The bestiary rewards in Myth Requiem are the single most important source of permanent, passive character buffs and unique, build-defining items in the game. Far from a simple collectible hunt, completing your bestiary is a core progression system. The rewards range from incremental stat boosts for overall completion to game-changing talismans and abilities for mastering entire families of creatures, culminating in a powerful endgame customization item for achieving 100%.
This guide covers every reward, from the first passive you'll unlock to the final prize waiting at the end of the journey.
How Bestiary Completion Works
To fill your bestiary, you must capture the essence of creatures using the Soul-Tether Lantern, a key item given to you by Archivist Elara in the Silent Archive. When an enemy is near death (typically below 20% health), it will begin to glow with a faint blue aura. Activating the lantern at this point will capture its entry.
Each creature has three research levels:
- Entry (1 Capture): Unlocks the creature's basic lore, elemental weaknesses, and resistances.
- Research (5 Captures): Reveals detailed anatomical lore and adds the creature's potential item drops to your codex.
- Mastery (15 Captures): Unlocks the creature's hidden lore, reveals its stagger values, and counts toward Mastery rewards for its creature family.
Progress is tracked in the Bestiary tab of your journal. While most common enemies can be farmed to reach Mastery, unique bosses are automatically added to your bestiary at the Mastery level upon their defeat.
Universal Completion Rewards: Passive Stat Bonuses
Archivist Elara will grant you permanent, passive character bonuses as you reach certain milestones of total bestiary completion. These apply to your character regardless of your build or equipment. These rewards are the foundation of the system, providing a steady stream of power that makes the rest of the game more manageable.
The most critical early milestone is 25% completion, as the +5% Soul Shard Gain is a significant boost to your leveling speed for the entire mid-game. The final passive, Archivist's Insight, is a massive quality-of-life improvement for subsequent playthroughs.
| Bestiary % Complete | Reward Granted |
|---|---|
| 10% | +5% Item Discovery |
| 25% | +5% Soul Shard Gain |
| 50% | +10% Maximum Stamina |
| 75% | +10% Resistance to All Elemental Damage |
| 90% | +5% Critical Hit Chance |
| 100% | Archivist's Insight (Passive skill) |
Archivist's Insight: This powerful passive automatically reveals all enemy weaknesses and resistances upon targeting them, removing the need to be hit by an attack first. It also adds a subtle red glow to enemies during their attack windups, making parry and dodge timing much more intuitive.
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Creature Family Mastery Rewards: Unique Items & Abilities
Beyond the universal bonuses, the best rewards come from achieving Mastery level for every creature within a specific biological or thematic family. Each of these unlocks a unique piece of equipment or a powerful ability that enables entirely new build strategies. There are seven such families in the base game.
The Gravewood Phantoms
Found haunting the fog-shrouded Weeping Woods, these ethereal spirits are among the first you'll encounter.
- Creatures: Weeping Willow, Corpse-light Wisp, Barrow Hound, Gloomwood Stalker.
- Reward: Talisman of the Silent Step. A potent defensive talisman that reduces the aggro range of all enemies by a flat 30%. This is an essential item for stealth-oriented builds or for simply running past enemies in areas you've already cleared.
The Ironclad Automata
The relentless clockwork constructs that patrol the abandoned Clockwork City of Zosma. They are highly resistant to physical damage but weak to lightning.
- Creatures: Cog-driven Sentinel, Brass Inquisitor, Boilerplate Brute, Furnace Golem.
- Reward: Rune of Unmaking. A unique weapon skill that can be applied to any melee weapon. When used, it imbues your next three attacks with the Unmaking property, causing them to deal 50% bonus damage to Construct-type enemies and guaranteeing a stagger on the third hit.
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The Abyssal Horrors
These mutated horrors crawl from the depths of the Sunken City of Y'ha-nthlei, often inflicting blight and poison with their attacks.
- Creatures: Sunken Creeper, Brine-Hag, Mollusk-Drudge, Leviathan's Maw.
