Arioch

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Job: Family: Giant Bat Crystal: Wind Weak to: Wind, Light Notorious Monster

Arioch

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
Bostaunieux Oubliette	~62	Arioch Fang (100%) Bat Fang (???%) Fiend Blood (???%) ~1,200 gil (??? Gil)	???~??? gil (??? Gil)	1	A, H ??? 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:

• Lottery Spawn from the Werebats in K-7 and the passages of J-7 - J-8; Arioch loads in the open room at J-7.
• Will use normal Giant Bats special attacks Ultrasonics and Blood Drain.
• Killable by: 3 characters level 75
• Hits regularly with the Additional Effect: HP Drain.
• Will despawn if left alone during the day; possibly a night only NM.

(see testimonials)

Historical Background

Arioch is a demon from Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667). There isn't much on this obscure character other than that he is a fallen Angel (not just in general, but from the category Angel, as opposed to Archangels, Thrones, Seraphim, etc). Arioch is supposedly Ancient Hebrew for "a fierce lion" (uncorroborated). Arioch is also an Old Testament figure who was the King of Ellasar, part of the alliance of kingdoms that fought the kings of Sodom & Gomorrah and also with Abraham in the Vale of Siddim. This Arioch was more commonly rendered as Eriaku than Arioch. There was also an Arioch elsewhere in the Old Testament which was the soldier appointed by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar to put all the wise and learned men of Babylon to death.