Midgardsormr

Midgardsormr , also known as Terrato, Midgar Swarm, or Midgar Zolom, is a recurring serpent creature in the Final Fantasy series. It has appeared as a summon on a couple of occasions, as well as an enemy on a number of others. Its debut was as a summon in Final Fantasy VI.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy VI===
Midgardsormr (Terrato in the English SNES) is an esper obtained in Yeti's Cave. Once finding it, a fight will ensue with Yeti. Midgardsormr's summon spell, Abyssal Maw (Earth Aura on the SNES), costs 40 MP, deals Earth-elemental damage to all opponents. Its Spell Power is 93, and it is unblockable, but it cannot hit flying targets. Midgardsormr teaches Quake (x3), Graviga (x1) and Tornado (x1). It provides HP +30% at level up.
===Final Fantasy VII===
Midgar Zolom appears in the swamp by Mythril Mine near to the Chocobo Farm on the Grasslands Area. When the player first gets to this point during "Going After Sephiroth", the Midgar Zolom is difficult to defeat, so it is easiest to avoid it by crossing the swamp on a chocobo. Midgar Zolom will usually flick a party member out of battle, who will be alive on the side of the swamp if the other party members are KO'd preventing a Game Over. Midgar Zolom uses the E.Skill Beta.
If defeated, Midgar Zolom will respawn in the swamp.
After crossing the swamp, the party will discover a dead Midgar Zolom impaled on a tree, which they presume was the work of Sephiroth.
===Final Fantasy VII Rebirth===
===Final Fantasy XI===
Midgardsormr is the name of a server.
===Final Fantasy XII===
Midgardsormr is a Rare Game Basilisk enemy. A large snake that can be fought in the Paths of Chained Light area of Golmore Jungle, it can inflict Poison.
===Final Fantasy XIV===
Midgardsormr is the name of the guardian of Silvertear Falls and wyrmking of the dragons of the Source, having sired the first brood. He appeared during the opening CG of the original game release (set 10 years in the player's past as of version 1.0), leading a horde of dragons against the Garlean Empire in the Battle of Silvertear Skies. He was killed by an explosion on the massive Imperial flagship Agrius, and his carcass could be seen entwined with the ship's hulk, known as the The Keeper of the Lake.
===Final Fantasy XV===
Midgardsormr is a level 54 enemy fought in the Callatein's Plunge in Cleigne and during the Serpent of Risorath Basin Hunt. It begins buried underground until approached.
====A King's Tale: Final Fantasy XV====
===Final Fantasy Tactics===
Midgardsormr (Midgar Swarm in the PlayStation version) is a summon spell used by Elidibus. It's a powerful non-elemental magickal attack that hits a single square up to four squares from the caster.
From a technical perspective, its art is merely a recolored version of the Salamander summon.
===Final Fantasy Dimensions II===
===Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia===
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
===Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade===
==Etymology==
"Terrato" may be related to the Italian word sotterrato, which means "buried", or perhaps it may be related to "terato" from the Greek teras, meaning monster. It seems to have been used in place of "Midgardsormr" (a name Ted Woolsey would have caught) due to the hard eight-character limit affecting esper names in the SNES version of Final Fantasy VI. 
"Midgar Zolom" is discussed on its page; "Midgar Swarm" is likewise an artifact of the infamously low quality of the translation of the PS version of Final Fantasy Tactics, with the translator not picking up on the mythological reference and interpreting as "swarm".
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