Acrolith

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Job: Warrior Family: Acroliths Undead Swarm

Acrolith

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
Al Zahbi Undead Swarm Besieged				5	A, T(S) ??? HP
A = Aggressive; L = Links; S = Detects by Sight; H = Detects by Sound; HP = Detects Low HP; M = Detects Magic; Sc = Follows by Scent; T(S) = True-sight; T(H) = True-hearing; JA = Detects job abilities; WS = Detects weaponskills; Z(D) = Asleep in Daytime; Z(N) = Asleep at Nighttime

Notes:

• Uses all the Acrolith special attacks.
• They fall apart piece-by-piece whenever they use "Dismemberment" in the following order: left arm, right arm, and then the body, leaving only the legs left to fight.

Historical Background

In Classical antiquity, an acrolith (Greek etymology: acros and lithos, English translation: "height" or "extremity" and "stone") was a statue in which the trunk of the figure was made of wood, and the extremities (head, hands and feet) of marble. The wood was concealed either by gilding or, more commonly, by drapery, and the marble parts alone were exposed. The similar, earlier, Chryselephantine sculptures used ivory instead of marble, and normally gold on the body. Acroliths are frequently mentioned by Pausanias (100s CE), the best known example being the Athene Areia ("Warlike Athena") of the Plataeans.