Imdugud

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Imdugud
Job:	Thief
Family:	Hippogryphs
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Crystal:	Light
Weak against:	Ice
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Absorbs:
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Spawn Type:	Lottery
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Statistics & Spawn Table

Name	Level	Drops	Steal	Family	Spawns	Notes
[[]] Lottery Spawn – island at (M‑7) in Riverne - Site #B01 Respawn 6 minute	58	Heavy Lance (14%) Knightly Earring (30.2%) ???~??? gil	???~??? gil	Hippogryphs		A, T(S) ~8,000 HP ??? MP
A = Aggressive; NA = Non-Aggresive; 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; A(R) = Aggressive to Reive participants

Notes

• Lottery Spawn from 1 Nimbus Hippogryph on the island at in Riverne - Site #B01 (M-7). PH seems to be the bottom most monster on the widescan.

Respawn time on the Nimbus Hippogryph's is 6 minutes. Special Attacks: Triple Attack, high resistance to most magic/debuffs.

Historical Background

In Sumerian mythology, Imdugud was a lion-headed eagle who was the doorkeeper to Enki's bath. Imdugud was considered the personification of the Southern Wind, the winds which brought rains and storms to Mesopotamia. It is said thunder was the sound of its roar. In Babylonian mythology, Imdugud was known as Anzu, a demonic bird with an eagle's body, but a lion's head and claws. Anzu's beak could cut through almost anything and its feathers were said to be as impenetrable as '11 coats of mail'. While appointed by Ellil to guard his bath chamber, it stole the Tablets of Destiny, an artifact which allows anything spoken to become manifest in reality, while Ellil bathes. Nonetheless, Anzu managed to be defeated. The story of the Babylonian Anzu is not repeated in Sumerian tales (in other words, though they were considered analogous, they had two very different stories). Imdugud was also a Chaldean rain god. Imdugud means "heavy rain" in Sumerian. It seems Square-Enix decided to make Imdugud the name of a creature that is inverse to the mythology (an eagle-headed lion).