How to Explore Freylands Caves and Recognize the Realm's Creatures

The Freylands are full of unsettling sights. Knowing what you're looking at helps you stay calm and keep your noise down.

Exploring pitch-black caves

Caves in the Freylands stay completely dark and are filled with a suffocating haze.

1. Bring your own light sources and test how far they actually reach. These caves are designed to stay dark, so don't expect to see far ahead.

2. Turn up the Brightness slider in Video Settings before you go underground.

3. Sneak the entire time. In the dark it's easy to walk off a ledge. Sneaking stops you at edges, and it prevents the noise a fall would add to your meter.

4. Keep fights to a minimum. Combat raises your noise level, and a cave is a terrible place to be hunted.

5. Stay out of deep shadow where you can, since the Reaching Arm grabs from the shadows.

Who and what you'll see

• Deformed mobs: creatures with missing limbs that wander the biomes and spasm erratically. Their jerky movement is part of how they look, so don't let it spook you into sprinting.
• Eye creatures: the realm's main wildlife. You'll see them often across the landscape.
• The pale figure: a shape that lingers far away at the edge of your vision.
• The announcer: a mysterious voice that speaks to you and gives cryptic advice. Read or listen to what it says carefully, because it may hint at what's coming.