Magdalena the Lady of the Woods

How to beat Magdalena the Lady of the Woods

Getting there

Magdalena is at the far end of the Sunken Village, and the two sources describe two different approaches to her — one over the bridge left of the beacon once the Wandering Shepherd is dealt with, the other through the gate and down off a ledge into the swamp. Both end in the same arena.

The reason to make the trip is not her. The Etching Needles sit in a chest on the way in, off to the right before the tunnel, and until Franz has them the Tarforge will not take a single Tarstone past level 1. Take the detour before the fight rather than after it.

How the fight is shaped

Two phases, and the seam between them is a Riposte: land the one she is open to and she comes back with company. Nothing about her own behaviour changes much — she still tours the arena in the chair and still stops at the end of a run — but from that point the arena has adds crossing it while she does.

Her chair is both her mobility and her worst attack, and everything you are going to punish happens in the moment it stops.

What to actually do

1. The charge is dodged, never answeredShe marks the run-up and the run-up cannot be parried or guarded. Get off the line, then use the pause at the end of it — that stop is the only reliable damage window in the fight, and it comes round often.
2. Fire around the chair means leaveWhen she spins in place the area around her is not somewhere to be. Both sources treat it the same way: break distance, use the seconds to heal or reload, and come back for the next stop.
3. Fight her at range on purposeThis is the fight the sidearm slot exists for. Ranged damage keeps landing from outside everything that is actually dangerous, and a fast primary keeps the Resolve coming in to pay for it — which is the argument for the Axe and Dagger here rather than for something heavier.
4. Let the adds live if they are only chasingThe small ones she puts out in the second phase are slow enough to outrun while you keep working her. Kill them when they start cornering you, not on principle — every second spent on them is a second she spends touring the arena unopposed.
5. Bring somebody to hold her attentionA summoned Shell buys the room to heal in an arena that otherwise never stops moving. Pull her away from whoever you called in once she loses interest in them, because a dead helper is a Glimpse spent on nothing.

Where the record disagrees. The two wikis give different Gloom payouts for her — the figures are about twenty apart — and our own records hold no number at all, so the drops table below states what it can and no more. They also name her second-phase adds differently, and they disagree about whether what she breathes is wasps or flies.

Written from our own catalog and from what the community has documented, checked against both of the major Mortal Shell 2 wikis. Where those two disagree, this page says so rather than picking one quietly.