Developer Journal : Monsters
What is exciting about 9Dragons is that the monsters also have their own clans. Oh don’t get me wrong, not all monsters are in clans, only the ones you need to be really frightened of! There are generally lots of monsters wandering around and these can give adventurers a hard time on their own. But 9Dragons is special because there are also five clans of monsters with special powers of their own. They have their own unique background histories just like the Shao-Lin and the Wu-Tang! There are five major monster clans in 9Dragons. They are the Clan of Secret Shadows, the Clan of Death Valley, the Clan of the King of Hell, the Clan of Beasts, and the Clan of the Golden War. There is too much to say about these clans to fit it all in to one article so I have broken this up into two pieces. In the first I shall deal with the Clan of Secret Shadows and the Clan of Death Valley. Another unique point about the monsters in 9Dragons is that they are mostly based on the