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Enemy traits

Traits give enemies additional powers, resistances or weaknesses. Check the target display before fighting. Revenants gain traits as a feud develops; ordinary enemy abilities are listed in the Enemies.

Elite enemies have one boss trait and raid leaders have two. Revenants can retain up to three adaptations, limited by rank; a new adaptation replaces the oldest when full. Their adaptations never remove an innate weakness or reduce weapon damage below 60%.

Traits

Trait	Group	Effect	Who carries it
Warded	Boss trait	A shield absorbs damage equal to 30% of maximum health. It starts regenerating 10 seconds after its last hit and refills over 4 seconds. Keep attacking to delay regeneration.	Elite enemies and raid leaders
Flameproof	Boss trait	Fire spells deal 25% of their normal damage.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Frostproof	Boss trait	Frost spells deal 25% of their normal damage.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Venomproof	Boss trait	Poison spells deal 25% of their normal damage.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Stormproof	Boss trait	Shock spells deal 25% of their normal damage.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Spellproof	Boss trait	Magic spells deal 25% of their normal damage.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Blade-turning	Boss trait	Takes 50% damage from blades and arrows. Blunt weapons and unarmed attacks deal full damage. Cannot occur with Stoneskinned.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Stoneskinned	Boss trait	Takes 50% damage from blunt weapons and unarmed attacks. Blades deal full damage. Cannot occur with Blade-turning.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Curbing	Boss trait	Damage from a single hit is capped at 5% of maximum health.	Elite enemies and raid leaders
Wrathful	Boss trait	Once a player has struck it for 75 seconds it hits 1.6 times as hard. The clock resets if nobody has struck it for 30 seconds.	Elite enemies and raid leaders
Thorned	Boss trait	Reflects 20% of damage from weapon and arrow hits back to the attacker.	Elite enemies, raid leaders and world bosses
Champion (every one)	Champion trait	Twice its health and blows 25% harder, named with its trait ("Mighty Orc Warlord"). One champion or elite in four also carries the Unquiet mark.	A champion: about 7% of enemies of level 3 or more, one trait each
Mighty	Champion trait	Deals 50% more damage in addition to the standard champion bonus of 25%.	A champion: about 7% of enemies of level 3 or more, one trait each
Stalwart	Champion trait	Has 50% more health in addition to the standard champion multiplier of ×2.	A champion: about 7% of enemies of level 3 or more, one trait each
Swift	Champion trait	Gains 30 Speed, up to a maximum of 100, allowing faster movement and attacks.	A champion: about 7% of enemies of level 3 or more, one trait each
Vampiric	Champion trait	It heals for half the damage it deals you.	A champion: about 7% of enemies of level 3 or more, one trait each
Thorned (champion)	Champion trait	Reflects one-seventh of the damage from your hits back to you.	A champion: about 7% of enemies of level 3 or more, one trait each
Elite enemy	Elite property	Five times its rolled health and three times its blows and spells, drawn a quarter larger with a glow, carrying one boss trait and a gear drop of its own. An enemy of level 3 or more; never the city watch or an ally.	In the open world about 1 enemy in 20; a normal dungeon holds one elite one time in five; an Elite Dungeon holds 3 or 4
Elite in an Elite Dungeon	Elite property	Seven times health and four times blows (a partial stack on the dungeon's own doubling, not ten and six).	Elite Dungeons
Elite in a Super Dungeon	Elite property	Nine times health and 4.5 times blows (on top of the dungeon's own ×4 health and ×2.5 blows).	Super Dungeons
Raid leader	Elite property	An elite at one and a half times its kind's size, with two boss traits and its party's title (such as "Knight-Captain"). No level floor.	The leader of a raiding party
Staff-event mini boss	Elite property	An elite at the event's size, ten times its kind's health by default and blows three times as hard. It needs a Silver weapon or better (weaker materials deal reduced damage; unarmed attacks still work), its armour is a Troll's, it takes a tenth of spell damage, and no hit takes more than 1% of its maximum health, split among the players fighting it. Glows yellow, not blue.	The one enemy a staff event's full meter calls
Unquiet mark	Elite property	One elite or champion in four carries the mark that lets it rise as a revenant if it kills you or escapes. Only marked enemies, and revenants already, can rise; the title reads "Unquiet". Never an enemy of the open zone or the sand.	Elites and champions in their owner's own pool
Mailed	Revenant adaptation	Blade blows land at ×0.7. Learned from fights led by blades.	Revenants
