Mogall

Mogall Artwork of a Mogall from Shadows of Valentia. An eyeball-like Terror that continually reproduces.

Unit type(s) Monster (Gaiden, The Sacred Stones) Great Terror (Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Flying (Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Weapon(s) None (Gaiden) Dark (The Sacred Stones) Tackle, White magic (Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Skill(s) Divide (Gaiden, Shadows of Valentia)

The Mogall (Japanese: ビグル Bigl) is an enemy-exclusive monster class which was introduced in Fire Emblem Gaiden and so far only appears in it and The Sacred Stones. They are a species of eerie floating eyeballs with tentacles whose bodies are filled with evil magic, and the lore of The Sacred Stones says that seeing one is a bad omen. Depending on the game, they attack either by physically ramming their foes or by casting dark spells.

In Gaiden, Mogall first appear late in Act 4 and, along with Deathgoyles and White Dragons are among the game's strongest and most dangerous monster enemies. Their high strength gives their ramming attacks good power and their excellent speed makes them very difficult, if not impossible, to follow-up attack against. They are summoned by the late-game bosses Jedah and Duma, and themselves are each able to summon even more Mogall. With this ability a single Mogall can quickly become a swarm, and combined with their decent defense and avoid, they tend to be very difficult to deal with and they must be eliminated as quickly as possible after they appear to prevent their numbers from growing out of control.

Their appearance in The Sacred Stones reduced Mogall into a weaker, early-game class which wields the special dark spells Evil Eye and, less frequently, Crimson Eye. In terms of stats they resemble conventional human magic-wielding classes such as the Mage and Shaman, featuring high magic and decent speed and resistance, but also having very low HP and defense which leaves them very vulnerable to physical attacks. The game treats Mogall as a base class, and gives them a "promoted" counterpart with the stronger Arch Mogall class.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Gaiden	32	16	--	10	18	0	10	4	4	--	--
The Sacred Stones	15	--	2	1	2	0	2	4	5	4	C
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	32	15	--	10	18	0	8	4	3	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Gaiden	52	40	--	40	40	40	40	40	40	--	--
The Sacred Stones	60	--	20	20	20	30	20	20	15	20	A

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Gaiden	60	10	--	--	--	--
The Sacred Stones	--	3	--	--	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	60	3	--	--	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Gaiden	150%	50%	--	50%	50%	0%	50%	0%	--	--	--	--
The Sacred Stones	50%	--	45%	32%	30%	30%	10%	28%	--	--	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	100%	45%	--	40%	50%	0%	40%	5%	--	--	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	Divide	Innate.

• Gaiden: Enemy Mogalls possess a summoning skill which allows them to summon more enemy Mogall to join the enemy army.
• Echoes: Shadows of Valentia: Mogalls additionally possess passive skills marking them as flying and promoted Terror units.

Class change

Gaiden

Base class
Mogall

The Sacred Stones

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Mogall	Promotion defined, but no item assigned.	Arch Mogall

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Base class
Mogall

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Sacred Stones (class roll)	Floating eyes filled with dark power. Simply seeing one is considered a ill omen.	浮遊する凶眼の魔物 その眼には、闇の力が宿っている
The Sacred Stones (help)	Perilous floating orbs filled with blighting dark magic.	浮遊する凶眼の魔物 その眼には、闇の力が宿っている
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	An eyeball-like Terror that continually reproduces.	目玉のような姿の魔物 自己増殖を繰り返す

Trivia

• In Gaiden, Mogall have four different animations for attacking for seemingly no reason. The first animation features them ramming the enemy. In the second, they rise up in the air and hit their opponent at an angle. In the third they ram the enemy but fall to the ground and 'bounce' back to starting position, and in the fourth they move slightly up and to the left (less than in the second animation) then ram the enemy. Why this is and what triggers the different animations is unknown.
• A very similar monster appears in TearRing Saga: Yutona Heroes War Chronicles. They are called Ops and have many similar qualities to their Gaiden appearance, including attacking physically and the ability to replicate.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Mogall	Possibly derived from the Irish mogall, which can mean eye or eyelid.
English (unofficial)	Bigle	In the Gaiden fan translation.
Japanese	ビグル	Officially romanized as Bigl. May be derived from the somewhat archaic French bigle, meaning cross-eyed and originating from a word that means to see.
Spanish	Óculus	From the Latin oculus, "eye".
French	Mogall	--
German	Mogall	--
Italian	Mogall	--
Dutch	Mogall	--
Korean	비글
Simplified Chinese	比格鲁
Traditional Chinese	比格魯

Gallery

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  Artwork of a Mogall from Shadows of Valentia.

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  The generic Mogall portrait in The Sacred Stones.

References

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