Hyperion

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Job: Warrior Family: Gigas Strong to: Ice, Lightning Notorious Monster

Hyperion

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
NE Apollyon		Ancient Beastcoin (???%)		1	A, L, T(S), T(H)
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:

• Immune to direct magic damage (but not DoTs or other spells).
• One of the Gigas opens the vortex.

Historical Background

Hyperion was a Titan in Greek mythology who was associated with the Sun. More specifically, he is the god of observation. He is the father of Helios (god of the Sun), Selene (goddess of the Moon), and Eos (goddess of Dawn).

Hyperion is the name of one of the moons of Saturn. It was discovered by the Bond bros. and Lassell on September 16th, 1848. It is ~360km in diameter and has an irregular (non-spherical) shape. It has one of the most chaotic rotations in the solar system, meaning its orientation in space is very difficult to predict (its axis of rotation moves around). No other moon in the Sol solar system has chaotic rotation.