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- "Unleashing everything... Shatter all boundaries... Light and dark... Life and death... Good and evil... All that has been divided shall return to chaos. Everything remains as it was... All life shall return to the Beast of Chaos... I am the Eye of Calamity... I am the Divine Beast of Chaos... Let all things become one." —Jurmung
The Divine Beast of Chaos Jurmung, also known as the "Eye of Calamity," is a divine beast in Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent. It is the source of the Accursed Halo and the main antagonist in the Emberflame Story.
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The divine beast seeking the duality's destruction, yearning for everything returning to the primordial chaos. When Galdera declared the war to the 12 gods, Jurmung sided with the dark god. Galdera used its power, the Accursed Halo, to trap the humans in their negative feelings, strengthening himself and his flames. Through the sacrifice of the divine beasts who sided with the gods, Jurmung's soul was split in two and sealed in different places, weakening the Halo and the thirteenth god, allowing the twelve gods to finally triumph over him and sealing him in Hell, beyond the Gate of Finis.
Jurmung's power and soul were divided and sealed in two places: the Labyrinthine Isle and the Accursed Swamp. The swamp was originally located in the Isle, but it was sealed within the Labyrinthine Woods to further prevent the Eye of Calamity's power could become one. The knowledge of these places was recorded in the Codex of Doom, a manuscript would be passed down among the Witches of Salvation from generation to generation, until it reached Amaranthia. As a sign of disrespect for tradition, since the witch did not want to pass her memories and knowledge to the next Witch, Amaranthia gave the manuscript to Mattias, who would later devise a plan to free and strengthen the divine beast as a prelude to the Fallen's resurrection.
Emberflame Story[]
Mattias and Esmeralda, likely with the Codex's knowledge, were in possession of Kulshedra's arcanastones, whose purpose lies in its sacrifice: the more iterations are brought down, the stronger Jurmung and its Accursed Halo will become, becoming a keystone in the merchant's scheme of releasing the beast at its full power.
Esmeralda is sent to the Labyrinthine Isle and, after summoning Kulshedra several times, Jurmung is partially resurrected. Upon its awakening, the beast is seen enraged and cursing the divine beasts, because, as the beast yearns for everything to become one as to primordial chaos, its existence was divided into two, which it finds as the greatest humiliation ever. Claiming it will break all boundaries so everything could become one like before the beginning of time, it leaves the Isle to look for its other part, whose place was being unsealed by Mattias, to become whole once again.
Even after stopping Mattias and confiscating his Codex, the Divine Beast of Chaos managed to reach the swamp. When the party went after it, the beast has recovered its power. Appearing before the party, it repeats its desire to break all boundaries between opposite forces. While cursing the divines and the man for dividing the unity and bringing the concept of duality, it claims such audacity won't go unpunished before attacking the party.
In the intensity of the battle, Jurmung tells, despite how formidable they may be, the children of men are a finite existence. When the Eye of Calamity remarks the meaning behind its two heads, Ditraina realizes Jurmung is an existence between boundaries -neither alive, neither dead-, so its something it can't be brought down by force. The only way is to seal it once again. Jurmung brushes it off, telling them there's no way humans can seal a divine beast. But as it speaks about its intentions to bring death to the twin worlds, Isla and the Cait Sages appear on the scene. The Chosen One summons the six arcanastones to empower the Cait Sages and they begin the sealing ritual, much to Jurmung's annoyance. But even after putting up some resistance, the Eye of Calamity is successfully sealed once again, thus ending the Accursed Halo's phenomenon.
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This enemy consists of three parts: the eye, the left head snake, and the right head snake. Only the eye is targetable. Each part is independent of each other, meaning the snake parts will act even if the eye is broken.
- Black Ring // Jurmung's heads cannot be disrupted! Start of battle. The two snake heads become untargetable.
- Isolate - Start of battle, end of turn and when recovering from a break. Impart self with permanent
Intercept Phys. (The target will completely block and counter physical damage) and Intercept Elem. (The target will completely block and counter elemental damage). Counters physical / elemental attacks by blocking its physical / elemental weakness ( / ) after the traveler's action for 1 turn. - Eye of Chaos - Reduces 10% SP of random target 5 time(s).
