Gloomnivore

Gloomnivore is a minor antagonist in Dragon Quest XI.

Personality
Gloomnivore takes the word ' sadistic ' to a whole new level. He enjoys feeding on people's despair very much. However, he finds the taste of hope to be disgusting.

Appearance
Gloomnivore is a dark lion-like beast that can feeds on people's emotions. He has six legs and has demonic wings.

Biography
After the castle of Dundrsail is destroyed by Mordegon and King Irwin was murder by a possessed King Carnelian. Gloomnivore went to the ruin of Dundrsail and feed on the king's despair of being unable to save his wife and son (The Luminary). Thus preventing Irwin from going to afterlife and have to repeat witnessing his kingdom's destruction again and again.

After the fall of Yggdrasil, the people that rest in Warriors Rest Inn will experience a strange dream of a mourning knight. When the Luminary and his party went to the Inn. They will experience the same dream, Rab will recognize the knight as King Irwin. They than went to the ruins of Dundrsail and find Irwin's soul. To their surprise, Irwin, now as mourning knight attacked them. After defeating him, the Luminary will find out Gloomnivore is the one behind this. Gloomnivore, although admitting he loves the taste of Irwin's despair, he does wanted to have a new meal, so he tried to taste the Luminary's despair. Although the dark beast is able to find his despair, he will never get any chance to eat it as Luminary's power reawaken. Now angered, Gloomnivore tried to kill the Luminary and his party. But was defeated instead. With Gloomnivore's death, King Irwin's soul is finally freed and is able to go to afterlife.

In the World of Lost Time, Calasmos's returns has strengthed the power of Gloomnivore, but at the price of greatly increasing his hunger. Now the Luminary visit the ruins of Dundrsail again and now Irwin's despair is unable to satisfy the beast, so Gloomnivore attacked the party, but ended up getting slain.