Shaded Citadel is an early to mid-game region, characterized by dark, decrepit hallways and dangerous, spider-infested lower pathways. The use of a light source is almost necessary to navigate the region's darkest areas. It is the starting region for Gourmand.
The middle and lower areas of Shaded Citadel are pitch-black, only illuminated by swarming Fireflies, forcing players to either find a light source or use the map to navigate level geometry. These rooms have an abundance of predators, which can mostly be avoided by passing through the upper, lighter rooms of the region.
A dark and partially submerged sewer-like area inhabited by Monster Kelp can be found at the deepest point of Shaded Citadel. These lower areas of the region double as an entrance point to the Memory Crypts, and in turn The Exterior.
Lanterns can be traded for or stolen from Scavengers or the Scavenger Merchant in the region. It is also possible to pick up and carry Lantern Mice as a light source, although this weighs Slugcat down considerably. Flashbangs can be found growing on tall stems in some lower areas which, when thrown, illuminate the screen and blind any photosensitive creatures nearby. This also instantly kills Coalescipedes and Big Spiders.
The deepest parts of Shaded Citadel can be accessed with minimal threat from Spiders by heading down and left from the central tower shelter.
Memory Crypts is a dark, open, and linear area accessed from the deepest sewer sections of Shaded Citadel. There are no shelters within this area. Packs of Miros Birds roam the landscape, attacking whatever they find. This, combined with the length of the area, forces the player to move quickly enough to avoid the end of cycle rain while stopping and hiding from passing Miros Birds. Throughout the subregion, intermittent flashes of green lightning are accompanied by thunder, and fireflies drift back and forth above the terrain.
Memory Crypts has no threat music, but approaching Miros Birds can be heard from offscreen due to the loud clanking noises they make when moving.
Spears spawn randomly and have a few guaranteed spawn points across the subregion. These can be embedded in walls to travel over terrain more quickly than going in the tunnels underneath.
Flashbangs also spawn at set points throughout the subregion and blind Miros Birds for up to 10 seconds when thrown in their vicinity.
Discarding or swallowing Lanterns in favor of other more useful items is recommended as Memory Crypts is bright enough to travel without one.
In room SH_B11, there are 20 Coalescipedes that cannot reach the player due to level geometry.
The Lantern Mouse almost exclusively inhabits the safer, upper portions of the region, and sticking to rooms they inhabit can allow newer players to more safely get from Industrial Complex to Shoreline or vice versa.
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Monk
Hunter
Survivor
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Gourmand.
Monster Kelp can be found at the deepest point of Shaded Citadel. These lower areas of the region double as an entrance point to the Memory Crypts, and in turn 
The Exterior.
Lanterns can be traded for or stolen from 
Scavengers or the 
Scavenger Merchant in the region. It is also possible to pick up and carry 
Lantern Mice as a light source, although this weighs 
Slugcat down considerably. 
Flashbangs can be found growing on tall stems in some lower areas which, when thrown, illuminate the screen and blind any photosensitive creatures nearby. This also instantly kills 
Coalescipedes and 
Big Spiders.
Artificer
Spearmaster
Rivulet
Miros Birds roam the landscape, attacking whatever they find. This, combined with the length of the area, forces the player to move quickly enough to avoid the end of cycle rain while stopping and hiding from passing Miros Birds. Throughout the subregion, intermittent flashes of green lightning are accompanied by thunder, and fireflies drift back and forth above the terrain.
Spears spawn randomly and have a few guaranteed spawn points across the subregion. These can be embedded in walls to travel over terrain more quickly than going in the tunnels underneath.
Flashbangs also spawn at set points throughout the subregion and blind Miros Birds for up to 10 seconds when thrown in their vicinity.
Lanterns in favor of other more useful items is recommended as Memory Crypts is bright enough to travel without one.
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Creatures
Regions
Shaded Citadel
Garbage Wastes connection is one of the only two connections between vanilla regions added by 
Downpour, the other being 
Drainage System/ 
Chimney Canopy.
Coalescipedes that cannot reach the player due to level geometry.
Lantern Mouse almost exclusively inhabits the safer, upper portions of the region, and sticking to rooms they inhabit can allow newer players to more safely get from 
Industrial Complex to 
Shoreline or vice versa.
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