Echidna (World Raid)

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	Echidna (World Raid)
	Size	Max Players	Magics	Timer (hrs)	Cooldown
	Colossal	90,000	0	120	N/A
Type/s
Dragon , Siege (Echidna)
Notes
First release: March 3rd, 2013‎ (96 hours, Loot Table) Second release: November 27th, 2013 (120 hours, Loot Table)
Loot Table

• Epic
• Rare
• Uncommon
• Common
• On Hit Drops

	Item Name	Type	Atk	Def	Per	Ability
	Matricide Boost	Boost				Increases Matricide's Attack and Defense by 100
	Echidna Flesh	Crafting Component				Used to craft Legion Boost or Matricide's Claws
	Echidna Victory Banner	Crafting Component				Used to upgrade the Sluriasmic Helm, Sluriasmic Cuirass, Sluriasmic Gauntlets, Sluriasmic Cuisses, and the Sluriasmic Sabatons. ((Sluriasmic Set)) To the Echidnan Helm, Echidnan Cuirass, Echidnan Gauntlets, Echidnan Cuisses, and the Echidnan Sabatons. ((Echidnan Set))
	Green Echidna Familiar	Familiar
	Matricide Boost #2	Boost				Increases Attack and Defense of Matricide by 200 (Max: 1)

	Item Name	Type	Atk	Def	Per	Ability
	Purple Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Orange Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Echidna's Blood	Crafting Component
	Matricide's Bloody Blade	Boost				Increases Matricide's Attack and Defense by 10 and increases her proc damage by 200 for each Bloody Blade owned

	Item Name	Type	Atk	Def	Per	Ability
	Green Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Blue Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Pulsing Echidna Familiar	Familiar
	Echidna Scale	Crafting Component				Used to upgrade the Krykagrius Claw Blade and Sluriasma Claw Blade To the Echidnan Blade Whip and Echidnan Bulwark
	Attack Points	Points
	Defense Points	Points

	Item Name	Type	Atk	Def	Per	Ability
	Brown Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Grey Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Stat Points	Points
	Echidna Familiar	Familiar

	Item Name	Type	Atk	Def	Per	Ability
	Brown Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Grey Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Blue Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Green Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Purple Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Orange Bloody Dragon Claw	Crafting Component				Used with other Bloody Dragon Claws to craft Claw Slayer and Matricide
	Effigy of Echidna	Crafting Component				Used to craft Veteran Swamp Slayer and Legion Boost

Lore

Greek Mythology

Lore

Who is Echidna Greek mythology has "her" at being the mother of all monsters, "she" breathes life into the darkest nightmare to bring them to life. In Greek mythology, Echidna (Ancient Greek: Ἔχιδνα, "she viper") was half woman half snake, known as the "Mother of All Monsters" because most of the monsters in Greek myth were mothered by her. Hesiod's Theogony described her as: [...] the goddess fierce Echidna who is half a nymph with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake,[1] great and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth. And there she has a cave deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless gods and mortal men. There, then, did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in Arima beneath the earth, grim Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days.[2] According to Apollodorus, Echidna was the daughter of Tartarus and Gaia,[3] while according to Hesiod, either Ceto and Phorcys or Chrysaor and the naiad Callirhoe were her parents.[4] Another account says her parents were Peiras and Styx (according to Pausanias, who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father).[5] Echidna was a drakaina, with the face and torso of a beautiful woman (depicted as winged in archaic vase-paintings) and the body of a serpent, sometimes having two serpent's tails.[6] She is also sometimes described, as Karl Kerenyi noted, in archaic vase-painting, with a pair of echidnas performing sacred rites in a vineyard, while on the opposite side of the vessel, goats were attacking the vines:[7] thus chthonic Echidnae are presented as protectors of the vineyard. The site of her cave Homer calls "Arima, couch of Typhoeus".[8] When she and her mate attacked the Olympians, Zeus beat them back and punished Typhon by sealing him under Mount Etna. However, Zeus allowed Echidna and her children to live as a challenge to future heroes. Although to Hesiod, she was an immortal and ageless nymph, according to Apollodorus, Echidna used to "carry off passers-by", until she was finally killed where she slept by Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant.

