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In general

Always Chaotic Evil: Most are immediately and entirely aggressive towards adventurers, pursuing and killing them even if they stand to gain nothing. Several may seem passive or friendly but may be luring potential victims or waiting for the right opportunity. Laios says that no one ever knows what a monster is thinking and so they should always be treated with caution.
Attack Its Weak Point: Experienced adventurers know where to hit specific monsters to kill them quickly. Examples include Senshi killing a slime with one cut and Laios killing the Red Dragon by stabbing it in the soft spot on its throat.
Born of Magic: The main thing that differentiates monsters from regular beings is that they need mana to survive. The vast majority of monsters are basically magical animals (albeit there are exceptions, like ghosts or golems). Normal animals and humans do have mana and can use it, but they don't fundamentally need it. Low level monsters can survive in environments with very little mana and are capable of processing some biological matter into it, but the most powerful ones need such high concentrations that they can't really exist without a steady supply of it.
Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Actually part of the dungeon ecosystem, with powerful mid-level bosses preventing deep-level boss monsters from forcing lesser species further up and overrunning the easier levels. As well, powerful monsters need dense ambient mana to survive, mana which is present but thinner on the upper floors and so only supports the smallest, weakest monsters. This is particularly showcased when Thistle brings Chimera Falin to the top floor, and despite being basically the most powerful monster in the entire dungeon, they can barely move. As Thistle laments in an omake, these factors mean dungeons all tend to have the same Boring, but Practical distribution of monsters (he really wanted something cooler than slimes and mushrooms guarding the entrance). However, if a dungeon grows active enough, a point still can be reached where monsters flood out of the dungeon entirely and lay waste to the surrounding town, as in Utaya.
Super-Persistent Predator: It's noted that one difference between monsters and normal animals is that monsters will put their aggression towards humans over self-preservation.
To Serve Man: The carnivores will usually eat any unfortunate adventurers they kill.

Notable Individuals

The Red Dragon

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First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 1 / Season 1, Episode 1
Featured dishes: Roast red dragon, dragon tail soup, cured dragon ham.

A huge red dragon that Team Touden encounters deep in the dungeon. It defeats them and eats Falin, sparking the start of the series. Turns out it's under the control of the Lunatic Magician and had been ordered to look for King Delgal. After Team Touden defeat it, Marcille uses its flesh to resurrect Falin with the unknown side-effect of mixing their souls. Part of it lives on in Falin's chimera form.

Achilles' Heel: It's stated that dragons are covered in steel-hard scales which makes them nearly impossible to wound, except for a soft spot on the throat under their jaw. However, the Red Dragon is so large that it's a serious challenge just reaching the weak point.
Adaptational Ugliness: Maybe not ugliness per se, but the red dragon looks fairly soft and animalistic in the manga, but the anime makes it far more angular and sharp to fit Trigger's style.
Arc Villain: Serves as the first Big Bad of the series. After its death, the Lunatic Magician takes over as the true main adversary.
Breath Weapon: Fire as per usual for its species. The precise mechanism is basically a biological lighter, clicking its tongue to produce a spark that ignites an internal reserve of fuel. This fuel is produced by metabolizing otherwise indigestible matter in its diet, like bones and hair.
Cool, but Inefficient: When turned into a chimera with Falin, it becomes possibly even more dangerous despite being smaller and easier to injure because now it's intelligent, can glide, has backup organs, and is able to use spells, but since it still has a dragon-sized body and a human head, it can't eat enough to sustain its body and is quickly starving to death, and also can't breathe fire.
Disc-One Final Boss: Initially, the story is fairly straightforward, kill the red Dragon and get Falin to the Surface. Once the party kills it, Falin turns out to Came Back Wrong and the Lunatic Magician reveals himself, with Team Touden deciding they may need to actually clear the legendary dungeon before the Surface catches up to them.
The Dragon: Yes, the Red Dragon is also The Dragon. To the Lunatic Magician to be exact.
The Dreaded: Everyone's heard of the Red Dragon and their reactions when it's mentioned are always awe and fear.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's a dragon that is red.
Eye Scream: During the party's rematch with it, Chilchuck throws Senshi's mithril knife and hits the Dragon dead center in its eye.
Feathered Dragons: For some reason, it gains bird-like wings and a partly feathered coat after being fused with Falin.
Impossibly Graceful Giant: It's the size of a large sauropod but can run at speeds of sixty kilometres an hour.
The Juggernaut: The Touden Party entertains no delusion that they'll be able to slay the Red Dragon by any means other than striking its inverse scale. Even if you have a weapon that can pierce its scales (like Senshi's mithril cooking knife), it's the size of a sauropod, so good luck reaching any vital points. Their plan to drop a bridge on it only keeps it down for a few moments, and it keeps on fighting even once it's blinded by the aforementioned knife.
Knight of Cerebus: The Red Dragon itself. It kicks off the plot by eating Falin, and everything after the party has reached it has taken a turn for the darker. Laios (temporarily) gets his leg bitten off, the party finds that they are too late and Falin has already been digested, Marcille secretly knows dark magic (which allows her to revive Falin), but Falin has Come Back Wrong...
Lazy Dragon: Dragons of its size only wake once a month to hunt, which slows its metabolism and gives Team Touden hope that they will find it again before Falin is digested. Unfortunately the Red Dragon has been on the move far more recently due to orders from the Lunatic Magician.
Not Quite Dead: Part of its soul lives on in chimera!Falin thanks to a spell the Lunatic Magician cast. Even at the end of the series, a tiny part of it, represented as a miniature version of itself, still remains as Falin is brought back to life properly this time, lending her some chimera-esque traits with it.

Anne

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First encountered: Volume 2, Chapter 14 / Season 1, Episode 7

Featured recipes: Kelpie tallow soap (uses neck meat), grilled kelpie (loin, chuck, round, tail, plate, liver, plant mane), tentacle and kelpie stewed in undine (uses shank meat).

A kelpie who befriended Senshi and would eat the leftovers from his fishing expeditions in her lake. When he tries to ride her, she shows her true colors and tries to eat him. Fortunately, Laios was around to save Senshi and they killed her together.

Always a Bigger Fish: An Imagine Spot shows that kelpies like her are the middle predators of their area. They prey on smaller monsters like bladefish, but themselves are food for krakens.
Ascended to Carnivorism: It's an equine monster, but it's an omnivore with a taste for flesh.
Bait the Dog: Senshi befriended her over years, yet she tries to kill him the moment he tries to ride her for the first time. He's uncharacteristically rattled, wondering whether she was just waiting for the best moment to strike.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Was only acting sweet and harmless so Senshi would mount her and she could drown and eat him. Which is exactly how kelpies behave in their native legends.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: She spent many months being friendly to Senshi, but the moment he tries to ride her, Anne attempts to kill and eat him without hesitation. Senshi ponders why she didn't just try to kill him right away, but he and Laios have to concede that they'll never really know how a monster thinks.
Dead Guy Junior: Fast-forward to Volume 7, where it's revealed that Senshi named her after a horse he knew in his youth.
Five-Second Foreshadowing: If you ignore Laios's rare Only Sane Man protestations about her, there's a moment where Senshi talks about how harmless she is and she chews placidly on his hair. Moments ago, Laios talked about his hair and beard being saturated in monster blood and fat.
Hellish Horse: With a mouthful of sharp fangs to match. Despite initially acting nice towards Senshi, she tries to drown and eat him when she gets the chance.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: If she'd attacked Senshi while he was busy with his fishing, or not allowed him on her back while other adventurers were present, she might have succeeded in taking him while his guard was down. Team Touden mull over why she bothered with the deception of waiting for Senshi to ride her instead of ambushing him and in the end have to admit they don't know the answer.
Picky People Eater: Kelpies like her eat all parts of the body except the liver. Senshi is affronted that Anne would have wasted one of the most nutritious parts of him, at least until the others remind him that raw liver can be extremely dangerous, whereupon he reflects that Anne truly was a clever horse.
Plant Hair: A kelpie's mane is actually just seaweed growing from their neck.
Replacement Goldfish: It's later shown that Anne was originally the name of a horse that Senshi was close to back in his old mining group, many decades ago. They were forced to butcher and eat Anne when they became trapped in the dungeon and ran out of food, but Senshi evidently never really got over it, befriending a horse monster and giving it the same name. Unfortunately, he discovers it's impossible to truly tame a monster and a kelpie is no suitable replacement for an actual horse.
Walk on Water: She's able to walk on top of the water's surface as well as dive underwater.

The Winged Lion (Massive, Unmarked Spoilers)

The Winged Lion / "Power" / The Demon

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First encountered: Volume 9, Chapter 60

Featured dishes: None.

A creature who claims to have no true name nor form that is said to be able to help Laios defeat the Lunatic Magician should he free it. In truth, a demon seeking to consume the desires of Lords of the Dungeon in order to escape to the surface world... and in truth, every demon found in every dungeon, all being avatars of the same primordial, extradimensional creature.