Braced	Revenant adaptation	Blunt blows land at ×0.75 and its poise is ×1.4. Learned from fights led by blunt weapons.	Revenants
Hewn-hard	Revenant adaptation	Axe blows land at ×0.7. Learned from fights led by axes.	Revenants
Unflinching	Revenant adaptation	Bare-hand blows land at ×0.6. Learned from fights led by fists.	Revenants
Arrow-wise	Revenant adaptation	Arrows land at ×0.7, and it gains 20 Speed while you are more than 8 m away, so it closes fast. Learned from fights led by arrows.	Revenants
Fireproof	Revenant adaptation	+25 on its saving throw against fire (never immunity). Learned from fire; not learned by a kind that already resists fire.	Revenants
Rimebound	Revenant adaptation	+25 on its saving throw against frost. Learned from frost.	Revenants
Grounded	Revenant adaptation	+25 on its saving throw against shock. Learned from shock.	Revenants
Venom-blooded	Revenant adaptation	+25 on its saving throw against poison. Learned from poison.	Revenants
Spell-scarred	Revenant adaptation	+25 on its saving throw against magic. Learned from magic.	Revenants
Silver-scarred	Revenant adaptation	Silver no longer doubles on it. Only kinds silver doubles against (Skeletal Warrior, Werewolf, Wereboar, Ghost, Wraith, Vampire, Mummy) can learn it.	Revenants
Steadfast	Revenant adaptation	Its poise is ×1.5 and one blow in two cannot be interrupted. Learned from being staggered.	Revenants
Patient	Revenant adaptation	It tracks you through 70% of a wind-up, feints one wind-up in three, and its wind-ups run 0.85 to 1.35 times the usual length. Learned from having its blows dodged.	Revenants
Watchful	Revenant adaptation	It is never caught unaware, so no backstab, and its poise takes no multiplier from behind. Learned from blows struck from behind.	Revenants
Relentless	Revenant adaptation	+25 Speed. A hunting Relentless revenant continues pursuing you across area changes. It learns this adaptation when you flee.	Revenants
Night-stalker	Revenant adaptation	It comes only by night and its blows are 15% harder. Learned when it kills you in a fight begun by night.	Revenants
Fire	Revenant weakness	Fire spells: –50 on its saving throw, making it less likely to resist them. Not assigned to enemies that already resist or are immune to this element. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Undead; Vampires; werebeasts; orcs and giants; beasts and other monsters; class enemies; Frost Daedra and Ice Atronachs
Frost	Revenant weakness	Frost spells: –50 on its saving throw, making it less likely to resist them. Not assigned to enemies that already resist or are immune to this element. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Beasts and other monsters; class enemies; Fire Daedra and Fire Atronachs
Shock	Revenant weakness	Shock spells: –50 on its saving throw, making it less likely to resist them. Not assigned to enemies that already resist or are immune to this element. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Daedra; atronachs; orcs and giants; class enemies
Poison	Revenant weakness	Poison spells: –50 on its saving throw, making it less likely to resist them. Not assigned to enemies that already resist or are immune to this element. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Class enemies
Magic	Revenant weakness	Magic spells: –50 on its saving throw, making it less likely to resist them. Not assigned to enemies that already resist or are immune to this element. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Undead; Daedra; class enemies
Silver	Revenant weakness	Silver weapons land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Undead; class enemies
Dwarven steel	Revenant weakness	Dwarven weapons land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Vampires; werebeasts; class enemies
Elven steel	Revenant weakness	Elven weapons land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Orcs and giants
Blunt weapons	Revenant weakness	Blunt weapons land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Undead; atronachs; class enemies
Axes	Revenant weakness	Axes land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Beasts and other monsters; class enemies
Blades	Revenant weakness	Blades land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Orcs and giants; class enemies
Arrows	Revenant weakness	Arrows land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Orcs and giants; beasts and other monsters; class enemies
Bare hands	Revenant weakness	Fists and claws land 50% harder. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Class enemies
Daylight	Revenant weakness	Every blow you land on it is 25% harder while the sky reads day. From rank 2, break its Will before dealing the killing blow. Hitting the weakness reveals it. If it is still unknown below half health, the Revenant gives a hint.	Revenants whose kind is: Undead; Vampires
Brutal	Revenant personality	Savage and hungry for blood. Ambition: Vengeance. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 55. Sworn to you, if its loyalty falls under 10 it turns on you once, when a hurt leaves you under a quarter of your health. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Beasts and orcs, other monsters; any person
