It is implied that Karin's Moonscorched form is inspired by the concept of guilt. Her profession profits from wartime, which could make her feel like a vulture preying on the corpses of young soldiers, a viewpoint shared by many commonfolk. However, Karin also tries to rationalize her work as a way of honoring the fallen, similar to the role of a valkyrie. As a result, her Moonscorched form could be a fusion of both the vulture and the valkyrie, reflecting her conflicting feelings about her career.
Note: HP in parenthesis is only used for Damage-over-Time calculations.
Inflicting the torso with Blindness 1 does not make Blindness 2 apply to the rest of the body, so the player should use Black smog or throw Glass shards directly at her claws and the Bellends.
Skills
Body Part
Skill
Effect
Condition
Chance
Success Rate
Legs
Claws 2x
Deals 21-25 Slashing damage to a single target twice, can cause Bleeding status.
At the end of the turn, if neither leg is destroyed
100%
95%
Claws
Deals 21-25 Slashing damage to a single target, can cause Bleeding status.
At the end of the turn, if one leg has been destroyed
100%
95%
Bellend 1-4
The bellend is aiming towards you...
Enables Javelin for the respective bellend.
At the end of the turn, a bellend is chosen randomly
100%
100%
Javelin
Deals 54-58 Piercing damage to a single target, can cause Bleeding status.
At the end of the turn, a Bellend aimed last turn and has not been destroyed
All of Valkyrie's attacks ignore guarding, so you must not guard in that fight, instead you need to kill it as fast as possible by attacking the torso and throwing Condensed hemlock on it, to survive the battle until the hemlock kills her you need Ghouls or Blood golem to tank her hits for you, she can deal a massive amount of damage so you must get armor with great slashing and piercing resistances, like the Fluted armor, the Bremen chestplate or the Chainmail dress, the Ballistic shield will help a lot too although it is a completely random drop.
The same strategy for Fear & Hunger Mode applies, although it is important to point out that you will be taking 50% more damage from her in this mode, so it is even more important to fight her once you have great defensive armor and accessories like Fluted armor, bremen chestplate, Ballistic shield, One-winged necklace or Guardian cameo.
Dialogues
Talk
Valkyrie: “Kaaaa... Join... The flight of the valkyrie...”
Player: “You can actually talk?”
Valkyrie: “I immortalize those fallen and perished... Kaaa... They will forever live in our memories...” The valkyrie doesn't seem to react to your words in any way.
Player: “Stay back beast!”
Valkyrie: “I immortalize those fallen and perished... Kaaa... They will forever live in our memories...” The valkyrie doesn't seem to react to your words in any way.
Player: “Come an inch closer and I'll clip those wings.”
Valkyrie: “I immortalize those fallen and perished... Kaaa... They will forever live in our memories...” The valkyrie doesn't seem to react to your words in any way.
Player: Nevermind
Valkyrie: “I immortalize those fallen and perished... Kaaa... They will forever live in our memories...” The valkyrie doesn't seem to react to your words in any way.
Interactions
“The monstrosity is down...”
Action
Result
Flavour text
Use Brain flower
Failure
“The head of the creature has got hardened naturally growing armor. You cannot penetrate it and lay down your seed...”
Use Heart flower
Failure
“The head of the creature has got hardened naturally growing armor. You cannot penetrate it and lay down your seed...”
Beat it
Nothing
“The body of the valkyrie feels very muscular and tense even after its death.”
“The creature seems to have a mixture of human and bird physique. The fusion looks so perfect that you cannot tell which is the point of origin in its transformation. You suspect the creature used to a human originally, just based on the monstrosities you've seen in the area so far. Upon closer inspection, the armor on the creature looks organic. It's exoskeleton-like growth. It's very hard and sturdy.”
Valkyrie's design was initially made for VaatiVidya'sart competition with intentions of later using it in Termina development. The name of the entry was "Val'eatar".
Gallery
Gallen-Kallela painting that influenced the design of Valkyrie.
Orange's comment.
Original design that was used in VaatiVidya's art competition.
Gallen-Kallela painting that influenced the design of Valkyrie.
Orange's comment.
Original design that was used in VaatiVidya's art competition.
