El Olvido

The Forgetting

The Villain of the Night

First seen: Wave 2 of any night — it gives you one wave of grace, then it remembers you.

✦ STATS

Dive Speed9/10

16 u/s to your 9 — dodge sideways, not away

Stalk Speed3/10

3.6 u/s while circling about 9 units out

Cold Bite7/10

each touch snuffs 0.34 of your flame — about three dives and the night swallows you

Toughness2/10

1.1 s of sustained arc contact banishes it

Persistence10/10

re-forms 14–22 s later. Always.

✦ ABILITIES

The Circling

Stalks at 3.6 u/s, orbiting about 9 units out, picking its moment every 5.5–9.5 seconds.

The Rear-Up

Flares and shivers for 0.85 seconds before every dive. That flare is your dodge window.

The Snuff Dive

A 16 u/s dive lasting up to 1.4 seconds, touch radius 1.2. One touch takes 0.34 of your veladora.

It Always Comes Back

El Olvido is banished, never captured. It re-forms in 14–22 seconds. Banishing pays 75 points — pocket change for repelling oblivion.

✦ FROM THE FIELD GUIDE

Every candle nobody bothered to relight — that's where it lives. El Olvido is the cold that creeps in when no one says your name anymore: a hooded violet nothing with two pale eyes and no particular opinion about your feelings.

It doesn't want to hurt you. It wants there to be no you. Every culture that keeps a night for its dead keeps a word for the thing waiting outside the candlelight; ours drifts the graveyard like a bad thought, circling, patient, waiting for your veladora to gutter.

You can drive it off. You cannot be rid of it. The arc banishes it into the dark for a while, and the dark, eventually, hands it back.

✦ HOW TO SURVIVE IT

▸Stand in warm marigold light — an ofrenda's glow reaches 4.2 units. El Olvido will not dive on a lit player, and your flame rekindles at 0.16 per second.

▸During the 0.85-second rear-up, strafe sideways. It dives faster than you run, not faster than you sidestep.

▸Turn the arc on it: 1.1 seconds of sustained contact banishes it for a while. It gives you one full wave of grace at the start of the night — after that, it remembers you.