Tret


 * This article is about the character and boss. For the dungeon, see Tret Tree.

Tret is a faerie tree found in Kolima Forest, and is featured as both a boss and an actual dungeon in Golden Sun.

In Golden Sun, he is a guardian of the forest. Lady McCoy's yearning for a palace of her own drove her husband to commission Kolima's lumberjacks to bring down all the trees needed for it. Ultimately, one of the lumberjacks even took an axe to Tret himself, at about the same time Psynergy Stones rained down from Mt. Aleph's eruption. Tret was struck by such a stone while in a state of rage that Kolima, which until then had respected him, would try to cut him down. With the glamour (i.e. faerie magic) abilities that the stone gave him, Tret turned the entire population of Kolima into trees. Tret had still been cut so badly that he was slowly dying, and when he died, so would the entire forest bound to him. Thus, the cursed humans would die as well. When the party enters Tret's forest or the town of Kolima for the first time, they are attacked by Tret's glamour, which induces a cutscene.

Isaac and his party eventually come before Tret and physically climb into his interior to battle an instance of Tret's deranged self, and they beat him back to his senses, so to speak. After the battle, Tret attempts to reverse his curse, his rage finally becalmed. However, he is too weak to effect the reversion. The party needs to save him by using some Water of Hermes on him from the fountain at Mercury Lighthouse.

To revive him, the party needs to get water from the lighthouse and backtrack to Tret in order to apply it (unless the player in question chose to clear Mercury Lighthouse before tackling the Tret subquest, in which case they do not have to backtrack). Once he is revived, the curse is undone, and more water can be taken and used on the party to recover all HP to one character.

As a boss
In battle, Tret resembles a bald, masculine head surrounded by blue flames with 710 HP, 36 PP, 89 Attack, 27 Defense, 30 Agility, and 28 Luck. It is most resistant to Mercury-based attacks (which the party likely doesn't have at this stage, unless they got Mia beforehand), with decreasing resistance to Jupiter, Venus, and lastly Mars.

Tret can attack physically and use the Psynergies Quake, Growth, and Thorn, all of which do Venus damage to multiple targets. It also uses the Monster skill Sleep Star, which may put multiple targets to Sleep. Its PP rating limits the use of its Psynergy moves.

Upon his defeat, Tret yields 226 EXP, 700 coins and a guaranteed Potion. How difficult Tret is depends on when he is fought. While he is a moderately challenging boss, if the party battles him after completing Mercury Lighthouse first, he is much easier to defeat.