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Night Stalker
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Night Stalker

Night creature

Balanar belongs to the stories of an impossible time before sunlight and daytime, when creatures of darkness covered the world.

“I feed the darkness and the darkness feeds me.”

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Stories

Appears in 2 stories

CanonStory thread

Paz Waits for Nightfall

Paz promises a rapturous death and eternity beside Balanar as her cult waits for nightfall. The has camped on the frigid northernmost edge of , following the shortest days. No fire breaks the cold, since the cult forbids any light.

Paz’s own eyes are gone, gouged out for the darkness, and when she asks brightly whether Goodkind has embraced the night, Goodkind lies and says she has. “When He arrives, you will be rewarded,” Paz says with a grim, thin-lipped grin. Legend says Balanar stalks alone, and Goodkind wonders why his followers are so sure he will want company. The last sliver of sun bows behind a rocky crag, the cold swells, and Paz’s eyeless smile makes Goodkind shiver more than the cold. “He comes,” she whispers.

Paz promises a reward from Balanar; Goodkind sees neither his arrival nor his acceptance of the cult.

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  • Night Stalker
The hero's story

Balanar belongs to the stories of an impossible time before sunlight and daytime, when covered the world. Night Stalker's official biography says every night creature but one perished at the dawn of the First Day, leaving Balanar as the survivor and the archetype of the Night Terror. 's separate biography says the built armies to purge primordial night.

The two accounts fit together, though neither names the other; whether the Children caused the First Day is left unsaid.

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Voice lines

  • “I'm surprised you haven't slithered away to whatever hole you hide in when day breaks.”

    Dawnbreaker, about Night Stalker · Meeting an ally

    ImpliedThe Children's living weapon and the last of the creatures they hunted, on the same field.

  • “Well, Night Stalker, the daytime's not as bad as all that, is it?”

    Keeper of the Light, about Night Stalker · Meeting an ally
Ability lore
  • Crippling Fear

    A vision of the twisted maw of Balanar etches itself into the minds of the poor souls unlucky enough to cross his path.

Official biography
Read Valve's biography

Of the Night Stalker, there is no history, only stories. There are ancient tales woven into the lore of every race and every culture, of an impossible time before sunlight and daytime, when night reigned alone and the world was covered with the creatures of darkness--creatures like Balanar the Night Stalker.

It is said that on the dawn of the First Day, all the night creatures perished. All, that is, save one. Evil's embodiment, Night Stalker delights in his malevolence. He created the primal role of the Night Terror, the Boogeyman, and as long as there have been younglings, his is the specter summoned to terrify them. This is a role he relishes; nor are these empty theatrics. He does indeed stalk the unwary, the defenseless, those who have strayed beyond the lighted paths or denied the warnings of their communities. Night Stalker serves as living proof that every child's worst nightmare....is true.

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