Vana'diel Bestiary: Leshy

The 8 of these mobs are in the G-6 pos of Lufaise Meadows. They have a 5 minute respawn.

The saplings in the area link to them via sound.

A Lightning elemental also spawns there during weather.

There are multiple logging points in the area

Dryad Root is the most common drop, followed by Mistletoe and Puffballs, and the rest are pretty rare (haven't gotten anything else, though haven't killed more then 30 of them).

I posted this under petrified logs also, but Leshy do not drop petrified logs, and this is from my own experience.

In case you care:
"Derived from 'les', which means 'the forest'. The Slavs lived in forested areas and it is obvious that they would a spirit of the forest. Leshy had the shape of a human being with long hair, as a priest. His blood was blue, this gave his cheeks the blue appearance that it had. He had fiery green pop out eyes and bushy, grass-like eyebrows. His beard was long and green. Some legends described him as having a red scarf and having his left shoe on his right foot. Leshy had no shadow. In the center of the forest he was gigantic, but on the edges he turned into a tiny dwarf-like character able to hide under a leaf.

He was very possessive of his property of barely left his kingdom. Leshy enjoyed leading peasants and hunters entering the forest onto the wrong path and eventually returning them to the spot they started. Leshy wasn't totally wicked and mostly let the poor mislead people go. There was a secret to escaping him. One had to sit under a tree, undress, and put your clothes back on backwards. You also had to put you left shoe on your right foot. Leshy respected people who did this and let them go.

A certain legend says that Leshy was the son of a demon and a human woman. Another believes him to have a family. He had a wife called Leshachikha, and children, the Leshanki. Leshy and his family lived together in the forest performing their mischievous deeds together."

More Slavic mythology, for her pleasure.

Dc-Even to me at lvl 53,, these would be lvl 51-53

These will link with the smaller Leshachikhas. I was fighting one and little Leshachikha decided to defend his big brother Leshy.

Not sure if they will link with other Leshy's as it was far away when I pulled it.

i farm there now, logging and killing these at same time. So far i only got rosewood log from these...and mistletoe and dryad drop common.

Just sent in a correction for the additional drops that were listed in the below posts

To give you a better idea on the level, a Mithra Lv 59 RNG/NIN cannot solo these even though they rate Easy Prey w/ Low Evasion. I found that out the hard way. Utsusemi, Shadowbind, Barrage, Eagle Eye Shot, and Sidewinder 2x wasn't enough... it killed me >_< /fume

When I fought these, Leshachikha's would commonly link. I was kind of surprised at first, but I guess Sapling and Treants are int the same "family".

Drops Mistletoe and Dryad Root as well, as is common from Treants...

Also Drops Ebony Log
and mahogany log