Frozen Horror



The Frozen Horror is a creature completely made of ice. It can be encountered inside the ice caves in Act V of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

Lore
Not all of Baal’s minions have form. Many of his demons are completely intangible on the mortal plane. However, this makes attacking helpless mortals impossible. The ice in the caves of Mt. Arreat is a limitless resource for these demons to take their form from.

In-Game
Even though they are demon spirits encased in ice, they are Animals. They usually appear in large numbers, moving slowly and attacking with their claws at relatively long range in comparison to other melee attacks. If you get too close they will try to freeze you using a blast similar to the druid's Arctic Blast skill. This can be dangerous for those not immune to freezing. Frozen Creepers will always shatter and dissolve when they die, leaving no corpse behind. All Frozen Horror types would gain speed in Hell upon being chilled, but it can't normally be seen because of their high Cold Immunity.

Development

 * They have an unused unique shattering animation. In the final game they use the same one as all frozen monsters.
 * As they don't have an color palette file (palshift.dat), their Uniques and Champions can't have random colors, but they would look like this if they did. (Click on the small image)