Growth

The Growth is an enemy in Marrow.

Description
The Growth is a grossly distended corpse that will charge at the player and explode upon contact. Their charge is quick and unexpected, but the sound of their footsteps gives the player some time to react. If the growth is killed with a sword or allowed to make contact with the player it will leave behind poisonous mist where it died that will continually damage the player as they stand in it.

Growths are best dispatched with fireballs, as they are long ranged and capable of killing the Growth long before it reaches the player, and magical attacks do not cause the Growth to leave behind its poisonous mist.

Lore
"Subject's deformities are growing at an alarming rate. All facial features appear to have been swallowed up inside a mass of crusty flesh and fragments of growing bone are protruding out the subjects body. The mixture in the tonic was meant to dilute the effects of the substance, however they seem to be as horrific as before, different, but horrific nonetheless. I suspect soon the other subjects exposed to the tonic will swell as this one has and the labs in the house will be put at risk should the subjects size expand to the point of  ...explosion. I will recommend the subjects be moved to the lower caverns where they will pose no danger."(c)official lore