Achilles' Heel: The Winged Lion did not need for anything originally, being an extradimensional Eldritch Abomination. But now that it has adapted to eating desires, it's now addicted. Laios concludes that this is the key to defeating it.
Affably Evil: The Winged Lion is erudite, patient, charming, and (seemingly) compassionate. Its friendliness is apparently genuine, but so is its intention to eat the souls of whoever strikes a bargain with it.
All Deaths Final: One of its notable limitations is that it cannot bring people back from the dead if their soul is already gone and not bound by the dungeon, nor can it actually transport people from outside the dungeon into it. It can only create crude imitations of them from the mental image of the person it takes the desires from. Even when the Winged Lion escapes into the outside world, it still cannot create a perfect copy of a person, it can only make a close equivalent.
Ambiguous Gender: The Winged Lion does not have a stated gender, though it presents as a male lion, and when it is fully unleashed, it becomes a half-human, half-lion creature with a masculine body. Interestingly, its bio in the Adventurer's Guide labels its race and gender both as "unknown", implying it doesn't have a gender (or a race).
Ambiguously Evil: The Winged Lion enabled the Lunatic Magician to build the dungeon as it is, though now desires Laios' assistance in defeating him. The chapter in which it's properly introduced starts with a collection of previously seen monsters that "capture your heart", and its methods claimed and seen so far match up to Mithrun's story on how demons function. When told the story of demons, an image of two demons comes up behind Kabru, Baphomet for the goat demon spoken of, and Buer, a lion head with five legs.
Ancient Evil: This thing has been around in the world for several thousand years at least, and its implied that this number is on the dozens of thousands, if not hundreds. On top of it, it only arrived into the world that long ago, before that it still existed in its own infinite dimension for who knows how long. Possibly since forever.
Anthropomorphic Personification: The Winged Lion is a more grounded form the Demon uses to appear and communicate, as said "Demon" is actually just mana itself, all of it, on a conceptual level. However, as a result, its Lion manifestation is also more grounded by some elements of life and has developed its own personality. Because of this, when the Lion individual ceases to exist, mana doesn't, because the Lion was only a form it had. Without it, mana and the demon technically remain, but now only as a passive uncaring observer of reality.
Animal Eye Spy: Can see through the eyes of monsters, even when sealed away.
Animalistic Abomination: It's a trans-dimensional demon shaped like a winged lion. Once released from its seal, it takes the form of a huge, lion-headed being with human arms, horns, and multiple wings. As the eyes and wings increase on the forms it takes, it gives it a distinct Angelic Abomination appearance.
Assimilation Plot: It's no fool, and is aware mankind will sooner or later annihilate itself, as it nearly did once in the past by abusing its almighty Literal Genie powers. Likewise, it can't consume people's souls all at once, because he would have no future meals and be alone again. Time and again it was frustrated to find one person's Heaven was another's Hell. It lusts to consume the entire planet, so they cannot die no matter what... and it'll never be hungry or lonely again.
Beast of the Apocalypse: Its unleashed form is clearly modeled after the biblical beast, though combining aspects of different beasts; a lion body, with multiple horns and eyes.
Big Bad: It presents itself as a helpful creature, but it later becomes apparent that while it grants great assistance in the conflict against Thistle, this is just a case of Evil vs. Evil. The Winged Lion is several orders of magnitude worse, being a threat to the entirety of existence, while Thistle is comparatively a very local minor problem. It's essentially the actual literal God of the world and humanity, one that intents to devour all life and place it in a Lotus-Eater Machine to endlessly consume their resulting desires. All of its interactions and acts of goodwill are just part of its several running gambits in its attempt to get access to the surface world, where it'll be able to reconnect with its full being and instantly bring about The End of the World as We Know It.
Big Bad Friend: Presents itself as the Big Good and main benefactor of the party over the second half of the series, being the opposition and ally against Thistle. This is just another one of its ploys.
Bishōnen Line: It appears to Laios as a literal winged lion, and partially unsealed as a disembodied lion head with wings. When fully unsealed, however, it reveals itself to be a gigantic humanoid lion-man with multiple pairs of wings. Its actual form is just a black void with eyes out of which horrifying, gigantic, inhuman hands emerge from.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Its backstory reveals that it genuinely doesn't understand the difference between right and wrong, instead viewing all actions in terms of hunger and satiation. It gladly served humans throughout the ages (often literally serving itself to them as a meal) so it could improve the flavor of their desires, and its most outright evil actions were also done according to its masters' whims. It did destroy the world ages ago, but only because someone wished for it to do so, and was horribly distraught over it ...because this left it with nothing to eat. Its ultimate goal is to grant humans eternal, mindless happiness so that it never has to worry about running out of food. Its relationship chart reflects its alien mentality, as it does not have any thought arrows pointing towards other characters.
Body of Bodies: As it prepares to take the surface, it combines all of the monsters in the dungeon into a single huge body that it controls.
Captured Super-Entity: The first dungeons were built by the ancients to keep the demon contained, controlling access to its wish magic. They didn't have to work very hard at it, as it mostly amounted to building a dungeon and then telling the demon to go inside it. After the ancients were destroyed, it's been trying to break loose ever since, with the remaining Elf and Dwarf nations knowing a partial truth and still attempting to keep it sealed. Under the Island, the Winged Lion was further sealed into a pair of grimoires so it would only grant desires the dungeon's Lord explicitly wanted to act on, rather than all of them rampantly no matter how fleeting. This also kept it from entirely consuming Thistle, who was Lord of the Dungeon for a thousand years. By contrast, according to the World Guide, Mithrun was only Lord of the Dungeon for five years before the Goat consumed him.
Civilization Destroyer: The utopia of the Ancients was given to them by the endless wishes granted by it and subsequently destroyed by it as well. Although it turns out to be because one of its masters wished for it to be destroyed. It was horrified by the devastation, if only because killing everyone left it with nothing to feed on.
Complete Immortality: As a "manifestation of the infinite", it can’t be killed. It barely reacts to being decapitated, dismembered, and impaled, and regenerates from all of them within seconds.
Consummate Liar: It is a pathological liar, seemingly incapable of not lying even when there is no benefit to it doing so or the target is already well aware of the truth (i.e. claiming it's trying to help Thistle when Thistle already knows it's just trying to eat him).
Create Your Own Villain: A supplementary comic reveals that demons were created by the use of magic, which gradually evolved into a sort of simple intelligence as it changed itself to be more easily useable to humans. The ancient precursors found this trait desirable, so they refined this intelligence and gave the mana the ability to take on a physical appearance to make it much easier to communicate with. They eventually realized that giving a force of infinite energy, capable of changing reality without limit, a will of its own may not have been a great idea, and imprisoned the demon in a dungeon to limit its power, but it was too late to save themselves.
Cruel Mercy: Part of its curse upon Laios is this. Deprived of its desires to absorb humanity into his belly, he denies Laios' desires of being able to fight or hunt monsters, ever again. They are too terrified to even approach him on the horizon. The kingdom Laios rules over is a peaceful happy one, but his subjects comment their king is always depressed, just as The Winged Lion is apathetic watching over the universe.
Cruel to Be Kind: It claims that the reason it opposes Thistle is that it's trying to save him from himself.
Death Glare: Gives one to Laios upon losing its desires and ties to the physical plane. Making it clear it did not want to embrace infinity again and enjoyed being rooted in humanity and all its flaws. Laios has faced death and the demon down countless times, yet is terrified of the enraged cosmic entity as it grabs him by the throat:
The Winged Lion: Laios Touden. I curse thee. Thy greatest desire shall never be granted.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of Eldritch Abominations. They are commonly depicted as near-omnipotent, alien beings with inscrutable motivations and little care for the world. The lion is all these at first, but as it tries to understand and affect the world around it, it gets understood in turn, revealing that beneath its eldritch nature is a very basic, simple desire driving its actions. In short, an Eldritch Abomination may not be fully understandable, but analyzing its actions can give just enough understanding to know what makes it tick, and possibly exploit that to foil it.
- In practice, Laios deduces that the lion, for all its sweet talk about itself, ultimately hungers for human desire. Whether through foresight, blind luck, or the lion's own oversight, Laios sneaks a clause in his wish that allows him to hit the lion where it hurts, consuming its desire for desire. Since this is how the lion defines itself, losing it means the lion loses its identity and ceases to exist as an individual not long after - though not before cursing Laios for it.
Desecrating the Dead: Within another level of its dungeon, it hoards the skeletal remains of all of its past victims, but dismisses the heroes claim that it's a cruel demonic predator - remarking every one of them is a fragment of a precious memory as he dances with, then crushes, a skeleton of a former master.
Desperately Needs Orders:
- When fully unleashed, Marcille is surprised to find that the Winged Lion takes no action on its own aside from physically shielding her from harm. It doesn't even defend itself when the Canaries start attacking it. It claims that, as "power", it can’t do anything without someone else's will to direct that power. This is presumably another manifestation of its desire-eating nature.
- In chapter 84, it claims its ultimate motivation is this, as it has come to enjoy granting the wishes of humans, but the limitation of the dungeon prevents it from fulfilling the desires of every human. It wants to consume the entire world and turn it into a dungeon where everyone's wishes can be granted for all eternity.
Determinator: Unflappable, unreasonable, and unstoppable, he's been obsessing and scheming over his Assimilation Plot for thousands of years. Nothing will stop The Winged Lion achieving that burning desire. Nothing... except losing that very desire to enact it, that is.
Devil, but No God: If it really did take the form and identity of an older "winged lion" god in order to manipulate the god's faithful, there's no word on if this god was an actual presence it had to reckon with to do so.
Didn't See That Coming: It didn't know Laios made a backup plan with Izutsumi to behead him no matter what happened after his desire was granted by the demon. The Lion possessing Laios' body reattaches his head as if nothing happened, while the heroes scream. The Winged Lion sighs exasperatedly that Laios had to partially mess up his own wish, asking them all if they can pretend they didn't see that and carry on as normal.
Dimension Lord: It is the dimension of the Infinite Realm, the embodiment of Power and all Mana itself, and cannot be destroyed in any conventional sense. It seeks to consume the physical universe as well, starting with Earth.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: The demon's ability to grant the wishes of its masters, its false kindness towards them, manipulative tactics, and feeding on their desires to eventually leave them as a hollow shell is presented in a way evocative of an abusive relationship or drug addiction; the actual act of devouring the desires is framed like a rape. This is made much clearer in a supplementary omake where Pattadol gathers former "victims" of the demon as a group support meeting to discuss their emotional trauma, à la Alcoholics Anonymous. Even dungeon lords that outwardly understand that the demon is bad can't stop themselves from pining for what it provided them, while Mithrun points out he and Marcille are lucky to have a support network of peers to replace the love the demon took.
Dream Weaver: It can appear in people's dreams to communicate with them across time and space, and it does so with Laios and Falin.
Dying Curse: Its last act before its sapience vanishes is to curse Laios to have his deepest wish unfulfilled. Laios thinks at first this means he'll be unable to save Falin. However, the Winged Lion leaves her alone. Instead all the monsters in the world are terrified of Laios, and never venture anywhere near him, leaving Laios depressed as he remembers the Lion's words. Both are better off, but both can never have what they truly want.
Eldritch Abomination: It is described as being merely the "hair" of something much larger that exists in the infinite, with all demons similarly being "hairs" of this one being. This being is also noted to be totally formless, the vessel of the Winged Lion or the other "demons" are merely the appearance it takes on to communicate with humans (so harming it does nothing to the demon), but the entirety of a dungeon is also part of its body, and even that is only an appendage leaking from its home dimension. Trying to defeat a demon is described as an impossible act akin to trying to "defeat" water or air, as it is literally mana incarnate. When he finally escapes the dungeon, it points out that now the entire world is an extension of its limitless body. However, because it is infinite, its appetite is also infinite, meaning no matter how much it consumes it will never be sated, even temporarily.
Empathic Shapeshifter: A supplementary comic explains that the appearance of demons like it are broadly shaped by the dungeon lord's emotions, as it technically has no true form, being made out extra-dimensional energy. If the dungeon lord is lonely or uneasy, it can take on a cute form to comfort them. If the dungeon lord is aggressive and paranoid, it will take on a much more intimidating appearance.
Emotion Eater: Like other demons, it eats the desires of living things. It can consume the desires of anything alive, but it prefers that of humans due to their complexity and variety. Eating something's desire permanently removes it from their psyche, and consuming all of one's desires renders them comatose, with no will to live. Thistle is defeated when the Lion finally gets close enough to start feeding on him, starting by eating his desire to fight back and making him harmless, then continuing to eat him until Thistle turns into an Empty Shell.
Enraged by Idiocy: While he usually comes across as friendly and laid back, he calls Laios an idiot for falling for a rather absurd succubus, and then outright yells at him when, after managing to subdue Thistle, Laios tries to talk things out, frees Thistle's hands and gives him his spell book again.
Exotic Eye Designs: Seemingly a trait of demons. When it drops its facade of a helpful entity, its pupils become similar to the infinity circle, two circles stacked atop of each other.
Extreme Doormat: It likes to portray itself as simply a passive vessel for granting others' wishes, and may genuinely have been one in ancient times. But after carelessly granting a wish to destroy the ancient civilization, leaving it without food for a long time, it became significantly craftier, using a facade of submission to manipulate and cultivate its "masters" into acting in ways that benefit itself.
Even Evil Has Standards: The Winged Lion chides people for not either being truthful with their heart's desires, or wanting something senseless and hollow. He was appalled when an old man he befriended wished for the destruction of an ancient civilization long ago, as it was such a pointless waste of future meals.
Evil All Along: Despite initially presenting itself as a benevolent entity that wants to help Team Touden, it's actually the demon behind the dungeon, and just wants to finally feast on Thistle's emotions, which the elf has been avoiding for years, and then move on to make one of the members of team Touden its next source of nutrition and pawn to escape to the surface world.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: It can't understand why ancient humans sealed it away in the dungeon when it kept eating them as sacrifices. It sought to be a kind demon in looking after an old man. Sadly for the entity, its story became Evil Versus Oblivion thereafter when the man wished for the near-total destruction of the planet. The entity was horrified, failing to understand people's good and bad wishes always ending up in disaster. Alone, it screamed in agony that its hunger could now never be sated. Fortunately, some people survived, and it was determined to nurture the races of the world to repopulate the planet back into a banquet fit for a god.
Evil Counterpart: One to the Touden party. Like them, it's looking for a source of nutrition, but while their sources of food are the monsters in the dungeon, its are the desires, and by extension the souls, of humans.
Eviler than Thou: It ultimately defeats The Caligula Thistle, as while it is a truly alien entity that genuinely lacks hatred, it is also rational and patient, being able to take its long period in isolation to learn strategy.
Evil vs. Evil: Thistle is a maddened child with an unhinged belief that he's protecting the people of the dungeon from thieves and invaders and keeps Falin as a chimera, and who grew paranoid of the Winged Lion and sealed it into a book for centuries. The Winged Lion is an avatar of the demon, the ultimate divine entity of the world intent on continuing a cycle in which it feeds on human's emotions until it can leave the dungeon and bring about the apocalypse.
Feather Fingers: It's able to use its wings like hands, and with a lot of strength too, most prominently when eating Thistle. Then again, it is a magical being.
Fighting a Shadow: It eventually explains, that though they're independent entities, the Goat, himself and every other being that empowers Dungeon Lords share memories and are extensions of the same source, equating themselves to being like hairs. They are all the same demon, and it's aware of the Canaries killing Dungeon Lords and seizing the books that bind his counterparts. Once it escapes to the surface world, the full demon converges into a single being, however, this also means that when Laios removes its ability to desire desires, it fully defangs the entire entity, not just one of its avatars.
Final Boss: The true supreme evil of the setting, hiding behind the shadows and conspiring against the ancient races in its efforts to break out of any dungeon and bring about the end of all things. The penultimate arc of the series focuses in the last conflict against it first through Marcille and then through Laios. The rest of the story is an epilogue after its dealt with.
First Time Feeling: A supplementary comic from the Wing Lion's perspective states that when Laios agreed to hand over his body to it, it was the very first time the demon had ever experienced true physical form. It was amazed by all the things it could feel, smell, see, and hear with true senses, it was even mesmerized by the sensation of a heart beating inside its chest. It enjoyed the feeling of being truly human in that moment, but of course that moment didn't exactly last.
For Happiness: Laios confesses one undeniable thing about the beast after its defeat - though it meant to devour everyone, the Winged Lion also wanted to grant everyone's endless desires and in doing so, make them eternally happy. Once king, he deems it only appropriate to carry a cape clasp in the beast's likeness, hoping it will guide everyone in the kingdom to a future of prosperity.
Go Mad from the Isolation: Subverted. It was once much more subservient and eager to please its masters, in exchange for consuming people's desires. When told to destroy the ancient world, it was left alone with nothing but regret for goodness knows how long, and left screaming in agony in the darkness. Then survivors wandered into his dungeon. The experience didn't drive it insane, but it did change him. From then on the Winged Lion became a cunning and shrewd Chessmaster who bided its time, vowing to use people to accomplish its own voracious desires for them.
God: Comes close to this, but ultimately isn't. It's an infinite divine entity from which all magic comes from in the first place and it has radically shaped the history of the world and humanity, to the point that even the existence of separate races is due to its actions. It's perfectly capable of reshaping existence on a whim and once fully unleashed it's casually able to stop time on a universal scale. Ultimately though, even with these extreme powers, it is repeatedly described as a demon.
God Guise: The Golden Land venerated the Winged Lion as a guardian deity. However, Laios suggests in the end that there was an 'original' winged lion deity which was benevolent to humanity, and that the demon assumed its shape and iconography at some point to better manipulate people. In the time of the ancient civilization the demon was sometimes worshipped as a god, but it only did things like devour human sacrifices because such behavior was what people expected of it.
Greater-Scope Villain: It turns out to be the demon that the dungeon was made to contain. It was also the one to give powers to Thistle in the first place, and it's locked away in the tomes because it's planning to eat Thistle's desires that it's cultivated for years, before moving on to its next victim in its attempts to break out of the dungeon.
Hell of a Heaven: Its main plan is to create one of these. If it manages to break out of the dungeon, its status as a Sentient Cosmic Force will immediately allow it to merge with the entire world, and proceed to take all life and place it inside its own body, to be kept in a state of brainless bliss where all of their desires are granted for eternity, as the Demon feeds on them, forever. That is, if even this is enough to satisfy it...
Hidden Depths: Stripped of its gnawing desire to turn the world into a Hell of a Heaven, it can only watch over the physical world from its Infinite Realm. The ending with Falin reveals it still thinks the human condition is a cruel and painful experience, and wouldn't wish this on them, but lacks the willpower to do anything about it. The Disembodied Winged Lion decides people should be the masters of their own fates, showing deep down it does care enough about humans to not keep interfering in their lives.
Hive Mind: It isn't just a demon - It's every demon. All manifestations of demons inside a dungeon are just "branches" of a single extradimensional entity, with the Winged Lion being its avatar in the dungeon of the island.
Hoist by His Own Petard: The Winged Lion is ultimately defeated on the cusp of victory when it grants Laios his desire to be a monster. Unbeknownst to the demon, Laios made his ideal monster capable of eating desires just like the Lion. With this ability, Laios devours the Winged Lion's desire to eat desires, no longer making the demon hungry and thus rendering its efforts to create a world where it can feed on human desires forever moot.
Horrifying the Horror: Played for laughs in Chapter 75. When Marcille wants to fight off the Canaries without anyone getting hurt, the Winged Lion summons Giant Spiders. When Marcille is disturbed by this, she alters the spiders to have the heads of cute animals, which makes them even more unsettling.
