The Sigil-Speaker
Boss · The First Prison · band D, The Foundations
Where The Sigil-Speaker waits
The Sigil-Speaker holds the gates at depths 41,000, 41,600, 42,200, 42,800, 43,400 in The First Prison, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Sealed One and The First Warden and The Doorless Gate and The Last Turnkey and The Warden's Hunger.
What The Sigil-Speaker is
The Sigil-Speaker is a Mage: it swings a scepter, and the body asks for resistances, Maximum Resistances, breaking a Barrier — and it jails you where you stand while its pack closes. As a boss it wears the type's defences at 35%, carries no status of its own, and enrages below half health: it hits harder and moves faster.
The Sigil-Speaker by the numbers
The card at each gate — health, damage per swing, armour and the modifiers it rolls — straight from the game's spawn table. On the floor the boss leads with 60% of the card's health and 60% of its damage, before the road's own pressure.
What those modifiers do
OF CHILLING DEATH- leaves a pool of frost where it falls
ETHEREAL- takes 60% less from HITS, and double from damage over time
PIERCING- penetrates 25% of your resistances
CHILLING- Turns 30% of its physical damage into cold
OF PRECISION- the pack within 4.5 tiles crits 15% more often
ROTPROOF- +75% chaos resistance (capped at 75%)
VAMPIRIC- heals 1.5% of its maximum health with every blow it lands
REGENERATING- Heals 1% of its maximum health every second
WITHERING- every blow leaves damage over time on you: 15% of the blow each second for 4 s
CORRUPTING- a third of its damage is chaos
EVASIVE- +22% chance to dodge your hits
DRAINING- you recover half as much: leech, regen, recoup
RETALIATING- strikes back at once when one blow takes more than 8% of its health and you stand within 2.5 tiles
ARMORED- Armour ×1.9, at the cost of 5% of its health
OF HINDERING- you move 30% slower within 4.5 tiles of it
THICK-SKINNED- Overwhelm and armor you ignore count at half
Modifiers are rolled per depth and are the same for every player. Bosses always carry at least 3 and never a pace modifier (SWIFT, BRUTE), so a boss's swing rhythm is its own; of the seals only the walls — BLOODLESS, INERT, ASHEN, ETHEREAL, DENSE — ride a boss. The full list is in Enemy modifiers.
At its first gate The Sigil-Speaker leads with 22,245,049,300 health, against 17,795,139,294 for the leader one floor above, and swings every 1.25s.
What a gate floor is
A gate is a floor like any other, with the boss leading its last pack. Nothing below it opens until the floor is cleared. A lost floor costs nothing; you can fight it again. How a floor is fought is under Combat.
Fight The Sigil-Speaker — play free