Base
- 30
- 11
- 10
- 6–9
- —
- 0
- 4
- 3
Merchant of Death
Merchant of Death is one of two alternative upgrades of the tier 4 line for Necropolis.
Stats
Bars compare against the best tier 4 creatureHealth
30
Attack
11
Defense
10
Damage
7–10
Morale
—
Unaffected by Morale
Luck
0
Initiative
5
Speed
4
Movement
Ground
Counterattacks
1
Unaffected by MoraleLuck range -5 to 5Action points 1
HP per gold 0.088Avg damage per gold 0.025Derived from the 340 gold recruit cost — higher is more army per gold
Weekly growth +10HP per week 300Avg damage per week 85Gold per week 3,400
Updated from the game files · build 24128879 · 9 Aug 2026
Abilities
Dig Up Bones
2 round cooldown2 energySummons [ 3 × amount of units ] Skeleton(s) on an adjacent hex. They disappear after the battle.
Ensnare Memories
2 round cooldown2 energySummons [ 1 × amount of units ] Wight(s) on an adjacent hex. They disappear after the battle.
Traits
Undead
A creature or person whose life has been prolonged by unnatural means.
Morale: Always neutral.
Luck range: –5 to 5.
Fallen Undead cannot be raised as Undead after battle.
Long Reach
Has an attack that targets the hex directly behind an adjacent hex. It doesn’t provoke counterattacks and doesn’t move the attacker next to their target.
Blighted Corpses
Long Reach attacks poison the target. Poisoned creatures take [ 16 + 3 × amount of units ] Magic Damage at the start of their turn. This effect is stackable.
Duration: 2 round(s).
Upgrade line
Base form and its two upgrade options — the pair costs the same, so pick on strengths
Stats are compared against Graverobber: green is higher, red ▼ lower. A badged glyph is a power the base form does not have; a gold-ringed one is a power it has under the same name but with different rules.
Other tier 4 creatures
Lore
Procuring bodies for necromancers is a lucrative business, but souls are even more valuable. Merchants of death have mastered the alchemical arts needed to capture only the most prized and love‑stricken samples.