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Age-old turtle with a sword protruding from its shell.
Description
Aspidochelon is an enemy in Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. It is a Rank II Non-Elemental Melee Yarhi. It appears in a side mission at Gugoza Falls, being an ancient Great Tortoise whose embedded sword is the object of the party's desire.
The Aspidochelon will not actually seek the party out and attack; rather, it moves back and forth up the waterfall path, relying on groups of other enemies to shield it. When confronted, the Aspidochelon will put up a tough defense, but its attacking capabilities are next to nothing. Its ability, Shelter, raises its own Defense.
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Etymology
According to the tradition of the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, the aspidochelone is a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale or vast sea turtle, and a giant sea monster with huge spines on the ridge of its back.