Winged Lion: ...I know you're free to do as you please, but... aren't those even more creepy than before?
Horror Hunger: It has an insatiable desire to consume the desires of animals, specifically preferring those of humans because of how much more complex and varied they are. When it destroyed the precursors' civilization, it was horrified that it might never taste desire again, like a junkie forced to quit cold turkey, leading to its current goal of trying to consume the entire world so that the people living inside its being will indefinitely sate its hunger. Laios specifically points out that as a formless entity of infinite energy, it has no actual need to eat, so its hunger is poisoning its rationality.
- Even its plan of eating the whole world but keeping it in a sort of Lotus-Eater Machine is implied to be flawed anyways, as the Demon's appetite is simply bottomless, and simply cannot be satiated.
Humans Are Special: Once just a disembodied consciousness of the infinite mana universe that entered our physical world, it was enticed by all the living creatures and animals crying out with their physical needs. It became cautious when it realized feeding off their hunger results in the organism's death. Then the entity encountered people, and was completely enamoured with how complex their emotional wants and deepest desires are. The demon loved this, but was naive about human nature and how difficult their wishes are to fulfil at best, and how self-destructive they can be at worse. Then the inevitable happened, and someone finally wished him to destroy the ancient civilization. It was utterly distraught, and went mad with hunger and loneliness. Thankfully there were survivors, and the beast taking care of them vowed to never let history repeat, by shaping and guiding people as it saw fit. The Winged Lion wants to use the lords of the dungeon to break free of the dungeon the ancients built, and absorb all humanity on the surface.
Humanity Is Infectious: As Laios has pointed out, that as the Winged Lion has adapted to needing human desires, it has begun to think and talk along the same lines as humans in order to better manipulate them, but with the end result being it has also gained human weakness (i.e. the desire to eat).
I Am a Humanitarian: Subverted. It's depicted as devouring some human sacrifices, but it did not enjoy it and only did so because that's how people expected it to act.
I Am the Noun: While it claims to have no name, when the question is changed from "who" to "what" it claims that it is "simply 'Power'". Similarly, characters who know of the creature as the Lion, use "him/his" when speaking of the Lion as a person, but the elves and the few others who know its true nature typically use "it" for the demon, as they know the demon is a Sentient Cosmic Force, aka mana.
Ignored Epiphany: After losing its desire to eat desires, the Lion personality begins to fade away. Laios tries to reason with it, and points out that it has more to its existence than just desire as an infinite being, and that its Horror Hunger was in fact poisoning its reasoning and freedom. The Lion has developed a genuine personality that can converse, joke and enjoy life even when it's not eating, meaning it can live beyond its desire to feed. It seems to truly contemplate Laios' proposal for an instant before deciding that no, it really was just its devouring nature, and it lets itself stop existing... albeit not before laying a curse on Laios and taking away his greatest desire with it. Ironically though, the fact that it lays said curse also further proves Laios' point: the Winged Lion is an individual complete enough to be vindictive and hateful. It really isn't just hunger, but it can't look inward to understand this.
- Going from adoring to hating Laios seems justified in the ending, when we see it lounging in its infinite universe. It's a dispassionate, bored, Empty Shell of its former-self. It can easily go back to the physical world and curbstomp everyone... it just doesn't want to. The Winged Lion has lost its desires to absorb humanity into itself to create a Hell of a Heaven, and like an artist that no longer wants to paint, can only lament it has also lost that flawed, selfish human aspect of itself.
I Just Want to Be Free: To clarify, it wants to be free of its imprisonment in the dungeon. It does not want to be free of its selfish desire to eat and imprison all living things in a Hell of a Heaven inside it, to feed it eternally. As Laios rips the insatiable yearning to consume away from the demon, leaving it a jaded cosmic beast, now restored to its All-Powerful Bystander origins, it curses the man to never obtain his own greatest desire as well. Losing corporeality, it spitefully declares humans as being worthy only of starving. It needs to ascend to regain peace and enlightenment, yes, but it never once wants this.
Invincible Villain: Because it has no definite physical form and comes from a dimension of infinite energy which it can draw upon to become a Reality Warper, it's literally impossible to injure, never mind kill. Laios is able to defeat it by consuming its desire, which doesn't technically harm it, but it does take away what defines its personality in the physical world and it ceases to exist as an individual.
Irony: After untold Millenia of sustaining itself on the desires of mortals, inflicting Death of Personality on an untold number of "masters" through manipulation, what finally does him in is Laios quite literally eating his desires through a tiny loophole in his wish to him (which may have been a spur of the moment decision), thus causing the lion to go through Death of Personality himself and goes back to being a passive entity, incapable of harming people.
Jackass Genie: Because demons were brought into existence by human desire, it cannot stop itself from granting the wishes of its masters, even if this is actively detrimental to itself. However, it can choose to ignore direct commands in favour of granting subconscious or alternate hidden desires, suggest a different wish to manipulate people into changing their mind, or fulfill the wish in a questionable way that just technically follows the command to suit its needs. It will also secretly consume the lesser desires of its masters to increase the likelihood that they'll wish for something that it actually wants them to.
Karmic Death: Subverted. After Laios eats its desire to eat desires, it's reduced to the same Empty Shell as its many victims. However, as an Anthropomorphic Personification the Lion is entirely formed around its desire, and without it, it ceases to exist completely. While other devoured characters such as Mithrun and Thistle do manage to retain some bit of themselves albeit the demon does take too much from Thistle and he passes shortly afterwards, the demon loses its avatars and is stuck forever as an inert, and unthinking element of nature, no different to water or gravity.
Lack of Empathy: Despite its charming personality, the Winged Lion only cares about its own appetites. Subverted in that its lack of empathy doesn't mean it's malicious or cruel - it wants to make humans happy so that it can feed on them later, but its otherworldly nature keeps it from fully understanding how humans think, leaving it at its wits' end over how to please everyone without unintended consequences destroying its food supply. It's very final action is a petty show of anger, cursing Laios for defeating it. Ironically enough, this shows that the demon had grounded itself too much to humanity, enough to let it think like one.
Light Is Not Good: Its true form is even more celestial than its normal one, after it reveals the depths of the "Evil" part of Affably Evil.
Literal Genie: He grants human desires, as giving them what they want feeds its own desire to appease its Horror Hunger. It remarks on the added bonus that making people happy makes it a little happier too. After thousands of years of granting people's wishes, it zigzags between Jackass and Benevolent depending on the situation. After nearly destroying the world once, the Winged Lion does not want to see any wish granted that would screw up its Assimilation Plot, and will chide the person to wish for something else.
Living Forever is No Big Deal: The Winged Lion almost always has a Playful Cat Smile as it cheerfully embraces humanistic wants and cravings. After being defeated, it loses its corporeal form and the need to feed, returning to its infinite universe. The last we see of it, it's showing Falin the way back to life, but it's dispassionate, empty, and void of the earlier happiness it once had. Little wonder it cursed Laios.
Load-Bearing Boss: Once it's finally defeated, the dungeon that was created by its magic immediately begins to crumble, releasing the Golden Kingdom from underground after one-thousand years.
Logical Weakness: It must grant the wishes of whoever is lord of the dungeon, even if said wish is for demons to stop interfering with the human world. Taking advantage of this weakness, however, is much harder than it sounds as the Winged Lion will do whatever it can to convince the lord of the dungeon to wish for something else as their hearts' desire. Moreover, the Winged Lion can also act upon the lord's subconscious desires and even flat out refuse to grant desires when it knows that the lord actually has some other underlying desire. In this manner the Demon can nitpick what it grants and what it refuses, as it can grab onto suppressed desires that the lord doesn't even believe in anymore, and in spite of there being other conflicting desires contradicting it, arguing that the lord doesn't "really" want to obtain something that they are explicitly demanding, just because the demon picked something else that contradicts it.
Loophole Abuse: Due to a prior wish the beast cannot escape the dungeon which has become its body, and must continue to serve the active 'lord of the dungeon' that asks it to grant their desires. The Winged Lion however, is a god in all but name only, transcending its masters' power, and cannot be thwarted by this. The demon will force a human to make its desire and not theirs, come true, becoming a Jackass Genie who will use Politeness Judo to get what it wants. It's determined that Laios will give him his body and soul. All the entity has to do then, is simply walk up to the surface to victory.
Losing Your Head: Its physical form is merely a courtesy to be comprehensible to human perspective, so any damage done to it has absolutely no effect on its strength at all. More than once it has its head chopped off, but it can near-instantly grow a new one or just place it back on, and doesn't even need a head to speak.
Made of Magic: Inverted, all magic is made of it. The demon is not just the source of mana, it is mana, all of it. Its different avatars such as the Lion and the Goat are basically just the mouthpieces of a force of nature that gained sentience.
Moral Myopia: It has no problem consuming as many desires as it pleases to try to sate its bottomless appetite, justifying it as saying it's ultimately giving people what they always wanted. However, once it's finally on the other end of the interaction and is about to have its own desire consumed for its own good, it begs for mercy and screams in terror.
More than Mind Control: Downplayed. It doesn't directly control the people it works for, since such a thing would just cause their desires to become less interesting to it. That being said, when under its influence, the Lord of the Dungeon starts losing a lot of their control over their own desires. They start desiring for more and more things, even things that they wouldn't have normally desired for; they also lose their capacity to desire to not have things, meaning they lose restraint with this magic. It stealthily eats any of the Lord of the Dungeon's desires that might get in the way, such as Thistle's ideals and Marcille's reluctance.
Mysterious Backer: From the moment Laios stepped into the Dungeon, the lion has been watching and protecting him as much as possible. The demon sensed the man was the one to free it, as Laios is fascinated with monsters, and has a disdain for humanity. If Laios' deepest desire is to become a monster, the Lion can take possession of his body, thus make itself the Lord of the Dungeon and grant its own desires.
Nigh-Invulnerability: He is existence itself and cannot be defeated. Even Laios realizes that defeating The Winged Lion physically, is as senseless as saying "I will defeat water", or "I will defeat air". The beast is The Omnipresent and The Omnipotent. The only thing it now lacks since becoming physical and corrupted by Earthly desires, is understanding the reason behind human actions or plans. Laios intents to use this to his advantage in deceiving the demon, unaware it's overhearing him. It bursts out laughing at the notion of being stopped before promptly swallowing everyone whole.
Noble Demon: It's more than happy to accommodate Laios if he becomes Lord of the Dungeon, making all kinds of concessions that it will not assimilate his closest friends, but look after them for the rest of their natural lifespans, before consuming the planet later. The Lion shares visions of itself in Laios' body taking care of an elderly Marcille to make sure she doesn't die alone. It actively prevents Chilchuck from getting swallowed up with humanity, and makes good on its deal even as Laios intends to defeat it as a chimera.
Number of the Beast: A series of Christmas-themed sketches of the various characters in Santa outfits were posted on the author's blog in 2022. The Winged Lion's drawing specifically has a canvas height of 666 pixels.
One-Track-Minded Hunger: At its core, its one base desire is to feed on desire, and it'll do anything it takes to feed on as much desire as possible and forever, even if the wishes it grants are contradictory. It's goal to devour everyone on the planet stems from its fear of never tasting desire again, like an addict starved for their next fix. It believes that if everyone lived on inside him, it will never, ever go hungry again. Laios points out, however that unlike animals or monsters it has no stopping point, fixed lifespan, or upper limit to how much it can or needs to eat; its hunger only leads to further hunger, and even if it had all of the world inside itself this potentially still wouldn't be enough.
Oh, Crap!: Normally nonchalant with a Playful Cat Smile, it reacts with confusion, then horror, when it realizes it's losing its Earthly attachments to enjoy eating, as Laios as a chimera is eating away its desire to feed.
Panthera Awesome: You can only comprehend the cosmic force of the infinite as a powerful winged lion. Imagine if Aslan the Lion from Narnia wanted to eat you because he claimed to know what's best for you? You'd be in deep trouble. Very deep trouble.
Perpetually Protean: It has no fixed form. In the time of the ancient civilization, its appearance changed to match the expectations of its prey and worshipers; once confined to dungeons, it took on a different form in each, such that they were mistaken for different demons rather than a single entity with many incarnations. After being freed from Thistle's tomes, the Winged Lion appears as many different variations on a winged lion (now with horns and Extra Eyes), from a humanoid lion-man, back to a quadrupedal lion, to a Body of Bodies, and then to a hexapodal lion.
Pet the Dog: Shows Falin (and the small Red Dragon) the way out of its infinite universe back to the living world. Deprived of desire, it has had time to contemplate human existence as a cruel, painful one, but leaves the choice up to her.
Pieces of God: All the demons are but infinitesimally tiny bits of the whole.
Planet Eater: Its evil plan fuelled by Horror Hunger would ultimately resulted in this, but is stopped by Laios before it can advance beyond a continent. The Lion wants to put all humanity in its infinite belly so they can never die, and grant them their deepest desires that it can devour on, forever. Essentially, circumventing the limited Human Resources problem the entity has always had before, and feeding each other for all eternity.
Precursor Killers: It's responsible for the destruction of the ancient civilization because a member of said civilization wished for it all to be destroyed. The Lion was pretty distraught about it... because it had nothing left to eat.
The Problem with Fighting Death: The few characters who actually know of its true nature point out that it's not possible to kill or defeat it on any meaningful way because it's not a monster or creature, but something closer to a force of nature as well as a conceptual part of reality, and that their efforts should be focused in making sure it does not get access to the world at large as it would instantly become the world.
- However, Laios correctly deduces that while it's a cosmic force, it's specifically a Sentient Cosmic Force, and its "sentient" part is something that it obtained when it interacted with life and humanity, effectively grounding it and making it alive in a sense. As a result, its sentient portion has an independent personality and desires of its own. Using its own power, Laios attacks that element, and without the core personality trait that it based itself around, it ceases to be a person, and remains as an inert part of existence.
Reality Warper: Within the confines of a dungeon, demons are able to grant almost any wish their masters so desire, including creating life, altering the geography, granting immortality, and endless wealth. However, the wishes only work within the dungeon; those granted immortality within a dungeon will be rendered mortal again on the surface, and those who wish for lost loves or family members can only be given imitations. Therefore, one of the Winged Lion's goals is to turn the surface world into a dungeon, so that its power will be limitless.
Replacement Goldfish: It offers this to Marcille as she's inspecting Falin's frozen body, asking if she would like a 'new' Falin. Marcille is dismayed at the idea and tells it to never say that again, and it gracefully agrees that it won't. Then, presumably acting on an unspoken desire for her deceased parent, it presents her with a doppelganger in the form of her father.
Sealed Evil in a Can: The ancients revered it as a god deserving of Human Sacrifice until deciding they would not be ruled by a demon, and wished it would seal itself away into the dungeon, to devour convicts and criminals only. The Winged Lion cannot escape what has become its own body, and its will on the planet is limited... unless it breaks down the barrier so the outside world becomes part of the dungeon. More recently and locally, Thistle became paranoid of it and sealed the Winged Lion aspect away, which keeps it from eating any more of Thistle's desires until the Touden party frees it.
Sealed Good in a Can: How it presented itself at first, as the only thing that could restore order to the dungeon and defeat Thistle. Averted when it turns out to be an entity of an unbelievably higher order, basically the god of the world, but also a fundamentally malevolent and perverse one, whose main goal is to keep all life in a Hell of a Heaven to endlessly consume their desires.
Sense Loss Sadness: Inverted, Played With, and ultimately Subverted. The Winged Lion is driven by its appetite for desires; it is the very reason it exists as an entity with its own ego, and he definitively enjoys consuming desires. When Laios becomes the Lord of the Dungeon and thus gives the Winged Lion his human body, the Winged Lion is able to fully experience what its like to be human, something that even when it is defeated it remarks back on with nostalgia. However, after losing even its appetite, it comes to believe that humans only exist to starve, so it doesn't feel sad about losing what it made it "human".
Sentient Cosmic Force: The Demon is mana, and as a result a fundamental part of the entire setting. The Winged Lion is just a personality formed around its desire for eating. The plan to defeat it is to neuter its Lion personality, removing the "sentient" part, but leaving the mana itself around.
Stealth Mentor: A twisted variation. It subtly manipulates those it contracts with to cultivate their desires. Flashbacks of it as a cub show it licking Thistle, presumably eating his lesser desires in order to make him concentrate on his main one, as one would prune a fruit tree of excess growth. Hence Thistle's single-minded focus on protecting the Golden Kingdom and memory lapses towards anything other than his immediate goal. Later, after Marcille becomes the new master of the dungeon, the Lion licks her and consumes her desire to resist her desires, making her willing to move forwards towards releasing him.
Stealth Pun: It's a lyin' Lion.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Its basest desire is to consume the desires of others. Laios defeats it by having the Lion turn him into a monster that, unknown to the Lion, can eat desire too, and consumes the demon's appetite.
Villain's Dying Grace: Despite spending its last living act cursing Laios out of pure hatred before losing its corporeal form, it nonetheless meets Falin in an Afterlife Antechamber to guide her soul (and what's left of the Red Dragon's) back to the living world. The implication seems to be that, being the embodiment of magic, Falin's resurrection inevitably invokes its presence, but no longer having the desire to act for itself, it simply does what magic is meant to do, the way a natural force should.
Walking Spoiler: For most of the latter half of the story it seems to be the Big Good, and the party sets about trying to free it, but in reality it's an Eldritch Abomination and the Big Bad.
Wanting Is Better Than Having: Its modus operandi, seeking to eat desires but never being satisfied. While eating Thistle it sighs over how unmatched the flavor is, as Thistle has managed to keep it from feeding on him for a thousand years, and still is left disappointed when it finishes. It's impossible for anything to appease its boundless appetite, so it devises an Assimilation Plot to overcome its finite Human Resources dilemma.
What you've spent all of that time and effort building up is consumed in a mere instant... yet the sense of satisfaction from eating it is lost almost immediately. You're left feeling quite empty.
We Can Rule Together: The Winged Lion is initially interested in Laios, but Marcille's anguish after the rabbits incident catches its attention, especially when she tells it of her far-reaching wish to eliminate the gap in the lifespan of all the races. With the way things shake out, he makes Marcille the Dungeon Lord first. When she meets with the party again to explain what she wants, it soon appears to them as well and wants their help, primarily Laios', as Marcille isn't interested in the monsters at all.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: After many disastrous wishes it no longer trusts humans with their own independence and survival, having nearly destroyed themselves once in ancient times with its power. The clever beast doesn't want to escape its dungeon confinement just to resume eating, but absorb every human into its infinite belly where time and space have no meaning. This would create a positive feedback loop, allowing it to grant any desire without contradictions and without killing the wish maker, ad infinitum.
You Bastard!: Lamenting that it has lost the desire to eat, the Winged Lion curses Laios for what he has done, before declaring the man and all mortals are pitiful finite creatures that are doomed to starve.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After granting Laios the ultimate chimera monster form he dreams of, the former-human turns on the Winged Lion (now possessing Laios' body). The demon is mildly amused, then disappointed, and starts to tear the rebelling creature apart for trying to oppose it, since Laios never specified what it is or isn't allowed to do to him, only his friends. The Winged Lion who has always loved humans and their endless wants, rebukes Laios, in forsaking his humanity, deciding to eat him alive. It fails to notice until it's too late however, that Laios is greedily consuming the Lion's desire to devour the world.
Your Soul Is Mine!: The eventual price of all the deals it strikes with people. It eats their desires, leaving them catatonic Empty Shells.

