow, but a grasp holds you in place, and it bursts when it drops; step back.
• Crypt Ghoul Crypt GhoulGrey, starved and fast. It leaps at whoever looks weakest and feeds on the fallen to heal; burn the bodies or kill it first.
• Lantern Guild Cutpurse Lantern Guild CutpurseA grave robber who robs the living just as happily. It lifts your coin with a touch; kill it and take it back.
• Lantern Guild Delver Lantern Guild DelverA digger with a candle on its helmet and a pick in its belt. It knocks the ceiling down on you; keep moving.
• Lantern Guild Lanternbearer Lantern Guild LanternbearerCarries the Guild's light on a pole, and patches its diggers up. Where it stands you are seen from further off.
• Marrowgnaw Rat Marrowgnaw RatPale ossuary rats that have lived on marrow so long they glow with it. They come in numbers and squeal the rest in.
• Crypt Bat Crypt BatThey find you by your lantern. A screech spoils your aim and a bite drinks your health back into them.
• Tomb Scarab Tomb ScarabBeetles the size of a shield that tunnel under the floor and come up under your feet. Watch the ground.
• Carrion Crawler Carrion CrawlerA long, pale thing that lives on the crypt's dead. Its feelers paralyse; stay out of their reach.
• Skeleton Captain Skeleton CaptainIt still keeps the keys of the halls it guarded, and still gives orders the dead obey. Kill it first and they fight worse.
• Guild Bonecaller Guild BonecallerThe Guild pays necromancers to keep the dead off its diggers. It raises your kills against you; kill it first, or stop it.

Mini-boss · In the lairs

Sexton Morrow, the Gravedigger

The abbey's gravedigger, who never stopped digging. He buries you where you stand; dig your friends out, and mind the dark when his lantern breaks.

Mini-boss · In the lairs

Master Ossian, the Bonecaller

The Guild's master necromancer, who calls the dead out of the walls of his lair. Kill what he raises before he feeds on it.

Boss · In the arena

The Hollow Abbot

The Abbey's last abbot, still keeping the hours. When the great bell tolls, stand in the candlelight or fall.

Below the ossuary the abbey flooded, and the Veil came up with the water: wraiths in the dark, fallen heroes who never left, and a lich still leading the choir.

• Drowned Thrall Drowned ThrallThe choir's drowned congregation, still dripping. They put your lantern out; they don't need one.
• Hollow Knight Hollow KnightA Veilborn hero who went down and never came up. It still fights like one: it charges, it shields, and it keeps its oath.
• Hollow Archer Hollow ArcherA hollow hero's bow, still drawn. Its volleys fall where you stand; keep moving and close in.
• Hollow Priest Hollow PriestIt still gives the fallen their last rites, and they still get up. Stop its channel, then kill it.
• Embalmed Priest Embalmed PriestWrapped for burial and never buried. Its curse halves your healing; its wrappings shield the dead round it.
• Wraith WraithHalf out of the world. When it phases only holy damage, light, cold iron or a Wraithbane Draught touches it.
• Banshee BansheeA drowned chorister who never stopped singing. Her wail sends you running; step out of the circle before it lands.
• Bell Wraith Bell WraithIt rings a hand bell for the dead, and the dead answer. Its knell weakens your blows; kill it before the choir gathers.
• Crypt Larva Crypt LarvaPale grubs from the brood nests. They web the floor and burst when they die; step away from the bodies.
• Veil Parasite Veil ParasiteIt springs onto a hero and feeds. Dash to shake it off, or have a friend strike it away.
• Brood Crawler Brood CrawlerThe brood's grown hunters: acid from range, paralysis up close.
• Deathspeaker DeathspeakerA drowned necromancer who binds the dead into hollow knights and colossi. Clear the bodies round it, and interrupt it.
• Bone Colossus Bone ColossusA hundred of the dead bound into one. It pulls the bodies near into itself to heal; clear them, and keep out of its stomp.
• Veil Eye Veil EyeAn eye the Veil left open. It sees the cloaked, and its gaze burns a line; step off the line.

Mini-boss · In the lairs

Ser Aldric the Twice-Buried

Buried once by the abbey and once by the Veil. He charges, he breaks your nerve, and at half his Health his squires answer.

Mini-boss · In the lairs

The Gravemother

The brood nests' queen. She lays while she fights and comes up under your feet; kill the larvae before they swarm.

Boss · In the arena

Morwenna, Lich of the Last Choir

The abbess who became a lich to finish the last hymn. Break her phylacteries, climb the daises when the nave floods, and don't fall here: she keeps the ones who do.