Millenary Mossback

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Family: Adamantoise Crystal: Earth Weak to: Ice Notorious Monster

Millenary Mossback

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
NW Apollyon				1
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:

• About 19,000 HP
• Susceptable to gravity, Bind, heaviliy resists thunder based spells such as Burst and Thunder IV.

Historical Background

Millenary is the adjective form of millennium (1000 years) and millenarian (a word similar to octogenarian). A mossback refers to a very old turtle or shellfish which has algae growing on its back. Mossback is also a word used to refer to a very old-fashioned or conservative person. So, a Millennary Mossback would be a 1000-year old turtle that has moss growing on its back (though, technically every Adamantoise model is a mossback since they all have moss growing on their shells). Eastern folklore also states when a tortoise becomes 1000 years old, it learns the ability to speak human languages and prophesize the future.