The Spearmaster

Spearmaster is one of nine playable slugcats in the game Rain World, being one of the six added in the Downpour DLC. They are a purposed organism created by the Iterator Seven Red Suns for the purpose of delivering messages to fellow Iterators. When Five Pebbles begins destroying Looks to the Moon's facility by depriving her of water, Suns sends a message to him via Spearmaster begging him to stop, only for Pebbles to respond violently and refuse contact with him and the rest of the local group. Following this, Moon tasks the purple slugcat with delivering her final message to the local group before her collapse.
== Appearance ==
Spearmaster is a thin purple slugcat with white eyes, a white nose and no mouth. Their tail is covered in white holes, where it's able to generate bone-like needles. After having the red pearl torn out, they have a light purple, x-shaped scar on their chest that fades away over the following cycles.
== Biography ==
Chronologically Spearmaster's campaign is the first to happen, followed by Artificer.
In the past, when Five Pebbles gave up hope on finding a way out of the cycle, Seven Red Suns has Spearmaster send him a golden pearl with instructions on how to overwrite the part of his code preventing self-destruction so that he may destroy himself. However, this requires a lot of water consumption, with Pebbles' neighbor and sister Looks to the Moon becoming dehydrated due to their shared water source. When Moon's intervention during one of Pebbles' experiments accidentally infects him with the Rot, he soon after cuts contact with the rest of the local group out of anger. Following this, Suns sends Spearmaster back to him to deliver a message, unable to reach him any other way, with the pearl imbedded in the slugcat's chest.
Once reaching Pebbles, he asks Suns why he sent his messenger again, and saying he can't afford any distractions. He then violently tears the red pearl out of Spearmaster's chest, leaving the slugcat barely able to stand, and decides to read it out. The message is an apology from Suns for putting Pebbles in such a situation by giving him the gold pearl, and a plea to stop dehydrating Moon and to resume communication. Pebbles is enraged by this message, blaming Suns and Moon for the Rot and stating that he'll find a way out on his own, yelling at Spearmaster to leave and flinging them out of his chamber.
Upon reaching Looks to the Moon, she pities Spearmaster, stating that there's no record of their unnatural anatomy's blueprints, and there's no way it could've naturally evolved to be that way. She tells them they'll welcome to stay, as she enjoys the company, since her neighbor Pebbles is damaging her structure, destroying her communication devices. Suddenly the lights in her chamber flash red and she falls to the floor, crying out in pain, returning to normal a few moments later. She laments that her last memories might be talking to a strange creature, and there's not much she can do about it, telling Spearmaster to make themself at home.
She'll then take notice of the red pearl they're holding, asking if it was inside of them and reading it. She concludes that the message was for Pebbles, surprised that news of her and her neighbor's problems had reached the other Iterators, and how much they've been trying to contact the two. She then rewrites the pearl with her own message to the other Iterators, requesting the purple slugcat takes the pearl to the Communications Array in Sky Islands to broadcast it there.
Once reaching the Communications Array, Spearmaster climbs up the tallest antenna, where they broadcast Moon's message to the local group. After the credits, Spearmaster's campaign select image will show them in SRS' chamber, sleeping as their creator pets them.
When getting to Karma 10, Spearmaster is allowed by the Guardians in the Depths to reach the Void Sea. There they will ascend, though this ending only shows a closeup of their face, and does not reveal what happens to them afterwards.
== Gameplay ==
Spearmaster is unlocked alongside Rivulet upon the player beating Artificer's, Hunter's or Gourmand's campaigns. 
The player is able to make Spearmaster generate needles from their tail whenever they have a free hand by holding the grab button, with the needles detaching and falling to the ground if Spearmaster's hands are full. Spearmaster cannot create any needles while underwater. These needles are able to drain energy from edible plants and creatures they're stabbed into, filling anywhere from 0 to 10 food pips depending on the target. The needles can be traded to Scavengers, making them easy to befriend, and don't conduct electricity.
Spearmaster is the lightest of the slugcats, allowing them to fly indefinitely with a Squidcada, though this also makes them incredibly vulnerable to Wormgrass, and gives them trouble when holding creatures like Jetfish. Due to their lack of a mouth, they cannot store objects in their stomach like all other Slugcats. Spearmaster begins their campaign in Outskirts with Karma 1. The Karma Gate to the Outer Expanse is seen closing behind them, and one of Suns' overseers directs them forward.
The map is majorly different compared to other campaigns, most notably with Moon not yet having collapsed, and Shoreline being known as Waterfront Facility as a result. Rot Cysts are absent from Five Pebbles' can - outside of Unfortunate Development - and The Exterior, but has overrun the Garbage Wastes. Drainage System's water level also fluctuates, among other miscellaneous changes.
Completing both Spearmaster's and Rivulet's campaigns unlocks Saint.
== Gallery ==
File:SpearmasterTitleCard.png|Spearmaster's title card
File:SpearmasterHibernation.png|Spearmaster hibernating
File:SpearmasterMessengerEnding.png|Menu art after the messenger ending
File:SpearmasterAscension.png|Spearmaster ascending
File:SpearmasterAscensionEnding.png|Menu art after the ascension ending
== Trivia ==
* Drawings can be found leading to shelters in the Exterior, which are implied to have been left there by Spearmaster for future slugcats, as these don't appear in their campaign.
* When playing in Jolly Co-op, Moon will have dialogue when presented with one of Spearmaster's needles.
* Originally there was going to be a black slugcat with Guardian powers known as the Judge, however they were scrapped early on in development, being replaced by Spearmaster.
* Spearmaster was originally going to be the protagonist of the joke dating sim, but this role was ultimately taken by the secret ninth slugcat Inv, with Spearmaster instead being one of Inv's five options for a mate.
* Spearmaster was nearly scrapped, as stated in a developer commentary and referenced in Inv's dating sim.
== External links ==
Spearmaster on the Rain World Wiki
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