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Wood Walker enemy line
The Wood Walker is an enemy that is randomly battled in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. This monster, resembling a walking tree stump with a face and appendages, is noteworthy for being the only random monster of its design basis that is actually used in the game's battles; in the code of the game, two more variants with their own palette swaps, the Elder Wood and the Estre Wood, are unused as monsters, but both are featured as the visuals for Tamer class series Psynergy spells that share their names. This is similar to the Weird Nymph, an enemy that does not appear in a battle but appears in a Psynergy.
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[edit] In Golden Sun: The Lost Age
[edit] Wood Walker
A Wood Walker is a brown level 25 variant with green leaves. The Wood Walker is fought throughout the interior portion of Gaia Rock, and subsequently throughout Izumo Ruins, ideally before it is fought in Ankohl Ruins.
In Gaia Rock, the Wood Walker is not the fastest monster, but its offensive and defensive statistics are well-rounded and strong. Offensively it is outperformed by the stronger and faster Gressil in Izumo Ruins, and in Ankohl Ruins it is outperformed in every statistic by the Minotaurus, as well as most of the other monsters in various statistical regards.
A Wood Walker's statistics are as follows:
| Name | HP | PP | Attack | Defense | Agility | Luck |
| Wood Walker | 230 | 21 | 213 | 75 | 94 | 24 |
| Elemental Resistances | Turns | Exp | Coins | Item Dropped | Drop Rate | |
 175  100  72  25
|
1 | 242 | 201 |  Bramble Seed
|
1/16 | |
A Wood Walker uses these battle commands:
| Command | Chance to use | Elem. Stats used with * | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attack | 5/8 (62.5%) |
{{{command1usedwith}}} | Standard physical attack. |
| Briar | 2/8 (25%) |
{{{command2usedwith}}} | Psynergy costing 11 PP that summons a series of large spiky vines out of the ground to stab the party of Adepts. Deals a Venus-aligned attack with a power rating of 70 and a range of 3. Wood Walker uses this with a Venus elemental power rating of 105. |
| Mad Growth | 1/8 (12.5%) |
{{{command3usedwith}}} | Psynergy costing 10 PP that causes a group of thorny vines to erupt from the ground and though the party. Deals a Venus-aligned attack with a power rating of 60 and a range of 3. Wood Walker uses this with a Venus elemental power rating of 105. |
[edit] Elder Wood
This is the only monster line introduced in The Lost Age that seems to have only one variant, but like the other monster lines that have fewer variants than the usual three, second and third palette-swapped variants to this line exist in the code of the game cart and were even given its own names, but have none of their statistics and abilities coded beyond weak placeholder abilities. The Elder Wood, however, appearing as a light-green variant with autumn-colored leaves, is featured as part of the visual in the Elder Wood Psynergy that is available to the Beastkeeper class.
[edit] Estre Wood
Likewise, this third variant in the line, the Estre Wood, appearing as a dark-purple variant with autumn-colored leaves, is featured as part of the visual in the Estre Wood Psynergy that is available to the Beast Lord class. It doesn't make an interactable appearance anywhere else in the game.
