Lantern Sentinels guard several of the larger Roadkeeper sites. Their glowing light and heavy stance make the beginning of an attack visible before the sweep lands. The Signal chapter tells of a sentinel ordered to watch a stair until its keeper returned; the dungeons contain the actual Sentinel encounters.
The Sentinel locks its facing when it starts an attack. Its warning marks the frontal area, then a single sweep follows. It lowers its pose and loses five armor points during recovery, giving you time to answer after moving clear.
Place in the story
The Signal chapter gives the Sentinel’s simplest story image: a keeper orders one to watch a stair until their return, and it has not moved. Its locked-facing attack makes an unyielding watch visible in play, but the writing does not identify every Sentinel in the dungeons as that same individual.
The contrast is sharpest when read beside the keep’s later instruction to open the gates. A guardian can still bar the way while the surviving words ask that others be admitted. Recording those words does not pacify the Sentinels or establish that they understand the changed appeal.
Inscriptions & evidence
- II · The SignalThe Signal records the order to watch the stair until the keeper returned.
- VI · The Last LightThe Last Light asks that the doors be opened again; a separate keep notice says “Let them through.”
Behaviour
- 48 health points, equal to 24 hearts.
- 5 armor points before recovery; recovery reduces that armor by 5.
- A facing-locked frontal sweep with a 2.8-block reach.
- The warning lasts about 1.1 seconds before the strike.
- A solid line-of-sight obstruction blocks the attack.
Facing the guardian
- Move out to the side when the warning appears; its facing will not follow you through the wind-up.
- Use a wall or substantial pillar to break line of sight.
- Attack during the lowered recovery pose rather than trading blows during the warning.
Drops
- 1–3 Lantern Fragments
Where to find it
- Rootbound CloisterA broken chapel and bell tower above a connected crypt, watched by two guardians.
- The Buried ReservoirA desert headworks monument above a two-tank underground gallery.
- The Ashen FoundryA sprawling furnace yard with three chimneys, a supported gantry and guarded workshops.
- Last Lantern KeepA horseshoe fortress whose great hall and upper library preserve Enna’s last appeal.
- Sunken ArchiveA broken portico hides a broad descent into a guarded underground archive.
- Ember WatchA red-sandstone watch fort with copper lantern crenels and a furnace in its guardhouse.