Gloom Spawn

are NaN Enemies in.

Characteristics
Gloom Spawn will appear as a patch of TotK: until TotK: draws near. When he is within range, the Gloom patch will begin moving and grow five long arms with one-eyed hands, which after a few seconds (or when struck) will shriek and begin pursuing Link. The moving Gloom drains Link's maximum hearts on contact, and when a hand grabs Link, it will continually drain him until he is able to escape its grasp.

Gloom Spawn will pursue and surround Link quickly such that escape is extremely difficult, though climbing out of the hands' reach can provide temporary respite; the Gloom cannot climb up walls. The hands will also be temporarily stunned if set on fire including from explosions, and will temporarily go limp if hit in their weak point, the eyes. This makes NaN Bomb Flowers and other explosives an effective tool against them, particularly from a high vantage point. They can also be frozen, shocked, or stunned with NaN Dazzlefruits.

If Link does not defeat all the hands quickly enough, they may re-emerge from the Gloom and will not give up until every hand is defeated. At this point the Gloom will coalesce and transform into a TotK:. Unlike Phantom Ganon, Gloom Spawn will not drop any items and does not appear in the TotK:; however, tracking Phantom Ganon on the Sheikah Sensor will be able to track Gloom Spawn.

In some cases, if it cannot reach Link, Gloom Spawn may suddenly dissipate into several NaN Dark Clumps without transforming into Phantom Ganon, but not every instance of the enemy does this. Additionally, some instances of Gloom Spawn are set only to appear if a "random" flag is set. Some of these "random" Gloom Spawn are in slightly different positions in the same general location, such as three at the TotK: or two at TotK:.

Trivia

 * The eyes on the hands of Gloom Spawn resemble the NaN Glowing Eyeballs seen in NaN Pool of Malices in . The arms are also similar to those of TotK:'s mummy in the beginning of the game.
 * If Link is on the TotK: when attacked by Gloom Spawn, the sky will turn red as when during a Blood Moon. This also causes some behavior related to the dark/nighttime, such as making TotK: glow.
 * The hands of Gloom Spawn are sometimes referred to as "Gloom Hands", but this term is not actually used in-game.