Namtar

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Job: Black Mage Family: Skeleton Crystal: Earth Weak to: Fire, Light Notorious Monster

Namtar

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
Sea Serpent Grotto	38-41	Bone Chip 1-2 (100%) Namtar Bone (100%) Revival Tree Root (???%)		1	A, H, 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:

• Lottery Spawn from the Black Mage Ghasts around D-7 to D-8 on the first map.
• Killable by: 6 characters level 36; solo at level 52; easily solo with Beastmaster lv40 using the Royal Leeches at F-7; easily killed by a trio of BLU 37
• Drops around 1,200 gil (up to 1,818 gil)
• Item Drops: Namtar Bone and at least one Bone Chip drop 100% of the time.
• Around 2500HP

Historical Background

In Mesopotamian mythology, the god of disease and pestilence. He was a minor god of the Underworld (Irkalla, Kigal). He would also act as a messenger and chief minister for Ereshkigal, the queen of the Underworld and Nergal, the king of the Underworld. Namtar has the variant spellings Namtaru, Namtara.