地牢兵种介绍#易格-池沃的居民
来源：http://mmh7.ubi.com/en/blog/post/view/denizens-of-ygg-chall
这次的配图有些丧心病狂，除了九头蛇是H7的原画外，其它的刺客、眼魔、牛头人、无面者、蝎狮、影龙是H6的，追猎者配的H5的密探图，黯刺配的H5画册里的图（或许是某版本没被采用的血女设定），穴居灵也就是洞穴人配的MM7的图（事实上还有一张隐藏的的H3的，同样九头蛇也有一张隐藏的是H2的），美杜莎是网龙的英雄无敌在线版本，梦魇和挺进者直接无图……
Well met, my friends.
很高兴见面，我的朋友们。
Yes, I’m sorry to say I still bear this rather ghoulish appearance. My attempts to fix my face with regenerative magic have been unsuccessful. I think it is Void magic unleashed during that ill-fated experiment that scarred my face, and it somehow negates all other forms of magic for the time being.
是的，我很抱歉的说我仍然不得不顶着这幅令人毛骨悚然的面容。我试图用恢复魔法复原我面部的努力没有成功。我猜是这场不幸实验中释放出的虚空魔法毁了我的脸，而这种魔法不知怎地否定掉了之后使用的任何形式的魔法。
But enough about me. Since you’ve asked the Spy Master to tell Ivan a story about the Dark Elves and their Faceless allies, I’d better tell you a few things about the creatures that go bump in the dark.
不过关于我的事已经说得够多了。考虑到你们已经要求间谍大师为伊凡讲述一个关于黑暗精灵和他们的无面盟友的故事。所以我最好告诉你们一些关于黑暗中聚集着的生物的故事。
刺客 - Assassin
The Dark Elf Assassin is like the shadow of Malassa. Moving between shadows, Assasins have mastered the art of plunging a blade between their target’s shoulders.
黑暗精灵刺客就像马拉萨的阴影。在暗影中行动的刺客掌握了在背后刺杀的艺术。
Usually wearing black clothes, the Assassin`s favourite weapons are a pair of sharp and serrated daggers. Some of them also have a fondness for poisons: their daggers are imbued with a mysterious kind of spiritual toxin that slowly erodes their victim`s life force.
刺客通常身着黑色衣服，他们最喜爱的武器是一对锋利的锯齿匕首。有些刺客还嗜好用毒，他们的匕首上通常附有神秘的灵魂毒剂，可以慢慢地侵蚀受害者的生命。
暗影潜伏者 - Shadow Lurker
The Shadow Lurker is a minor Spirit of Darkness in the shape of a floating orb of shadows with a single central purple and glowing eye and several eyestalks framing its body like tentacles, each ending in a smaller eye.
阴影潜伏者是黑暗精魂的一种，它的样子像一团飘浮着的阴影之球，正中间是一个闪烁着的紫色单眼，周围的一根根眼柄像触手一般，每一根末尾都有一个较小的眼球。
It is said these beings are born in Malassa’s dark wings, before detaching themselves to roam in the subterranean realms. Those unfortunate to cross their gaze see their worst nightmares reflected in the Lurker`s unblinking eyes.
据说这些生物诞生于马拉萨的暗翼之下，从母体上分离出来后，它们便开始在地底世界游荡。那些不幸看到它们的人，会在其一眨不眨的眼中看到自己内心最恐惧的梦魇。
偏锋 - Skirmisher
Skirmishers are the dark reflections of the Sylvan Blade Dancers, who have developed their own form of Battle Dance, using a spear rather than twin blades. So well trained are they that they can charge and evade in the same strike, preventing their foes from reacting and retaliating before they are gone.
偏锋是森林剑舞者的黑暗映像，她们发展出了自己的战舞形式，不是使用双剑，而是采用长枪。她们训练精良，可以在冲锋的同时避开敌人的攻击，在敌人有所反应并反击之前她们就已经消失了。
穴居灵 - Troglodyte
Troglodytes are minor spirits of the Earth that were bound to the material plane millennia ago, and have been striving in the deepest bowels of Ashan’s underground world ever since. They are relentless diggers and burrowers, carving new caves and tunnels as if following some unknown design. Blind and possessing only basic intelligence, they can however become aggressive and dangerous when disturbed.
