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October 2011
The Hydra, Aqua Hydra, and Pyrodra are species of monsters randomly encountered in Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. These monsters, resembling large three-headed sea serpents, are palette-swapped variants of each other that appear in different, mutually-exclusive locations within the same game. They also have differing levels of strength and similar-yet-different sets of battle skills, with the more dangerous variants typically appearing later in a game. This monster line includes one boss in The Lost Age, although it is demoted to a common enemy in Dark Dawn. (Read more...)

September 2011
Jupiter Lighthouse is the Elemental Lighthouse of Jupiter (Air), located in the top part of the western continent of Atteka. It is a rather massive and complex late-game dungeon in Golden Sun: The Lost Age, and can only properly be explored after having exchanged the Shaman's Rod for the Hover Jade item through the Trial Road event in Shaman Village. It is the site of dramatic story occurrences and a boss battle that the player can lose and still advance the story, and after completing the dungeon,the Reunion event awaits to be triggered in nearby Contigo. (Read more...)

August 2011
Sleet is the second Mercury Djinni in both the original Golden Sun and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, and is also acquired in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. As a Djinni, it may be Set onto an Adept to influence that Adept's Class series, then may be Unleashed in battle to perform a specific battle effect. Then while On Standby, it is available as a resource for a Mercury-aligned Summon. When Sleet is unleashed in battle, the user deals a Mercury-based attack equal in power to the user's normal physical attack with an additional 30 damage points added to the result. There is also a chance that the target's Attack rating will be temporarily reduced by 25%. (Read more...)

July 2011
Ragnarok and Odyssey are related Venus Psynergies featured throughout the Golden Sun series that are functionally identical but have different levels of power. Other, similar elemental-physical-attack Psynergies of other elements have roughly the same levels of power as these, but since this is exclusive to the Squire class series, it is only available to the Venus Adepts that are the party leaders of all games up through Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. These characters' naturally high attack strength makes Ragnarok and Odyssey more damaging than other elemental physical attack Psynergies used by other characters. (Read more...)

June 2011
Lachesis' Rule is a Staff-class  Artifact  weapon found by random drop in Golden Sun: The Lost Age and   Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. It has the highest attack rating of all Staff-class weapons in both games, which makes it the weapon with the  highest attack rating that any of the Adepts that can equip it can hold. It also has the highest sell value of all staffs, and its unique Unleash effect, Apocalypse, has the highest set damage bonus of any  Unleash effect. Despite all of this, it is debatable whether Atropos' Rod is the superior weapon because its Unleashes, in both games, are  more outwardly harmful to the enemy. (Read more...)

May 2011
Deadbeard (Talos in Japan, which is a name shared by extremely  strong  enemies in Camelot's Shining series) is an optional boss   monster found in the lowest level of the optional dungeon Crossbone Isle. It is the toughest boss in the first  Golden Sun game, more dangerous than even the game's proper   final boss, and awaits daring players willing to face   the first game's biggest battling challenge.(Read more...)

April 2011
Vale (ハイヂア村 Haidia Village) is a village situated at the  foot of Mt. Aleph,  and the hometown of several of the main  characters: The Venus Adepts  Isaac and Felix, and the Mars  Adepts Jenna and Garet,  as well as all their respective family members. It is the starting town of Golden Sun, and while departed from early in the game, it may  be revisted at later points in the game. From a story standpoint, it competes with Prox as the most  important settlement, and it is the  town the games' story both starts  off from and ends at. (Read more...)

March 2011
Air's Rock is a dungeon-style location in Golden Sun: The Lost Age,  located in central Osenia, to the north of Garoh in the middle  of what appears to be a large desert. It is climbed up, delved into, and explored ultimately so that Sheba will obtain the important  Reveal Psynergy. It is notorious as the most enormous and time-consuming dungeon in the Golden Sun  series, even though it is explored relatively early in The Lost  Age. Playing through it can be postponed until later when Piers has joined the party, however. The name Air's Rock is a play on the real-world Ayers Rock, a large fold-mountain in the center of Australia  that all the Elemental Rocks resemble to a degree. (Read more...)

February 2011
Alex is a Mercury Adept and major character in the Golden Sun series. While he is largely involved in the story, he has yet to be playable or even  fought in any game in the series, and has always remained an NPC. At many points, his motives and the reasons for his actions are mysterious,  and while he typically aligns himself with those that are viewed by the  main characters and the player as the villains, he always operates to  his own agenda, and never personally confronts the main characters in  battle. In spite of this, Alex is considered as one of the series' main antagonists. (Read more...)

January 2011
Isaac is a Venus Adept, a playable character in Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age, and a main character in the overall Golden Sun series. He is the silent protagonist and party leader of the original Golden Sun, and gains a speaking role in his appearance late in Golden Sun: The Lost Age as a co-leader of the game's extended final party. He returns as an NPC early in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, where he has become husband to Jenna and father to Matthew. For being the most effective "main representative" of the Golden Sun series, Isaac serves a cameo role in the 2008 Nintendo fighting game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. (Read more...)