diff --git a/docs/dwarf-arts.md b/docs/dwarf-arts.md
index 2e00766..10f8741 100644
--- a/docs/dwarf-arts.md
+++ b/docs/dwarf-arts.md
@@ -76,3 +76,14 @@ a game::Art tooltip filter adds "Explosionsradius: N" after the last value
 line of each level section (current level, and the next level's in the skill
 book), in that line's colour, from the same `ImpactRadiusAt(level)` as the
 hit check and the marker.
+
+## Grenade impact crash (2026-10-26)
+
+Crashes at sacred.exe+0x361b54 (2026-10-26 00:12 and 22:39) in the particle
+drawer `0x7613e0`, called by `cParticleSystem_grenadeimpact::Render` (vf04
+0x7b66b0): colour = table +0x20d0 at row (+0x3d) * 256 + life (+0x2c), and a
+particle had a life of over 500000. Guard (`mods/guards.cpp`): live particles
+with life >= 256 or row >= 3 are switched off before drawing. Logged in the
+next session: 5 particles, all row 3, life 255, garbage sizes (e.g. 190555,
+4.6e-40): the explosion emits into a fourth row whose emitter parameters it
+never sets (vf10 0x7b6980 fills three rows at +0x30d0). No crash since.
diff --git a/src/mods/guards.cpp b/src/mods/guards.cpp
index 93f341e..0535e4e 100644
--- a/src/mods/guards.cpp
+++ b/src/mods/guards.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 
 #include <intrin.h>
 
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <cstdint>
+
 #include "re/hook.h"
 #include "re/log.h"
 
@@ -31,4 +34,49 @@ void __fastcall BurningBone_Render(void* self, void* edx, void* device, Matrix4
     BurningBone_Render_original(self, edx, device, transform);
 }
 
+// cParticleSystem_grenadeimpact::Render (vf04 0x7b66b0, vtable 0x896cdc;
+// (device, matrix by value), ret 0x44): Mörsergranate's explosion. Crashed
+// twice (2026-10-26 00:12 and 22:39, sacred.exe+0x361b54 in the particle
+// drawer 0x7613e0): a particle's colour is read from the table at
+// +0x20d0 at row (+0x3d) * 256 + life (+0x2c), and the particle had a life of
+// over 500000 (it counts down from about 255, at 250..400 per second, by
+// row: cParticleSystem update 0x763ea0). Particles are 0x40 bytes in the
+// vector +0x68..+0x6c; alive while life (+0x2c) and size (+0x28) are above 0.
+// How a particle gets there is not known yet: such particles are switched
+// off (life 0, the game's dead state) and the first ones logged.
+constexpr size_t kParticlesBegin = 0x68;
+constexpr size_t kParticlesEnd = 0x6c;
+constexpr size_t kParticleSize = 0x40;
+constexpr size_t kParticleSizeValue = 0x28;  // float
+constexpr size_t kParticleLife = 0x2c;       // float, colour column 0..255
+constexpr size_t kParticleRow = 0x3d;        // u8, colour row
+constexpr float kColourColumns = 256.0f;
+constexpr uint8_t kGrenadeImpactRows = 3;  // emitter parameter rows at +0x30d0 (0x20 bytes each)
+constexpr size_t kGrenadeImpactPhase = 0x20a9;  // u8: 0 burning, 1 waiting, 2 fading (vf08 0x7b64c0)
+
+void __fastcall GrenadeImpact_Render(uint8_t* self, void* edx, void* device, Matrix4 transform);
+RE_HOOK(0x007b66b0, GrenadeImpact_Render);
+void __fastcall GrenadeImpact_Render(uint8_t* self, void* edx, void* device, Matrix4 transform) {
+    static int logged = 0;
+    uint8_t* begin = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t**>(self + kParticlesBegin);
+    uint8_t* end = *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t**>(self + kParticlesEnd);
+    for (uint8_t* particle = begin; particle && particle < end; particle += kParticleSize) {
+        float& life = *reinterpret_cast<float*>(particle + kParticleLife);
+        const float size = *reinterpret_cast<const float*>(particle + kParticleSizeValue);
+        const uint8_t row = particle[kParticleRow];
+        if (!(life > 0.0f) || !(size > 0.0f) || (life < kColourColumns && row < kGrenadeImpactRows)) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (logged < 5) {
+            ++logged;
+            re::Log("guards: grenade impact particle %d of %d out of range (life %g, row %u, size %g, phase %u), "
+                    "switched off",
+                    static_cast<int>((particle - begin) / kParticleSize), static_cast<int>((end - begin) / kParticleSize),
+                    life, row, size, self[kGrenadeImpactPhase]);
+        }
+        life = 0.0f;
+    }
+    GrenadeImpact_Render_original(self, edx, device, transform);
+}
+
 } // namespace game