Lore from Sluriasmic, Echidnan and Echidna-Slayer's Sets

Lore from Sluriasmic Set
Prophecies are funny things. A simple misreading or misinterpretation may bring a man to his doom or even destroy an empire. Perhaps this serves to amuse the gods, who delight in seeing what comes of counching the inscrutable in the apparent. No matter... Let them laugh, as you wager your life on the vagaries of foretelling.
Krykagrius and Sluriasma were loyal children to Echidna, two drakes whom she loved and trusted above all others. But through your hand they may become unwilling agents in her destruction.
I. Echidna soon forgot Ukshmi's words, for she little suspected what great power lay within the goddess or demon of the many arms. To the dragon they had been nothing more than a curious eastern blessing. Merely a wishful prayer from a strange but grateful being. And as she continued her travels, flew over the world's seas and kigndoms, countless other wondrous things captivated her eyes and soul.
II. It was many years later, long after the far-roaming drake returned to West Kruna with the vastness of Tor'gyyl in her memories, that she had reason to recall the meeting with Ukshmi. Megaera the Silver was then the greatest female among Echidna's kind, and the argentine wyrm grew jealous of the young dragon who knew so much of the world and earned the favor of the choicest males. Thus she decided to slaughter Echidna before all the drakes. No other female would ever dare anger her once they'd witnessed Echidna's gruesome demise...
III. Megaera attacked with tooth and claw, an onslaught so ferocious Echidna could only shriek as she was borne to the ground. The helpless dragon's blood splashed across the dirt, the rocks, and her enemy's sliver scales. Grievous wounds ravaged her hide. Yet each one sealed itself -- the flesh knitting together as though months of healing had elapsed in but a moment. Megaera roared, furious and confused. She rained down fresh violence, desperate to slay her foe. But however fast she clawed and bit, however much blood gushed and splattered, Echidna could not be slain.
IV. The silver wyrm grew weary in every thew, for she had fought harder than she'd ever done in her centuries-long life. And Echidna's eyes gleamed. Agony had near maddened her. The tearing of her scales and flesh beneath Megaera's claws was a terrible torment from which death would have been merciful release. Yet her body was whole and undamaged. Her strength remained in full measure, and vengeance burned within the breast that had suffered a hundred rending wounds.
V. Echidna fell upon her. And though she was far smaller than the mighty silver dragon, fatigue bound Megaera's limbs like bands of triple iron. Echidna drove her into the dirt, roared into the heavens and at all of her kind who watched in awe, and began the butcher's work. For she had suffered so very much. There would be no quick end for Megaera. She flayed the silver hide from her body, and reveled in the screams. Then she feasted on bloody flesh, devouring all she could before death claimed her victim.

Lore from Echidnan Set
I. Before the first war between drakes and men, those who conspired with Echidna urged her to seek Ukshmi once more. For they'd gazed in awe as she endured wounds that would have spelled the doom of any other wyrm, and they yearned to share in the miracle which had made it so. Who among their draconic enemies or the lesser races' legions would ever vanquish them when their hides healed as hers did? If Echidna could persuad Ukshmi to bestow her favor a second time, surely West Kruna would be theirs.
II. Echidna made the long journey to Bhanipur, flying through the same skies which had borne her in her youth. She traveled that exotic land in search of the many-armed goddes or fiend who'd once enchanted her with music and asked a strange question. The dragon visited great temples, where worshippers carved statues and sang hymns in Uksmi's name. But they could offer no aid. They said only that their deity was fickle in such things, and appeared when and where she pleased
III. The dragon turned to her own kind. She visited the wyrms who dwelled in Bhanipur, and asked what they knew of Uksmi. Echidna spoke of the grand designs harbored in the breasts of West Kruna's drakes, how they yearned to rule over the lesser races as their magnificent kind should. This was folly, had she but known it. The drakes of Bhanipur were not such creatures as Erebus or Nalagarst, Echidna or Nabarazes. They held to ancient philosophies, believed themselves gurus to the younger beings with whom they shared the world the gods had crafted.
IV. The dragons abhorred Echidna for her wickedness, the blasphemies that flew from her scaly maw. What could be more terrible than a realm ruled by savage wyrms, where the minds and souls of human and felpuur, elf and gnome, were crushed beneath the worship of false gods? Thus they tried to guide her. The Bhanipuri drakes told Echidna of the great philosophers whose words and deeds they followed. They urged her to become the savior of West Kruna, and draw them from the path of malevolence. But she met their fine words with scorn.
V. Violence was far from their natures, a thing they had cast aside long ago. Yet when no entreaties softened Echidna's heart, death shone in their eyes. To destroy one of their kind would bring them pain. For had the gods not made such long-lived beings to bear wise teachings through the ages? But they couldn't allow her evil to endure. Thus they ripped and tore, belched lightning and flame. Though for all their might, all their strength and sorcery, nothing was equal to Ukshmi's blessing. Echidna's scales mended before their sight. She cursed them and tore their leader's throat before she took to the skies and fled from Bhanipur.
VI. Ancient chronicles praised the Bhanipuri drakes, who had fought and driven Echidna from that land. Their fallen leader was named a saint by those who shared his faith -- for he had laid down his life to save the people of far-off West Kruna. Echidna's malevolent kin were left to fight their battles and suffer their wounds. Many were brought low, slain by those they'd sought to rule. And though she survived Lyria's shafts and Terracles' club, Callissa's spear and Slydd's blade, even Echidna couldn't struggle against fate. Her kind were defeated, driven into the depths of the world.
VII. Echidna was the first of the drakes to awaken from slumber, and the passing centuries hadn't softened her resolve. She still longed to reign over the lesser races. And she knew that with the sharing of Ukshmi's blessing, it would be so. Thus she made her final journey to Bhanipur, and scoured that land for the lady of many arms. The music of sitars, which had once so delighted her, thrilled her soul with the memories of youth. She landed by a glistening river, where the goddess or demon played her beautiful song. But fortune was the drake's ally no further. "I know why you've come, dragon of the west," Ukshmi said. "But my gift has been given, and fate has been sent. Return to your land. Your war and your destiny await you." Then she was gone, and echo of her sitars danced in the air.
"Here, <playername>," Bosso Twinklefingers says. "it's my latest toy. What do you think?" "It's a bit... bigger... than the ones you usually sell," you say. "Children are greedy little things, and every one of them wantes to have the biggest toy so they can show off to their friends. Well, I made this thing big enough to ride! Except one of the little terrors rode it straight at the other brats. There was a bit of goring and trampling..." "Bosso, has anyone ever told you're a danger to every man, woman, and child in West Kruna?" "Not since this morning."

