Editing Cold-Hearted Guardian

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{{infobox area
|screenshot        = 
|map               = 
|image             = Luring Slurker drinking 2.jpg
|size              = 320px
|caption           = 
|sector            = 7
|area_letter       = E
|treasures         = 1
|pikmin            = [[Blue Pikmin]]
|requirements      = Complete [[Frozen Hazard]]
|next              = [[Scourge of the Skies]]
|music             = [[Music in Hey! Pikmin#Cold-Hearted Guardian|''Cold-Hearted Guardian'']]
}}

'''Cold-Hearted Guardian''' ({{j|こごえる どうくつの ヌシ|Kogoeru dōkutsu no nushi|Lord of the frozen cave}}) is the [[boss]] battle [[area]] in the [[Snowfall Field]]. In it, the player faces off against the [[Luring Slurker]], which drops the [[Beneficial Intelligence]]. Completing this area grants access to the next [[sector]], the [[Lushlife Murk]].

== Plot ==
When [[Frozen Hazard]] is completed, a [[cutscene]] starts, taking place inside the [[S.S. Dolphin II]]'s cockpit, wherein the ship announces it found [[Beneficial Intelligence|a treasure]], but also [[Luring Slurker|an indigenous creature]]. After this chapter is completed, a similar cutscene takes place, but the ship announces that it discovered a sector filled with [[poison]] instead, the [[Lushlife Murk]].

== Description ==
The entire area consists of the arena in which the player fights the boss. It is an enclosed room inside a cave, and it's floor is just one long wooden board, which spans roughly 2 screen-widths wide. The board is on the surface of water, and can raise and lower throughout the battle.

== Cutscenes ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Cutscene || Screenshot || Trigger || Description
|-
! Luring Slurker introduction
| [[File:Cold-Hearted Guardian Luring Slurker cutscene.jpg|200px]]
| From the starting location, the player goes a bit forward.
| A few Blue Pikmin are gleefully jumping in place, looking at the [[Luring Slurker]]'s dangling appendage. It eventually strikes down into the water below, knocking most Pikmin off their feet. They get up as the appendage retracts. The camera then switches to a view above the floor, showing the Luring Slurker slowly descending from above, with some spins and clasps.
|}

== Pikmin locations ==
{| class = "wikitable sortable"
|-
! Spot || Location || Pikmin || Requirements || Notes
|-
| Start || To Olimar's right || 20 Blue Pikmin || First time only || 
|}

== Objects ==
=== Treasures ===
* {{icon|Beneficial Intelligence|y}}

=== Enemies ===
* {{icon|Luring Slurker|y}} &times; 1

== Guide ==
{{see|Luring Slurker#Strategy}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Cold-Hearted Guardian 1.jpg|Starting location.
Cold-Hearted Guardian 2.jpg|The [[Beneficial Intelligence]], dropped by the [[Luring Slurker]].
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreignname
|Jap=こごえる どうくつの ヌシ
|JapR=Kogoeru dō kutsu no nushi
|JapM=Lord of the frozen cave
|Dut=De vorst
|DutM=The freeze
|Fra=Terreur des bas-fonds
|FraM=Terror of the lowlands
|Ger=Der Herr der Kälte
|GerM=The King of the Cold
|Ita=Voragine glaciale
|ItaM=Glacial chasm
|SpaA=Guardián escalofriante
|SpaAM=Chilling guardian
|SpaE=Guardián Escalofriolante
|SpaEM=Chilling Guardian
}}

{{Snowfall Field}}