Hansel and Gretel
BLACK SOULS · Early game
The breadcrumb siblings, fought together in the opening act (49%) — and again, separately and changed, in one of the deepest threads of the game (15.2% / 14.1%).
Where and when
Hansel and Gretel are the paired Witch House encounter. Their later cursed forms are separate branch fights; the base encounter should be documented as a two-enemy target-priority battle.
Location
Witch House.
Prerequisites
- Reach Witch House; picking up the breadcrumbs changes the house state and the route into the encounter.
- Decide whether Dorothy's availability needs to be checked immediately afterward.
Attack cues and responses
Loadout
- Single-target burst for the first sibling
- Enough recovery for overlapping turns before the first kill
Rewards
- Hansel and Gretel achievement
- Their tale once both required outcomes are complete
- Access to the next Witch House state
Route risks
- Breadcrumb pickup changes the event state around Dorothy and the siblings.
- The cursed sibling encounters have their own late-route conditions and should be verified separately.
First-hand verification backlog
Capture these in one documented Steam-version run before this page becomes indexable:
- Breadcrumb state before entry
- Both starting enemies
- Kill-order comparison
- Base-fight rewards
- Separate cursed-form references
Context and planning notes
The early fight is a paired encounter — the game's second lesson in target priority after Bremen. The siblings protect each other; breaking the pair is the fight.
Their story doesn't end here. The Cursed Brother Hansel (15.2%) and Cursed Sister Gretel (14.1%) fights sit near the very bottom of the rarity table, in deep-route territory. What the mist eventually does to these two is one of BLACK SOULS' cruelest long arcs.
The sequel's Fairy Tale [Hansel and Gretel] ('Land of Sweets', 34.7%) adds the series' final word on the witch's house.