Beginner's Bane

Beginner's Bane
Japanese	初心者殺し
Romaji	Shoshinsha Goroshi
Alternate Name	Newbie Killer Rookie Slayer
Debuts
Light Novel	KonoSuba Volume 2
Manga	KonoSuba Chapter 13
Anime	Explosion Episode 11
Game	in the life

Beginner's Banes (初(しょ)心(しん)者(しゃ)殺(ごろ)し) are liger-type beasts that have a reputation of preying on rookie adventurers.

Appearance

Beginner's Banes are catlike creatures as big as a cow, that sport black fur, golden eyes as well as a pair of long huge fangs.

Overview

Beginner's Banes are smart monsters that specialise in hunting beginner adventurers. They do so through the method of protecting tribes of Goblins and Kobolds that are the common targets of beginner adventurers, whom the Beginner's Banes ambush as they head towards what should have been an easy quest.

There are some Beginner's Banes that are herbivorous and feed on wolf berries, with these ones possessing crimson eyes.

Variations

• Mid-Class' Bane (中級者殺し): A stronger breed of Beginner's Banes that commonly sport white fur and blue eyes. It may carry jewels in order to attract greedy adventurers.
• Crescent Mid-Class' Bane (ツキノワ中級者殺し): A Mid-Class Slayer that sports a crescent shaped scar.
• Veteran's Bane (上級者殺し): A powerful breed of Mid-Class Slayers that commonly sport red stripes over black fur as well as red eyes.
• Blizzard Beginner's Bane (初心者殺しブリザード): A Beginner's Bane wielding ice and snow that is spawned in the secret super tribulation room of the Island in the Sky.
• Fire Beginner's Bane (初心者殺しファイアー): A Beginner's Bane wielding fire that is spawned in the secret super tribulation room of the Island in the Sky.
• Crystal Liger (クリスタルライガー): A nearly extinct beast twice the size of a regular Beginner's Bane that looks like a hybrid between a lion and a tiger with crystals growing over its fur, attracted by anything that shines and able to regrow body limbs. It is in fact a evolution of the crimson eyed Beginner's Bane.

Trivia

• The Adventurer Guild's standard advice to beginner adventurers in case they run into Beginner's Banes, is to find somewhere to hide and avoid confrontation.
• Beginner's Banes can't reach their forelegs.
• Beginner's Banes usually submit to the ones stronger than them, exposing their bellies in order to show they are weak.

Image Gallery

Crystal Liger