The monsters in The Secret World...

The Secret World isn't like any other MMORPG when it comes to its lore and world. It doesn't take place in some medieval-type fantasy world with fancy elves, dwarves, hobbits and the like, neither does it take place in some distant future with the run-of-the-mill laser weapons and robots and such.

TSW is our time. It is our world. But then a world that is plagued by all the myths and legends and horrors that have been told throughout the known history of mankind and beyond; not just made up stories as most of the world population believes they are, but very much real. There is magic and ancient powers. But also modern day science.  It stands to reason that also the creatures encountered in TSW aren't your typical fantasy and scifi creatures.

 

These are the monsters and creatures that have been identified so far:

 

Draug

 The Norsemen who fought in the Darkness War paid a great price for their victory.



None of the boats that set off from the North American coast would return home with their crew unchanged. Some would not return at all, but those that did would travel through the roiling fogbanks and alien weed stretching out from that accursed sea-grave: the Filth manifested, gathering under their fingernails like soot, catching in their throats like smoke, running fingers through their nightmares. And in their nightmares, it found the tales of the Draug.

By the time they returned to their coastal villages, the Vikings had fallen sick, and the sickness spread despite the administering of their dreamspeakers and shamans: worse, it overcame them, too, in their trances. In the course of weeks the once-thriving villages were left abandoned, for outsiders to wonder what had drawn them all out to sea. It was the call of the darkness, gathering its newfound instruments, bringing them back to escalate the physical and mental changes in their bodies beneath the waves. Not dead, but now consumed by some horrible unlife, these Draug shed their old skins in the brine to grew tougher, colder flesh. The matter they sloughed off in the primordial deep joined with the Filth weed, coalescing into new forms, colonies and pods that supported their new, unnatural reproductive cycle. 

 

In the years to come, they would prey on seafaring nations - the cause of a hundred ghost ship tales - drowning the crews, putting them to work as slaves and eventual material for the creation of new Draug. Now, the Draug are on the warpath, empowered by the activity of commanding whispers and dark dreams...

 

Undead - Zombie Hulk

When the impenetrable fog pulled back from Kingsmouth and Solomon Island - becoming instead a wall around the island - there were few survivors left. Everyone else had vanished; pulled, by some pale-skinned Pied Piper, into the ocean, leaving behind tables set for dinner, idling cars, TVs showing only static, and a thousand unanswered questions.



At first, there was only the distant crying of white gulls, the quiet push and pull of the ocean, and that impossible wall on the horizon: churning, impenetrable, deadly. The few who remained behind banded together, most of them, building safe nests in the eye of the storm. Waiting for some sign, some resolution. For life, or for death.



Then the others came back, all of them.

 

video file 1: the Kingsmouth tragedy

 

Scarecrow

With their puppet-masters gone, the Scarecrows have been sleeping a pitch black, dreamless sleep...until now.



From the ruins of a cursed family rose the Scarecrow animated; undead guardians made from terrible instructions in grim tomes and dark grimoires, imbued with the fresh organs of human prey, hay sprinkled with unguents and oils, and clothes stitched with horrid runes. Willed into existence with whispered words of fear and hatred, they were single-minded in their mission. When their terrible master passed on, they fell into a deep sleep.

 

Spectres

Spectres are here in flesh and bone, and they are mad.



Spectres are the victims of violent and unfair death who have chosen - or been forced - to return to the world for a time: some as spiteful troublemakers, others more miserably searching for warmth to ease their eternal cold.

 

Golem

In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing. The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague.

 

Revenant

Drawn to suffering and pain, Revenants are said to be comprised of a multitude of ravens and are the work of the death toll and misery from the Black Plague.

 

encounter with a Revenant

 

The Filth

Something sinister and poisonous is creeping out of the rising darkness, spreading it's shadow across the lands and cities of this world. A taint on the landscape that corrupts everything it encounters. An unspoken horror known only as The Filth.

Exactly what The Filth is, remains unclear. Is it a creature? An infection? Or is it a malevolent entity that is directing the rising darkness which threatens to engulf the world? It may be all of the above. What IS known as of now is that The Filth is one of the main occurring significant enemies to be fought off by the 3 major secret societies, and one the main heralds of the dark days that are coming. The Filth manifests as a black tentacle entity that takes hold of humans and causes them to change into creatures of violence and madness.

 

Draug Lord

 

video file 2: the Draug Lord in action

 

Vampires

-- Unconfirmed vampire camp --

 

Clustre of spectres  (hive? Legion?)

 

Jack o' Lantern

"Pumpkin pumpkin big and round, I'm glad you grow upon the ground. I'm glad you don't grow in a tree, for then you might fall down on me".

An innocent enough children's rhyme, but not one too be sung on Halloween. To attract the ire of Jack O'Lantern would indeed mean your downfall.

Jack O'Lantern is a powerful villain, a twisted humanoid visage of rotting pumpkins, vines, and decaying vegetation. His feet are like tree roots, worming their way into the ground as we walks. An awesome and terrible sight to behold. One potentially recent sighting was made by 'P.G'. in an area we think could be Kingsmouth itself

 

Dinosaur

 

video file 3: dinosaur in motion

 

 

The source of this trove of information and pictures is located here and here.