Lore from Echidna-Slayer's Set
Mathias opened his journal, took up a quill, and wrote the following: --- - Killed an invincible dragon. - Learned how to use a blade whip. --- He closed the tome and smiled. Every achievement brought him closer to his goal.
Echidna... Tiresias gazed at her corpse, and tried to fathom what malevolence the darkness of death had now swallowed. She'd been his enemy for millennia -- the undying, unstoppable foe of the First Drake War. And she was gone. It made him feel so very ancient. Part of a breed that was coming to an end.
Roland undid the clasps on his sword. The sharp sheath came away, revealing the steel Rogar forged and a callous baroness once prized. He took a moment to admire the craftsman's work. It had fit over his weapon perfectly, fashioned from shavings of Krykagrius' claw light enough so as not to disrupt its balance, and granted his sword the power to inflict lasting wounds on the drake's hide. It had been a good adventure. But Roland set the sheath aside now, for the next one was already calling.
Matricide stood before the carnage she had helped bring about, blades and body splattered with the slaughtered wyrm's blood. The others were celebrating. They cheered, laughed, drank, and sang. This had been just another battle for them, abeit against so powerful a foe, waged beneath the clashing waves of fate and prophecy. It was different for her. Killing Echidna had been her purpose, the reason for her existence. What happened now?
Teucer Tullian looked at his quiver. Only one of the special arrows, each tipped with a tiny fragment of Sluriasma's claws, remained amongst its mundane counterparts -- distinguished by its bright green fletches. A single arrow left... It was an archer's nightmare. To stand there with the enemy bearing down on him, knowing that a single shaft, one shot of the bow, was all that stood between him and destruction. An entire lifetime wagered on a single instant of skill and luck. But the battle had been won, so the nobleman put it from his mind and joined the celebrations.
"Well fought, Marcus," Sar Velania said. "I saw the blow you struck. Some might say it was the killing blow." The former guardsman shrugged. "We all did our part. Glory should never belong to one warrior alone." "Not even <playername>?" A faint smile crossed his face. "Maybe him," he said. "But only because the kingdom needs it."
Medea's fingers danced across the strings of her harp. The battle was over, but the tale remained to be told. Swift moments of hard fighting had to be woven into a chronicle that would endure for centuries. Such mighty deeds deserved to be embedded in the fabric of eternity.
"I made it a bit safer," Bosso says. "Now maybe those damn parents will stop complaining." "You added more spikes," you reply. "Yes! Good eye, <name>." "How does that make it safer for the children it ploughs into?" "It doesn't. It makes it safer for the one riding it. After all, that one's parents are the customers!"

Raid Info

• Prerequisite raids were:
     Krykagrius for Krykagrius Claw Fragment -> Krykagrius Claw Blade
     Sluriasma for Sluriasmic Set and Sluriasma Claw Blade