穴居灵是次级土系精魂，上千年以前被束缚在物质界。从此便在亚山地底世界的最深处生活。它们是永不停顿的挖掘者，似乎按照某些未知的计划而开凿出新的洞穴和坑道。它们目盲并只具备最基本的智力，不过被侵扰的时 候也会变得富有攻击性和危险性。
The Dark Elves have soon realized the usefulness of these creatures to expand their subterranean empire, and have been using magic to force Troglodytes to do their bidding.
黑暗精灵很快发现了这些生物的用处，他们使用魔法强迫穴居灵去达到自己的目的——扩张自己的地底王国。
追猎者 - Stalker
The Stalker is the typical Dark Elf whose words are soft as silk with a slight perfume of poison. Stalkers are fearless and fearsome, not known for long speeches but for expeditious action. Underground, the battlefield is too confined for the traditional Elven bows, so the Dark Elves have invented new weapons, specially designed for tunnel combat.
追猎者属于那种典型的黑暗精灵，她们的言辞像沾有带毒的香水的丝绸一般柔滑。追猎者无所畏惧，同时也令人深感恐惧，不是因为她们冗长的演说，而是因为她们迅速的行动。 在地底世界的战场上，传统的精灵弓箭具有极大的局限性，于是黑暗精灵们研究出了一种新的武器，特别为地道战斗而设计的。
In the early decades of the War under the Mountains, Stalkers were known to bring chakrams to battle, but they now prefer using crossbows. After all, the Dark Elves have had plenty of painful opportunities to witness their deadly efficiency in the hands of the Dwarves.
在山下战争的前几十年，追猎者手持环刃进行战斗。不过如今，他们偏好使用弩。毕竟，黑暗精灵们曾多次痛苦地目睹这些弩弓在矮人手中发挥出来的致命威力。
牛头人 - Minotaur
Like the Harpies and Centaurs, the Minotaurs are Beastmen, created by the Wizards of the Seven Cities in the year 340 YSD. Half-human and half-bull, the Minotaur was meant to be the shock infantry to fight alongside the Centaur cavalry. A few centuries later, the Crimson Wizards of Al-Rubit, in a diplomatic gesture that surprised many and angered their neighbours in the Silver Cities, made a gift of one thousand loyal Minotaurs to the Dark Elves.
和鹰身女妖以及半人马一样，牛头人是兽型人，七城联盟的法师们于七龙纪340年创造出来的。最初它们被设计为突击步兵，与半人马骑兵一起并肩作战。几个世纪后，艾-茹比的猩红法师们将一千名忠实的牛头人作为外交礼物送给了黑暗精灵，这一举措令他们在银色联盟的邻居们感到惊讶与愤怒。
In a short period of time, the Minotaurs took oaths of loyalty to the Dark Elves and Malassa. Most Dark Elves appreciate the Minotaurs’ strength and reliability and consider them valuable allies. But a few clans, notably the Soulscars, tend to see them as little more than slaves.
没过多久，牛头人们就对黑暗精灵和马拉萨许下忠诚的誓言。大多数黑暗精灵很感激牛头守卫的力量与忠诚，将它们视作有价值的盟友。不过有些许氏族，像灵魂伤疤氏族，倾向于把它们看做是和奴隶差不多的东西。
梦魇 - Nightmare
Nightmares are unicorns that have changed over time due to their contact with Malassa. Their coat has become black like onyx, their muzzles skeletal and tortured, and their clear eyes deep black. Their horn, once a symbol of fertility, is the receptacle and the physical embodiment of the nightmares which these creatures are cursed to see and feel.
