Category:Manticores

Manticores

Family Information Type: Beasts Subfamilies: Legendary Manticore Common Behavior: A, S, Sc Uncommon Behavior: {{{Uncommon Behavior}}} Weak against: Water Strong against: -50% -50% Immune to: Healed by: Common Job(s): Uncommon Job(s): Traits: Charmable: Pankration: Aspir: Drain: EXP Bonus: 10% (Greater Manticore) Notes: Very high Delay (between 359 and 371) Movement Speed +50% A bizarre looking creature, the manticore was early on thought to be a demonic branch of beastmen. However, further study proves them to be a naturally occurring species in Vana'diel. Most manticore vary in size, though they are all larger than adventurers. Their striking red color along with their gigantic fangs and spiked tails makes them an imposing target to go after. Armed with various breath attacks, brute strength, and even an ability to lower MP, they are well equipped for combat. Interestingly, all manticore have wings, but it seems they are incapable of flight due to their size. It is believed these wings act as cooling units, since the majority of manticore are found in desert regions such as Altepa and Teriggan. Several notorious manticore are known to drop valuable weapons and armor, and even a rare type of hide. Many a crafter has come to value the materials from manticores. Their hair is used in the synthesis of ninjitsu tools, and their famously large canines are a common ingredient in bonecrafting. Manticore hides are valuable to leathercrafters due to their wide application in the crafting of armor, from the Ogre set to the Bison set to the Wise set.

Special Attacks

Special Abilities	Original and Zilart Areas	Promathia Areas	Aht Urhgan Areas	Wings of the Goddess Areas	Abyssea
Riddle: 15' AoE Max MP Down (approx. -41.5%).	Check	Check			Check
Heat Breath: Fire-based Breath Attack.	Check	Check			Check
Great Whirlwind: Conal Wind damage and Choke	Check	Check			Check
Great Sandstorm: Single target Wind damage and Blind.	Check	Check			Check
Tail Smash: Single target damage	Check	Check
Tail Swing: Single target damage and Bind.	Check	Check			Check
Deadly Hold: Single target critical damage.	Check	Check
Note: Notorious Monsters in this family may use all of the above and/or additional unique special abilities.

Notorious Monsters in Family

Name	Spawn Information	Level	Zone	Notable Drop(s)
Dahu		57	Western Altepa Desert	Dahu Hair
Kirin	Forced Spawn by trading a Seal of Byakko, Seal of Genbu, Seal of Seiryu, and a Seal of Suzaku to the ??? at (F-8)	92	Shrine of Ru'Avitau	Damascus Ingot Dryadic Abjuration: Body Kirin's Osode Kirin's Pole Neptunal Abjuration: Body Orichalcum Ingot Shining Cloth Wyrmal Abjuration: Legs
Narasimha	Lottery Spawn from the Labyrinth Manticore in the small room in (F-6) - (G-6)	75-77	Labyrinth of Onzozo	Narasimha Hide
Frostmane	Lottery Spawn from the Greater Manticore along the beach at (G-5) - (G-6) approximately every hour	80	Cape Teriggan	Lockheart
Qilin	Spawned by examining a Planar Rift at (F-6), (F-9) or (J-6) on the Second Map (3rd map on the ffxiclopedia map page for the zone) in The Shrine of Ru'Avitau while in possession of an Ashen Stratum Abyssite III and a Voidstone.	??	The Shrine of Ru'Avitau	Coruscanti Lux Pugio Fajin Boots Houyi's Gorget Heavy Metal Pouch Level 76-96 Scrolls Synthesis Materials Medicines Atmacite of Promises
Sharabha	Trade Sand-caked fang to ??? @ (G-5)	??	Abyssea - Altepa	Keen Ring Sharabha Hide Bale Seal: Hands Iga Seal: Hands Goetia Seal: Hands Cirque Seal: Hands
Quest NMs: Ogmios (Carbuncle Debacle) Mission NMs: Eastern Sphinx (Bastok Missions - Return of the Talekeeper), Western Sphinx (Bastok Missions - Return of the Talekeeper), Vyala (Moon Reading) Battlefield NMs: Purson (BCNM - The Scarlet King) Other NMs: Criosphinx (Limbus - NE Apollyon), Hieracosphinx (Limbus - NE Apollyon), Hraesvelg (Einherjar - Wing I), Manticore-X (Einherjar - Wing III), Nightmare Manticore (Dynamis - Valkurm)

Monsters in Family

Historical Background

The manticore is a legendary creature, a kind of chimera with the head of a man — often with horns, gray eyes, three rows of iron teeth, and a loud, trumpet/pipe roar — the body of a (sometimes red-furred) lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion, which may shoot out venomous spines or hairs to incapacitate prey (thus confusing its imagery with the cryptozoology of a porcupine, though tarantulas do something similar with their hairs). Occasionally, a manticore will possess wings of some description. Size reports range from lion-sized up to horse-sized.

The manticore was of Persian origin, where its name was "the Eater of People" (from early Middle Persian martya "human, mortal being" and xwar- "to eat"). The English term "manticore" was borrowed from Latin mantichora, itself borrowed from Greek mantikhoras - an erroneous pronunciation of the original Persian name. It passed into European mythology first through a remark by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court of King Artaxerxes II in the fourth century BCE, in his notes on India ("Indika"), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history, but have not survived.