Pursuer

This article contains significant spoilers regarding Beneath, proceed with caution.

## Pursuer

* Normal
* Construct

### Featured in

Facility
Caves
Crystal Caverns
Ruins
Islands
The Construct
Fire and Blood

### Wields

Pursuer Heart (Usable in Facility)
Laser Katana (Construct Pursuer)

## Statistics

###  Health

Invincible (Instantly killed when hit by weapons from Fire and Blood)
Very High (Construct Pursuer)

### Speed

Slow (Gets faster over time)
Slow (Construct Pursuer)

### Damage

Continuous
Very High (Construct Pursuer)

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**The Pursuer** is one of the main antagonists of Beneath. While not an Elder God, it is still a major obstacle. It will appear sporadically across the whole game, but cannot appear during Elder God boss fights or by entering a shop.

## Description

The Pursuer appears to look like classic depictions of a reaper. It is a black colored skeleton with a hood and cloak and no legs, holding a heart. This heart cannot be used normally unless the Pursuer is trapped.

It moves by floating around and its arrival is marked by the message "The Pursuer has arrived, time to leave..." which will be accompanied by the sound of a beating heart, increasing in intensity as the Pursuer draws near. The Pursuer will slowly float towards the player intending to kill them, and it will match the height of the player at all times. It also faces the player at all times and can pass through walls without effort. Standing dangerously close to a Pursuer will spawn a Guiding Light that shows which direction the exit is in.

The Pursuer will has a chance to appear in normal levels throughout beneath with the beginning of levels warning the player of these occurrences. Alternatively, the Pursuer can be summoned in any shop.

In The Construct, the Pursuer spawns as a Katana Boss with white eyes and it will be holding a laser katana and pursuer heart. It is killable as a normal enemy and will drop its laser katana upon death. It has one of the highest health pools out of any standard enemy in the entire game. The standard Pursuer will never be found in The Construct, and vice versa.

## Attacks and Abilities

* **Death Touch:** The Pursuer is intent on killing the player and will follow the player no matter what. When it touches the player, it will very rapidly drain the player's health. The Pursuer's touch will also instantly kill any enemy it passes through.
* **Flight:** Pursuers constantly levitate towards players and match their height at all times.
* **Intangibility:** Aside from shops, Pursuers will phase through any wall or solid object.
* **Katana Swipe:** The Construct Pursuer variant will swing his katana at players after a short delay dealing high damage.

## Strategy

* The Pursuer is a slow enemy, meaning it can be easily dodged and avoided. It also always follows the player, meaning it can be guided around easily.
* Fast classes like Spectre can easily run past or away from it, and slower classes like Brawler can avoid it if the player is focused.
* The Pursuer will instantly kill any enemy it touches. The player can use this ability to their advantage by luring it into large groups of enemies if a combat situation turns sour. The Pursuer cannot kill Shard Lords, however.
* It is not ideal to have it blocking a tunnel, so leading it into a room and then sprinting past it is a good choice.
* Newer players may have trouble avoiding it, so it may be beneficial to get to the exit as quickly as possible if one finds themselves unprepared.
* It cannot enter shops, so use this to your advantage.
* Pursuers can be killed by the Ancient Weapons found in Fire and Blood. Whether it is the hammer, sword, axe, or spear, all those weapons will instantly kill it. If players do not feel comfortable taking on the Pursuers at melee range in Fire and Blood, then throwing any Ancient Weapon except the hammer at them from a distance will work.
* The Pursuer can also be killed by the Laser Katana. In order to kill it the player must attack its heart or throw it at its heart, similar to the way to kill Pursuers in Fire and Blood with the Ancient Weapons.
* If the Pursuer appears in The Construct, the whole level will go dark. It will be the only visible thing to players, emitting a bright red light around itself.

## Trivia

* There are multiple Pursuers, as evidenced by two reasons. First, the level Fire and Blood features multiple Pursuers that will chase after the player after some time passes. Secondly, even after trapping the Pursuer with the Pursuer trap, a new Pursuer will appear in the next level.
* Eternic has stated in one of the update posts that Pursuers were created by the Elder Gods to deter the UHDF from invading Beneath.
* The Pursuer's heart is usable as an item in the Facility as part of a quest to fight The Trickster.
* The only time it does not face the player is when the player enters a shop. It will then turn around and move away from the shop until the player exits the shop, at which point it will come back to chase the player.
* The ability of the Pursuer to kill any living thing upon contact comes into use when trying to reach the Trickster, as you must lead the Pursuer into a trapped Giant Mage to gain its staff.
* When the Beneath game mode first released, the Pursuer used to spawn on every level and took less time to appear. It was also much faster initially, and did not speed up the longer it stayed.
* The Pursuer is the only enemy in Beneath to appear in every area, though in different forms at times.