Gorgon Egg

Gorgon Egg Map sprite of a Gorgon egg. Eggs of lovely and deadly gorgons.

Unit type(s) Monster Weapon(s) None Skill(s) None

The Gorgon Egg (Japanese: ゴーゴンの卵, Gorgon Egg) class is a rare monster class that appears in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. They cannot attack or use any weapons, staying completely immobile. They only appear in Chapter 18 of the game, as well as skirmishes at Neleras Peak, the chapter's location.

Gorgon eggs are completely immobile, but as the name suggests, they hatch and become gorgons, transforming into the gorgon class. They have a set amount of HP, usually 15, 20, or 25, and starting at 5 HP, they gain 5 HP every turn if a character comes near. Once they reach full health, they turn into gorgons. Gorgon eggs give out a large amount of experience points when destroyed. Therefore, it is very advantageous to quickly destroy as many gorgon eggs as possible.

Gorgon eggs do not have any battle animations, and when attacked simply display map animations. It is also impossible for the player to open the stat screen of a Gorgon eggs, so all stats, aside from HP, and their inventory are hidden from the player without the use of hacking or glitches.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Sacred Stones	50	--	0	0	0	0	10	10	0	6	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Sacred Stones	60	--	30	30	30	30	30	30	15	30	--

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision	Size
The Sacred Stones	--	3	--	--	--	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
The Sacred Stones	100%	0%	--	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class change

The Sacred Stones

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Gorgon Egg and Gorgon Egg	Promotion defined, but no item assigned.	Gorgon

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Sacred Stones (help)*	Eggs of lovely and deadly gorgons.	美しき魔物ゴーゴンの卵

Trivia

• Gorgon eggs are useful with the use of the Enemy Control Glitch, as when an egg hatches all items in their inventory are set to full durability.
• The programming that hatches gorgon eggs seems to rely on their coordinates on the map. If the enemy control glitch is used to rescue a gorgon egg and place it elsewhere the game freezes when the game tries to add HP to or hatch the moved gorgon egg.
• Even though Gorgon eggs cannot attack, on the attack preview menu, it is mentioned that they have either Stone or Demon Surge equipped.
• Similar to other Monsterclasses in The Sacred Stones, the Gorgon Egg has its stronger counterpart(In this case Gorgon) internally set as its promoted class. Unlike other cases though, this class change does occur in gameplay, even if not through an actual promotion.
• The class is hardcoded to skip the internal experience-calculation if it is defeated in battle. The effect of this is that the experience gained by player units is always the same, regardless of their level or class.
• Internally, the class is set to use the same generic portrait as the gorgon-class. This cannot be seen in normal gameplay due to their stat menu being inaccessable. It is possible to bypass this restriction through the Enemy Control Glitch, however.
• This class is the only class in The Sacred Stones to have multiple diffrent spritesheets set to be used in gameplay. This is made possible by the class occupying multiple internal class-values, with the value used being swapped out as it gets closer to hatching.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Gorgon Egg	--
Japanese	• ゴーゴンの卵 • ゴーゴンエッグ	• Gorgon Egg. This name is used in the final release. • This name is only used in the prototype. The English phrase "Gorgon Egg" transcribed in katakana.
Spanish	Huevo de gorgona	Abbriviated to Huevo de go. in gameplay due to space limitations.
French	Œuf de Gorgone	Abbriviated to Œuf de Gorg. in gameplay due to space limitations.
German	Gorgonenei	Gorgonegg
Italian	Uova di Gorgone	Abbriviated to Uova di Gorg. in gameplay due to space limitations.

Gallery

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  Map sprite of a Gorgon egg.

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  Map sprite of a Gorgon egg.

See also

• Gorgon

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.