Enemy

The Ashen Colossus

Titan of the Anvil

Boss
Act 2
Melee
Act Boss

Hadrunn the Smith was the finest maker of his age. He made the tools of the court, and he designed the made-folk to serve its forge. When the wheel was nailed and every office stood still, he could not bear to stop, so he hammered himself into an anvil titan that never would. He still beats out heaven's iron under the falling ash, splits the ground with his maul and calls up Cinderlings to feed his embers. He does not understand why some of the made-folk walked away.

The anvil does not pity the iron. It strikes until the form is true.

The Ashen Colossus

Level 1 Level 36

Level 1 to 36

Attributes

Health (HP): 7200 21900; 21900 at level 36 +14,700 from level 1
Mana: 1100 2325; 2325 at level 36 +1,225 from level 1
Attack (ATK): 84 245; 245 at level 36 +161 from level 1
Armor: 55 118; 118 at level 36 +63 from level 1
Magic Resist: 35 70; 70 at level 36 +35 from level 1
Attack Speed: 0.7 1.07; 1.07 at level 36 +0.37 from level 1
Move Speed: 2.8 m/s 2.8 m/s; Fixed Fixed
Attack Range: 1.7 m 1.7 m; Fixed Fixed

5 skills

Skills

Skill I

Quake Maul

Active

Cooldown: 10s
Cost: 70 mana

Cooldown: 10s
Cost: 70 mana

Smash the ground: 90 (+45% ATK) physical damage within 3.4m and a 0.5s stun.

Smash the ground: 315 (+45% ATK) physical damage within 3.4m and a 0.5s stun.

Driven by an eternal drill to hammer heaven's star-iron, Hadrunn treats the battlefield as another unshaped slab upon his anvil. Gripping his colossal, square-headed iron maul with both hands, the titan rotates his monolithic torso of molten basalt and drives the weapon downward with apocalyptic weight. The crushing impact splits the stone floor into jagged chasms spewing orange sparks and soot, knocking surrounding foes from their feet and leaving them paralyzed and reeling from the concussive vibration.

Skill II

Magma Leap

Active

AoE
DoT
Mobility

Cooldown: 12s
Cost: 90 mana

Cooldown: 12s
Cost: 90 mana

Leap onto the densest group: 70 magic damage within 2.8m and a burn of 18 per second for 4s.

Leap onto the densest group: 245 magic damage within 2.8m and a burn of 63 per second for 4s.

Forged to tirelessly traverse the vast crucibles of the Chainforge, the Ashen Colossus moves with shocking speed despite his mountainous bulk. The titan bends his iron-plated knees and launches himself skyward in an explosive plume of soot and glowing embers, arcing directly toward the most crowded enemy formation. He crashes down like a falling furnace, sending tidal waves of boiling red magma splashing across the ground to scorch warriors and leave their armor blistering with lingering fire.

Skill III

Slag Skin

Passive

Buff

Passive: below 50% HP the Colossus hardens: 10% less damage taken and +24% attack speed.

When Hadrunn hammered his own mortal flesh into an anvil titan, he bound his living core to endure the fiercest heat of heaven's forge. Whenever grievous damage cracks his basalt exterior, the molten slag coursing through his seams rapidly cools into an obsidian shell of hardened black stone. As incoming blows glance harmlessly off this dense armor, the bellows within his ribcage vent roaring white heat, driving his heavy iron limbs into a blistering, accelerated striking cadence.

Skill IV

Cinder Brood

Active

Summon

Cooldown: 22s
Cost: 100 mana

Cooldown: 22s
Cost: 100 mana

Call 1 Cinderlings for 25s.

Unable to cease his smithing labor, Hadrunn calls upon the fire spirits of his foundry to tend the flames while he works the iron. He stamps his massive slag foot and vents a blast of blistering air from the grate across his chest. From the smoldering cracks in the floor leap cinderlings, skittering spirits of flame and coal from the bellows flues. The nimble vermin scatter across the front line in showers of orange sparks, snapping at weapons and feeding fresh embers to their maker.

Skill V

Ashfall Ruin

Ultimate

Cooldown: 35s
Cost: 220 mana

Cooldown: 35s
Cost: 220 mana

Ultimate: ash rains on the densest group for 4s: 35 magic damage per second within 4m, then 85 damage and a 0.8s stun.

Ultimate: ash rains on the densest group for 4s: 210 magic damage per second within 4m, then 510 damage and a 0.8s stun.

Communing with the ancient forge-fires of the Ashen Wastes, Hadrunn unseals the smothered fury of a thousand consumed towns. The titan raises his glowing iron maul toward the smoggy sky and roars as his molten slag heart flares with blinding white brilliance. A torrential tempest of suffocating black ash and burning embers pours down upon the thickest cluster of enemies, searing their flesh before culminating in an explosive thunderclap that shatters the bedrock, hurling survivors to the floor in dazed, motionless stun.

Four views

Character sheet

The Ashen Colossus from the front, both sides and the back — The Ashen Colossus, character sheet. Select the image to open it full screen.

Appearance

The Ashen Colossus is a titanic divine boss standing twelve feet tall and wide as a castle gate, representing Hadrunn the Smith forged into an immortal anvil titan. He has a monolithic body of blackened iron and living basalt, a flat rectangular head resembling a smith's anvil with glowing orange exhaust slots, and an iron furnace grate set into his chest. His thick shell consists of dense cast star-iron plates and hardened volcanic rock that cool into impenetrable slag skin under heavy blows. He wields a colossal, square-headed two-handed maul of solid star-iron inscribed with celestial runes, slamming the earth to create seismic chasms and summon broods of cinderlings. Torrential clouds of suffocating black ash and burning embers pour from his chest grate. Palette: star-iron black, basalt grey, molten magma orange. Silhouette hook: a titanic, broad-shouldered anvil-headed colossus wielding a massive rectangular iron maul.