The Heartless One

"'Pathetic Trash!'" The Heartless One is a New God that can be encountered in Fear & Hunger 2: Termina. She is an optional encounter that requires setup to find and beat. The effort of defeating her is rewarded with two unique and powerful drops. Once summoned, the fight with The Heartless One is immediately initiated.

Lore
A new god that seems to despise her divine peers, The Heartless one was somehow locked away at the Church of Alll-mer located at Prehevil. Despite the immense strength she showcases in battle, she is apparently unable to free herself from the multiple chains that hold her in an alternate dimension of this church, requiring the help of someone who comes across the key to unlock said chains.

Location

 * On the 2F of the Crypt, 'Church of Alll-Mer - Level 2', navigate to the Rusty Lever at the north-west and pull it.
 * Enter a prison cell at the eastern end of the corridor that unlocks and pick up the Rusty Key item on the ground.
 * Navigate to the far west of the corridor and enter the room with the Winged Being statue.
 * Interact with it to reach out and grab the item the statue is holding, the Martyr Effigy.
 * Proceed south from the statue and interact with the badly mutilated corpse. Investigate it and then feel it out to obtain the Church Keys.
 * Head back to the lever corridor and proceed south. At the western room at the end draw the sigil of Rher. This teleports you to a new location.
 * Continue all the way to the east and open the gate with the Church Keys.
 * Within the room is a chained up person or being. Use the Rusty Key to undo the chains. The being disappears and you pick up the Heart-shaped lock.
 * Proceed to the unused Ritual circle in the Church and give an offering of the Heart-shaped lock.
 * The Heartless One will then rise from a pool of blood.

Abilities
The new god has a wide array of attacks, most of wich are magic based. Aside this, they have a turn end skill, meaning it will activate at their end of their turn, which is usually fatal. They also have two support skills which can slow and blind the player.

Strategy
This boss will challenge you to a 1 on 1 fight once you summon her and engage you alone even if you refuse.

With the abnormal amount of hit points in her limbs and damage output she has, it is virtually impossible to defeat the Heartless One by disarming her first without obtaining the following equipment to best even the odds of the fight. With or without any of the following equipment it is highly recommended to target her torso and inflict as many status ailments as possible such as poison and fire to drain her main health bar in the minimum amount of turns one can do.

Due to her using a lot of spells, talismans as well as the Beheaded Wizard come in handy as it can reflect some of her attacks. Having perfect guard can also help mitigate some of the damage she can dish.

Using a leechmonger ring and a high damaging weapon such as either Black Steel or Meat Grinder can allow the player to gain health back between attacks. This can further be improved on with Counter.

Any pre-buffs such as Goulash+ and drugs will greatly decrease the damage done to you and can help you not get 2 shot. That is if you have master chef skill unlocked

Despite all this it is recommended to use extreme caution as her turn ending skill hits several times and ends with a status ailment that slows the player. To counter this ailment the player needs a Purifying Talisman, else they lose having the ability to attack twice in one turn (if their agility was high enough initially) and lose accuracy. Unlike the regular attacks, the turn ending skill deals physical damage, so a mix of both physical and magical defense is encouraged for this fight. While safe with equipment that protects limbs such as Arm Guards or the Salmonsnake Rune, her multi-hit sword skill will always remove one of your arms if it hits even once regardless of perfect guard, possible bug.

Surviving long enough will make her reveal her wings that work similar to Per'kele's wing attack.

Beheading the Heartless One seemingly does nothing as she laughs at the player and continues to fight without it.

Using steal on her will grant a Yggaegetsu amulet accessory which adds 15% crit rate

Trivia

 * The name and design of The Heartless One are a homage to Fear & Hunger content creator and community member Heartless Angel Ketsueki, who was also one of the main beta testers for Termina.
 * One of the cut-out content from Fear and Hunger 2: Termina is the Heartless One's Crazed Laugh which is possibly heard when successfully decapitating her.