Category:Pixies

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Pixies
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During the Crystal War, repeated eye-witness accounts were received from the battlefields of volant creatures resembling what until then had been nothing more than legend. All reports indicated that these pixies, as they came to be called, had the power to wield magic as well as manipulate the winds. At the time, such accounts were dismissed by the nations' armies as hallucinations, brought about by the enormous mental strains of war.

Most wild Pixies will generally follow a pre-determined route over a large area. Sidhe are the only currently known exception to this rule.

Pixies will cast white magic on nearby players, including: all tiers of the Cure spell along with Raise II and Raise III.



Family Information
Type: Arcana
Common Behavior: S, HP
Weak against: Resist Vs. Fire Resist Vs. Light Slashing Weapons: Axe, Great Axe, Great Sword, Sword, Scythe, Katana, Great Katana, Valoredge Frame
Strong against: Resist Vs. Wind
Immune to: Silence
Common Job(s): White Mage
Charmable: Eks.gif
Pankration: Eks.gif
Aspir: Susceptible to Aspir
Drain: Susceptible to Drain

Pixie hate

Pixie-type mobs often cure you and even raise you when you fall in battle. Killing Pixie-type mobs causes their population to decrease as well as making them stop helping adventurers. Whether or not a pixie will pop is determined by how safe they feel, a measure relating the times they were killed to the times they could "live safely." This can even go as far as to keep pixies from spawning at all in any zone. Trading a Bottled Pixie to the Fay Spring will help to build up their population over time. That said, trading Bottled Pixies has no effect on individual adventurers, but influences the entire server's status with the Pixie race. See the Witchfire Glen quest for more informations.

Note: NM pixies do not cure other players, and may not affect pixie hate at all.

Special Attacks

Special Abilities Wings of the Goddess Areas
Spring Breeze: - AoE TP-Reduction and Sleep effect. CheckCheck.gif
Summer Breeze: - Erase effect. (If nothing to Erase, it instead gains Regain.) CheckCheck.gif
Autumn Breeze: - HP Recovery CheckCheck.gif
Winter Breeze: - AoE Dispel (Only removes one effect) CheckCheck.gif
Zephyr Arrow: - Ranged Attack Knockback, Bind CheckCheck.gif
Lethe Arrows: - Ranged Attack Knockback, Bind, Amnesia CheckCheck.gif
Cyclonic Turmoil: - AoE Wind damage, Knockback, and multiple effect Dispel CheckCheck.gif
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)
Melusine Timed Spawn Verification Needed 74 East Ronfaure (S) Ebon Pigment
Peaseblossom Timed Spawn Verification Needed 74 North Gustaberg (S) Ebon Pigment
Furia Pigment
Tiffenotte Timed Spawn Verification Needed ~73 West Sarutabaruta (S) Furia Pigment

Quest NMs: None

Mission NMs: None

Battlefield NMs: Feeorin (ANNM), Fay (ANNM)

Other NMs: None

Monsters in Family

Name Level Zone
Pixie 51-54 East Ronfaure (S)
51-54 North Gustaberg (S)
51-54 West Sarutabaruta (S)
56-59 Batallia Downs (S)
56-59 Fort Karugo-Narugo (S)
56-59 Grauberg (S)
Unknown Buburimu Peninsula
Unknown East Ronfaure
Unknown East Sarutabaruta
Unknown Konschtat Highlands
Unknown La Theine Plateau
Unknown North Gustaberg
Unknown South Gustaberg
Unknown Tahrongi Canyon
Unknown Valkurm Dunes
Unknown West Ronfaure
Unknown West Sarutabaruta
Sprite 61-64 Pashhow Marshlands (S)
61-64 Rolanberry Fields (S)
61-64 Sauromugue Champaign (S)
65-68 Jugner Forest (S)
65-68 Meriphataud Mountains (S)
65-68 Vunkerl Inlet (S)
Unknown Batallia Downs
Unknown Jugner Forest
Unknown Meriphataud Mountains
Unknown Pashhow Marshlands
Unknown Rolanberry Fields
Unknown Sauromugue Champaign
Sidhe 75-77 Grauberg (S)

Historical Background

In British folklore (specifically from Cornwall and Devon), pixies are diminutive spirit-like humanoids with insectoid wings. They were thought to reside in downs and moors and were known for playing tricks on people. Among their routine tricks were to steal horses and ride them across the moors at night, stealing objects from residences, throwing objects at people, and misleading travelers (“being led by pixies”) or sometimes luring people away to disappear forever. Pixies are said to be repulsed by silver.

Pixies were not all antagonistic. They were thought to perform household chores at any time of day if respected and given gifts of food or milk. Pixies are also known for pixie dust (fairy dust), a sparkling residual found trailing behind them.

The pixie’s origin has multiple versions. The general version is they were but one of many spirits that inhabited Britain without any particular backstory. After Christianity took hold on the island, the pixie’s origin changed to be Celtic druids who refused to convert to Christianity and grew progressively smaller the more they resisted conversion. Another origin story portrayed pixies as spirit beings that were morally neutral and thus unable to be accepted into heaven or cast into hell, thus being forced to roam the earth for eternity.

Pixie is also the origin of the word pixilated, which means confused, crazy, bewildered, or acting whimsical. Despite the close appearance, it is not the origin of the word pixel and term pixelated. Pixel derives from “pix element”, with pix being a common abbreviation for pictures in the 20th century.

This article uses material from the "Category:Pixies" article on FFXIclopedia and is licensed under the CC-BY-SA License.

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