DQ9 Encyclopedia
Lethal armour
Unfair foes who send enemies into a slumber with Kasnooze, then upset their attacks by snapping their weapons.
Their once-white armour is coloured crimson by the gouts of gore that gush from the victims they roam the land vanquishing.
The essentials
- Earliest in the story: The Gittish Empire — 17% (17% of battles)
- Gives: 1,680 EXP, 164 G, Magic armour (1/128), Seed of defence (1/256)
- Weak to: wind, light ×1.5
- Has no effect on it: poison
Family: material — weapons dealing ×1.1: hammers
Stats
| Variant | HP | MP | Att. | Def. | Agi. | EXP | Gold | Evas. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Gittish Empire | 194 | 16 | 158 | 210 | 117 | 1,680 | 164 | 0 % |
| Battle: Gortress, Gortress, Upover | 454 | 32 | 172 | 220 | 117 | 1,680 | 164 | 0 % |
HP from the game's record: in battle, each monster gets a roll between 80 and 100% of it (rounded); MP is full.
Resistances and actions
- Elements (damage taken): wind, light ×1.5; fire, ice, darkness ×0.75
- Effects (success rate): 75%: Dazzle, Blunt, Sap, Decelerate, Divine Intervention; 50%: sleep, Whack, confusion, Fizzle, stun; 25%: paralysis; 10%: Charm; immune: poison
- Actions: Attack 50%, Attack Attacker 17%, “calls for backup.” 16%, Kasnooze 16%. Conditions (otherwise it picks another slot): Attack: not while Dazzled, and only on a character whose defence is below twice its attack; “calls for backup.”: if there's room for reinforcements; Attack Attacker: if a character's attack can still go down; Kasnooze: if two thirds of the party can be put to sleep (awake, no Bounce, no immunity). Only once per turn for its whole group: “calls for backup.”, Attack Attacker, Kasnooze
Items
Magic armour 
Seed of defence Story and quests
- Gortress, Gortress, Upover: Lethal armour (once)
Habitat (in-game monster list)
The Gittish Empire · Gittingham Palace · Western Wormwood · Wyrmtail
In the game, a defeated monster's entry names one of these places as soon as you have visited it, even if you never defeated that monster there; otherwise “?????????” (checked in game). The first two are named, “Etc.” for the third.
In the field
Behaviour: spots the party in front of it (45°) up to 3.5 units, then chases it, but runs away if the leader's attack + defence exceed 3 times its own.
In each cell: share of the visible monsters in that zone, then (in brackets) share of that zone's battles it takes part in, alone or with others. “Joins”: never visible, it only comes along with the monster you touched. “In the forest”, “on the coast”…: which monsters appear depends on the ground under the hero's feet (grass, forest, coast, rocky ground, swamp…); with no detail, they appear anywhere on the map. “Starflight Express stop”, “islet”, “part”: a separate corner of the region, reached as shown. Exact figures from the game code.
| Place | Day | Night |
|---|---|---|
| The Gittish Empire | 17% (17% of battles) | 17% (17% of battles) |
| Gittingham Palace – South | 38% (38% of battles) | 38% (38% of battles) |
| Gittingham Palace – East | 31% (31% of battles) | 31% (31% of battles) |
| Gittingham Palace – West | 31% (31% of battles) | 31% (31% of battles) |
| Gittingham Palace – Lv 1 | 19% (19% of battles) | 19% (19% of battles) |
| Western Wormwood (Starflight Express stop) – to the west of the region, Starflight Express only | 24% (24% of battles) | 24% (24% of battles) |
| Wyrmtail (Starflight Express stop) – to the south-west of the region, Starflight Express only | 17% (17% of battles) | 17% (17% of battles) |
Grottoes (treasure maps)
- Ice, rank 4: 20% of visible monsters, 20% of battles (quality 56-75: floors 1-6; 76-100: floors 1-8; 101-120: floors 1-4; 121-140: floors 1-4)
Under the hood
Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 121, 298.
Drop codes (prm/mon_btldata, bytes +2 and +3; 0 = 100%, otherwise 1/2^(code + 2), 7 = none): Magic armour : 5 ; Seed of defence : 6.
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