Witty	Revenant personality	Sharp-tongued and never short of a barb. Ambition: Plunder. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 60. Sworn to you, it may desert you if its loyalty falls under 20. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Undead, Daedra, orcs, other monsters; any person
Humorous	Revenant personality	Laughs at everything, your death included. Ambition: Plunder. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 65. Sworn to you, it may desert you if its loyalty falls under 20. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Beasts, Daedra, orcs, other monsters; any person
Arrogant	Revenant personality	Proud and certain it is your better. Ambition: Mastery. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 55. Sworn to you, it may desert you if its loyalty falls under 20. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Daedra, undead, orcs, other monsters; any person
Cold	Revenant personality	Quiet, patient and without mercy. Ambition: Mastery. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 65. Sworn to you, it may desert you if its loyalty falls under 20. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Undead, beasts, Daedra; any person
Zealous	Revenant personality	Sees the hand of the gods in every blow. Ambition: Vengeance. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 60. Sworn to you, it may desert you if its loyalty falls under 20. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Undead, Daedra, other monsters; any person
Unhinged	Revenant personality	Manic and impossible to predict. Ambition: Vengeance. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 40. Sworn to you, if its loyalty falls under 10 it turns on you once, when a hurt leaves you under a quarter of your health. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Beasts, undead, Daedra, other monsters; any person
Honorable	Revenant personality	A duelist who fights fair and expects the same. Ambition: Mastery. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 80. Sworn to you, it may desert you if its loyalty falls under 20. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Beasts, orcs, other monsters; any person
Craven	Revenant personality	All bluster, and brave only from behind. Ambition: Plunder. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 45. Sworn to you, if its loyalty falls under 10 it turns on you once, when a hurt leaves you under a quarter of your health. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Beasts, orcs, other monsters; any person
Weary	Revenant personality	Tired of the killing, and of you most of all. Ambition: Plunder. Sworn to you it starts at loyalty 70. Sworn to you, it may desert you if its loyalty falls under 20. Beasts and the mindless dead never speak.	Revenants; leans by kind: Beasts, undead, other monsters; any person
Vengeance	Revenant ambition	It comes for you sooner (one to two days instead of two to four) and takes 55% of encounter rolls instead of 40%.	Brutal, Zealous and Unhinged revenants
Mastery	Revenant ambition	It trains while it waits, learning an answer to the habit you hurt it with most (never an element's resistance), and its wrath festers every 2 days instead of 3.	Honorable, Arrogant and Cold revenants
Plunder	Revenant ambition	It raids the roads while it waits, and the gold it carries grows by a quarter for each whole day past its due day, up to three times.	Witty, Humorous, Craven and Weary revenants
Slam signature	Revenant signature	A named overhead slam for twice its normal blow, on a 12 to 18 second cooldown.	Revenants of rank 2 or more; unstoppable from rank 3; blade-fighters
Charge signature	Revenant signature	A named charge for twice its normal blow, on a 12 to 18 second cooldown.	Revenants of rank 2 or more; unstoppable from rank 3; blade-fighters, beasts and brutes
Leap signature	Revenant signature	A named leap for twice its normal blow, on a 12 to 18 second cooldown.	Revenants of rank 2 or more; unstoppable from rank 3; beasts
Ring signature	Revenant signature	A ring that bursts about it for twice its normal blow, on a 12 to 18 second cooldown.	Revenants of rank 2 or more; unstoppable from rank 3; brutes such as giants, warlords, Daedroth and iron or flesh atronachs
Pyre signature	Revenant signature	A blast of its element at your feet (Pyre fire, Rimefall frost, Blight poison, Stormcall shock, Unmaking magic), doubled, on a 12 to 18 second cooldown; your saving throw answers it.	Revenants of rank 2 or more; unstoppable from rank 3; casters, spirits, vermin and the small or flying kinds
Smoke	Revenant flight craft	It throws down smoke and turns near-invisible (a Chameleon) as it breaks away.	Rank 2 or more revenants that are people
Blink	Revenant flight craft	It opens a rift and blinks out. Silence, paralysis, or a blow as it fades stops it.	Rank 2 or more: Mage, Sorcerer, Healer and Battlemage enemies, ghosts and wraiths, liches, nymphs, orc shamans, Daedra, atronachs
