The Sprawl

“	Behold the great cities of man - ruined and aflame.	„
	~ The Academic

The Sprawl is a Region in Darkest Dungeon II. Once a great bastion of treasured knowledge and literature, the city is now inhabited by the blasphemous worshippers of fire, offering everything—books, buildings, even their own bodies—to the flames.

Enemies

The primary enemies encountered in the Sprawl are Fanatics.

Enemy	Region	Types	Tiers
Flayer	The Sprawl	Fanatic		12	3	0	20%	20%	40%	10%	20%	10%
Shaman	The Sprawl	Fanatic		12	4	0	20%	20%	40%	10%	10%	20%
Sacrificial	The Sprawl	Fanatic		13	3	0	20%	20%	50%	10%	10%	10%
Shaman (Ignited)	The Sprawl	Fanatic		15	7	0	20%	20%	75%	20%	10%	30%
Flayer (Ignited)	The Sprawl	Fanatic		16	5	0	20%	20%	75%	20%	20%	20%
Immolatist	The Sprawl	Fanatic		16	7	0	20%	20%	75%	20%	20%	20%
Whipper	The Sprawl	Fanatic		16	2	0	20%	20%	40%	10%	20%	10%
Whipper (Ignited)	The Sprawl	Fanatic		20	4	0	20%	20%	75%	20%	20%	20%
Pit Fighter	The Sprawl	Fanatic		41	2	2	10%	10%	40%	30%	30%	20%
Her Ladyship	The Sprawl	Fanatic	Champion	23	8	2	20%	20%	75%	30%	20%	30%
Masterful Kinred	The Sprawl	Fanatic	Champion	27	6	2	40%	40%	75%	20%	20%	20%
Scorched Books	The Sprawl		Minion	15	0	0	Immune	Immune	10%	Immune	10%	Immune
Damaged Books	The Sprawl		Minion	30	0	0	Immune	Immune	10%	Immune	10%	Immune
Books	The Sprawl		Minion	45	0	0	Immune	Immune	10%	Immune	10%	Immune
Librarian	The Sprawl	Fanatic	Boss	116	5	2	50%	30%	100%	40%	Immune	30%
Librarian (Ignited)	The Sprawl	Fanatic	Boss	140	8	2	20%	20%	100%	40%	Immune	10%

The Librarian

The Librarian is the main boss of the Sprawl, found in the Great Library.

Ignite!

Many Fanatics have a second, more powerful ignited form with increased HP and Speed, more powerful attacks, and buffs (and rarely, debuffs) to various resistances.

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  A regular Shaman
• 

  An ignited Shaman

Enemies may ignite themselves by using the skill Ignite!, starting from the second round onwards. They may also be ignited by an Immolatist or Her Ladyship.

The Librarian is perhaps the most notorious example of an enemy using Ignite!: if he manages to destroy all the book stacks, he will ignite himself, restoring some HP and unlocking an attack that hits the entire party with heavy damage and Burn twice per round.

Related Quirks

Negative Quirks		Positive Quirks
Name	Effects	Name	Effects
Fanatic Fearing	"Terrified of Sprawl reavers." Combat Start: vs Fanatic: +1 (50%)	Fanatic Hater	vs Fanatic: -20% DMG Taken, +15% DMG Gain on Hit: -1 (25%)
		Fanatic Slayer	vs Fanatic: +5% CRIT vs Fanatic: Execution 2

Strategy

• Perhaps unsurprisingly, Fanatics are highly resistant to Burn and deal a lot of Burn damage.
• Fanatics have relatively low health compared to other factions. Instead, they tend to apply tokens like blind and dodge to disrupt heroes' attacks.
• Immolatists and Her Ladyship deal high Burn damage, stress damage, can Ignite other Fanatics, and can consume corpses to heal other Fanatics. She is therefore your highest priority.
• Whippers and the Masterful Kinred, when Ignited, can use Infernal Taskmaster, a devastating party-wide AoE that does HP damage, stress damage and Burn. Killing this enemy in round 1 is important so he doesn't ignite.
• Don't let Sacrificials reach Rank 1!
• Pit Fighters will start with relatively weak attacks, but upon casting Accelerant will gain speed and damage at the beginning of every round.
• Shamans make their allies harder to hit by blinding heroes or granting dodge to their allies.
• Flayers can generate constant Riposte and Dodge tokens, making them very dangerous, but have relatively low base HP.

Sprawl Trinkets

Image	Trinket	Description
	Laden Lantern Distant Flammable	+25% RES Piercing Turn Start: If <= 2: (10%)
	Parrying Patriarch Distant	Turn End: Convert to Turn Start: If <= 2: (10%)
	Tinderbox Distant	Apply on Hit: If Flammable Item is Equipped: 1(33%) If Flammable Item is Equipped: +33% RES Piercing Gain on Miss: 2 (15%)
	Hastening History Distant	Turn Start: Ally Ahead: (33%) Turn Start: If <= 2: (10%)
	Sacred Scribblings Distant Flammable	+2 Duration Dealt Turn Start: If <= 2: (10%)
	Enlightening Element Indelible Flammable	Apply on Hit: 3 (25%) Turn Start: If >= 8:
	Snappy Swig Indelible	+1 Dealt Turn Start: If >= 10: (50%)

Librarian Trinkets

Image	Trinket	Description
	Charred Litany Indelible Flammable	Apply to Attacker When Hit: 1 If Target has : +20% RES Piercing Gain on Resist: -2
	Smoldering Hymnal Indelible Flammable	If First in Turn Order: On Kill: Extra Action (20%) If Self has : +6

Narrator Quotes

• When selecting The Sprawl as the next region at the Inn:
  • "Our great cities burn. All our beauty and knowledge, ash on the wind."
  • "Another nameless city, another inferno of mutilation and madness."
• When entering The Sprawl:
  • "Behold the great cities of man - ruined and aflame."
• When midway through The Sprawl:
  • "Rubble and flame... as far as the eye can see."
  • "Unhinged by the impending apocalypse, the fanatics burn book and building alike."
  • "Centuries of human learning and achievement, ruined by riotous contempt."
  • "The fanatics feed themselves to the fire, their flesh melting like candle wax..."
• Arriving at Fanatic road battle:
  • "The hooded watchers howl to their horrid kin!"
• Arriving at Burning Pile:
  • "Lament the knowledge taken by the fires of these fanatics."
  • "Emboldened anarchists, desperate to exercise their nihilism."
• Arriving at Library:
  • "The Library burns - and with it, the remains of philosophy, reason, and insight."
• Fighting Librarian:
  • "The conflagration must be stopped! The Librarian Must. Be. Destroyed."
  • "He teeters madly upon his ladder, reveling in the fiery destruction of human accomplishment!"

Trivia

• All Fanatics seem to be blind, either due to their hoods or blindfolds, or simply because their eye sockets have been obscured by melted flesh. It is possible that their devotion to fire has blessed them with some form of unholy sight.
• The Fanatics are the first enemies created in the game, and the first visible in the second trailer.
• The Incendiary Cocktail Combat Item bears a symbol which resembles the symbols on the Fanatics' hoods, specifically those found on the Flayers' hoods.
• The Fanatics share many similarities with the Fanatic.
• There exists an unused banner in the Butcher's Circus files themed after the Fanatics.

Gallery

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  Placeholder art of the Reaver, an unused Fanatic enemy, found in the game files