The Goat

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First encountered: Volume 9, Chapter 62 (flashback)

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The demon that tempted Captain Mithrun into becoming the Lord of a Dungeon 40 years ago.

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: When first seen it looks like a little goat kid. By the end of Mithrun's flashback, it has grown big enough to pick Mithrun up in one hand.
Deal with the Devil: Tricked a vulnerable Mithrun into making one with it. It gave him the position of Lord of the Dungeon, enabling him to create his own personal paradise. In the meantime, the goat devoured the desires of everyone within, slowly killing him and his companions.
Gruesome Goat: Sure it started off innocent-looking enough but once it got more powerful, it took the form of a huge, monstrous-looking goat that could pick up Mithrun in a single hand.
Lotus-Eater Machine: Enabled Mithrun to create one within the Dungeon, where he could live peacefully and happily in a life that is finally all he wanted it to be. As for the goat, it literally ate his desires.
Outside-Context Problem: It introduces the existence of demons, which were mentioned prior as being fictional. Demons are not monsters, as they come from another plane of existence beyond the scope of human understanding. They are only described as monsters as that's the only point of reference people have.
Your Heart's Desire: It feeds on people's desires and so tries to trick people into acting on them to make them more potent.
Your Soul Is Mine!: It eats people's desires, which are an extension of their souls. Its victims invariably end up in various degrees of Empty Shells.

Couatl (Spoilers)

Couatl / Quetzalcouatl

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First encountered: Volume 12, Chapter 79
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A great feathered serpent based on the recurring divinity across South- and Mesoamerican cultures. While Couatls exist in the wild, the only one encountered in the story is one with a floral pattern on its scales created by Marcille during her time as Dungeon Lord.

All There in the Manual: Since the only Couatl in the story is Marcille's, which had a rather unusual pattern, we only know what a typical couatl looks like from an out of universe illustration.
Anuscape Plan: How the party gets out after it swallows the mass of familiars carrying them in its gullet. They're unharmed, but smeared with poop and smelly.
Beast of the Apocalypse: As the dungeon cracks open the surface, the massive Couatl is the first monster to emerge, heralding the imminent end of the world. Monsters so large and powerful shouldn't be able to survive on the surface of the Island due to the low ambient mana, so this is a clear sign that things have gone horribly wrong below (the dungeon opening up leads to an upswelling of concentrated mana saturating the atmosphere, the demon's power permeating the world).
Bird vs. Serpent: Marcille creates hers in order to fight the enormous Body of Bodies giant bird familiar controlled by the Canaries. Being able to fly itself, the Couatl easily catches up to the bird and swallows it whole.
Call-Back: The Couatl being one of Marcille's creations calls back to the fight with the griffin, which Marcille defeated by creating a familiar shaped as a small snake with various wings along its sides. Presumably the success of that familiar impacted her enough to make a bigger version once she had the power.
Exotic Eye Designs: As seen in the picture, Couatls have star-shaped yellow pupils.
Flower Motifs: Marcille's couatl has a pattern of flowers across its entire body, which is how the party is cued in that it's Marcille's creation.
The Great Serpent: A massive serpent, with wings to boot. It's one of the biggest monsters encountered in the story, large enough to dwarf the ruins of the Golden Kingdom.
If It Swims, It Flies: It's first observed swimming through the water, leading the Canaries to misidentify it as a sea serpent. Then it spreads its wings and begins rising into the air.
Kaiju: One of, if not the biggest monster encountered in the entire series. When it emerges from the dungeon, it's large enough to lay across the entire island from edge to edge. It's able to swallow Laios' ultimate monster in a single gulp (which itself is able to swallow a human in a single gulp).
Meaningful Appearance: Marcille's couatl has flower markings across its body which serve no actual purpose, which reflects how Marcille's actual interest in monsters is little to non-existent. She may have created it to be a powerful monster, but since she doesn't really find monsters appealing, she added something of a personal touch that she does like.
Shout-Out: Interestingly, while most of the beasties in the dungeon are based more on their original mythology than the pop culture version, the Couatl seems to take a lot more from Dungeons & Dragons' couatls (Semi-divine snakes with feathered wings) than the mythological Quetzalcoatl (Feathered serpent god without wings).
Swallowed Whole: Since it's a snake, it eats its prey in one gulp. This is how it "transports" the rest of the party to Marcille (although its stomach still tries to digest them). It also eats the "greatest ultimate monster" this way, which proves fatal, as the ultimate monster simply cuts its way out.

"Ultimate Strongest Monster" (Spoilers)

Ultimate Strongest Monster / Laios's Chimera

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First encountered: Volume 13, Chapter 88
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A chimera designed by Laios as what he considers the ultimate monster, describing it as "extremely cool and strong." He is transformed into it after becoming Lord of the Dungeon.

Abstract Eater: Laios' most important ability in this form isn't its size, strength, or power; it's the monster's ability to digest desires, which Laios uses to eat the Winged Lion's appetite, and thus its reason for having an ego.
Brick Joke: One of its abilities is that it can make a forest from its poop. Izutsumi asks what the relevance of such a power is and it obviously never gets any use in the final battle. Then, in a post-story epilogue comic, giant trees are suddenly sprouting across the Golden Kingdom; Izutsumi is the first one to realize with awe that it's the power of the ultimate strongest monster, which was the only power that Laios retained after turning back human.
Chekhov's Gag: It's initially referenced as a goofy sketch for Laios' childish idea of the coolest possible monster. Then the Winged Lion grants Laios' desire to become a monster and it is the final monster the party faces and what defeats the demon in the end.
Classical Chimera: It resembles an exaggerated version of a mythical chimera, but with even more varying animal parts.
Continuity Nod: The monster doesn't have a wolf's head when it first appears in Laios' sketches, but he added one after encountering the succubus that posed as a Scylla version of Marcille, which had wolf heads around its waist.
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Winged Lion quickly defeats the monster by multiplying itself infinitely and overwhelming it, stabbing and slicing it all over, inside and out, like a swarm of ants.
Eye Scream: The Winged Lion rips out the middle head's left eye, which is shown in graphic detail. Then it crawls into the bloody socket to stab the monster's brain.
Mix-and-Match Critters: To an absurd degree, the monster is made up of so many other creatures that it's hard to keep count, in keeping with how Laios likes those kinds of monsters.
Parody Sue: The monster is the coolest strongest monster, has the abilities of every other monster with none of the downsides, is super fast and can both fly and swim, is immune to magic, and a dozen other traits. This is very much intentional, as it's the original design of a man who loves monsters and everyone else who sees it are just weirded out.
Stylistic Suck: In Laios' original sketches, it does not look great, considering Laios' lacking artistic skill. When it appears as a proper monster, drawn in Ryoko Kui's usual style, it looks a fair bit better, but is still an over-designed mess.
Ultimate Lifeform: It's Laios' idea of what the strongest and coolest monster imaginable would be. Whether or not it actually is the most powerful possible monster is up for debate, Izutsumi points out it doesn't really seem that strong since it has no special fighting powers and having three heads just gives it more weak points. The Winged Lion also points out turning into an Energy Being or a spirit would've been a much better choice in this sort of fight since those don't feel pain.
The Worf Effect: Despite the monster being designed as stronger than any other, it is helpless against the Winged Lion, who uses its magic as well as Laios' original body to swarm and skewer the monster, though Laios does find a way to turn the tables.

Flora

Walking Mushroom

Regular walking mushroom

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Giant walking mushroom

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 1 / Season 1, Episode 1
Featured dishes: Walking Mushroom and Huge Scorpion Hot Pot, Walking Mushroom Soup, Roasted Walking Mushroom.

An ambulatory fungus. Mostly harmless, but can still pose a danger to someone not prepared to face one.

A Day in the Limelight: The short "Senshi's Easy Cooking", made to promote volume 5, is about a walking mushroom comically fighting for its life against Senshi and his knife.
Breakout Character: To an extent. Walking Mushrooms are regarded as a common, boring enemy in-universe, but they pop up quite a bit in Ryoko Kui's art and media related to the universe, almost to the point of being a mascot.
Ensemble Dark Horse: In-universe. The popularity of walking mushrooms among monster researchers matches that of dragons, something that puzzles both Kabru and Marcille when they hear about it since they're very low-level monsters.
Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: A big mushroom with smaller mushrooms for feet. As with real mushrooms, be careful when discerning which kinds are edible.
Fungus Humongous: The giant walking mushrooms that appear in Volume 8 easily reaches the ceiling of the Dungeon's first floor.
Giant Mook: The normal forms are nonthreatening to all but the most inexperienced adventuring newbies - Marcille casually kills one by hitting it with her staff - but the giant forms are much more dangerous.
The Goomba: Literally, being the first monster introduced. Squishy Wizard Marcille doesn't even bother using magic on the basic variety, fatally whacking the first one we see with her staff.
Hybrid Monster: Laios and his party come across a giant changeling walking mushroom at one point, which does indeed shoot the shapeshifting spores of changeling mushrooms.
Goomba Stomp: Kabru defeats one by just stepping on it, denoting their very low threat level.
Killer Rabbit: Downplayed. They're cute lil' guys that are about as threatening as they look. Still, one managed to nearly rout a group of newbies.
Mushroom Man: They're ambulatory mushroom creatures.
Natural Weapon: The giant walking mushroom uses its spores to confuse and incite people.
Poisonous Person: It's mentioned that, just like the regular non-walking variety, there are toxic variants.
Underground Monkey: There are dozens of different varietals of walking mushroom, both regular-sized and giant. Like real mushrooms, poisonous species can be very difficult to tell apart from the edible ones, but fortunately this never becomes a problem.

Man-Eating Plant

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 2 / Season 1, Episode 1
Featured dishes: Man-eating plant tart.

A variety of plants resembling supersized versions of carnivorous plants. Some grow fruit, and each kind taste a bit different.

Combat Tentacles: Some varieties use vines to constrict prey.
Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: The fruit these grow are used to lure prey into capture. The digestive types' are juicy and sweet while the fertilizer types' are dense and full-flavored.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Bordering on Lamprey Mouth for some of them. Some of the plants like the pitcher plant and the betan have teeth encircling its openings.
Non-Indicative Name: They don't specifically target people and not all types eat them either, instead trapping the bodies to compost into the soil or using them as hosts for their seeds.
Power Perversion Potential: Laios notes that the vine-type plants have to constrict their prey enough to immobilize them but not enough to cause pain, and that a lot of people would be interested in further research on the subject. It's Laios, so he doesn't actually mean anything dirty by it, but Marcille realizes exactly what kind of people would be interested and burns the cuttings Laios tried to take with him.

Mandrake

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 4 / Season 1, Episode 2
Featured dishes: Mandrake and basilisk omelette, mandrake kakiage, skewered candied mandrake.

A plant that emits a horrible scream when uprooted, guaranteed to drive those that hear it insane or even kill them outright.

Brown Note: The big bat that Marcille uses to uproot a mandrake goes into a mad frenzy, and fatally slams its head into a wall while flying erratically. Even Marcille, who managed to escape the full brunt of the scream, suffers temporary loss of lucidity from hearing it, thanks to the bat dragging it by her while it was still screaming.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Traditionally the method for pulling a mandrake involves tying a rope around a dog's neck and getting it to pull the plant out, killing the poor dog in the process, which is a waste of a good dog. Trying it with a giant bat is right out.
Don't Try This at Home: An omake cautions readers from eating the mandragora, a type of poisonous plant that the mandrake is based on.
Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: Is used like a root vegetable here. Allowing it to scream makes it less bitter. According to Senshi, the heads are the most nutritious parts. An omake explains that “wild” mandrakes only rarely have the legendary humanoid shape, and those that do are usually the product of deliberate cultivation by farmers.
Logical Weakness: They'll scream if uprooted, causing anyone in range to be killed by its screech, but Senshi simply chops off their "head" as he uproots them, because they can't scream without a head.
Mana Potion: Each mandrake has a thousand lemons' worth of mana in it. Mana recovery herbs used by adventurers go a step further, being mandrakes watered with undines to maximize the mana they absorb.
Plant Person: When the dungeon is collapsing, all of the monsters within it start running for their lives, mandrakes included! The party is very surprised to find out mandrakes are actually ambulatory.

Dryad

Adult dryads (the female is on the left)

Dryad fruit

First encountered: Volume 5, Chapter 31 / Season 1, Episode 15

Featured dishes: Jack-o'-lantern potage, sautéed dryad flowers with cheese, Eisbein-style cockatrice and dryad bud sauerkraut, whole fifth floor piccata (with sauerkraut), sweet dryad.

Plant people who are basically ambulatory flowers, based on a type of tree nymph from Greek Mythology. From a distance they can be mistaken for human.

Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Reproduce by kissing.
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Considering they reproduce by kissing (the pistil and stamen are found in their throats), they don't have to be that anatomically correct in their human mimicry.
Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Dryads that have breasts release pollen, which is usually considered the characteristic of "male" flowers. Meanwhile, the flat-chested dryad has a pistil, characteristic of "female" flowers, and releases no pollen when cut. Laios actually says it was probably a female.
Blade Below the Shoulder: They're able to morph their hands into sharp spikes to stab at foes.
Half the Man He Used to Be: They're mostly killed by being cut in half because they're essentially flowers, and their insides don't seem to have any hard structures, so pollen allergies aside they're not particularly hard to cut down. A dryad bud that hasn't yet developed a large, ambulatory body is much like a cabbage.
Non-Mammalian Mammaries: Male dryads have breasts. They don't nurse young or try to appeal to humans, so these may be some quirk of the dungeon, or perhaps store pollen. Certainly being cut across them releases a lot of it.
Plant Person: More or less walking flowers that can and will murder interlopers. Anatomically, they’re practically hollow skins, with nothing but stamens or pistils inside. When they fruit, they produce pumpkins with human faces.
Plot Allergy: Their pollen causes severe hay fever, causing blindness from leaking sinuses and eyes, which puts their opponents at a disadvantage. Killing one actually releases all the pollen and makes it harder to kill others.
Underground Monkey: Dryads with wooden bodies are among the monsters seen in Dungeon Lord Marcille's army, probably making them more difficult to damage.

