Megaera

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Megaera is a Summon sequence of the Mars element found only in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. When one Mars Djinni and one Jupiter Djinni are on standby, and Megaera’s Summon Tablet has been collected, the Megaera Summon sequence can be activated. It resembles a pair of large swords landing into the ground on either side of the enemy party, then a giant red whirlwind engulfs the enemy party for a moment before Megaera herself, a young goddess with angel wings and a pair of large swords, emerges from the whirlwind and both disappear.

Megaera has a base Mars power of 40 and also does additional damage equivalent to 6% of the enemy’s maximum HP. In addition, all current battling Adepts have their attack ratings increased by 12.5%. Megaera, however, is not automatically summonable once one collects the required Djinn. Megaera can only be summoned once the Summon Tablet containing the sequence has been found and collected in Osenia Cavern, located in between Mikasalla and Air’s Rock. The Scoop Psynergy is required to be solved in order to get to the tablet.

Megaera is among Zagan (Venus), Flora (Jupiter), and Moloch (Mercury) as a Summon sequence that can be used as a “placeholder” summon for more powerful “traditional” summons, in this case for Kirin because Megaera can be attained and used before one can summon Kirin with two Mars Djinn. Megaera is rarely used at all, though; her power rating is only 2/3rd that of Kirin, and since both Megaera and the second Mars Djinni used for summoning Kirin can be acquired at the same time once the Scoop Psynergy is earned, most would rather opt to just use Kirin for the increased summon power. Megaera’s additional effect of giving the party a physical attack boost of 12.5%, up to a maximum of 50%, is what is meant to make Megaera a viable alternative to Kirin. Megaera can therefore be viewed as a slight Mars attack combined with the effect of the High Impact Psynergy, and since High Impact is not learnable until level 22, Megaera functions as a good replacement for that purpose. Like Zagan, though, Megaera quickly becomes underpowered in the grand scheme of things.

Cultural Allusions

Origin: Greece

Megaera is one of the Erinyes (Furies) of Greek mythology. Like her sisters, she avenged crimes against family members, especially murder of one's parents. She was born from the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him. Megaera is also the name of the mortal wife of Hercules, who killed her in a fit of rage and avenged her accidental death by taking on the Twelve Labors.