Erdgeist

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Job: Black Mage Family: Ghost Weak to: Light, Fire Strong to: Dark, Ice, Melee Empty Notorious Monster

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Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
Boneyard Gully				3	A, L, T(H), HP ??? HP ??? MP
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:

• Appears in the following ENMs: Totentanz

Historical Background

Erdgeist is German for "earth spirit" (Erd- "earth" + geist "spirit"). In German folklore, it was the German rendering of the name for the Earth elemental in Medieval European occultism, the Gnome. However, Erdgeist is the "Spirit of the Earth" in Faust, Part 1 by Johann Goethe (See Faust for more details on the work). The Erdgeist was the entity which made things manifest in reality, doing so by working at a loom, weaving things into and out of existence, allowing things to be born and to die (similar to the Fates from Greek mythology (see Clotho, Lachesis, or Atropos). The Erdgeist is the first being Faust conjures in the story.