- Wave of Chaos - Deal physical damage to Front.
- Eye of Darkness - Deal physical damage to Front.
- Cramp - At 50% HP or less. Inflict Can't Switch (The traveler will be unable to be switched) to Front for 3 turns.
- Illusion - At 50% HP or less. Inflict Comatose (The traveler will be unable to act until a turn has passed) to Front for 3 turns.
- Incubus - At 8 BPs. Inflict Charm (The traveler has a certain chance of attacking its own allies) to Front for 3 turns.
- Triple Sharpfang - Deal physical damage to single target 3 time(s).
- Wild Bloodfang - Deal physical damage to random target 3 time(s). Inflict Hemorrhage (The traveler will take further physical damage at the end of their turn) for 3 turns.
- Fourfold Lotusfang - Deal physical damage to random target 4 time(s).
- Eightfold Lotusfang - Deal physical damage to random target 8 time(s).
- Paralyzing Hellfang - Deal physical damage to Front. Inflict Paralysis (The target has a certain chance of being unable to act) for 3 turns.
- Python Dragonfang - Deal physical damage to Front 2 time(s).
- Spirit Decay Curse - When Jurmung is broken. Reduces BP of all travelers by 5.
- Oblivion Sting - Deal physical damage to random target 3 time(s). Inflict Stillness (The traveler will be not able to use one skill) in every attack for 3 turns.
- Hellish Thunder - Deal damage to random target 4 time(s).
- Fivefold Dragon Lifesteal - Deal physical damage to random target 5 time(s), then restores Jurmung's HP (amount: 20% of max HP).
- Fiery Breath - Deal damage to Front.
- Dark Liquid - Deal damage to Front. Inflict Blindness (The target has a certain chance to miss physical attacks) for 3 turns.
- Venomous Breath - Inflict Toxin (The traveler will take further elemental damage at the end of their turn) to Front for 6 turns.
- Serpent's Physical Seal - Can be used when Jurmung is broken. Inflict Phys. Atk. Lock (The traveler will be not able to use one physical skill) to Front for 3 turns.
- Serpent's Elemental Seal - Can be used when Jurmung is broken. Inflict Elem. Atk. Lock (The traveler will be not able to use one elemental skill) to Front for 3 turns.
Quotes[]
- "Curse you... Curse you, you insolents... To think you dared to split me, the beast of calamity and chaos, Jurmung, in two halves... Unleash everything... Shatter all boundaries... Reclaim my other half. Liberate all things in this world...and return everything to chaos...." —Upon its awakening
- "O children of the earth... How dare you split my chaotic being in two. I shall cleanse this humiliation. Be forever tormented in the rift between life and death!" —Before confronting the party
- "Curse you... children of the earth... O beings of form... Such pitiful, finite vessels... Dare to think you can subdue me...! Curse you... Curse you all! Beasts of the earth!" —Battle cutscene upon depleting all its HP
- "Don't get too full of yourself! I am the twin-headed divine beast... Life and death are two sides of the same coin.... Chaos is eternal..." —After battle
- "Mere humans dare to seal me? I shall bring utter destruction to all humans of both worlds!" —Answering to Ditraina
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Jurmung (ユルムング) may be misspelling of Jörmungandr (ヨルムンガンド), or a mix of Jörmungandr and Jurlungur (ユルング), both serpentine beasts from Nordic and Australian mythologies, respectively. As the rainbow serpent rains life over the world, the nordic serpent brings its end, which may reinforce Jurmung's dualistic nature, as the beast itself claims the dual heads represent life and death, and how both concepts are sides of the same coin.
Trivia[]
- Although the game doesn't confirm it, it's likely Jurmung was the beast watching over the snakes. Besides being a beast with two black-scaled serpents' heads, the Isle in which it was sealed is brimming with unique snake enemies.
- The Eye of Calamity, a rare accessory in Octopath Traveler II, may be named after Jurmung.
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