Category:Corses

Corses This floating undead corpse can strike instant fear in the heart of any unwary adventurer. Found mainly in the Attohwa Chasm, these undead are solitary and reclusive, with less than a dozen able to be identified at any given time. Their reclusive nature is less noticeable at night, when these monsters come out of their hiding spots. Not only are Corse able to silence their opponents, but they can even temporarily charm them and force the charmed attacker to instead attack his or her own party members. For this reason alone, all adventurers should be cautious when approaching. To the victors fall a few interesting items. The bracelets and robes worn by the Corse can be picked off of their now twice-defeated bodies. These items can be desynthesized into precious metals and gemstones (in the case of the bracelets) or cloths and threads (in the case of the robes). Of even more interest are the Iolite that all Corse carry. These blue jewels are only found on the Corse, and are an item of some desire by Bluffnix.

Family Information Type: Undead Common Behavior: A, H, HP Weak against: -25% Strong against: +50% +12.5% +50% Common Job(s): Black Mage Traits: Magic Defense Boost (+25%) Charmable: Aspir: Drain:

Special Attacks

Special Abilities	Promathia Areas	Aht Urhgan Areas	Wings of the Goddess Areas
Danse Macabre: Single-target Charm	Check	Check	Check
Silence Seal: AoE Silence	Check	Check	Check
Memento Mori: Magic Attack Boost	Check	Check	Check
Envoutement: Single-target damage, Chance of Curse	Check	Check	Check
Gala Macabre: AoE Charm, only used by some notorious monsters	Check		X
Final Retribution: AoE damage and Stun, only used by some notorious monsters	Check
Note: Notorious Monsters in this family may use all of the above and/or additional unique special abilities.

Notorious Monsters in Family

Name	Spawn Information	Level	Zone	Notable Drop(s)
Citipati	Lottery Spawn from the Corse around (F-8) - (F-9)	67-70	Attohwa Chasm	Druid's Slops Harpe
Xolotl	Timed Spawn around (E-7) approximately every 21 hours at night	80-81	Attohwa Chasm	Bandomusha Kote Perseus's Harpe Zoolater Hat
Elel	Spawns around (J-8) possibly during Darkness weather at night		Sacrarium	Frenzy Sallet Magical Mitts
Mictlantecuhtli	Timed Spawn around (G-4). Unknown period between spawns.		Abyssea - Tahrongi	Mictlantecuhtli's Habit Serpentes Cuffs
Quest NMs: None Mission NMs: Keremet Battlefield NMs: Gwyn Ap Knudd (ENM) Campaign NMs: Raigegue R d'Oraguille Other NMs: Andhrimnir (Einherjar - Wing II), Grave Digger (Limbus - SE Apollyon)

Monsters in Family

Name	Level	Zone
Corse	66-67	Attohwa Chasm
Arch Corse	75-81	Attohwa Chasm
Wiederganger		Abyssea - Tahrongi

Historical Background

Corse

Corse is an archaic English word for "corpse". It is derived from the Latin word corpus.

Danse Macabre

Danse Macabre is a Medieval European allegory about death affecting every person, be they peasant, feudal lord, clergyman, or king. The dance of death unites all humans across class strata. Danse Macabre was usually depicted in the form of a painting or engraving (occasionally in the form of a play), showing death in the form of a dancing skeleton leading a line of dancers to the grave, a line which included usually the skeletons of a king or emperor, a pope, a monk, a woman, and a child. The Danse Macabre originated after the Black Death swept through Europe, killing between one-quarter and one-third of the continent's entire population between 1347-1351 CE, when the people realized how easy it was to die and how death could claim anybody. It is also believed the recurrent famines of the 14th & 15th Centuries also contributed to the development of this allegory.

The usage of this concept for a charm spell is linked with its historic background. In the Danse Macabre, Death gains control of the dying, leading them in a dance procession to the afterlife.

Memento Mori

Memento Mori is a Medieval European concept descripting works of art that were intended to remind the viewers of their mortality. Memento Mori is a Latin phrase translated as "remember your mortality", "remember you will die", or "remember your death". These were one of the dominant themes found in Medieval Christian artwork. Medieval Christianity was focused on the afterlife and taught its faithful that the mortal life was fleeting, preparation for the afterlife, and one's actions and conduct in life would lead one to Heaven or Hell. The Church attempted to persuade people to spurn the luxuries of life (called vanities) and live a pious, simple life. The Memento Mori served the purpose of emphasizing how ephemeral and empty "earthly pleasures" are. The typical Memento Mori artwork had a skull in it and some form of vanity (a mirror, a flower), and occasionally an hourglass with sand (to emphasize the limited time). The Danse Macabre is also considered a Memento Mori.

Memento Moris actually date back to the Roman Empire, when during the victory parades (called triumphs) for Roman generals through the streets of Rome, it was coordinated by the parade organizers to have a slave standing behind the general reminding him that he is still a man (and thus subject to changes in the tides of fortune). However, the term Memento Mori was not used to refer to this practice. Memento Mori, before its use in Medieval Europe, had the connotation of live life to the fullest before death, not to contemplate mortality in a somber manner. The Medieval Memento Mori apparently originated from how Europeans viewed the genre of still lifes. Still Life, called Vanitas, in Medieval Europe, normally depicts simple objects, like flowers or a bowl of fruit, but artisans eventually began adding a motif of decay to it (skulls, rotting fruit, or dying flowers). From there, it evolved into the concept recognized as Memento Mori.

Envoutement

Envoutement refers to performing sympathetic magic (creating an image of something in the hopes of making it appear or performing some action on a similacrum in hopes of the real thing being faced with that same action). The most common depiction is of a person performing this magic manipulating a doll or an effigy of a person, putting needles in it or burning it, for example. Envoutement is French for invultuation. Invultuation is the more commonly used term for this concept than envoutement.