Petrify Misses ?

[NTJedi]

Well to make a long story short my pretender has lots of horror marks from an SP game where I've super beefed up the AI opponents. AI opponents have units which cause horrormarks when struck.

Anyways sure enough eater of the gods shows up. My pretender is a wight having previously died from a murdering winter. Anyways luckily he had ritual of returning otherwise he'd be dead because Petrify did not kill or paralyze the eater of gods. Watching the battle over and over it's clear the spell did nothing.

QUESTION
Any thoughts why Eater of Gods(horror) escaped Petrify without even being paralyzed?

[Renojustin]

Could have been Blood Vengeance, though that seems unlikely with the MR of a pretender. Or maybe that just applies to damage. Probably just damage.

Could Petrify be a mundane attack, mitigated by ethereality? There are other spells like that, like Bone Grinding.

[NTJedi]

The creature being ethereal seems like the closest logical explanation... unless a MG resist test is also done against the side effect of paralyzation.

[Kristoffer O]

He has three lives you know.

Also he is truly ethereal. It might protect from spells as well.

[Renojustin]

I love when KO comes in and says something like that. It might help, this might happen, who knows?!

[NTJedi]

Watching the battle again shows unit 1148 only has regular ethereal.

At the start of battle eater of gods shows as unit 1148... and at the very end of battle he's still unit 1148. So it doesn't appear to have killed any of his forms.

[Renojustin]

Pretty sure True Ethereal is a hidden tag?

[NTJedi]

Renojustin said:
Pretty sure True Ethereal is a hidden tag?

Actually it's not a hidden tag, unit 1149 and 1150 show the truly ethereal tag. The unit 1148, which is the first form, only has regular ethereal.

[Renojustin]

Going to guess that Petrify is a mundane attack then.

[Kristoffer O]

Or it might be impossible to petrify ethereals. THey are kind of squishy and intangible.