梦魇是长期和马拉萨接触而逐渐转化而来的独角兽。它们的皮毛变成缟玛瑙般的黑色，口鼻部逐渐消瘦扭曲，清澈的眼睛则变成深黑色。它们的角，曾经的丰饶的象征，如今变成这些生物受到诅咒的具象与证据。
The thundering gallop of a Nightmare generates waves of horror that spread and propagate terror among enemy ranks. The horn of a Nightmare, when retrieved after combat, is a precious artefact. Crafted, shaped, and transformed, equipped with a hilt or shaft, it can become a sword or lance that carries and transmits the same nightmares that the beast itself collects.
梦魇雷鸣般的奔驰制造出阵阵恐惧，在它们的敌人间扩散传播。如果能在战后拾取到梦魇的角，那将会是一件无价之宝。经过打磨锻造定型后，装上剑柄或枪杆，就可以将其做成长剑或长枪，这些武器上附有并能传播和这些 野兽所带有的同样的恐惧。
无面者 - Faceless
The Faceless are the children of Malassa. Masters of infiltration, spying, and stealth, the Faceless are the most mysterious and unknown of all the followers of the Dragon Gods. What little can be said of them is that they are clothed in shadow and mystery; if they are perceived at all it is a fleeting image from the corner of the eye, an odd moment of déjà vu, a strange sense that one is being watched...
无面者是马拉萨的孩子们，是刺探、谍报和隐秘活动的大师。无面者是所有龙神的追随者当中最神秘和不为人知的。常人对于他们仅有的一点小道信息是，他们通常隐藏在阴影和神秘之中。人们对于他们的印象通常是余光所看到的飘忽不定的影像，好像是似曾相识，又像是正在被什么人所窥视……
The Faceless move in the shadows: they enter one shadow and leave from another. The Faceless don`t need to speak, they can communicate by telepathy, from mind to mind. They are poorly trusted by their allies and greatly feared by their enemies.
无面者行走在阴影中，他们走进一处阴影，又从另一处阴影走出。无面者无需言语，他们通过心灵感应相互交流。他们通常不会被盟友所信任，却同时被敌人所畏惧。
挺进者 - Strider
While they are better practitioners of the Arcane Art, the Faceless do not possess the physical might and battle prowess of their archenemies, the Angels. To even the odds, and because ruse and deception are not always a viable option, the Faceless have created the Striders. These “living armours”, made of Shadowsteel (or, some would say, grown from the very blood of the Faceless), are not dissimilar, in principle, to Wizards’ constructs like Golems or Gargoyles.
尽管精通奥术，无面者还是无法在身体力量和战斗技巧上匹敌他们最主要的敌人——天使。为了增加胜利的筹码，毕竟诡计和欺诈不总是可以成功的，无面者创造了挺进者。这些由影钢制造的活体机甲（也有些人声称是从无面者的血肉中诞生），基本上与法师们的构造体——魔像和石像鬼并无大异。
Striders are possessed by the essence of a Faceless puppeteer, who controls it from the shadows. While capable of standing their own in a fight, their main role is actually to disrupt and negate the enemy’s magic. Not many people have encountered Striders and lived to tell the tale – therefore, I am unable to give you a reliable description of what the creature actually looks like! Most stories describe them as tall and gaunt, with long arms and legs, giving the Striders an almost insectile appearance. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination…
挺进者附有一位无面者傀儡师的灵魂精华，使其在暗影中控制。尽管可以独自战斗，他们的主要角色还是干扰和阻止敌人的魔法。没多少人能够在遭遇挺进者后还能活着讲述这一切，所以，我也没法给你们更多关于这些生物实际造型的可靠描述！大部分故事都将其描述成高大枯瘦，有着修长四肢的样子，让人觉着像一只昆虫。剩下的 只能留作你们想象了。
美杜莎 - Medusa
The Dragon Gods have many faces, not all of them nice. Naga Priestesses who succumb to the madness of the depths are exiled from the Lotus Empire, and become known as Medusae. Most Medusae worship the Wrecker, the destructive aspect of the Dragon Goddess of Water, but some of them also turn to Malassa. After all, what lies in the deepest abysses of the ocean if not Darkness?