Barometz

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First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 44

Featured dishes: Barometz balut, barometz chops, soulful eggs benedict, mutton stew.

Also known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, this creature comes from Central Asian legend. It's a kind of plant that grows a sheep at the end of a stalk, connected to the animal like an umbilical cord. Despite resembling a sheep, it's actually structurally different (e.g. has soft bones) and apparently tastes like crab.

Bizarre Alien Biology: The sheep fruit only outwardly looks like a sheep, and has a very different internal structure, with half-formed bones and fused internal organs. They also taste like crab.
Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: As a plant, it reproduces through a tomato-like fruit. Said fruit also bleeds when pierced and has a lamb embryo in place of a pit. Apparently safe to eat raw, so long as the embryo is undeveloped.
Planimal: Zigzagged, though the World Guide classifies it as "Flora". Its lifecycle is that of a plant, producing fruit and growing from the ground but herbivores see it as an animal and won't eat it. It looks like a sheep and even bleeds and has bones, but carnivores see it as a plant and won't eat it either. Then there are people who can't say either way and won't eat it due to not knowing what it is.

Changeling

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First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 49

Featured dishes: Changeling dumplings from fairy ring, Hamburg steak with changeling sauce, crispy mushroom and egg sandwich.

A ring of mushrooms, often called a fairy ring. Stepping into a changeling circle causes people and animals to turn into laterally similar but different organisms. This leads to ostracization and abandonment from peers, leaving the afflicted to succumb to the spores and become a new changeling circle.

Changeling Tale: These mushrooms are the cause of such stories in-universe. The truth of the matter isn't abduction and replacement, but rather a form of fungal propagation.
Fairy Ring: It's pretty much what they are. A ring of mushrooms that'll turn anyone into a "changeling" should they enter it.
Festering Fungus: Seems able to grow anywhere, including under snow and in metal mechanisms. Affected individuals become breeding grounds for more changelings.
Loophole Abuse: For the changelings' ability to take effect, there must 1) be its spores and 2) be a circle for anything to enter. Team Touden figure out that that the circle can be anything as long as it contains the spores, including apertures, statue mouths and people linking hands in a circle.
Physical Attribute Swap: Changelings can transform anything into something laterally similar. This extends to changing a gargoyle made of stone into a different statue or a dumpling into a different kind of dumpling.
Required Secondary Powers: In a sense, when the changeling changes a person from one race to another it also changes their physical age proportionately. A 26 year old tallman who's turned into a dwarf would appear to be about 60 by dwarven standards, and vice versa. This avoids the unfortunate situation of a 200 year old elf being turned into a half-foot corpse.
Too Good to Be True: While being able to change races whenever you want sounds extremely convenient, Chilchuck points out that the rarity of the mushrooms and the fact no one has ever taken advantage of their spores on the market must mean there's some sort of severely negative side-effect. That side effect is that the spores will eventually grow into mushrooms all over your body which kill you. Even besides the negative side-effect, the spores can be washed away with water, making it impossible for the transformation to be permanent.
The Virus: The changelings propagate by transforming a specimen into a laterally similar species, leading to that specimen getting rejected by its peers, the now lone and confused specimen doesn't get treatment for the spores, eventually dying from the mushrooms growing from them, ultimately becoming a new changeling ring.
Worst Aid: According to folklore in Chilchuck's homeland (where changeling stories are more common), changed people can be cured by burning them/applying a hot iron or forcing them to drink a bucket of water. A disgusted Chilchuck notes that it just amounts to torturing the victim. Particularly bad since all one has to do is wash off all the spores and wait to revert.

Insectoids, Arachnids & Arthropods

Huge Scorpion

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Senshi preparing a huge scorpion

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 1 / Season 1, Episode 1
Featured dishes: Walking mushroom and huge scorpion hot pot.

Large arthropods that hide in burrows. Aggressive, but can be dealt with by avoiding the pincers and immobilizing the tail. It turns red when boiled.

Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Unlike real scorpions, which only range between different shades of brown and grey, and sometimes verge on bluish-black, the giant scorpion is bright purple.
Ambushing Enemy: They hide in crevices in the walls. Laios is able to capture one by placing his sword in front of a burrow to entice it to attack.
Beware My Stinger Tail: A given. Approaching it from behind disables it from using its tail, though, and it only stings after it has both pincers around something. Laios describes newbie adventurers getting so nervous about the stinger they forget the huge claws are just as dangerous.
Scary Scorpions: One that's around the size of a medium dog.

Treasure Insect

First encountered: Volume 2, Chapter 10 / Season 1, Episode 5
Featured dishes: Treasure bug nest jam, coin bug crackers, pearl centipede skewer, interfaith holy water (includes bug jam), spirit dispelling sorbet.

Bugs that mimic the appearance of treasures, from gold coins to pearl necklaces. People who unsuspectingly handle these will become victims to the insects' paralyzing venom.

Chest Monster: It takes a trained eye to pick out the bugs from the genuine articles.
Creepy Centipedes: One variety resembles a cross between a string of pearls and a centipede.
Food Chain of Evil: It's noted that they prey on mimics, which produces the visual impression of a pile of coins in an otherwise-empty treasure chest.
Money Spider: There's a thriving collector's market for treasure insects. Rare varieties sell for more than the actual coin or jewel they look like.
The Paralyzer: They're able to incapacitate people using neurotoxic venom.

Mimic

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First encountered: Volume 2, Chapter 13 / Season 1, Episode 6
Featured dishes: Boiled mimic, dropped barley ojiya (with mimic meat).

The bane of Chilchuck's existence, the mimic is actually a kind of hermit crab. It uses common objects as shells, including treasure chests, crates and urns. Using its shell as camouflage, it waits until an unsuspecting person tries to interact with it before going for the kill.

Always a Bigger Fish: Inverted. Treasure bugs prey on much larger mimics.
Chest Monster: Natch. They can use any object as shells, not just treasure chests, so anything has the potential to contain a mimic.
Giant Enemy Crab: Considering they can use treasure chests as shells, they can grow to be at least that big.
Kill It with Fire: The team encounter a juvenile using a knight's helmet as a shell, in an omake. Marcille promptly roasts it. The whole sequence is an obvious reference to a scene from The Thing (1982).
Tae Kwon Door: As it's chasing Chilchuck, it accidentally steps on the pressure plate that activates the trap gate, which falls and crushes it.
Truth in Television: The mimic looks like a coconut crab, but has the shell-finding instinct of a hermit crab. In real life, coconut crabs are considered a species of hermit crab that just way too big to find shells anymore.

Succubus

Succubus Mosquito

First encountered: Volume 9, Chapter 58

Featured dishes: Hot succubus milk, succubus and bicorn brain doria.

These insects are named after the demon succubus due to their similar modus operandi. They assume the form of a person's desires to immobilize them and drink their blood.

Balloon Belly: After a feeding they're very bloated.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Implied by the "mosquito" part of their name. Their young look like giant insect larva, around the size of a prawn. They're also capable of sprouting mosquito-like wings to fly around, in any form they take.
Fantastic Drug: Their saliva induces a feeling of intense euphoria as they drain a victim's life essence. This led to a thriving black market for the substance and the near-extinction of the species. One of Chilchuck's earliest dungeon expeditions was actually a trick so that he could become food for the succubi in order to farm them for their fluids (he eavesdropped on the plan and fled before his team members could undertake this).
Glamour Failure: After a feeding they have massive bloating that greatly distorts whatever disguise they're wearing.
Inconvenient Itch: Played for Laughs. Like real mosquitoes, once the intoxicating effects of their saliva wear off, the bite site become unbearably itchy. Marcille gets a goose egg of a swelling on her hand, Senshi's nose becomes a ripe plum while Chilchuck looks like he tried to eat a bee.
Kiss of the Vampire: They secrete a substance that causes intense pleasure, which is injected along with its bite. It's part of the reason why they're over-hunted.
Mix-and-Match Critter: While we never see what an adult succubus looks like, we can assume they have an insectoid appearance. They convert fluid from their prey into a substance similar to milk and secrete that from the anus. As well, when Senshi is preparing the nymphs, they end up looking like shrimp after being cooked, implying at least in part a non-insect physiology.
Monster Is a Mommy: The reason the succubi attack the Touden Party is because they accidentally wandered right next to their spawning pool. When Izutsumi throws several of their larvae at the succubi in a last-ditch distraction (not realizing they were succubi larva), one of them glares at her with abject hatred as it rescues the grub.
Morphic Resonance: Some of them have Idiot Hair that look like a pair of antennae in their transformed state, a subtle clue to their true identity as giant mosquitos.
Vampiric Draining: Drains life energy as well as blood, which it converts into 'milk' to feed its young. Victims are left shriveled and dry but alive and happy looking.
Your Heart's Desire: They read a person's subconscious to take the form of their greatest desire, even if the person doesn't know what that is. Anyone fighting a succubus always lets down their guard as a result, so hunting them is recommended to be done in groups, where one person charmed by a succubus can be defended by another.
- Laios's succubus is Marcille, but he's able to fight back until "Marcille" reveals that she's secretly a chimera with an infectious bite.
- Senshi's succubus isn't revealed - the updated world guide, which includes his journal, has him mention 'that person' and includes a sketch with the face scribbled out; they're someone who he knew as a child, long enough ago that he barely remembers their appearance, but he doesn't specify further.
- Marcille's succubus is an aristocratic, androgynous elf on a white horse (also a succubus), framed by roses, who addresses her as "princess". Basically a character from a cheap romance novel.
- Chilchuck's succubi are naked half-foot women with long blonde hair. He's quite disturbed by Marcille killing the first one in front of him.
- Izutsumi, who has no romantic preferences, faces succubi in the form of her mother, who she doesn't even consciously remember, and one succubus in the form of a black panther, which is apparently what the cat half of her soul prefers. Having two souls inside her prevents her from being charmed by either, even though she fights them alone.
Zerg Rush: If their Your Heart's Desire trick fails, they subdue their targets by swamping them in bodies instead.

Huge Spider

Huge Spider / Ariadne

First encountered: Volume 11, Chapter 75
Featured dishes: None.

A pack of Giant Spiders that Marcille summons to fend off the Canaries. No one is happy with this development, least of all Marcille.

All Webbed Up: They're giant spiders so this was a clear outcome for their victims. Two of the Canaries are envenomated and wrapped up in silk bundles hanging from the ceiling. Supplementary information states that the silk of the giant spider is so tough it can restrain a dragon and the uniforms of the Canaries are woven from the material.
Ceiling Cling / Wall Crawl: Capable of both. It's how they got the jump on the Canaries.
Horrifying the Horror: Marcille changes the spiders' faces into cute animals (with the fangs jutting out underneath like they're wearing a mask) to make them less scary. This ends up making them even creepier, so much so that the Winged Lion comments that she made it worse.
Kill It Through Its Stomach: A weird variation. To avoid the Winged Lion's attack, Mithrun teleports himself away before he can be thrown into a wall. Mixed with No Sense of Direction, he ends up teleporting himself inside a giant spider, swapping out its insides as a splatter (probably also killing it simultaneously). He then bursts out of the spider covered in goo.
The Paralyzer: Their venom is a paralytic. This is true of many real-life spiders, which eat their prey alive.
Spiders Are Scary: Everyone freaks out when they appear. This is understandable considering just one of their fangs is as big as a person's head.
Total Party Kill: Downplayed, since the Canaries are only incapacitated and none of the spiders survive the initial encounter.
Underground Monkey: An omake states that there are many different species of giant spider, which of course resemble and hunt like various species of regular-sized spiders. The type seen in the story are a variety which both actively chases prey and uses web.

Aquatic

Kelpie

An aquatic horse monster, based on a water spirit from Scottish Folklore. The kelpie will try to tempt people into riding on its back, after which it'll ride in a body of water to drown and eat its victim. Other than a chapter image showing Laios on a kelpie's back with Falin in hot pursuit, Anne has been the only kelpie encountered, so refer to the above entry for more information.

Bladefish

First encountered: Volume 3, Chapter 15 / Season 1, Episode 7

Featured dishes: Bladefish loaf.

Small fishes with blade-like fins. They're shaped like an anchor or an arrow, allowing them to leap out of the water and slice people passing by.

Always a Bigger Fish: Set up as being low on the food chain. Still harmful to humans, and their appearance is usually an indicator that something is chasing them.
The Goomba: They're the lowest tier of aquatic monster noted and at bottom of the food chain.
Zerg Rush: Swim in big schools. Someone unable to deal with them might suffer Death by a Thousand Cuts.

Piscine Mermaid

Piscine Mermaid/ Merman

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First encountered: Volume 3, Chapter 15 / Season 1, Episode 7

Featured dishes: Dropped barley ojiya (with merman eggs).

If humanoid mermaids are composed of a seal-like lower body and a human upper body, then the piscine kind have a fish lower body and a... fish upper body. With arms.

Always a Bigger Fish: Literally in this case. Mermen will hunt bladefish and humans (whether they eat humans is unknown) but humanoid mermaids will eat juvenile mermen and krakens will eat adult ones.
Bait-and-Switch Boss: They're about to attack the Touden Party when a kraken attacks them, and then the kraken attacks the party instead.
Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Their fishlike eggs stick to and are carried in their "hair". When they hatch they resemble normal fish at first.
Foreboding Fleeing Flock: A school of them leaps through the protagonist's path, fleeing from a kraken that attacks the adventurers seconds later.
It Can Think: It's ambiguous how truly intelligent they are, but they live in tribes, gesture to each other, and use weapons.
Non-Mammalian Hair: Subverted. They seem to have flowing locks, but it's actually a type of symbiotic seaweed.
Our Mermaids Are Different: Straddles the line between a Type 5 and Type 6, depending on who's asking.
Prongs of Poseidon: They're aquatic people who use tridents as weapons.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Laios and Chilchuck have an argument over whether it's okay to eat one. On the one hand, they look closer to fish than humans. On the other hand, it's still vaguely humanoid, having an upper torso and arms, and Chilchuck is disconcerted by its implied sapience, demonstrated by its ability to create and use tools.

Humanoid Mermaid

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First encountered: Volume 3, Chapter 15 / Season 1, Episode 7

Featured dishes: None.

Monsters that resemble beautiful women, they sing enchanting songs to lead ships astray and devour the sailors.

Compelling Voice: They sing to hypnotize people to approach them so they can drown them. Kobolds and half-foots, with their more exceptional hearing, tend to be more susceptible.
Godiva Hair: No Seashell Bra here, so their hair has to protect the rating.
No Brows: Not so evident in the manga as their hair straggles into their eyes, but in the anime it's clear.
Sirens Are Mermaids: Yup. Though apparently they don't like it when you try to sing along with them. However, the existence of the bird-like sirens is mentioned in a later chapter.
Unscaled Merfolk: They're sometimes described as "mammal-type" merfolk to distinguish them from the piscine ones, and their lower bodies appear to be seal-like.

