Brute

The Brute is a Dungeoneering monster which resides in Daemonheim. It can hit very high with melee. It takes up 2x2 floor tiles and originally could not be walked through, unlike most monsters. However, this has since been changed, and Brutes are now passable.

Crush or stab weapons seem to work nicely. Magic is effective as well. It is recommended to use the Protect from Melee prayer as they can hit very hard and fairly accurately.

Brutes drop keys which are needed to unlock the doors in the room once all the respective monsters in the room have been slain. They are also found wandering in rooms, just like other NPCs in the dungeon.

Brutes are rather strong for their level as the level 49 ones hit you with 100+ damage almost all of the time. This could be from the fact that their weapon of choice is the maul. The level 49 ones are seen wielding fractite mauls, but the good news is that they can potentially drop whatever maul they are wielding.

Other drops

 * Guard room key(Only within the sleeping guard puzzle room)
 * Salve eel
 * Giant flatfish
 * Bouldabass
 * Grimy valerian
 * Blood spindle branches
 * Red moss
 * Bones
 * Coins
 * Bathus maul
 * Kratonite Maul
 * Fractite maul
 * Katagon Maul
 * Gorgonite Maul
 * Promethium Maul
 * Marmaros ore
 * Argonite maul
 * Bathus dagger - level 49

Trivia

 * The Brutes appear to be very strong. It seems that to show this, Jagex has made it so that they can wield mauls, which are two-handed weapons, in only one hand. Despite this, they still use the maul's regular attack speed.
 * The highest level Brutes can hit as high as 523.
 * Brutes are strikingly similar to Rammernaut in terms of body shape and armor. Thus it is very likely that the Brutes are members of the Rammernaut Guards.
 * Brutes appear to swing their arm aside while not attacking, similar to the player's deflect melee curse.
 * Brutes apparently are not humanoids, or they have been trained to see through magical invisibility, as they can see through the Shadow silk hood's invisibility effect.