Bodach

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Job: Warrior Family: Skeleton Crystal: Earth Weak to: Fire, Light, Blunt Strong to: Dark, Ice, Slashing, Piercing Notorious Monster

Bodach

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
Bostaunieux Oubliette				1	A, T(H), HP 5,000~6,000 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

• Spawned during the quest "The Walls of Your Mind" by checking the ??? in the center of the room at (I-9) of the third map.
• Has an unusually high amount of evasion for a Skeleton.
• Hits very hard.
• Repeatedly uses Blood Saber, Hell Slash, and Horror Cloud.
• Can be defeated by a party of 3 characters at level 75; Duoable by some job combinations at level 75; Soloable by Beastmaster, Red Mage, and Ninja at level 75. (see testimonials)

Historical Background

In Scottish folklore, the Bodach is a spirit. It was usually depicted as an old man wearing dark gray or an elderly dark gray figure. It has all the usual features of spirits in the British Isles: foretelling the death of members in a clan, stealing children or otherwise causing mischief. The most common depiction is of a spirit which comes down the chimney to terrorize and/or kidnap children. Bodach is the Scottish-Gaelic word for "old man". Historically it was used as a pejorative term to refer to peasants or farmers (bothach) by the warrior class amongst the Scots.

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