Cannibal Sawney Bean
BLACK SOULS II · Mid game
The legendary Scottish cave-cannibal, seated in Wonderland's town-killer band. Defeated by 41.2% of players; his achievement is a sentence eaten mid-word.
Where and when
Sawney Bean hides behind a south-east passage on Wailing Beach. The fight combines 300,000 HP, 4,000-HP regeneration and a charged Devour that can be interrupted only with hard break.
Location
Wailing Beach, through the hidden south-east passage.
Prerequisites
- Reach Wailing Beach and find the hidden south-east route.
- Bring a hard-break effect; ordinary flinch or damage is not the documented interrupt.
Attack cues and responses
Loadout
- A reliable hard-break skill
- Speed control or pre-emptive recovery
- Sustained damage comfortably above 4,000 HP per regeneration cycle
Rewards
- Cannibal Shield
- The shield's regeneration effect
- Sawney Bean achievement / Nightmare clear
Route risks
- Missing the hidden passage is the main access failure.
- A soft stagger should not be documented as a Devour interrupt unless the first-hand log confirms hard break was applied.
First-hand verification backlog
Capture these in one documented Steam-version run before this page becomes indexable:
- Hidden south-east passage
- 300,000 starting HP and 4,000 regeneration
- Devour charge interrupted by hard break
- Cannibal Shield description
Context and planning notes
A mid-band fight (41.2%) in the sequel's gallery of historical monsters. Nothing route-locked — you'll meet him on the main progression through the killer gallery.
The legend of Sawney Bean — a family that ambushed and ate travelers for years — supplies the fight's logic: ambush pressure and attrition. Don't fight him on low SEN; walking into a cannibal's den rattled is the intended mistake.
His achievement title ('Ah mea l') is typography as horror — the sequel's flair for letting the interface itself decay.