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11 Overview
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33 Beyonder Monsters (失控者 / 怪物) are Beyonders who have lost control of their Pathway and transformed into supernatural creatures. They are one of the principal enemy types the player encounters in Lord of Mysteries. Many anomaly investigations resolve into a Beyonder Monster confrontation; many dungeon bosses are Beyonder Monsters at high Sequence.
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55 How a Beyonder Loses Control
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77 Loss of control is the source-material framing the game adapts. The higher a Beyonder's Sequence, the greater their inhuman inclinations relative to their original humanity, and the higher the risk of falling into one of three deteriorating stages:
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99 Warning signs: auditory and visual hallucinations. The Beyonder is still in control but has lost some certainty about which perceptions are real.
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1111 Body and mind out of control: terrifying or strange states surface intermittently. The Beyonder's behaviour becomes erratic and predatory.
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1313 Complete breakdown: the Beyonder transforms fully into a Beyonder Monster. The original person is gone; what remains is a hostile creature shaped by the corrupted Pathway.
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1515 Drinking a Beyonder potion without sufficient Acting Method preparation, repeated low-sanity exposures, and witnessing high-Sequence rituals without protection are the major triggers. See the Sanity System page for the full madness-state ladder that culminates in monster transformation.
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1717 Player-Character Risk
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1919 The player's own Beyonder character can transform into a Beyonder Monster under specific story-locked failure conditions. How the game handles a player character who begins to lose control, including whether the state is recoverable and what it costs, has not been confirmed for the current build.
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2121 Mr. Fool's grafting does not protect the player from monster transformation. The grafted abilities are kit-defining, not safety guarantees; failed potion ceremonies can still corrupt a player character.
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2323 As Enemies
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2525 Beyonder Monsters appear as combat enemies across the campaign:
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2727 Solo creature enemies: low-Sequence Beyonder Monsters surface in field zones and small dungeons.
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2929 Boss-tier creatures: mid-Sequence Beyonder Monsters serve as dungeon bosses.
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3131 Setpiece encounters: high-Sequence Beyonder Monsters appear in the campaign's apex moments. The Tingen-arc finale (the source-material's Tingen City Doomsday event) is one such encounter; players witness or participate alongside Dunn Smith and the Nighthawks in the canonical sacrifice that resolves it.
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3333 Pathway-Themed Monsters
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3535 Each Pathway produces distinct monster forms. A failed Seer becomes a divinatory horror with reality-distortion abilities; a failed Apprentice becomes a mobility-and-chaos creature; a failed Spectator becomes a mind-domination creature; a failed Warrior becomes an unstoppable physical menace; a failed Bard becomes a song-warped predator; a failed Mystery Pryer becomes a knowledge-cursed entity that drives investigators mad with secrets they cannot un-know.
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3737 Beyonder Monsters often retain partial memory of their pre-transformation life. The Tingen Nighthawks treat this as a moral consideration: a recently-transformed monster may sometimes be stabilised before completing the breakdown, which produces some of the campaign's most ambiguous side-quest decisions.
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3939 Mythical Creature Forms
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4141 In the source material, advanced Beyonders can take on Mythical Creature Forms specific to their Pathway as they near the top of the Sequence ladder. How, or whether, these high-Sequence forms are implemented in the game has not been confirmed for the current build. These appear in late-game story content and apex-tier raid encounters; the Crimson Test does not surface this content.