The Queen

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The Queen
Location(s)	The Crown
Reward	Queen's Rapier (1st kill) 1st to 4th Boss Stem Cell 6 Queen Outfits (1 flawless and 1 for each BSC difficulty)

The Queen is an alternative final boss to the game. She resides in the Crown at the top of the Lighthouse. She is exclusive to the Queen and the Sea DLC.

Moveset

In 1+ BSC, the Queen goes straight to the second phase.

Movement

The queen can slide forwards and backwards to close distance or back away from the players attack.

Attacks

Forward stab Description: Leans back in a fencing position before lunging and stabbing forward Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Forward lower stab Description: Leans back in a crouching fencing position before lunging and stabbing towards the ground in an angle. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Two handed Forward stab Description: Leans back holding the rapier with both hands before lunging forwards and stabbing. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Slash Description: Holds her rapier behind her before slashing in a wide arc. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Piercer Description: Jumps in the air and stabs her rapier downwards. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Grab and throw Description: Charges energy in her empty hand before punching forwards and grabbing the beheaded. Deals damage before throwing him behind her. Can beparried, and dodge rolled.

Fire tornado Description: Crouches down, her empty hand is held to the ground behind her and it charges before striking upwards and firing a fire tornado forward. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Fire wave Description: Charges her empty hand before smashing the ground sending waves of fire in both directions. Can be blocked and dodge rolled.

Power smash Description: Charges her empty hand before smashing the ground knocking the player back. Can be blocked and dodge rolled.

Fire sword Description: Charges her empty hand behind her before creating a giant sword of fire and slashing in an arc. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Reality rend X5 Description: The Queen holds up her rapier while rising from the ground. A blue line appears across the beheaded in a random vertical angle before turning red and dealing damage. This happens 5 times, each line persisting and dealing damage alongside the newest. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Reality rend X10 Description: The Queen holds up her rapier while rising from the ground. A blue line appears across the beheaded in a random vertical angle before turning red and dealing damage. This happens 10 times, each line persisting and dealing damage alongside the newest. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Reality rend maximum Description: The Queen holds up her rapier while rising from the ground. 30 blue lines appear randomly across the screen before turning red a dealing damage at the same time. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Fire stab Description: Leans back in a fencing position before lunging and stabbing forwards, sliding across the arena with her rapier engulfed in flames. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Barriered Two handed Forward stab Description: Leans back holding the rapier with both hands, a barrier surrounding her before lunging and stabbing forward. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Defensive Attacks

Banish summon Description: Holds her hand and attracts your pet, banishing them and putting them on cooldown. Can be stopped by attacking.

Deflect projectiles Description: Holds out her hand and stops projectiles you fire, sending them back at you. Can be stopped by attacking.

Turret execution Description: Holds her rapier up, aimed downwards and destroys a placed turret. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Grenade parry Description: Blocks a grenade before it hits her, making it fall the ground. She cuts it in half. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Barrier Description: Charges up before creating a wide circular barrier around her. Can be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled.

Other

Revive Description: When the player dies before the Queen reaches 50% hp or lower (?) she will revive and heal the player to max hp while suffering damage herself. Can't be blocked, parried, and dodge rolled. She even does this when you die to falling from the arena.

Strategy

Primary attacks

How to defend against attacks.

Forward stab, Forward lower stab, Two handed Forward stab and Slash

• These are basic one hit attacks that can be easily dodged by rolling through or out of reach, jumping over them or be parried.
  • Can be chained in quick succession in random order and amount.
  • Can be done right after the queen moves towards or away from the player.

Reality rend

• Wait until a blue line appears and move out of it by walking or jumping. Do this for each line.
  • Gets harder for reality rend X10 but still possible with minimum movement and luck.
    • For reality rend maximum just wait and roll as it's simply one attack with an enormous range.
• This is a great time to bring out any pets or turrets as she will be immobile and defenceless during this attack.
  • Ranged and melee attacking can be done as well but is riskier.

Fire tornado

• Roll behind the queen as she will fire the tornado in front of her.
• Tornado can be rolled through and even parried.

Fire wave

• Can be rolled through but safest option is to jump over it.

Fire sword

• Can be easily dodged by rolling or parrying.

Fire stab

• Can be easily dodged by rolling through or behind her, jumping over the attack or be parried.

Grab and throw

• Move out of her grasps range.

Vulnerabilities

Weapons and skill that move you quickly or give invincibility frames will help you from taking too much damage. Her attacks have a long range but are slow enough to be avoided by dodging or having invincibility frames (Meat Skewer, Assault Shield, Force Shield, Telluric Shock, ect...).

Weapons/Skills

• The Meat Skewer and Assault Shield will move you out of the way of most of her attacks before they reach you or give you a long parry time, allowing you to continuously attack with little risk of damage.
• Phaser is an easy way to get behind her when she does almost all of her attacks.
• Turrets can be used for damage and even distraction as she can take time to destroy them opening her for free attacks.
• Most attacks are close range and rely on her abilty to close distance quickly. Any item that can lock her in place like Root Grenade or Wolf Trap will prevent this.
• Grenades are a great option even with her ability to block them as it requires specific timings/angles.

Dialogue

First meeting

• "Here comes the interloper. After all the Malaise has done to the kingdom, you should realize that we cannot allow anything to leave the island. But I guess you're beyond reasoning now."
• "I'm sorry, but I have to stop this folly right here, right now. Know that I won't take any pleasure in killing you."

Shielding

• "Enough with this!"
• "Stop hiding!"
• "Try parrying this..."
• "Fight for real now!"

Taunts

• "Is that all you got?"
• "Hey, you left your liver here."
• "Pathetic..."
• "Run away. Now."
• "Shall I send you back?"

Queen falls in the void

• "Stop that!"
• "You'll pay for that!"
• "That was not pleasant."
• "What a clever use of your environment, you should be proud."

Premature dead

Queen reacting to first hero death before reviving him.

• "Oh no you don't!"

After Queen recovered beheaded's corpse and is about to revive him.

• "I'm not done with you."

After Queen revived the beheaded.

• "Now fight. For real, this time."

When defeated

• "I guess... the die is cast then..."

Second meeting

• "You again... so stubborn."
• "En garde!"

The following information contains spoilers regarding the true ending of the game. Discretion is advised.

While wearing the King Outfit first time

• "And here comes my beloved husband, trying his best to save his own skin once again."
• "I'm sorry, my love, but I can't let you reignite the beacon. I'll stop you even if it means killing my husband and king."

King Outfit taunts

• "Not looking so regal now, uh?"
• "Does my liege need a break?"

When defeated with the King Outfit

• "I wish things had turned out otherwise. Cursed be the Malaise!"

While wearing the King Outfit second time

• "I'm glad to see you dressed to the nines for this."
• "Don't think it changes anything, however. I can't let you do it."

Lore

TBA

In the Undying Shores biome, the is a lore room showing tortured monsters being experimented on, and in the background, a lot of slashes, very similar to the queen's Reality Rend. (But there is no solid proof of such, only speculation)

In the Mausoleum biome, in the background, there is a being very similar to the queen.

There is a possibility (speculation) that both the king and the queen became Homunculuses by the apostates.

History

• 2.7
• .ntroduced.

Bosses
The Concierge  •  Conjunctivius  •  Mama TickTBS  •  The Time Keeper  •  The GiantRotG  •  The ScarecrowFF  •  The Hand of the King  •  The ServantsTQatS  •  The QueenTQatS True Ending Spoiler (5 BSC):   The CollectorRotG