龙神是多面的，但并不是每一面都是美好的。沉浸在深海疯狂中的娜迦祭祀被莲花帝国流放后，就被人称为美杜莎。大多数美杜莎崇拜毁舟者，水之龙神的毁灭面，但仍有部分转而崇拜马拉萨。毕竟，除了黑暗之外，又有什么潜伏在大洋最深的深渊之中呢？
During their quest to find a way to bring back the Faceless Library from Sheogh and make it the centre of their new realm, the Dark Elves encountered a faction of renegade Nagas, led by Daimyo Oshiro the Accursed. These Nagas, involved in a failed coup against the Eternal Empress, had been literally forced to go underground. After being conquered, Oshiro’s people became part of the Dark Elf kingdom.
在从谢尔戈带回无面者图书馆，并准备将其作为新王国中心的冒险中， 黑暗精灵遇到了被诅咒的大城大名率领的一伙娜迦叛徒。这些娜迦在参与一场针对永恒女皇的叛乱失败后被赶到地底世界。在被黑暗精灵们征服之后，大城的子民们便成为了黑暗精灵帝国的一部分。
蝎尾狮 - Manticore
The Manticore is a Magical Beast created during the Mythic Age. At that time, the surface of Ashan was irrigated by Dragon Veins. Beasts that drank these untamed rivers of Dragonblood were permanently altered by their powerful magic.
蝎尾狮是诞生于神话时代的魔法兽。那时，亚山地表遍布龙脉。那些喝下这种蕴含这龙血水晶的河水的生物会被其中强大的魔力永远地改变自身的形态。
The Manticore seems to blend together the features of various animals: lion, bat, and scorpion, and is notorious for its venomous stinger.
蝎尾狮看起来混合了许多动物的特征：狮子、蝙蝠、蝎子。蝎狮以其剧毒的尾刺而闻名。
影龙 - Shadow Dragon
The Shadow Dragon is the avatar of Malassa, the Dragon Goddess of Darkness. They take the form of a dragon of onyx, with purple orbs embedded on their wings – these are the eyes of Malassa, capable of seeing any kind of shadows, literally or metaphorically. The Shadow Lurkers are said to be born from these glowing orbs.
影龙是黑暗龙神马拉萨的化身，它们以缟玛瑙的龙形出现，翅膀上镶嵌着紫色的圆球——那便是马拉萨之眼，可以看到一切阴影，不管是真实的阴影还是它所象征的事物。阴影潜伏者据说就是诞生于这些发光的圆球上。
The ultimate evolution of a Shadow Dragon is the legendary Black Dragon. On their wings, the eyes of Malassa are replaced by intricate patterns of light constantly dissolving, like galaxies being swallowed by the endless darkness of space.
影龙的最终演变形态是传奇的黑龙，在它们的翅膀上，马拉萨之眼被不断消溶的光芒所构成的错综复杂的图案替代，就像是星系正被无尽的黑暗空间所吞噬。
洞穴九头蛇 - Cave Hydra
Hydras are among the most formidable Magical Beasts to roam the lands of Ashan. These giant snakes, mutated by the raw magic unleashed during the Mythic Age, possess multiple heads, allowing them to attack several opponents at once. Their bite is nasty and, depending on the Dragon whose spilled blood was involved in the Hydra’s creation, it will have varying effects on the unfortunate victim.
九头蛇是行走于亚山世界中最强大的魔法生物之一。受神话时代释放的原初魔法影响，这些巨蛇产生突变长出了数个脑袋，使其可以同时攻击多个敌人。他们恶毒的撕咬会对受害者造成不同的后果，效果取决于他们诞生时受到的是哪位龙神的血脉影响。
There are as many types of Hydras as there are Dragon Gods. Some of them are purely serpentine, others have reptilian legs, and the exact number of heads varies from one species to the next. The Dark Elves have learned to tame the Cave Hydras dwelling in the bottomless Abyss.
有多少位龙神就有多少种九头蛇，有些是纯粹的蛇形，有些长有爬虫类的脚，而头的数量也根据种类不同有所差距。黑暗精灵已经学会驯服生活在无底深渊的洞穴九头蛇。
