Nethersea Brand

Nethersea Brand
In Other Languages
Chinese	溟痕
General Information
First appearance	Stultifera Navis
Ground type	Low
Deployable?	Yes
Passable?	Yes

The Nethersea Brand is a terrain feature in Arknights.

Overview

Representing surfaces inhabited by microscopic organisms symbiotic to the Seaborn that grows rapidly and can cover entire towns if left unchecked, the Nethersea Brand will spread to the adjacent low ground tiles at periodic intervals depending on the operation the Brand are featured which can be extended by the Brand Growth Inhibition effect of the Little Handy's Mini Decontamination Kit, unless if the Brand infests a tile where a friendly unit is present in which case it will spread no further (although the Brand can still spread around the deployed friendly and infest the tiles beyond if other adjacent tiles are already infested).

Enemies over a tile infested by the Nethersea Brand will have the Nervous Impairment they inflict doubled while friendly units over an infested tile will receive 120 Arts damage and 20 Nervous Impairment every second; the latter can be removed and the former can be reduced to 24 Arts damage/sec. with the Brand Toxicity Neutralization effect of the Little Handy's Mini Decontamination Kit.

Nethersea Brands can only be removed by using Hands of the Saint with the Hand of the Saint - Purification effect of the Little Handy's Housekeeping Assistant Module.

Appearances

The Nethersea Brand appears in all SN operations except SN-1 and SN-2, and:

Annihilation	Penumbra Shipyards
Stationary Security Service	Fierce Currents
Integrated Strategies	Nethersea Brand Land • The Spread
Trials for Navigator	Deep in Danger
Paradox Simulation	Lumen: A Shimmer in Stormy Seas

Interactions

Enemy	Interaction
	Spawns a Nethersea Brand at their position when defeated unless while Silenced.
	Cannot be blocked while on a Nethersea Brand.
	When their HP falls below 50%, Nethersea Brands will be spawned on the tiles they passed through unless while Silenced.
	Can attack friendly units over Nethersea Brands from anywhere on the map.
	Becomes invisible while over a Nethersea Brand.

Trivia

• The Nethersea Brand is highly reminiscent to the Creep in the StarCraft series and, to a lesser degree, the Blight in WarCraft III.