Activities
Fishing
The reel game, rods, both fishmongers and all 30 fish: weights, values and habits.
Swap your weapon for a rod and fish the forest lake, or the Blood Mere once your Fishing skill is high enough. Every catch trains Fishing; rarer, heavier and perfect catches teach more.
How a catch goes
- Cast. Time the meter and throw up to about thirteen metres. The aim ring turns green over deep water.
- Wait. Nibbles come first and a fish's shadow circles in. Strike too soon and it's gone.
- Strike. A splash and a “!”: set the hook in under a second.
- Reel. Keep the fish inside your hold as it darts up and down the bar. Big fish fight longer; sometimes treasure appears to snatch.
- Land. It arcs into your hand: weight, records and perfect catches are noted in your angler's log.
Fishmongers
A skeleton fishmonger runs a shack on the forest lake, and another keeps the jetty on the Blood Mere. Both buy fish at full value and sell rods; the Bone Merchant pays less for fish.
The forest lake
| Fish | Rarity | Weight | Fights like | Base value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Murk MinnowA grey sliver of a thing. There are always more. |
Common | 0.08–0.35 kg | a drifter | 4 g |
 Bog RoachTastes of mud. Fights like it's owed money. |
Common | 0.2–0.8 kg | a darter | 6 g |
 Gloomgill PerchIts gills glow faintly when it's frightened. They glow now. |
Common | 0.3–1.3 kg | a drifter | 8 g |
 Ashen CarpFat, slow and the colour of a cold hearth. |
Common | 0.8–3.6 kg | a sinker | 10 g |
 Lantern EelA light at its throat lures smaller fish in. You were lured too. |
Uncommon | 0.6–2.2 kg | a smooth swimmer | 18 g |
 Bonefin TroutIts fins are bare bone. It doesn't seem to mind. |
Uncommon | 0.8–2.8 kg | a drifter | 21 g |
Pale PikeAll teeth and spite, white as a drowned man. |
Uncommon | 1.5–5.5 kg | a darter | 24 g |
Widow CatfishBlack as mourning cloth. Its whiskers are longer than your arm. |
Rare | 3–9.5 kg | a sinker | 48 g |
 Moonscale SalmonEach scale holds a little moonlight. It leaps for the real one. |
Rare | 2–6.5 kg | a darter | 56 g |
WraithfinYou can see its bones through it. It flickers in and out of the water. |
Rare | 0.5–1.6 kg | an erratic | 64 g |
 Duskmaw GarA jaw like a bear trap on a body like a spear. It hunts at dusk. It is always dusk here. |
Epic | 2.5–7.5 kg | a darter | 135 g |
 Amethyst LurkerGrown fat on the river's glow until it glows itself. |
Epic | 1.5–4.2 kg | an erratic | 150 g |
 Hexed SturgeonOlder than the forest. Someone carved runes in its armour plates, long ago. |
Epic | 6–19 kg | a sinker | 165 g |
 Crowned GrimfishA ring of bony spines grows round its head like a crown. It rules the lake, and knows it. |
Legendary | 4–11 kg | an erratic | 380 g |
 The Drowned BishopA great red eel, its fins like vestments. The fishermen cross themselves when they say its name. |
Legendary | 8–21 kg | a smooth swimmer | 430 g |
Heart-Koi of VaelIt shines with every colour at once. They say the lake's heart beats inside it, and the lake dies a little when one is taken. |
Mythic | 1–3.2 kg | a thrashing mythic | 1,800 g |
Starspawn AnglerFell from the sky as a falling star, the fishmonger swears. Its lure is a tiny, burning constellation. |
Mythic | 3–8.5 kg | a thrashing mythic | 2,200 g |
The Old One BelowToo many eyes, all of them open. It let you catch it. Remember that. |
Mythic | 25–64 kg | a thrashing mythic | 2,600 g |
The Blood Mere
Needs Fishing 20. Every fish here beats its forest cousin, Epic-or-better bites come about twice as often, and each catch gives half as much XP again.
| Fish | Rarity | Weight | Fights like | Base value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Clot MinnowLittle dark beads of a thing, thick in the red water. They taste of iron. |
Common | 0.1–0.45 kg | a darter | 16 g |
Veinfin DaceIts fins are webbed with fine blue veins. They pulse. |
Common | 0.3–1.1 kg | a drifter | 22 g |
Rustgill PerchIts gills have rusted shut. It breathes the blood anyway. |
Uncommon | 0.5–1.8 kg | a drifter | 54 g |
 Leechmouth EelA round mouth ringed with teeth. It will try to latch on to you. Let it go. |
Uncommon | 0.8–3 kg | a smooth swimmer | 62 g |
Scabscale CarpFat and slow, crusted with dark scales that flake away like old wounds. |
Rare | 1.5–6 kg | a sinker | 150 g |
Sanguine PikeBright as a fresh cut. It hunts by the smell of whatever you are bleeding. |
Rare | 2–7 kg | a darter | 175 g |
 Marrowjaw GarIts jaw is bare bone, and it uses it to crack the bones that sink into the mere. |
Epic | 3–9 kg | a darter | 390 g |
 Crimson LurkerGrown fat on what drains into the mere, until it glows with it. |
Epic | 2–5.5 kg | an erratic | 440 g |
 Heartsblood SturgeonIts armour plates beat, faintly, like a heart. Older than the ruins above it. |
Legendary | 8–26 kg | a sinker | 980 g |
The Red AbbessA long eel in a veil of red fins. The nuns who built the cloister drowned their sins in this water. |
Legendary | 6–18 kg | a smooth swimmer | 1,100 g |
 Ichor SeraphSix fins like wings, and it sings when it breaks the surface. No one who hears it sleeps well again. |
Mythic | 2–6 kg | a thrashing mythic | 4,600 g |
The Bleeding LeviathanThe mere is not a spring. It is this, bleeding, for a thousand years. |
Mythic | 40–96 kg | a thrashing mythic | 5,200 g |
Rods are listed on weapons.