Thanks to +Garrett Fitzgerald, +Jon Salway, +Whidou, +Gordon Cranford, +rich fraser, +Dice Quixote, and +Zak Sabbath for your contributions.
The creature can only be killed...
- if separated from its weapon or other small object
- if its wounds are rubbed with (salt, elf urine, holy blood, unicorn bone powder)
- if you know its true name
- on a moonless night
- if it believes itself to be vulnerable
- if fully incinerated or vaporized; otherwise, it will regenerate
- by a whore and virgin simultaneously
- by a weapon of (living wood, silver, lead, gold, black iron, virgin steel)
- without pain
- while it sleeps
- if cut into four pieces and buried in four different lands
- once it has passed on its curse
- in honorable single combat
- through treachery
- by decapitation, though the head will go on living
- if buried in the roots of a yew tree
- if its blood is drained
- at a crossroads
- in the rain
- over water
- outside its place of power
- if kept from contact with the ground
- in its true form
- while feeding
- when it cannot commune with a new willing host
- if the one who deals the fatal blow dies at the same instant
- in a certain, small geographical point/place
- by its own willing suicide
- if its death can never be confirmed with certainty afterwards
- by a true friend
- by mistake
- by death penalty pronounced by an impartial judge
- if the planets are correctly aligned
- during the twelfth minute of the twelfth hour of the twelfth day of the twelfth month
- if a certain poem is spoken while the creature is attacked.
- if someone agrees to take its place
- by a scorned lover
- by its creator
- by removing it from the planet
- by reading a children's book to it
- by a blade that has slain the creature's sire
- by an immortal
- in the place of its birth
- through ritual sacrifice
- by eating it
- if it does half of its HP in damage to its slayers
- by the tools of its trade
- by the moon
- if entombed in ice
- on its birthday
By burning its liver and burying its gall bladder at a crossroads.
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