Mugwort and Rattan

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Mugwort and Rattan are minor enemies in Xenogears.

Rattan

Rattan
Fused with	Rattan
Height	28.5 sharls (27.645 meters)
Dry Weight	34.4 kahnns (37.152 tonnes)
Equipped Weight	47.3 kahnns (51.084 tonnes)
Sub-Generator Output	760
Main Generator Coefficient	7.4
Operation Time	722 tsaitols (12h 26′ 4″)
Frame Durability	480
Reactive Level	1.3
Ether Response	31
Ground Speed	310 repsols (300.7 kph)
Flight Speed	720 repsols (698.4 kph)
Equipped Weapon	Arm-integrated dedicated melee grappling hammer ×1 Arm-integrated shield ×1

Rattan, known in the Japanese version as Kenren (捲簾, ケンレン, kenren), is a Wel-Gear combination created by Karellen at some point before the start of the game. His Gear appears to be an orange roughly humanoid Gear with a massive spiked ball on one arm and a long shield on the other.

Rattan appears twice over the course of the game. He first accompanies Emeralda to the Sargasso Point Gate in order to mount a feigned defense against Fei Fong Wong and the others.

He then appears at Golgoda with Mugwort and fights Elly. At the end of the fight Rattan is killed along with Mugwort by a massive Ether blast from Elly's Omnigear El-Regrs.

Mugwort

Mugwort
Fused with	Mugwort
Height	29.6 sharls (28.712 meters)
Dry Weight	35.7 kahnns (38.556 tonnes)
Equipped Weight	52 kahnns (56.16 tonnes)
Sub-Generator Output	740
Main Generator Coefficient	7.1
Operation Time	765 (13h 10′ 30″)
Frame Durability	470
Reactive Level	1.0
Ether Response	33.8
Ground Speed	330 repsols (320.1 kph)
Flight Speed	740 repsols (717.8 kph)
Equipped Weapon	Dual ceremonial melee grappling hooks ×1 Wartime melee grappling claw ×1

Mugwort, known in the Japanese version as Tenpou (天蓬, テンポウ, tenpou), is a Wel-Gear combination created by Karellen at some point before the start of the game. Mugwort was encased inside the massive chassis of a bird-like green Gear with four insectoid legs and a pair of sharp blades on one side of its body.

He appears at Golgoda where he fights Elly in her Omnigear El-Regrs alongside his partner Rattan. Elly manages to kill the both of them using a massive Ether blast.

Trivia

• Unlike most other characters, the names Kenren and Tenpou in Perfect Works are given in both kanji and katakana. Both are references to characters from the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
  • 捲簾 is from Sha Wujing's original title from before he was banished from heaven, 捲簾大將 (pinyin: juǎnlián dàjiàng; Japanese: kenren taishō; lit. "General Curtain"). The name Rattan also comes from a possible translation of the Japanese character 簾, "rattan curtain".
  • 天蓬 is from Zhu Bajie's original title from before he was banished from heaven, 天蓬元帥 (pinyin: tiānpéng yuánshuài; Japanese: tenpōgensui; lit. "Marshal Canopy"). The character 蓬 also means mugwort in Japanese.

Gallery

Rattan concept art.

Mugwort concept art.

Reference

Perfect Works, pg79. (Gear spec conversion table)