Azoth

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Statistics Azoth (Dagger) All Races DMG: 35 Delay: 210 AGI +4 Accuracy +4 Evasion +4 Lv. 74 THF / DNC Damage Per Second: 10 TP Per Hit: 5.7%	Other Uses Resale Price: 4,000~4,070 gil
Synthesis Recipes None	Used in Recipes None
Desynthesis Recipe None	Obtained From Desynthesis None

How to Obtain

Auction House Category: Weapons > Daggers (

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Dropped From

Name	Level	Zone
Dark Ixion (NM)	88-90	Batallia Downs (S)
	88-90	East Ronfaure (S)
	88-90	Fort Karugo-Narugo (S)
	88-90	Grauberg (S)
	88-90	Jugner Forest (S)
	88-90	Rolanberry Fields (S)
	88-90	West Sarutabaruta (S)

Historical Information

Azoth was considered to be a 'universal medicine' or 'universal solvent' in alchemy. Its symbol was the Caduceus and so the term, originally being a term for an occult formula sought by alchemists, turned into a poetic word for the Mercury element.

The term was considered by occultist Aleister Crowley to represent a unity of beginning and ending by tying together the first and last letters of the alphabets of antiquity; A/Alpha/Alef (first character of Roman, Greek & Hebrew), Z (final character in Latin), O as Omega (final character in Greek) and Th as Tau (final character in Hebrew). In this way permeation and totality of beginning and end was symbolised to consider the supreme wholeness and thus the universal synthesis of opposites as a 'cancellation' (i.e. solvent) or cohesion (i.e. medicine), and in such a way is similar to the philosophical "absolute" of Hegel's dialectic. Crowley further made reference in his works referring to Azoth as "the fluid."