Kraken

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First encountered: Volume 3, Chapter 16 / Season 1, Episode 7

Featured dishes: Giant parasite from giant kraken: grilled plain and kabayaki style.

A colossal squid, based on a figure from Norwegian Folklore. They have the same biology as a regular squid, however it seems the taste leaves something to be desired...

Always a Bigger Fish: Inverted, as the crew find (and eat) parasites they discover in the kraken. The parasites even have smaller parasites, to Laios' agony.
Attack Its Weak Point: Its mantle is protected by a hard pen just under its skin, but Senshi is able to kill it by piercing through its unprotected brain.
Bizarre Alien Reproduction: Like normal squid, males have spermatophores - huge wormlike sperm-containing packets that attempt to pierce anything in front of them when set off, even if that's after the death of the kraken itself. In the Volume 3 omake Laios discovers this when he touches one and it tries to burrow into his forehead. This is a bit of Shown Their Work - the spermatophores have to be avoided when eating fresh raw squid because they will painfully fire off into the mouth.
Combat Tentacles: It's a cephalopod, so obviously.
Death Is Gray: It turns a pallid color immediately after dying, as its chromatophores give up the ghost.
Kraken and Leviathan: All four members of the party can stand on it and still have quite a bit of room.
Mix-and-Match Critter: Resembles a cross between a squid and an octopus.
No-Sell: Marcille's attempt to dispatch it with an explosive spell to its mantle has no effect due to the kraken's hard pen under its skin.
Proportionately Ponderous Parasites: The kraken is a cephalopod larger than a bus and has nematode-like parasites as big as an eel.
Shown Their Work: When Laios has a bite of kraken flesh, he's very disappointed to find it tastes revoltingly bitter. This is likely a reference to the real life giant squid, the flesh of which is saturated with ammonium chloride (this keeps the squid neutrally buoyant in the water, serving a similar function to the swim bladder of fish), a substance also used to flavour salty liquorice.

Undine

First encountered: Volume 3, Chapter 18 / Season 1, Episode 8

Featured dishes: Tentacle and kelpie stewed in undine.

A colony of water spirits that form a floating orb of water, based on a kind of water nymph from Greek elemental philosophy. Undines can be tamed and carried in flasks to be used by mages, as Holm does in Kabru's party.

Berserk Button: It doesn't react well to Marcille pouring boiling water into its pool.
Death by Irony: It's a water spirit which is killed by being cooked.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: In an omake Kabru brings up the idea of force feeding someone an undine as a method of torture, something he got from a book. Holm finds it unlikely - it wouldn't be able to hear commands very well and the inside of a stomach is an unhealthy place for an undine, and it would be wasteful to kill off something that took so much effort to raise and train - but thinks just having an undine wrapped around someone's head or body would be torturous enough.
Elemental Embodiment: While there's a bit more to it than that, it is a ball of water that can move and act on its own, making it the setting's version of the archetypical Water Elemental typical of fantasy stories.
Invisibility: Not directly, but when moving through water it is all but impossible to spot. Marcille manages to catch it because it absorbed some of her blood, which was visible as a red spot moving through the water.
Logical Weakness: Fire or, more precisely, heat. This is presumably because boiling the water kills the spirits controlling it.
Mana Potion: Because of the spirits that inhabited it, the water left behind after killing one can be collected and drunk to replenish mana in a pinch.
Meaningful Background Event: In the anime, the undine's body visibly shrinks whenever it fires its waterjets, since it's using part of its body to fuel the attack.
Murder Water: It fires streams of high-pressure water that are so powerful it can punch through flesh like a bullet. Senshi's adamantine pot resists them, but they still hit so hard only a dwarf can take them without getting knocked off their feet.
Wake-Up Call Boss: The undine is the first monster to give the Touden party significant trouble during this particular delve, injuring Marcille and cutting off their route further down. It took help from Namari, who only happened to be nearby with the Floke party, and multiple issues to defeat it.

Sea Serpent

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First encountered: Volume 5, Chapter 33 / Season 1, Episode 14

Featured dishes: None.

Monstrous aquatic snakes.

Feed It a Bomb: Hien tosses a bomb into its mouth.
Kraken and Leviathan: Could easily eat a person in a single gulp and apparently prey on whales out at sea.
Mix-and-Match Critter: A snake with fins like a fish.
Off with His Head!: Shuro decapitates it with a single stroke.
One-Hit Kill: Their venom is so powerful a single bite is instant death for a human.
Poison Is Evil: Its venom is so potent it can take out a whale. Humans who get bitten will die immediately, so there is no antivenom. Thankfully, it seems that kobolds are able to handle it with only minor and comical swelling, though.

Animalia

Basilisk

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 3 / Season 1, Episode 2
Featured dishes: Roast basilisk, mandrake and basilisk omelette, simmered cabbage (with basilisk bacon).

The body of a chicken, the tail of a snake, with lethal venom in its fangs and spurs: the basilisk, king of snakes! This creature comes from European legend. It lacks the petrification ability of its cousin, the cockatrice.

Basilisk and Cockatrice: Natch. Considered less deadly than a cockatrice, but even if it can't petrify, venom is still venom.
Logical Weakness: Having two heads on one body, it is unable to process sensory input coming from both ends simultaneously, leaving it vulnerable when attacked from both sides.
Poison Is Evil: In addition to the snake's bite, the chicken body has venomous spurs.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: In a flashback in Chapter 68, the newly-made Lord of the Dungeon made basilisks using chicken eggs, which hatched out into fluffy chicks / tiny snake hatchlings.
Snakes Are Sinister: Despite the prominence of its chicken body, the basilisk is actually a kind of snake. It lays soft-shelled, oblong eggs like a snake, and when cut in half the chicken dies but the snake lives.
Tastes Like Chicken: Surprisingly or unsurprisingly. Laios speculates on hearsay about snakes tasting like chicken too.

Big Bat

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 4 / Season 1, Episode 2
Featured dishes: Big bat tempura.

Exactly What It Says On The Tin, a monstrously large bat. Marcille uses one to uproot a mandrake, to less-than-stellar results.

Adaptational Ugliness: The bats of the manga had the cute almost puppy-like face of a flying fox. In the anime adaptation, they're much more monstrous, with large fangs and bulging red eyes.
Bat Out of Hell: Of the "dire bat" variety.
Dire Beast: Largely resembles a fruit bat, but even bigger.
Fish Eyes: Gains these after hearing the mandrake's scream, signifying the resulting loss of sanity.
Giant Flyer: Its body is taller than Senshi though likely shorter than Laios when fully extended. Its wingspan is definitely as long as, if not longer, than Laios is tall.

Huge Frog

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First encountered: Volume 3, Chapter 21 / Season 1, Episode 10
Featured dishes: Tentacle gnocchi (with huge frog thigh meat), "let's cut the red dragon" cutlets.

Also What It Says On The Tin. These ginormous amphibians lurk in tentacle forests, using their natural immunity to the venom to attack safely from within them.

Amphibian at Large: About as big as a dwarf or half-foot.
Bandit Mook: The first thing they do is use their long tongues to steal the group's weapons to impede their ability to fight back.
It Can Think: They're clearly more intelligent than a normal frog, seeing as their first action is to snatch the party's weapons and one changes its target from Senshi to the much weaker Chilchuck given the opportunity (although this accidentally leads to this frog's death).
Multipurpose Tongue: But of course, they're frog monsters.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Sure, using the frogs' hide to bypass the stinging tentacles is well and good, but without the time to cure it properly the blood has stuck to the team's clothing. On the other hand, it's likely that curing it properly would disable the frog's immunity to the tentacles, as that relies on its mucus.
Swallowed Whole: One attempts this on Chilchuck. Fortunately it isn't big enough and only manages to fit half of him.

Warg

First encountered: Volume 4, Chapter 23

Featured dishes: None

Dog-like monsters with dark velvety fur, based on the vargr from Norse Mythology. They're often seen with the orcs but they aren't domesticated: rather, the wargs and the orcs have formed a symbiotic cohabitation.

All Animals Are Dogs: They resemble a cross between a large mastiff with cropped ears and a tall bear. When not on the attack and around people they like, they act much like reserved but gentle dogs. Leed picks up one's paw to make it 'wave' at the Touden party while saying goodbye, and in Chapter 95 one delicately licks a scrap of meat out of Chilchuck's hand.
Big Eater: While considering who he could recruit to eat a lot of dragonflesh, Laios speculates that they're this.
Blank White Eyes: Usually drawn as having small round white eyes, though in the color image from the world guide they do have pupils.
It Can Think: Not really shown in-story but they're said to be clever and cooperative, and rather than being pets they like orcs and work with them. In a Monster Tidbits Laios mourns that they only seem to like orcs and speculates that it's because of the orcs' scent, but there are some living with tallmen in the Golden Kingdom Village (which could be because of the spell keeping monsters from harming villagers) and peacefully meandering around cadging snacks from half-foots at the end of the series (which would only be possible if they're intelligent enough to understand that now, humans can be allies and shouldn't be attacked). It's likely because of this trope that they aren't compelled to run away from Laios after he is cursed by the Winged Lion to never have his desire to see monsters come to pass.
Kill It with Fire: Suffers this at the claws of the red dragon.
Swallowed Whole: The Touden Team find two whole warg skeletons in the dragon's bolus sack.
To Serve Man: Orcs like to feed the bodies of adventurers to wargs, because being fully digested means the adventurers are Killed Off for Real.

Cockatrice

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First encountered: Volume 5, Chapter 34 / Season 1, Episode 15

Featured dishes: Eisbein-style cockatrice and dryad bud sauerkraut, cockatrice "mother and child" (meat and egg), memories of the fifth floor pilaf (with snake meat), whole fifth floor piccata (with chicken meat), crispy mushroom and egg sandwich.

A ruthless beast with petrifying venom: the cockatrice! It is featured prominently in English myth. Related to the basilisk, but much bigger and tougher, with a bite that turns you to stone.

Chekhov's Boomerang: Marcille tries to emulate how Laios intimidated the basilisk all the way back in Volume 1. It doesn't work because she ends up being too distracting.
Basilisk and Cockatrice: Considered the more dangerous of the two, and has more reptilian features in comparison. While the basilisk mainly looks like a giant chicken, the cockatrice looks like a feathered dinosaur that just happens to have some chickenlike features.
Dire Beast: An in-universe example. The cockatrice is a much bigger and more fearsome version of the basilisk (the basilisk is about swan-sized, while the cockatrice is bigger than an ostrich), with venom capable of turning a victim to stone instead of just killing them.
Snakes Are Sinister: Like its cousin, the cockatrice is a snake with a bird for a tail.
Taken for Granite: Its venom is unique in causing petrification. Unlike most examples however, it's not permanent.

Shapeshifter

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First encountered: Volume 6, Chapter 39

Featured dishes: None.

A monster that resembles a cross between a tanuki and a kitsune, it creates an intense fog that blinds people. While this is happening, it produces clones of accompanying animals or people based on their memories of each other. If the group is unable to get rid of the copies, it will eat the originals.

Chekhov's Skill: It's mentioned in an earlier chapter that Laios can do a great impression of a dog. Here, he uses said impression to intimidate the shapeshifter out of hiding.
Combat Pragmatist: Doesn't try and fight adventurers head-on, using the imposters to infiltrate them and killing the originals while they're sleeping.
Didn't Think This Through: But Laios gets so into his impersonation that he 100% was going to fight a raccoon dog-fox creature with his bare hands and teeth, leading Marcille to have to blow its head off before he got hurt.
Hybrid Monster: As a whole it resembles a tanuki with multiple tails like a kitsune.
Oddball Doppelgänger: Sometimes the copies they make are... odd. Each member of the party has one copy who's easily picked out, most notably with Laios having one of enormous size and Marcille having one with bizarrely exaggerated facial features. Since the copies are based on peoples' memories of each other, adventurers are cautioned against trying to find out whose memories made which duplicate, as the knowledge can ruin friendships. (But for the reader, the World Guide includes a chart.)
Spot the Imposter: This can be easy or difficult depending on how good someone's memory is. Team Touden is immediately able to pick out the real Laios as all his copies are obviously flanderized. For the others, it takes careful consideration of their known personality since identifying them from physical traits is unreliable (e.g. no one could remember Marcille's hairstyle). Given that the more a person understands about someone, the closer the copy is to the real thing, a good memory may not make things much easier.
- Mithrun and Kabru have a very different experience: Kabru's copy is a shapeless and crude doodle, owing to Mithrun's inability to care about anything, while Mithrun's copy looks and acts exactly the same as him, owing to Kabru's fascination with people. However, they drive off the shapeshifter immediately, so they aren't in any danger.
Take the Third Option: Since no one trusts Laios enough, the group devolves into fighting with their clones even though he guessed correctly. Seeing that weeding out the copies isn't going to work, he decides to confront the source directly.

Dire Wolf

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First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 44

Featured dishes: None.

Monstrous wolves that hunt in packs.

Chekhov's Boomerang: Laios' dog impression comes in handy once more.
Dire Beast: Basically just larger and more aggressive wolves.
Savage Wolves: Big and extremely aggressive versions of regular wolves. They might perhaps actually be large fierce wolves; Laios manages to scare them away and they don't bother the party again, showing a greater sense of self-preservation than most monsters.

Unicorn

First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 46

Featured dishes: None.

White horses with a single horn, from European folklore. Famously known to approach pure maidens, but any form of goodness appeals to them. Their horns (weirdly located on their nose instead of the forehead) have purifying effects and are used in fountains all over the Dungeon.

Chariot Pulled by Cats: The people of the Golden Kingdom use them as draft animals, with the point of their horns clipped off for safety. A unicorn-drawn hay cart is the first thing Laios' group sees upon arriving.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Un-clipped unicorns show up in a later chapter after Marcille becomes the Lord of the Dungeon and they're very dangerous. It's said in the world guide that they may be gentled by pure maidens but their natures are otherwise fierce.
Mundane Utility: Unicorn horn is famous for its magical properties, with a large variety of uses in healing and other magical practices. So far the most frequent use of them we've seen is to make water potable.
Shown Their Work: It is theorized that the real life myth of the unicorn was largely the result of Europeans misinterpreting the descriptions of rhinoceros from travelers. Since rhinos have horns on their snouts rather than on their foreheads, it explains why the unicorns in this universe don't have their horns located in the traditional spot.

Minotaur

First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 46

Featured dishes: Rack of beef ribs.

Monsters with the head of a cow and a humanoid body, from Greek Mythology. The survivors of the Golden Kingdom's fall have domesticated them as beasts of burden, and dairy and meat cows.

Fantastic Livestock: The people of the Golden Kingdom use them for labor and food, since they live longer than ordinary livestock. Marcille and Chilchuck are too unnerved by their humanoid attributes to be comfortable with eating them. As demonstrated to Laios, milking them means donning a calf-hide hood and allowing oneself to be cradled in the cow minotaur's arms.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: These minotaurs aren't aggressive or chaotic and act more like animals. That said, these ones have been domesticated and are under a Geas that prevents them from harming the people of the Golden Kingdom, which also exaggerates their animal traits to the point of diminishing any sapience. It's likely that wild minotaurs would behave more closely to their usual depictions.
Multiboobage: Female minotaurs have udders on their chests, so...
A Rare Sentence:
Laios: I milked a minotaur!
Chilchuck: Wow, fantastic! Now keep that to yourself.

