# The Elemental Core and the Crowned Wyrm

The Elemental Core, Heart of the Riving, is the engine the Vael built to drink from the Crystal, and the last fight in Riventale. It answers only a player who has beaten all four Keepers. When its health runs out the fight is not over: its shell bursts, and the **Crowned Wyrm** rises in its place.

## The Elemental Core

It is called at an **Elemental Altar** placed in the Elemental World; the altar takes all four elemental ores, Dawnspar blocks and an obitite block, among other things. Only one Core can be awake in a world at a time, and the altar rests five minutes after each fight.

The Core is the Engine That Drinks: a Vael machine like a goblet, a funnel of obitite and gold with four claws clutching a crystal heart, 2,000 health. Every twelve seconds (eight once enraged) it turns to the next element in order, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, and fights with that Keeper's moves: icicle rain and novas, magma barrages and slams, stomps and spores, lasers, gusts and hurricanes.

Bring the Frost Heart, the Earth Leggings and the Wind Boots: each takes the sting out of one element. Damage here is for Medium: Easy halves it, Hard adds half again.

## The Crowned Wyrm

When the Core's health runs out, its shell bursts and the Crowned Wyrm rises with a new bar of **1,500** health: a winged dragon of black stone, its eyes, cracks and wing veins burning in the colour of its element, and on its head a four-sided crown that chooses the element.

### The pillars and the half damage

- Four slate pillars rise round the arena, twelve blocks out at the compass points: Water to the north, Fire to the east, Earth to the south, Wind to the west. A crystal of its element tops each one, with 80 health.
- **While the pillar of the Wyrm's current element stands, the Wyrm takes half damage.** The boss bar says SHIELDED, and its four gems show which pillars still stand.
- Break a pillar's crystal and that element leaves the Wyrm's crown for good. With every crystal broken, nothing shields it.

### The element turns

Every twelve seconds the crown turns to the next element whose pillar still stands, in the order Water, Fire, Earth, Wind. Below 750 health it turns every eight seconds. The chat says each turn. Break the pillar of the element it has now and it stops being shielded at once, then go for the next.

### Its moves

| Move | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Element breath | It rears up, then breathes an 8-block cone of its element: a heart every half second, with Chill, Burning, Rooted or Windbound for the element it has | Get out of the cone, to its side; the rearing is your warning |
| Shadow dive | A shadow three blocks wide follows one player for two seconds, stops, and the Wyrm dives onto it: 4 hearts | Keep moving while the shadow follows you, and leave it once it stops |
| Tail sweep | Only when someone stands behind it: the tail lifts for a second, then sweeps a ring at ankle height, 2.5 hearts and a hard knock | Jump it |
| Core pulse | Once, at 375 health: it flies to the middle of the arena, glows for two seconds, and a wave crosses the whole arena, 3 hearts | Jump as the wave reaches you |

Arrows for the pillar crystals, a crossbow for the dive. A Blazing, Tidal, Quaking or Gale arrow does nothing extra while the crown holds that same element.

## The ending

Break it and the ending plays: a closing scene in single player, a shorter one in the world online. Everyone near when it falls earns the **Riven Circlet**, a ring of four element flames over the head, and the title **Champion**, both earned only and chosen in Looks. The last Torn Page, XVI, is in what it leaves behind; the rest is for you to find.

The others: [The Rime Sovereign](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/rime-sovereign/), [The Magma Colossus](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/magma-colossus/), [The Thorn Guardian](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/thorn-guardian/), [The Tempest](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/tempest/), [The Robot Titan](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/robot-titan/). Back to [the Keepers](https://riventale.world/guides/keepers/). All sections: [the guides](https://riventale.world/guides/).

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