Dragon Quest IX guide / Bestiary

Brutish birds that bring things to a boil with their burning breath, and drive enemies dotty with Kafuddle.

Supposedly named after world champion strongman Terry Terrordise, who is said to have discovered them on his travels.

Rivers run dry, animals die, and the grass and trees are burnt to cinders when the scarlet fever walks the land.

These hellfire-exhaling horrors are born when souls that cannot rest are engulfed in evil auras. None can rest while they live.

These big-boned fellows are no fans of magic, and prefer to protect their pals while waiting for a critical to come good.

Statues possessed by ruinous spirits, they blindly obey their master's orders, and stamp out all who stand against them.

Worryingly weighty wyrms whose sheer size will shock anyone not sufficiently impressed by their spine-chilling strength.

Should day suddenly turn to night, turn a wary eye to the skies -- it could be a company of rampaging rashaveraks.

They can tense up in an instant, and have hellishly hot halitosis. Also able to impair attack with a filthy fog.

When they know their time has come, they voyage to the valley at the end of the underworld, and calmly breathe their last.

They expunge spells with Disruptive Wave and burp forth black breath. Also able to mend themselves by meditating.

Cobbled together from bits of various beasts by dengerate demons, they curse their unhappy existence.

Warty, weighty witches who watch over their own with support spells. Irksome if they cast Kazing or Magic Barrier.

They may look monstrous but love nothing more than looking after the little beasties of river, sea and shore.

Those facing these po-faced Pierrots should overcome the urge to laugh -- a clout with Kamikazee just isn't funny.

Their face paint is put on by boa bishops, who say it brings victory. Their real faces are rather handsome.

Dancing yellow devils who know every step there is -- not just the support steps, but tension-building tactical ones too.

The young ones are nicknamed 'yellow-bellies', but they're not too pleased to have this pointed out by their beastly brethren.

Well-balanced, wickedly talented warriors. When they meet with awkward opposition, they call on their companions.

The rings around their wrists and ankles aren't armour -- they're weights to keep them working out even while warring.

Grandmasters of the Way of the Badja, these shining paragons bring both brains and brawn to bear in their supreme style.

Legends tells that when the badjas bow down to their sacred solid-gold statue, the bling badgers will come to save them.

Legendary slime soldiers who amplify their attack with Oomph, and whose lightning speed lets them attack twice on the trot.

Rumours abound about these brutal blobs. Some say they're heaven-sent, others that they're the saviours of slimekind.

They whip up a storm with Thin Air, and engulf all in evil with their dark breath. Embrace the light to end their existence.

They loathe the light, and long to lord it over a world wrapped in the dank darkness of the ocean depths.

Their HP is so high they're nigh unkillable, they're hard to hurt with earth and fire, and their skills hit everyone. Watch out!

They're named for the fact that they're lords of the lizardly martial arts, but they have the potential to grow even greater.

Deep-sea dwellers who blind foes with Dazzleflash and blaze a trail with their bright breath. Darkness will defeat them.

They were the first beasts that the Great Architect Zenus placed in the oceans in the days of creation.

True masters of the sea, these supreme seasaurs scare foes silly with a blood-curdling cry, then smash them with a tsunami.

Dealers of watery death, they rise from the depths to bring terror and destruction to all the oceans of the world.

Hideous hulk that once prowled the passages of the Hexagon, preying on travellers. The earth shakes with its every step.

Its diet consists mainly of rocks and boulders, and it loves dark places, so the Hexagon made a marvellous home.

Black-clad knight errant who once terrorised the people of Stornway in mistaken search of his long-lost love.

He was actually once a handsome young chevalier whose fair face set hearts aflutter in the castle.

Came to bring destruction to Brigadoom, but was rather taken with the Wight Knight, so sealed herself away with him instead.

She chose to bring gloom to Brigadoom for reasons related to the darkest parts of the heart.

The very essence of illness, it was sealed up in the Quarantomb for a century, but came back to curse Coffinwell once more.

This toxic pox was created to ensure that the nameless terror that slept in the Qurantomb stayed sealed inside forever.

Jack of Alltrades ate a fygg that had fallen from above in a bid to become god-like, but turned into this hideous beast instead.

Jack spent some time thinking up his god name, toying with 'High Jack' and 'Jackrilege' before settling on 'Master of Nu'un'.

The people of Porth Llaffan worshipped this watery diety, which was really Dylan Jones in fygg-changed form.

He once swam with countless companions in the seas around Newid Isle, but Lleviathan is sadly the last of his kind.

The people of Porth Llaffan worshipped this watery diety, which was really Dylan Jones in fygg-changed form.

He once swam with countless companions in the seas around Newid Isle, but Lleviathan is sadly the last of his kind.

This stone sentry was created to stand guard over Zere Rocks. It seemed to be looking for someone called Mason...

Having lost its granite guardian, the statuesque town of Zere Rocks will surely now crumble into dust and blow away...

An enormous arachnid who dwelt deep in the Bad Cave, soaking up poison and perniciousness until she morphed into a man-eater.

It is said she made meals of travellers lost in her cave to feed her clutch of countless eggs.

The fygg-altered form of the Queen of Gleeba's little lizard pal, who it turned out held a torch for his mistress all along.

He thought that eating a fygg would turn him into a mortal, but it only moved him up a short rung on the evolutionary ladder.

The true form of Sarantsatsral, the wicked witch who tried to take control of the plains by bending Batkhaan's ear.

She was once a run-of-the-mill nobody of a monster, but found a fygg and her fortunes changed for the fatter.

Harsh master of old-fashioned teaching techniques who held his extra-cirricular sessions in the basement of Swinedimples.

He built his academy in the wintry wastelands to toughen up his pupils. The cheap land prices didn't hurt, either...

A stalwart soul sealed in a statue and bunged into the Bowhole to test contenders in combat when the time came.

Wormwood Creekers once thought the wyrmlight bow and Gadrongo were guises of a spirit who watched over the Wyrmward.

One-time hero of the skies who watches over the world from up over Upover. Not too fond of Celestrians for some reason.

The lizard lord of light chased the Empire out of Upover three hundred years ago, and they've never forgotten the slight.

One of the Triumgorate. He sealed those who fell from the skies in cells and sucked out their power.

Was burnt to a cinder by Greygnarl's blazing breath three centuries ago, and brought back as a horrific hog.

One of the Triumgorate. He sealed those who fell from the skies in cells and sucked out their power.

Was burnt to a cinder by Greygnarl's blazing breath three centuries ago, and brought back as a horrific hog.