- Reward: Gift of the Depths. A passive ability that grants slow health regeneration (approximately 1% of max HP per second) whenever you are afflicted with a negative status effect like Blight, Poison, or Frostbite. This turns a disadvantage into a powerful source of sustain for attrition-based fights.
The Crimson Court
Cursed nobles and their retainers who stalk the halls of Castle Valerius. They primarily deal blood damage and can inflict the Bleed status effect.
- Creatures: Blood-sworn Thrall, Sanguine Knight, Fell-Bat, Lord Valerius (Boss).
- Reward: Sanguine Brooch. A talisman that increases the rate at which you inflict Bleed buildup by 25% and causes you to gain a small amount of health whenever you inflict Bleed on an enemy. It is the cornerstone of any Bleed-focused build.
The Celestial Ascendants
Beings of pure light and crystal found defending the highest reaches of the Ivory Spire. They are dangerous foes who attack with holy-elemental barrages.
- Creatures: Shard-wing Seraph, Lumina Knight, Empyrean Watcher, The Ivory Archon (Boss).
- Reward: Mantle of the Empyrean. An armor passive that activates after you perform a successful parry. For two seconds after the parry, you are enveloped in a golden shield that will completely nullify the next instance of damage you receive. This provides an incredible safety net for players who master the parry mechanic.
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The Ultimate Reward: The Requiem Shard
So what happens when you hit 100% and have mastered all 147 creatures in the base game? Return to Archivist Elara in the Silent Archive. She will congratulate you and note that a final, mysterious entry has appeared in the bestiary: The Requiem Echo.
This unlocks a new area within the Archive, leading to a final challenge. You must face the Requiem Echo, a shadowy doppelgänger of your own character that uses your currently equipped skills and spells. It is a true test of mastery over your own build.
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Defeating your Echo rewards you with the ultimate prize: The Requiem Shard.
This is a unique, one-of-a-kind relic that can be equipped in your Prime Relic slot. By itself, it does nothing. However, by taking it to a Site of Grace, you can choose to resonate it with any single creature family you have fully mastered. This attunes the shard to that family, granting you a powerful, transformative passive bonus themed around them.
- Resonance (Automata): Grants immunity to being staggered by light and medium attacks.
- Resonance (Abyssal): Your attacks now build up the Frostbite status effect on enemies.
- Resonance (Celestial): A portion of your damage is converted to Holy damage, which is effective against most late-game enemies.
- Resonance (Crimson Court): Dodging through an enemy attack restores a small amount of health.
You can change the shard's resonance at any Site of Grace, making it an incredibly versatile tool for tailoring your build to specific challenges in New Game+ and beyond.
Bestiary FAQ
Can you permanently miss bestiary entries?
No. While a few boss entries are tied to one-time encounters, they are automatically added to your bestiary at Mastery level upon defeat. All standard enemies respawn, allowing you to farm captures at your leisure.
What is the fastest way to fill the bestiary?
Craft and use the Hunter's Draught consumable, which temporarily increases the capture chance with the Soul-Tether Lantern, meaning you don't need to get an enemy's health quite as low. Systematically clearing one region at a time is more efficient than hunting specific creatures across the map.
Do DLC creatures count towards 100% for the main game reward?
No. The Requiem Shard and the Archivist's Insight passive are tied to mastering the 147 creatures present in the base game. Creatures added in expansions like The Ashen Frontier have their own separate bestiaries with unique reward tracks.
Does New Game+ reset your bestiary?
No, your bestiary progress is persistent and carries over into New Game+ and all subsequent cycles. All your unlocked stat bonuses, items, and the Requiem Shard will be available from the start.
A Worthwhile Pursuit
Completing the bestiary in Myth Requiem is no small feat, but the rewards are more than worth the effort. It is a system that consistently rewards diligence with tangible power, transforming a simple checklist into a core part of your journey from a lost soul to a master of the realm's darkest secrets. Do not neglect it.