Chimera enemy line


 * For another enemy in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn with "Chimera" in its name, click here.

The Chimera, Chimera Mage, and Grand Chimera are enemies that are battled in each game in the Golden Sun series. These monsters, resembling three-headed beasts with lion, gryphon, and goat heads and with a snake for a tail, are palette swaps of each other that have differing levels of power and defense and are fought in different locations in the games. In each game, every Chimera variant has a larger selection of battle commands than usual.

Chimera
A Chimera is a large level 28 variant with its features generally colored brown and yellow, and with a violet snake tail. In Golden Sun two are fought together as one scripted boss encounter that occurs on the sixth "dungeon floor" of the optional Crossbone Isle dungeon, as soon as you try to enter the door to that floor's puzzle room.

The encounter with two Chimeras can be expected to be about as difficult as the "sub-boss battle" on the seventh floor below, and likely more difficult than the battle in the floor above with the single Lizard King. In particular, Rabid Fang can be dangerous if its Venom-inducing effect connects. But this battle can most likely be conducted "as usual" and be won, and like the other sub-boss encounters in Crossbone Isle this battle can be "cheaply" won by having everyone use a 4-Djinn Summon on the first turn to annihilate the Chimeras.

A Chimera's statistics are as follows:

A Chimera uses these battle commands:

Chimera Mage
A Chimera Mage is a normal-sized level 26 variant with its features generally colored violet and pink, and with a brownish-orange snake tail. In Golden Sun it is first fought throughout Babi Lighthouse, then subsequently through Tunnel Ruins and the later "real" portion of Venus Lighthouse.

In Babi Lighthouse it is one of the stronger randomly fought monsters, about the level of the Wild Gryphon, but is soon overtaken by the Fenrir in Venus Lighthouse. The fact it drops a unique piece of equipment not findable anywhere else in the series makes it a popular target for Random Number Generator abuse, even though compared to other monsters' dropped items the chance to get the item is somewhat more common; whether the Spiked Armor is something one's party would actually use is another story.

A Chimera Mage's statistics are as follows:

A Chimera Mage uses these battle commands:

Grand Chimera
A Grand Chimera is a normal-sized level 34 variant with its features generally colored dark blue and light blue, and with a dark-purple snake tail. In Golden Sun: The Lost Age it is primarily fought throughout Magma Rock, and also fought in the Northern Reaches area where you control your ship through the ice floes.

The Grand Chimera is outright easier to defeat than the Chimera Mage because it has 100 less HP, and quite literally the only difference between their battle abilities is that its Fire Breath attack is twice as strong. For an 8-member party, it should hardly be tough at all, at least in comparison to the Lesser Demons in the area.

A Grand Chimera's statistics are as follows:

A Grand Chimera uses these battle commands:

Chimera
A Chimera is a level 18 variant with brownish heads and hind body, a white mane, orange forelegs, and wine-colored wings. It is randomly fought inside the Craggy Peak Ruins.

A Chimera's statistics are as follows:

A Chimera can use the following battle commands:

Chimera Mage
A Chimera Mage is a level 24 variant with grayish heads and hind body, a brown mane, red forelegs, and brown-colored wings. It is randomly fought inside the Phantasmal Bog.

A Chimera Mage's statistics are as follows:

A Chimera Mage can use the following battle commands:

Grand Chimera
A Grand Chimera is a level 46 variant with purplish heads and hind body, a purplish-blue mane, wine-colored forelegs, and purplish-blue wings. It is randomly fought inside the Otka Island maze.

The Grand Chimera is noteworthy for being the monster that can drop one of Sveta's most desirable weapons, the Anpsi Knuckles.

A Grand Chimera's statistics are as follows:

A Grand Chimera can use the following battle commands:

Cultural References
Origin: Greece

In Greek mythology a Chimera is a monstrous creature, which was made of the parts of different animals, usually a lion's head, a goat's body and a snake tail. It breathes terrible flames of bright fire, which probably explains why Golden Sun's Chimera is fire element.