Monsters

Black Wolf

• variant of Wolf present in alpha 1.01d
• later changed into Orcdog, which in final release still uses ID_BLACKWOLF

Blood Hound

• huge dog-like monster
• clearly separate from Orcdog (there’s both MST_DEFAULT_BLOODHOUND and MST_DEFAULT_ORCDOG)

Goblin

• if player tries to talk to one, it shouts Bonami! Schagaluga! Aitascha! Wazsashi! Kawwasakki!
• some of them try to lure the player into a cave and with other CaveGobbos
• some of them are thrown over a chasm by troll
• there are KamikazeGobbo who fall down on the player from above
• when picks up an item, they make happy shout Bonami!
• when starts attacking, they make alarm shout Aitascha!

Iguana

• mentioned in 1.01d alpha
• in the final game translated as Waran
  • compare lists GIL_WARAN GIL_SLF GIL_GOBBO and Iguana Sleeper Gobbo

Lurker

• water monster that is hard to catch on the shore without bait
  • You catch a lurker with bait. Take raw meat and put it on the shore near him. Wait until he grabs it, then you have a chance (SIT_1_NC_WOLF_TRAINSARCHERY / 0.94 alpha)

Mid’ssa

• underwater monster living at the Exchange Place

  Then he felt a touch.
  It was like something caressed his feet. 
  Delicate, light, surrounding his knee like a water plant.
  But too purposefully wrapping itself around his leg, gripping with ever tighter grip... 
  

  He noticed meandering motion in the water behind him, a small wave moving in his direction.
  

  Greenish mass, which had perversely taken shape of a meter-long female face.
  It was dominated by greenish shining eyes and a wide, wide mouth with several rows of pointed teeth.
  Around were dozens of arm-thick, green-scaled tentacles diving in his direction, making the water splash against the edge of the cliff.
  

Orcbiter

• monster present in alpha 1.01d (ID_ORCBITER)
• clearly separate from Orcdog (there’s both MST_DEFAULT_ORCBITER and MST_DEFAULT_ORCDOG)

Minecrawler

• giant insect-like creatures that eat orcs and humans
• they have venomous mandibles, poisoned orcs need the Orc Medicine to survive
• Beware of the minecrawlers. (...) Those rotten creatures come directly from Beliar's realm!
  • source: dialogue with Glen (VLK_583_Glen_INFO_Info)
  • unclear if it’s a literal fact or just exaggeration caused by fear

Minesprayer

• known as Felssprüher in German version of Sleeper's Ban
• great underground monster
• usually takes multiple people to kill one
• it’s venom is an acid that quickly melts rock and can be stored in glass vials

Polar badger

• lives in the far Polar North
• known as “Kumatekk” in the language of Shirtakkihn

Polar Bear

• lives in the far Polar North

Polar Bears guarding Unknown Northern Race

• gigantic polar bears
• four-meter-tall polar bear, and red runes of flames over the left side of the face and neck
• bright red markings that covered the left side of the face, neck and upper body of these creatures
• red mark covering the left side of a polar bear
• have special connection with Unknown Northern Race
• staring from a height of four meters
• bright white fur, a wall of fur, head-sized paws with finger-length claws, panting mouths with long fangs

Polar shark

• lives in the far Polar North
• Sharks (...) whose skin was so brilliantly blue that it even faded the color of the sea in that bright sunshine.
• bright blue fins

Scavenger

• according to early alpha transformation spells, there could have been two types of scavengers (there was a spell to transform into Scavenger2)

Shadowbeast

• mentioned as Schattenläufer (German for Shadow Walker) in 1.01d alpha
  • this is a nickname for Shugul Sath, a legendary monster of similar posture from Sleeper’s Ban
  • compare these two lists from a compiled file: SCAVENGER SCAVENGER2 SHADOWBEAST SNAPPER and Scavenger n/a Schattenläufer Snapper
  • another place in compiled gothic.dat from the same version also maps Schattenläufer to Shadow.mds
• codename is just shadow

Skeleton

• the only monster in the alpha builds using engine attribute regrow
  • has value of 80, all the other monsters and NPCs have 0
• types of skeletons: normal, warrior, scout, mage

Stonestrangler

• probably later renamed minecrawler
• they are five meters long and look like giant cockroaches (Sleeper’s Ban)
• they dig attack tunnels through the stone and camouflage the opening to look like solid rock (...) BOOM! - a large, hooked arm rattles towards you, grabs your back and pulls you one of these tubes, faster than you can say "stonestrangler" (Sleeper’s Ban)
• we thought stonestranglers had already feasted on you and laid eggs in your flesh. (Sleeper’s Ban)
• have poisonous venom
  • The crawlers poisoned me. I need antidote. (DIA_FREEMINEORC_WASTUN_INFO_06.WAV / 1.01d alpha)

Swampshark

• mixture of a cobra and a sandworm
  • German: Mischung aus Kobra und Sandwurm. (Phoenix Monsters)

Troll

• Trolls are cave dwellers (from: Phoenix Monsters design doc)
• Gothic Comic shows trolls marching together with orcs as Northern Hordes
• early design doc mention war trolls accompanying orc patrols in the abandoned mine
  • German: Orkpatroullien in VM (incl. Kriegstroll?) (in Phoenix Hauptmissionen)
• trolls were supposed to have two special attacks (described in Phoenix Monsters):
  • when encountered in underground tunnel Hits the ground, rocks rain down
    • this visual effect was actually implemented in an alpha release (camera shaking + falling decals of giant rocks)
    • German: Schlägt auf Boden, Felsen prasseln herab
  • Grabs player character and bites off his head
    • German: Packt SC und beißt ihm den Kopf ab
• Trolls can move boulders/stone portals that are too heavy for the player character
  • German: Trolle können Felsbrocken/Steinportale verschieben, die für den SC zu schwer sind. (from: Phoenix Monsters design doc)

Undead Dragon

• Undead Dragon in chokepoint on the way towards the Sleeper
  • from early design docs
• it’s mentioned next to a weapon with which you can destroy undeads
  • from early design docs
• Undead dragon in AT3 [Ancient Temple part 3] - PC [Player Character] finds scriptures describing how the temple servants of the Sleeper captured a dragon to protect access to the inner sanctuary, it is said to be chained there - when the PC enters the corresponding room he only finds the broken chains...
  • Untoter Drache in AT3 – SC findet Aufzeichnungen, in denen beschrieben ist, wie die Tempeldiener des Schläfers einen Drachen gefangengenomen haben, um durch ihn den Zugang zum inneren heiligtum zu schützen, er solle dort angekettet sein – wenn der SC den entsprechenden Raum betritt findet er nur noch die gesprengten Ketten vor...
  • from Phoenix Level Design document
• later was replaced by the Fifth Orc Shaman, which similarly is an undead boss blocking the only way to The Sleeper, and has to be defeated with a special weapon