The Gloaming

A moonroot forest and a violet dusk moor under an eclipse that never passes. Gloamhollow lives in fear of what moves in the dark, every window crowded with candles. The Void Rift shows itself only to a light that reveals hidden things.

Areas

• Moonroot Forest: Lumen Owl, Thornhog, Duskstalker
• The Dusk Moor: Dusk Revenant, Crypt Reaper, Thornhog, Duskstalker, Shadowwright
• The Glow-worm Hollows: Glowmaw Grub, Lantern Mite, Gas Bloat, Shadowwright
• The Void Rift: Seam Eater, Gnomon

Notable places

The Regent's Seal, The Black River, The Thin Forest, The Rift Scar, The Barred Crypt, The Cave Mouth, The Old Watch House, The Moth Mine, The Broken Bridge, The Old Graveyard, The East Road, The Moth Room, The Watch-wall Gate.

Bosses

• Guardians: Riftweaver, Grasping Shade, Moth Widow, Barghest
• Dragon: Nightmaw
• Wizard: The Umbral Regent

Dungeons

• The Shade Crypt: dungeon, Grasping Shade
• The Barghest's Kennel: dungeon, Barghest
• The Moth Mine: dungeon, Moth Widow
• The Rift Scar: dungeon, Riftweaver
• The Regent's Hall: wizard's stronghold, The Umbral Regent
• The Glow-worm Grotto: hidden chamber
• The Rune Vault: hidden chamber
• The Still Room: hidden chamber

Spells

• Taught by its bosses: Shade Grasp, Eclipse, Umbral Rift, Wraith, Gloom Beam, Nightmare Swarm
• Found at shrines: Void Orb, Shadow Step, Night Mantle, Hex Mark

Creatures

Crypt Reaper, Dusk Revenant, Duskstalker, Gas Bloat, Glowmaw Grub, Gnomon, Lantern Mite, Lumen Owl, Seam Eater, Shadowwright, Thornhog.

Quests

• The Gloam Mother's Glass
• Hesper's Wards
• Corwin's High Lamp
• Corwin's Route Card
• Hesper's Ward
• The Rift Glass

Pieces of heart

The Gloaming has 2 challenges out in the open that pay out a piece of heart (ambushes to survive, lamp runs against the clock, buried hearts). More pieces wait in its dungeons, hidden chambers and quests.

Notes and inscriptions

The Watchers' Map (The Moth Room)

Pinned to the wall of the moth room, a watchman's map of the Gloaming with every safe path inked in pale blue, and a note: if the lamps go out, follow the moths.

The Watch Roll (The Watch-wall Gate)

Through the gate, the watchmen's room: cots, a cold stove, and the watch roll on the table, every night signed off with the same two words: all quiet.

A Moth-catcher’s Jar

Empty, with the lid off. Scratched on the glass: I let them go. They were only going home.

The Watchman's Log (The Old Watch House)

Light finds a log-book in the dust. The last watchman's last line: Quiet night. Lamps all burning. Going home.

The Old Moon (The Moonwell)

The well's face freezes still and for a moment it holds the moon as it was a long time ago, whole and bright, with no cloud near it.

The Pool That Remembers (The Dusk Moor)

Water fills the dry pool and for a breath it shows the moor by day, green and bright, with a road running east that is not there now.

The Moth Circle (The Glow-worm Hollows)

Pale stones in a ring where the moths dance, one darker than the rest. Under it, a child's drawing of the moths, and a promise to come back and count them again.

A letter, never sent (Gloamhollow)

They fear me, so they stay inside, so they stay alive. The world out there eats people. I only ate their daylight. A fair trade, if you had seen what I have seen. - R.

A Seat by the Road (Moonroot Forest)

A stone seat under the dusk trees. The moths drift on toward the Rift Scar, and the evening never quite ends.

Hidden things

Some spots answer to the right element. Cast it there and something comes back.

• The Old Watch House (Light): Light finds a log-book in the dust. The last watchman's last line: Quiet night. Lamps all burning. Going home.
• The Moonwell (Frost): The well's face freezes still and for a moment it holds the moon as it was a long time ago, whole and bright, with no cloud near it.
• The Dusk Moor (Water): Water fills the dry pool and for a breath it shows the moor by day, green and bright, with a road running east that is not there now.
• The Glow-worm Hollows (Force): Pale stones in a ring where the moths dance, one darker than the rest. Under it, a child's drawing of the moths, and a promise to come back and count them again.