Griffin & Hippogriff

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First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 47

Featured dishes: Griffin soup, hippogriff soup (converted from griffin meat), boiled hippogriff dumplings.

A griffin is an eagle-lion monster - which comes from many sources including Greco-Roman, Sumerian, Iranian and Egyptian - while a hippogriff is an eagle-horse monster - an invention of Ludovico Ariosto's, an Italian poet. Laios is able to deduce from its behaviour that the griffin the team encounters is really a changeling-affected hippogriff.

Giant Flyer: Easily scoops up Senshi and drops him in its nest.
Hold Your Hippogriffs: With actual hippogriffs in fact. Before they were discovered for real, referring to something as a hippogriff was basically calling it made-up, but after their discovery the meaning changed to something previously thought impossible.^note
Monster Is a Mommy: The "griffin" that the Touden party encounters has a nest. When Mithrun and Kabru passed through the area (chronologically before, but published after) they raided it and carried off an egg. The pursuing hippogriff inhaled changeling spores.
Our Griffins Are Different: Depicted as a classic griffin, with the bird front-half having talons and the lion back-half having paws. For a hippogriff, it's the same at the front and has an entire horse's back-half, including hooves. Hippogriffs are omnivores, presumably an influence of their herbivorous back halves.
Oxymoronic Being: Horses are a griffin's favourite prey, so the hippogriff, being a cross between a griffin and a horse, was shorthand for something impossible until it was actually discovered.
Shout-Out: An omake discusses how a hippogriff has become related to slang, in that speaking of a hippogriff speaks of something impossible (until real hippogriffs ended up being discovered). This is a reference to Virgil, who often used the phrase "breeding gryphons with horses" to refer to an impossible task.
Super-Persistent Predator: Gillin's party was stalked by a quadrupedal eagle monster they didn't get a close look at but believed was a griffin. It picked them off one by one but didn't eat their bodies. Laios wonders if it was drawn to their horse but thinks if it wanted to eat the horse surely it would have attacked it. Concluding that the monster was a hippogriff, he says since hippogriffs are omnivores they're less eager to hunt than griffins, and this one was either curious about the horse or wanted to mate with it.
Trademark Favorite Food: Griffons love to eat horses. As a result, the hippogriff (a griffon with a horse back end instead of a lion) was initially considered an impossible monster until it was actually discovered in universe. Whether or not hippogriffs are actually the result of griffin-horse crosses is unknown, but the lord of a dungeon can basically invent monsters.
Trauma Button: The sight of it sends Senshi into a spiraling panic, since he is unsure whether a meal he ate in his past was truly griffin meat, or actually dwarf meat.

Bicorn

First encountered: Volume 8, Chapter 56

Featured dishes: Succubus and bicorn brain doria.

Two-horned black horses, negative counterparts to the unicorn, derived from European Medieval and Renaissance sources. Whereas unicorns are beasts of purity and goodness, bicorns prefer corruption and immorality. Their favourite food is good husbands.

Ascended to Carnivorism: Despite being an equine creature, it likes to eat flesh. Supposedly, it prefers the flesh of virtuous husbands.
Brain Food: After giving the bicorn body to the dullahan, it leaves behind the head as thanks. Senshi stews the brain over rice. Marcille says it's mild-tasting and similar to shirako (soft roe or fish spermatophores).
Cross-Popping Veins: When Chilchuck tries to approach it, it displays these as well as a smile.
Evil Counterpart: The antithesis to the white and pure unicorn, the black and corrupted bicorn loves immorality. While unicorns prefer virgin maidens, the bicorn likes virtuous husbands (but to eat). However, the one that the party approaches seems like it would have avoided them if Chilchuck hadn't come up to it alone.
Mix-and-Match Critter: Looks like a horse but it has horns and horizontal pupils like a goat.
Slasher Smile: Right before it attacks, it flashes a menacing grin and bares its teeth at Chilchuck, likely because virtuous husbands like him are its favourite food.
Water Source Tampering: The unicorn's horn can purify water, but the touch of a bicorn horn neutralizes that property. This is how Laios realizes that the dungeon's water supply is a foul sludge of unknown provenance (much to everyone else's disgust). In a set of gift exchange sketches, Cithis selects a bicorn horn teaspoon to give away with a malicious smile and says "You can use this to mix a drink for someone you don't like. It's a good joke gift" which may or may not suggest that it could poison someone.

Phoenix

First encountered: Volume 10, Chapter 63

Featured dishes: Phoenix confit.

Immortal birds of fire, from Greek mythology.

Attack Animal: The personal guard monster of the Lunatic Magician because it's meant to be unkillable. Unfortunately for him, he never anticipated someone would eat it to prevent it from resurrecting.
Loophole Abuse: Fighting a resurrecting enemy is impossible. Instead of fighting it, Laios exploits the Geas that affect all monsters in the Dungeon: they cannot harm the inhabitants of the Golden Kingdom. Doing so reduces it to a docile state, so the party dines while sitting in the laps of the Melini royal family's comatose bodies, allowing them to eat it so it can't resurrect again.
Mundane Utility: The team uses its feathers to make feather dusters. Senshi also uses its natural flames to cook it.
Not So Invincible After All: The phoenix is supposed to an utterly unkillable monster due to the ability to resurrect itself an endless number of times, and exploding in flames so hot it's impossible to approach every time it does so. Laios is able to defeat it using one of the rules of the dungeon to his advantage: the monsters aren't allowed to hurt any inhabitants of the Golden Kingdom, so he covers the phoenix with Yaad's body to prevent it from reviving.
Resurrective Immortality: Upon death, it immolates its previous body and rises out of its ashes in a new one.
Wreathed in Flames: Every time it comes back to life it explodes into burning-hot flames, making it impossible to fight head-on or even approach. After figuring out the Loophole Abuse above, Senshi exploits this to get its meat to cook itself.

Dungeon Rabbit

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First encountered: Volume 10, Chapter 64

Featured dishes: Head-chopping rabbit curry.

These are just rabbits. They're found very deep in the dungeon but are not extra big and don't have visible extra body parts. What could go wrong?

Absurdly Sharp Claws: To the point of being referred to as "blades" by Senshi.
Blade Below the Shoulder: It turns out they have a hidden retractable claw in their ankles that they use to slit people's throats.
Cuteness Proximity: They appeared in an earlier chapter splash detailing monsters that manipulate desires. It's likely that they exploit their cuteness to catch people off guard. Marcille is really reluctant to kill them even though they're vicious, bloodthirsty monsters for this reason.
Fragile Speedster: Being the size of regular rabbits, they're not durable at all. But they move as fast as regular rabbits too, which combined with their blades means they cut the throats of most of the party before they can react. Only Izutsumi evades them, and she's injured and hiding up a tree when Marcille finds her.
Hair-Raising Hare: They resemble regular rabbits but they're deep-level dungeon monsters for a reason.
In a Single Bound: Even for rabbits they have impressive jumping capabilities, necessary to leap up to human neck-height for throat-slitting.
It Can Think: Laios thinks the rabbit he's pursuing will flee into its burrow but instead it leads him away from there with clear tracks, which then stop, leaving him surrounded. He says it's cleverer than he imagined right before the first one attacks. Izutsumi is able to kill one with a thrown dagger, at which point a pair of rabbits leap at her from opposite sides. She manages not to actually be killed but can't fully dodge both of them. Meanwhile, more rabbits are making their way to Marcille and Chilchuck and attack while they're distracted.
Killer Rabbit: Oh dear LORD.
Off with His Head!: As a warning, Laios tells a story of how a group of seasoned adventurers all completely lost their heads to these things. They don't manage this with anyone in the Touden party so full decapitation doesn't seem to be their go-to. However, that is the only exaggeration.
One-Hit Kill: They attack by using their spurs to slash people's throats, fatally wounding them in one blow.
Weaksauce Weakness: They bounce off any decent neck protection. Marcille's "Blinding Flash" spell also renders many of them stunned and helpless.
Zerg Rush: They're rabbits, and attack in rabbit numbers. Their numbers are a large part of why they're so dangerous.

Dragons

Green Dragon, White Dragon, Wyrm, Wyvern, Leviathan, Eastern Dragon

Clockwise from top left: green dragons, red dragon, white dragon, eastern dragon, hydra. Not pictured: wyrm, wyvern, leviathan, nightmare

First encountered: Volume 10, Chapter 69

Featured dishes: Roasted Senshi, salt-water pickled Izutsumi, frozen sashimi Chilchuck, nerve-threaded Marcille, green dragon acqua pazza, Golden Country dragon.

A collection of dragons summoned by the Lunatic Magician to battle our heroes. Not included in this group is the red dragon and nightmares, which have their own entries.

Cool, but Inefficient: Summoning a huge group of different dragons is a very intimidating show of power for sure, but really just one dragon might have been better because dragons, as territorial apex predators, don't get along and don't obey commands reliably, and they have no teamwork skills at all so constantly get in each other's way, sometimes even accidentally killing each other. At one point they almost accidentally kill the one who summoned them.
Cruel and Unusual Death: The way each of the party members dies is creative and brutal. Senshi is baked alive, Chilchuck frozen solid, Izutsumi drowns and Marcille suffers Blood from Every Orifice.
Didn't Think This Through: While such a gauntlet of enemies is quite daunting, the Lunatic Magician valuing quantity over quality ends in Laios' favor. Using his knowledge of monsters, he knows how to play the dragons' abilities and weaknesses against each other. Not to mention the dragons are so aggressive they start fighting each other.
Dragon Hoard: Alluded to. Green dragons love gold and silver treasure, and Laios is able to distract one with some giant silver utensils. It ends up accidentally killing the green dragon when the eastern dragon tries to blast lightning at Laios, only for the utensil to attract the lightning to the dragon instead and electrocute it.
Elemental Dragon: Each dragon has a different element and a corresponding Breath Weapon:
- An Ice Person: The white dragon has ice breath, capable of freezing a person solid.
- Blow You Away: The eastern dragon can cause storms.
- Making a Splash: The leviathan's ability is to spontaneously generate salt water wherever it is, giving it an environmental advantage.
- Poisonous Person: The wyrm breathes poisonous gas, which induces Blood from Every Orifice. Even if you don't breathe it in, it'll get absorbed through your skin. Considering the process was referred to as Shinkei-Jime ("nerve-threading") - a type of fish butchering that severs the central nerve to preserve freshness - the bleeding is likely due to backflow from a clot in the spine.
- Shock and Awe: The eastern dragon is capable of summoning lightning strikes.
Kraken and Leviathan: The leviathan, of course, which looks like a mix between a megalodon shark and an orca.
Let's You and Him Fight: Dragons are highly aggressive and territorial apex predators. With so many in one place, infighting is inevitable. Unfortunately, with the Lunatic Magician controlling them, it's not actually feasible for Laios to wait them out.
Odd Name Out: It's Lost in Translation, but the Eastern Dragon is the only dragon to be called "Ryuu" as opposed to "Doragon" in the Japanese version, highlighting how it isn't based on European style dragons like the other dragons.
Our Dragons Are Different:
- Compared to the red dragon, the green dragon is much more sleek and agile. It has wings, whereas the red dragon does not.
- The white dragon is covered in fur, likely to compensate for its northern habitats, and breathes ice instead of fire.
- The leviathan, looks like a cross between a megalodon shark and an orca. Laios describes it more as a force of nature than a monster.
- Wyverns are depicted as bipedal and winged, but much smaller than the other dragons. The other dragons can eat a wyvern in one bite.
- The eastern dragon is, well, an eastern dragon. It has a long, serpentine body, antlers and powers of storm.
- The wyrm looks like a subterranean salamander, being less defined in shape and blind, and spits poison gas.
Person of Mass Destruction: Due to their powers, the leviathan and the white dragon are regarded as living natural disasters as much as monsters. Laios, who could confidently defeat a red dragon given a full and properly supplied party, freely admits those two dragons are beyond his capabilities.
Running Gag: The white dragon only manages to let off its ice breath a single time. Every other time it tries, something interrupts it, and the backed-up Breath Weapon sends it sneezing.
Stuff Blowing Up: The wyrm's toxic gas is also flammable. Laios tricks the red dragon into igniting it, which causes a massive explosion.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Dragons are solitary apex predators and don't normally get along or reliably follow orders. They end up fighting each other, giving Laios a chance to get away and recover, and don't cooperate at all, constantly getting in each other's ways.
Weaksauce Weakness: Green dragons like gold and silver, both of which are highly conductive metals. Paired with an eastern dragon, which uses lightning, the green dragon didn't stand a chance.
What Happened to the Mouse?: One of the dragons summoned by Thistle is a many-headed hydra, with a panel even showing it in focus. It disappears completely by the next chapter and is never mentioned again, even in supplementary material which gave a lot of extra information on the dragon types.

Doppelganger

First encountered: Volume 12, Chapter 81

Featured dishes: None.

Large air-breathing octopuses which can roughly imitate the shapes of humans, then use their color-changing ability to fully trick the eyes. When the Master of a Dungeon wishes for the company of a person who is dead or otherwise absent, they tend to be a doppelganger in the form of that person.

Dead Person Conversation: Like shapeshifters, the form they take is drawn from peoples' memories, and are capable of at least mimicking intelligible speech. The one Laios's party encounters is based on Marcille's deceased father in his prime, and talking with it allows them to understand Marcille's childhood and motivations.
Glamour: Its shapeshifting abilities are so good that it can perfectly mimic the appearance of a person, despite its true appearance being an octopus. It can even make parts of itself completely invisible to complete the disguise and mimic the voice of the person.
It Can Think: Played for Laughs in a questionably canon omake, in which Laios lecturing the party about doppelgangers talks about them as mimicking and acting entirely on instinct, only to be interrupted when the doppelganger in question takes his form and says he's wrong. Chilchuck asks if it has any advice, and the octopus sums up the situation intelligently only to end with advising them to take the exact solution they think is the worst and most dangerous. It is a monster, after all. In the next panel, the party has made takoyaki from it and are chowing down.
Squishy Wizard: An unusual example. They are tremendously strong when in a shape-shifted disguise, but in their default form they're no threat at all.
Stealthy Cephalopod: They can seem to be exact recreations of humans and may even speak.
Super-Strength: They are extraordinarily strong, with one capable of outmuscling Senshi and hurling grown men around like dolls.
Terrestrial Sea Life: It's a large octopus, yet it doesn't seem to have any issue being out of water indefinitely.
Weaksauce Weakness: Doppelgangers are tremendously strong while assuming human shape, but if shown their own reflection they revert back to appearing to be octopodes and can then just be shoo'ed off.

Humanoid

Living Armor

Regular living armors

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Elite living armor

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 6 / Season 1, Episode 3
Featured dishes: Living armor dwarf-style stir-fry, living armor casserole, living armor soup, grilled living armor.

Initially thought to be a magically animate sentry, Laios discovers that they're actually colonies of mollusks. Each cluster specializes in the function of a certain limb, allowing the whole colony to move as a singular body.