Sink	Revenant flight craft	It sinks into the ground. A blow while it sinks breaks the craft: it rises cornered and runs no more.	Rank 2 or more: Skeletal Warriors, Zombies, Mummies, Vampires, Spriggans
Bolt	Revenant flight craft	A faster run, two and a half times its walk.	Rank 2 or more: every other kind
Bled	Revenant wound	Left by a blade that broke its flight: –10% health. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Cracked	Revenant wound	Left by a blunt weapon or fists: its poise is ×0.7, so it staggers more easily. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Maimed	Revenant wound	Left by an axe: its blows are 10% lighter. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Lamed	Revenant wound	Left by an arrow: –15 Speed. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Burned	Revenant wound	Left by fire: –15 on its saving throw against fire. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Frostbitten	Revenant wound	Left by frost: –15 on its saving throw against frost. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Stormstruck	Revenant wound	Left by shock: –15 on its saving throw against shock. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Blighted	Revenant wound	Left by poison: –15 on its saving throw against poison. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Hexed	Revenant wound	Left by magic: –15 on its saving throw against magic. It keeps up to three; the oldest heals after 5 days left alone.	Revenants that escaped from you
Rank	Revenant rank power	Each rank adds 40% health and 15% to its blows, and three levels to a class enemy. Ranks run 1 to 5; a revenant climbs each time it gets away, every second kill of you, and every second tear-away.	Revenants
Will	Revenant rank power	It cannot be finished until its will is broken: strike its weakness, stagger it once, or perfectly dodge its blow.	Revenants of rank 2 or more
Last stand	Revenant rank power	Once a fight the blow that would kill it brings it back at 30% (rank 3), 35% (rank 4) or 40% (rank 5) of its health after a 1.2 second roar, then phase two: blows ×1.2, +20 Speed, quicker wind-ups, chained blows, stood 10% larger.	Revenants of rank 3 or more
Band	Revenant rank power	It rides with kin of its own kind: one at rank 2, two at rank 3, three at rank 4 and 5 (a solitary kind rides alone).	Revenants of rank 2 or more
Festering wrath	Revenant rank power	Left alone, a due revenant grows bolder: 10% more health and 5% harder blows for each wrath, up to three, one every 3 days after the third day past its due day.	Revenants
The Dread	Revenant rank power	A rank 5 revenant that gets away once more goes to ground in its lair for good: 1.5 times its health, two last stands, never flees, a hoard of three times the gold and a Legendary trophy. Its lair is known to every town; only one stands at a time.	One rank 5 revenant
Mending	Companion art	Hunting you (from rank 2): under half health it channels a disc about its feet for 2 seconds, then heals 20% of its health; any blow breaks it. Sworn: when you fall under 40% of your health it heals you 12% plus 2% a rank of it, every 120 seconds.	35% of revenants are born with one art, drawn from their family's pool: blade-fighters and casters
Ward	Companion art	Hunting you: under three quarters health it channels 1.5 seconds, then takes blows at 65% for 10 seconds. Sworn: as it goes into a fight it shields you for 6 plus 3 a rank points, every 90 seconds.	35% of revenants are born with one art, drawn from their family's pool: blade-fighters, brutes and casters
War Cry	Companion art	Hunting you: as the fight begins it roars for a second (within 20 m); it and its band then strike 20% harder for 12 seconds. Sworn: as it goes into a fight your Strength rises by 4 plus 2 a rank, every 90 seconds.	35% of revenants are born with one art, drawn from their family's pool: blade-fighters, beasts and brutes
Siphon	Companion art	Hunting you: a beam 8.5 m long after a 1.3 second wind-up; caught, a blast at the pyre's weight and it drinks what it dealt. Sworn: now and then it draws its enemy's life and gives you a quarter of it.	35% of revenants are born with one art, drawn from their family's pool: blade-fighters and casters
Barrage	Companion art	Hunting you: three blasts at your feet, 0.45 seconds apart, each re-aimed as it is cast and 60% of the pyre's weight. Sworn: now and then it looses a barrage at 1.5 times the weight on its enemy.	35% of revenants are born with one art, drawn from their family's pool: casters
Nova	Companion art	Hunting you: a ring reaching 3.8 m bursts where it stands after a 1.4 second wind-up (safe at its heart); caught, a blast at 1.2 times the pyre's weight. Sworn: now and then it strikes every enemy within 5 m at 0.8 times the weight.	35% of revenants are born with one art, drawn from their family's pool: beasts, brutes and casters

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