Upyri
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| Upyri | |
|---|---|
| Job: | Warrior |
| Family: | Giant Bat |
| Crystal: | Wind |
| Weak against: | Ice, Light, 
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| Notorious Monster | |
| Spawn Type: | Timed |
| Zone | Level | Drops | Steal | Spawns | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Misareaux Coast | ?? - ?? | 1 Found at E-7 and F-8 |
A, L, S, H 4,500~5,000 HP | ||
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HP = Detects Low HP; M = Detects Magic; Sc = Follows by Scent; T(S) = True-sight; T(H) = True-hearing JA = Detects job abilities; WS = Detects weaponskills; Z(D) = Asleep in Daytime; Z(N) = Asleep at Nighttime; A(R) = Aggressive to Reive participants | |||||
Horizon Changes 
Notes
- Spawns around E-7 to F-8 approximately every 21-24 hours; it does not need to be night, Vana'diel time, for it to spawn.
- It is unaggressive during the day.
- During the day: Soloable at Lv.60 with no problem.
- During the night: Soloable at Lv.75, but very difficult.
- Has between about 4500-5000HP.
- Has Regain, more potent at night.
- Drain and Bloody Bolt will have no effect, and other Dark Magic will be very weak.
- Special Attacks: Hits harder at night than during the day. Attacks seemed to peak at around 1:00 AM Vana'diel time.
- Uses giant bat special attacks, including Marrow Drain. Uses unique ability: Soul Accretion, which will remove some number of status effects. At night, will use this ability up to 3x in a row.
- When it becomes unclaimed, it will immediately regen to 100%.
- If it is being held, but not fed tp, it will use Blood Drain twice in a row.
Historical Background
In Eastern Slavic folklore (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), the Upyr (less commonly spelled Upyri) were vampires that had iron teeth and roamed, surprisingly, during the day. They would be active from noon to midnight and first went after children, then their parents. Otherwise, Upyr were said to look fairly human. Upyr believed to originate with evil spirits possessing the bodies of the unclean dead. There seem to have been variants of this same concept around Eastern Europe. In Poland, it was spelled Upier (or Upior), to the Czech and Ukrainians, it was spelled Upir (or Opir), in Belorus, Upor (in Russia, it was spelled Upyr, Upyry, Upyri). The Polish variant has barbed tongue which can drink "vast" amounts of blood and it sleeps in a pool of blood. When staked, this version explodes. A person can become immune to this version's attacks by eating "baked blood bread" made from vampire's blood and flour