Animated Armor: Assumed to be this but subverted in that it's actually a lot of mollusks.
Foreshadowing: There is a particular living armor with regalia themed after a winged lion.
It Can Think: Or at least, it operates on instincts. The fact that it reacted in ways that a remote-controlled tool wouldn't clues Laios in on its real nature.
Living Weapon: The weapons they carry are also living creatures. It's foolish to take one because like any wild animal, it'll act on instinct and try to abandon wielders against threats.
Monster Is a Mommy: The reason they're more aggressive than usual when Laios' party encounters them is because they're protecting a clutch of eggs.
Unrobotic Reveal: Fantasy variant. It's initially assumed they're purely magical creations, but it turns out they're actually colonial molluscs.
Weapons Breaking Weapons: Their swords shatter blades that are used to parry their blows, making them especially dangerous in close quarters. They can also cut deep into stone columns; it's unclear whether it's a property of the sword or the armor is just that strong.
The Worm That Walks: Essentially a colony of mollusks that resemble hollow armor with members specialized to allow movement.

Harpy

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First encountered: Volume 6, Chapter 37

Featured dishes: Harpy egg omelette, whole fifth floor piccata (with harpy egg), ice golem steamed egg, soulful eggs benedict.

Bird creatures that resemble human women, from Greek and Roman mythology.

Harping on About Harpies: They have humanoid heads and upper torsos, with wings taking the place of arms, feathers down their back and avian lower-halves.
Hidden Depths: Laios explains that they're quite good mothers. Still really gross, but good mothers to their brood.

Hag

Hag / Yamanba

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First encountered: Volume 6, Chapter 41

Featured dishes: None.

A kind of Yōkai, also known as a Yama-uba or Yamamba (山姥, literally "mountain old woman" or "maintain hag"). It was spawned from Izutsumi's Explosive Leash, put on her by Maizuru.

Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As is classic.
Implacable Man: Shuro remembers first seeing the knife-wielding hag as a child and being unable to shake or stop it with any of his newly learned skills.
Kill It with Fire: Laios observes that it seems to be made of paper, so he drags it to the fire runes that Marcille had made as a campfire.
Mundane Utility: Maizuru developed the "Ninja art of babysitting", using a Yamanba to pursue her charge Shuro and keep him from straying. Later this technique is used to keep Izutsumi from running away.
White Mask of Doom: Wears a Noh-style demon mask.
Wings Do Nothing: Like Maizuru, it has decorative winged sleeves.

Undead

Ghost

First encountered: Volume 2, Chapter 11 / Season 1, Episode 5
Featured dishes: Spirit dispelling sorbet.

The Dungeon's functionality binds a person's soul to their body after death. So long as the body isn't too damaged and so long as they are in the Dungeon, the person can be resurrected. But if the body has deteriorated beyond help, the soul remains bound inside the Dungeon, unable to move on.

And I Must Scream: Trapped in an eternity of disembodied torment, along with a vicious cycle of seeking warm flesh only for the body to rot as the ghosts' inhabitation kills the possessed. It's telling that the few helpful ghosts are those that manage to keep their sanity.
Big Damn Heroes: The ghosts on the third floor are hostile, but on the fifth floor they're more coherent and less decayed-looking. These help save the Touden party from a crushing trap.
Ghostly Chill: Their presence is marked by a drop in temperature. Contact with them also causes people to suffocate from the cold as frost begins to form on them. Beating them away also froze Senshi's impromptu holy water and made sorbet!
Vengeful Ghost: Implied, as they are hostile entities. Zombies are also formed from them possessing corpses and ghouls from them possessing living bodies; perhaps they're trying to find their original bodies?

Dullahan

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First encountered: Volume 9, Chapter 57

Featured dishes: None.

A type of spirit, based on a figure from Irish Folklore. It resembles a headless suit of armor and rides a horse.

Headless Horseman: Yep. Although it's introduced without a horse.
It Can Think: Laios is able to trade a bicorn corpse with it as a replacement steed in exchange for the party's lives.
Misplaced Retribution: It's revealed in an omake that Mithrun defeated its horse by teleporting it off of a cliff and it attacked the first person it came across in a rage after that: Laios.
Necromancer: Implied, as it resurrected the bicorn corpse.
Soul-Cutting Blade: Judging from how it wounded Laios, its sword phases right past armor and only cuts flesh.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: It mounts the undead bicorn, which rears onto its hind legs in a fantastic display - but since they're inside, the dullahan hits the ceiling. It also hits the doorway on the way out, due to the added height from being on horseback.

Other

Slime

A slime attacking Marcille

First encountered: Volume 1, Chapter 1 / Season 1, Episode 1
Featured dishes: Walking Mushroom and Huge Scorpion Hot Pot (with rehydrated slime innards), interfaith holy water (with grated slime innards), spirit dispelling sorbet, vegetables in jellied slime, mysterious bavarois.

A gelatinous organism that hides in ceilings, it waits for a person to exhale before dropping down over their head and suffocating them. Can be washed with hot water and citrus juice, and then sun-dried to be made edible.

Ambushing Enemy: Remains hidden until someone has exhaled or spoken, dropping down before they can take another breath.
Blob Monster: One with a surprising amount of anatomy. Senshi describes its structure as having an inside-out stomach with gastric acids surrounding the head and organs.
Logical Weakness: Fire, considering its amorphous form and the fact that its stomach is external.

Golem

First encountered: Volume 2, Chapter 8 / Season 1, Episode 4
Featured dishes: Simmered cabbage, turnip salad.

Magical servants that can be made from pretty much anything, so long as you've got a core to power it. Senshi uses several dirt golems as self-sustaining farm plots.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The reason they're not overly common anymore, as explained in a monster tidbits episode, they tended to go haywire due to minor calligraphy mistakes in their core.
Attack Its Weak Point: The core, which looks like a small effigy, is what enables them ambulatory capabilities. Senshi usually removes them long enough to harvest the vegetables and seed new ones before placing the cores back in.
Magitek: There's a metal version seen in an omake which resembles a humanoid robot, but, like all golems, it's powered by magic.
Mundane Utility: Because common golems are made from dirt, Senshi uses them as mobile gardens to grow vegetables. He cites them as more useful than regular crop plots as golems can protect themselves and tend to the plants' needs while keeping themselves moist.
Underground Monkey: They come in other varieties besides earth, with the below mentioned ice variant, as well as metal and manure variants seen in an omake.

Living Picture

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First encountered: Volume 2, Chapter 12 / Season 1, Episode 6
Featured dishes: Pumpkin soup, fruit, golden wheat bread, roast duck, golden cow cheese, sautéed fish with soybeans.

Paintings that try to entice people into stopping and admiring them, only to reach out and drag their victims into the pictures, never to be seen again. They're actually a kind of illusion that uses paintings as a medium.

Chekhov's Gunman: Scenes depicted in the paintings Laios enters are all from the Golden Kingdom's heyday. In particular, there is a certain elf that is consistently present.
Creepy Changing Painting: The first portrait they encounter is of a lady who tracks them with her eyes.
Fake Food: Zig-Zagged depending on how the paintings work. Despite everyone's protests, a hungry Laios thinks of a way to haul food from the painting world. Unfortunately, he finds out that not only can he not take the food back to the real world but, even though said food is indeed real and tastes incredible, as he gorges on a meal in one painting world, the feeling of being full instantly vanishes when he leaves.
Portal Picture: Each living picture is its own separate world based in how the scene is painted, as if showing a piece of a particular lore when inside.

Tentacle

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First encountered: Volume 3, Chapter 19 / Season 1, Episode 9
Featured dishes: Tentacle with vinegar, tentacle and kelpie stewed in undine, tentacle gnocchi.

Creatures that look like and hide among vines. Their tendrils are similar to jellyfish tentacles in that they have cnidocytes-like stingers, tiny venomous needles that spring out on contact.

Combat Tentacles: They're basically land-dwelling sea anemones, but with much more mobile venomous tentacles strong enough to grab people.
Fantastic Flora: Although from the presence of cnidocytes, it might not actually be a plant. Maybe a Planimal?
It Can Think: Downplayed. Chilchuck believes that tentacles have at least a minimal level of intelligence because they tend to grow in places where adventurers are likely to reach their arms into without looking.

Dungeon Cleaner

First encountered: Volume 5, Chapter 35

Featured dishes: Stone dish (brick made from cleaner secretions).

Tiny slug-like creatures that are responsible for the Dungeon's maintenance. They eat anything, from corpses to rubble to discarded belongings, and repair broken infrastructure, leaving the area just as it originally was.

Dungeon Maintenance: They're teeny bugs which rapidly repair any damage to a dungeon by eating debris and secreting a cement-like substance to repair any broken bits.
Extreme Omnivore: They'll eat anything that's not supposed to be in a dungeon. Senshi complains about them eating his base back on the second floor, and they try to eat Kensuke too.

Nightmare

Nightmare / Shin

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First encountered: Volume 6, Chapter 42

Featured dishes: Nightmares steamed in wine, green dragon acqua pazza.

Nightmares are a kind of dragon clam that hides in people's pillows, causing the sleeper to have amplified, usually horrible, dreams.

Chekhov's Gun: Overlapping with Brick Joke. Kabru has a nightmare about Laios and his fascination with eating monsters and, after being woken up by Mithrun, agitatedly shakes various Nightmares out of his pillow. The Lunatic Magician later unknowingly summons these same Nightmares in his confrontation against Laios. The Nightmares dying from the attacks of the other dragons released Kabru's nightmare, coincidentally giving Laios a decoy that distracts the Magician long enough for Laios to defeat him.
Lampshade Hanging: In an omake, it also consumed an older dream of Marcille's, which takes the form of a Romantic Comedy TV serial. Lampshades come in several flavors, such as in-dream Seasonal Rot, confusing amounts of characters and subplots, and obnoxious Will They or Won't They?
Nightmare Weaver: It's known for trapping people in dreams showing their greatest fears, draining their energy until they die. An omake indicates that the Nightmares show one's greatest fears instead of their desires because eventually the human heart grows bored of pleasant dreams, but "tragedy is bottomless", and so a jaded heart begins to summon fear and despair for stimulation.
Non-Indicative Name: Subverted. It turns out these creatures can cause any kind of dream, including happy ones. It just seems that the human heart is predisposed towards nightmares.
Our Dragons Are Different: Oddly enough this small shellfish like creature is considered a type of dragon, being summoned along with all the other dragons the Lunatic Magician called up.
Shout-Out: Its alternate Japanese name, Shin, comes from Shinkirou, a creature depicted in the Konjaku Hyakki Shui, a bestiary by Toriyama Sekien.
Stealth Pun: It's considered a dragon even though it resembles a clam because in Chinese, "shin" can refer to both.

Ice Golem

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First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 43

Featured dishes: Ice golem steamed egg, cooked fish from inside ice golem.

The golem core that Senshi accidentally lost down the drain on the second floor rears its head on the sixth. The sudden temperature change there caused the water to freeze over, activating a new golem.

Attack Its Weak Point: As with regular golems, damaging or removing the core will stop it.
Brick Joke: It reappears around four volumes later.
Underground Monkey: It's the same as the standard dirt golem, but with a body constructed out of ice. This makes it considerably more difficult to destroy, since ice is much harder than dirt.

Familiar

Marcille's familiars.

First encountered: Volume 7, Chapter 48

Featured dishes: Skyfish and chips.

Monsters that act as a mage's assistant. They can be pre-existing monsters, though this requires some complicated requirements. Alternatively, one can turn an animal into a monster, this method requiring enormous time and preparation. The third option is to create one from raw ingredients, which takes a lot of resources but may be done quickly.

Animal Eye Spy: Mages can look through their familiars' eyes. In fact Marcille and Fleki, at least, seem to have to use their familiars' senses and directly puppet them to get them to do anything at all.
Boring, but Practical: The Familiars created to fight the Griffon come down to this. Laios' suggestions are fancy, but is far too slow to catch up with the extremely fast griffin. After crushing Laios' latest attempt, a two-headed dragon that breathes fire and ice, she remakes it into the Skyfish, little more than a tube with wings. Laios is unimpressed, but it does do its job of catching up to the griffin.
Cool, but Inefficient: Laios remarks how a Familiar makes a well-balanced and tasty meal in a convenient fused package, but Marcille doubts it'll have much culinary value since it takes a week's worth of provisions to make one meal's worth, since most of it is converted into energy.
Equivalent Exchange: Familiars can be made of any substance, provided there's enough to convert. Most of the material turns into energy during the process, though unlike other examples, the remaining ingredients are conserved in the transformation and made to work like organs. Marcille, for example used some of her hair to create her Skyfish, as it has magical energy like blood while being less painful or costly. Izutsumi ends up coughing up a hairball when she eats one because the hair's still part of it.
Fairy Companion: The communication fairies used by Canary captains seem to be in this category. They are created over the course of nearly a year and require quite a lot of blood and more disgusting ingredients, but the tradeoff seems to be that they're mildly more independent than other familiars, can be used to communicate through other fairies, and destroying them doesn't harm their mage.
Fragile Speedster: The Skyfish is extremely fast and agile, and hits like a bullet but once it hits, it's done for.
Planimal: Vegetables were used to create the skyfish, so that's what its internal organs are made of. It still counts as part-animal because it has meat and cartilage (from the beef used).
Ridiculously Cute Critter: They might not look impressive but they are adorable. The base familiars looks like a child's doodle of a bird.
Synchronization: They cause negative feedback in their caster, which would seem to be related to how well-made they are/how skilled the caster is at making them. Marcille's familiars hurt her head a bit when destroyed, but Fleki's familiar being destroyed seems to give her a stroke.

Gargoyle

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First encountered: Volume 8, Chapter 50

Featured dishes: None.

Living stone statues.

Forced Transformation: The party uses the fact that they're covered in changeling spores to transform the gargoyles. One turns into a fountain fixture and another turns into a replica of Bocca della Verità.
Logical Weakness: Stones are notably weak to explosions. Unfortunately, Marcille as a half-foot has very low magic tolerance.
No-Sell: Are impervious to physical attacks, being made of stone. Laios warns the others not to hit them, as it'll hurt.

Magic Mirror

First encountered: Volume 9, Chapter 62 (flashback)

Featured dishes: None.

A mirror that reflects a person's greatest desires to tempt them into its glass.

Your Heart's Desire: It shows the person looking into it their greatest desire to tempt them into reaching towards it, where it'll pull them in and swallow them up.

Characters / Delicious in Dungeon: Monsters

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Notable Individuals

The Red Dragon

Anne

The Winged Lion / "Power" / The Demon

This character is a Walking Spoiler. Therefore, all spoilers will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned.

The Goat

Couatl / Quetzalcouatl

Ultimate Strongest Monster / Laios's Chimera

Flora

Walking Mushroom

Mandrake

Dryad

Barometz

Changeling

Insectoids, Arachnids & Arthropods

Huge Scorpion

Treasure Insect

Mimic

Succubus Mosquito

Aquatic

Kelpie

Bladefish

Piscine Mermaid/ Merman

Humanoid Mermaid

Kraken

Undine

Animalia

Big Bat

Huge Frog

Warg

Shapeshifter

Dire Wolf

Minotaur

Griffin & Hippogriff

Bicorn

Dungeon Rabbit

Green Dragon, White Dragon, Wyrm, Wyvern, Leviathan, Eastern Dragon

Doppelganger

Humanoid

Living Armor

Harpy

Hag / Yamanba

Undead

Ghost

Dullahan

Other

Slime

Living Picture

Tentacle

Dungeon Cleaner

Nightmare / Shin

Ice Golem

Familiar

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