I'm currently accomplishing the hunting challenges, and the 9th challenge is to kill a Ghul Matron in the game.
I went through quite a few discussions onto Steam/IGN etc. boards, and mostly they discussed how the Matron's weakness is fire and explosions, and how to get rid of them easily. They do mention something along the lines of:
you'll need to hang out around ghul mounds at night to get one to come
out iirc.
I've been stuck trying to go through caves and all kinds of seedy areas at night times and have only found orcs gatherings or Graugs. I did not encounter any ghouls at all.
Is there a particular Ghul-rich cave? A particular place in the maps (either of them)? Are ghul mounds something different? I just thought that they especially gather around caves and that is what the quote above is referring to?
Best Answer
First of all, Ghul Mounds are not a creature, but instead a terrain anomaly caused (lorewise) by Ghuls. Think of mole holes, but instead of having a mole come out, you have 200 Ghuls jumping at you. Here's one:
There are only two ways to find them, like you said, one of the methods is in caves. The second one is finding those mounds around non-stronghold areas. One important thing to keep in mind is that they only spawn at night. The mounds (and by extension the Ghuls) don't have a fixed spawn, so you may have to run around for a bit (and by using the wait command in the Map to respawn).
Once you found a bunch of Ghuls you have to fight them, but don't kill the fleeying Ghuls (The ones with the 3 claws indicator over their heads). They will run, which triggers the spawn of Ghul Spitters. Repeat the process, and around the 3rd/4th wave a Ghul Matron spawns