Monsters will level along with you.
Within the world of Autolatry Online, the monsters depend solely on the characters. They are based off of their deepest fears, and later on some of their deepest desires. When a character is born into the Online World, a monster is born with it. And as the characters grow in level, so do the monsters. For every fifteen levels you gain, the monster will evolve into something much more gruesome and much stronger.
Let's give an example a Fear Monster(Image example still to come);
Wendigo's greatest fear is spiders. At level five, her creature will be level ten. It is a tiny little giant eyed creature that lives in caves, biting and scratching its way to fight. At this level, it is not much of a threat. But once it reaches level twenty five, it evolves into a larger spider with many eyes and human arms for legs. It attacks by strangling and creating poisons. And by level fifty-five, it will be a horrific creature, standing at almost eight feet tall with a with a warped human face and hands trying to crawl its way out of its abdomen, though never succeeding.
Not too many players actually face their fears and fight their monsters. But as they do, they grow less fearful of whatever it is. And in time, their fear may subside. Once their fear has been erased, the monster in the game will be as well. A new monster will be born in its place, based off of your desires.
Desire Monsters work the same way as Fear Monsters, but are passive on fields and maps. Unlike Fear Monsters, they will not attack you unless you attack them. They are, however, much stronger and much more intelligent. Always fifteen levels higher than the player it originates from. They can evade traps much better than others, and even cast a wide array of defensive spells. They've even the ability to call upon other monsters to fight for them.
In a way, Desire's can be considered Boss character's on maps. Even lower level Desire's are much tougher to fight, due to their high defense and high health.
-Fear Monster's are always 5 levels ahead of the player.
-Desire's are always 15 levels ahead of the player.
-Monsters are only available on maps when the player is logged in. Wendigo's Spider Monster will disappear from the map once she is logged out. Which means other players can only fight the Spider Monster whenever Wendigo is logged in.
-Desire's have a base level of 25.
-If you've no actual fears, then the game will create a Desire once you log in for the first time.
-Fear Monster's stop evolving after level 55. Their final form ends there.
-Desire's, however, stop evolving after level 70. Though they have lesser forms, since they start out at level 25.