The Ten Thousand
Boss · The Soulsea · band D, The Foundations
Where The Ten Thousand waits
The Ten Thousand holds the gates at depths 49,300, 49,900, 50,500, 51,100, 51,700 in The Soulsea, sharing the zone's 100-depth gate rhythm with The Shepherd of Souls and Warden of the Drowned Fleet and The Ballast King and The Bronze Fathom and Maw of the Soulsea.
What The Ten Thousand is
The Ten Thousand is a Brute: it swings a mace, and the body asks for the guard shell, armor against a heavy blow, stalling — it wards off blows from afar and hooks you in. 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 Ten Thousand 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
OVERWHELMING- ignores 30 points of your armor
OF HASTE- the pack within 4.5 tiles moves and swings 30% faster
OF THE EXECUTIONER- you recover half as much within 4.5 tiles of it
THICK-SKINNED- Overwhelm and armor you ignore count at half
OF HINDERING- you move 30% slower within 4.5 tiles of it
VAMPIRIC- heals 1.5% of its maximum health with every blow it lands
REGENERATING- Heals 1% of its maximum health every second
MANGLING- +35% chance to cause bleeding
CHILLING- Turns 30% of its physical damage into cold
SHOCKING- +35% shock chance; a quarter of its physical damage becomes lightning
OF POWER- gains a Power charge on every hit it lands: +200% critical chance each, up to 3
DENSE- takes 60% less from damage over TIME, and double from hits
PIERCING- penetrates 25% of your resistances
DRAINING- you recover half as much: leech, regen, recoup
OF PRECISION- the pack within 4.5 tiles crits 15% more often
OF DISCIPLINE- every body that steps within 4.5 tiles gains a shell of 20% of its health
SUNDERING- every blow cuts your armor by 30% for 4 s
OF FLAMING DEATH- leaves a pool of fire where it falls
OF SHOCKING DEATH- leaves a pool of lightning where it falls
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 Ten Thousand leads with 32,601,238,774 health, against 21,733,245,347 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.
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