It would be really cool if this "Dark Rider" aggroed player and monster alike. Sometimes saving your *** from mobs wanting to give you a beat down with one swift stroke otherwise known as "Zantetsuken", or cutting your own hide in two whenever he damn-well pleases.
Well, I just saw him while we were exping at Wajaom. First a Dark Bugler spawned and then he came riding in from behind. It was pretty impressive, wish I could take a SS but the buglar pretty much wiped our party.
anyone else realize, Final Fantasy is a series where the common mode of land transportation are chocobos, no horse stables to speak of... Why is this Dark rider not riding a demonic chocobo?!
who knows maybe if u beat him u'll have him as a new avatar! either that or of course all the servers will implode and the apocalypse of Vana'deil will begin with vrtra and all his brothers and sisters alike will wreak havok on the cities..... either one..... of course =] I hope someone beats him
on a lighter note..... Alexander is gunna beat him first!!!!
The horse which this woman of torture and death rides is black, untamed, difficult to manage (styggr), and ugly - grown (ljótvaxinn). It drinks human blood, and is accompanied by other horses belonging to Leikin, black and bloodthirsty like it. (All this is stated by Hallfred Vandradaskald.)* Perhaps these loose horses are intended for those persons whom the horsewoman of torture causes to die from disease, and whom she is to conduct to the lower world.
Popular traditions have preserved for our times the remembrance of the "ugly-grown" horse, that is, of a three-legged horse, which on its appearance brings sickness, epidemics, and plagues. The Danish popular belief (Thiele., i. 137, 138) knows this monster, and the word Hel-horse has been preserved in the vocabulary of the Danish language. The diseases brought by the Hel-horse are extremely dangerous, but not always fatal. When they are not fatal, the convalescent is regarded as having ransomed his life with that tribute of loss of strength and of torture which the disease caused him, and in a symbolic sense he has then "given death a bushel of oats" (that is, to its horse). According to popular belief in Slesvik (Arnkiel, i. 55; cp. J. Grimm, Deutsche Myth., 804), Hel rides in the time of a plague on a three-legged horse and kills people. Thus the ugly-grown horse is not forgotten in traditions from the heathen time.
Voluspa informs us that in the primal age of man, the sorceress Heid went from house to house and was a welcome guest with evil women, since she seid Leikin (sida means to practise sorcery). Now, as Leikin is the "horsewoman of torture and death," and rides the Hel-horse, then the expression sida Leikin can mean nothing else than by sorcery to send Leikin, the messenger of disease and death, to those persons who are the victims of’ the evil wishes of "evil women"; or, more abstractly, to bring by sorcery dangerous diseases to men.t
Source: http://www.boudicca.de/teut.htm
Hel is the daughter to Loki and and Queen to Hel(Realm, the underworld). This is the only thing I can find regarding to the identity of the three legged horse. Hope we find out soon!
not really, when ever odin appears in games there are 2 sets front legs and one set of back instead of what some people might think they see in that pictures
Dark Esquire sighted at I-8 in Bhaflau Thickets just now. 75Pld and 67Blu got it down to 75% HP before losing. While fighting Dark Esquire, Dark Rider rode past. Warhorse Hoofprint left in I-8 path to Postern.
Of course it's Odin, they have put other high ranking Avatars in there we can only see them. I have seen Bismarck the whale on my way over on the ferry, I only caught a small glimps of him, but I was sure it was him, the detailing on his belly wasn't normal for any other sea creature. No matter how many times I went on the ferry to catch another glimpse, but I have not seen him again. I have yet to see Dark Rider, but judging by the pics, it is Odin.
i heard this guy alrdy been taken down by BtL hnmls inseraph server
He can't be killed, he takes 0 damage from everything. He only exists to leave behind a warhorse hoofprint.
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In the traditional myth, Slephnir has 8 legs. In the Final Fantasy world, Odin's horse always had either 4 or 6 legs (four legs in the older ones). Yyou can see pics here http://www.ffcompendium.com/h/espmon/odin.shtml . Seeing that FF11 brings back a lot of old school things, I wouldn't be surprised if they depicted Odin's horse with 4 legs, like the old ones.
And this horse has 4 legs -- it only looks like three in this screenshot because one of them is bent up and hidden. Here are better pictures of him http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ten13films/my_photos .
Interesting detail : The sculpture figure of FF8's Odin (which i own cuz that was my favorite Odin so far) actually has all 8 legs. At least in principle : If you look closely you can see that 2 of his legs have been amputated at the body... http://www.myimportstore.com/store/images/Action_Figures/IMG_1696.JPG (It's that badly painted orange nubby thing on hiss chest) Prety cool detail huh?
Oddly this doesn't seem to show on the texture of the ingame version though.
Just saw him a few mins ago. My pt was xping in Caedarva Mire and first I saw demons and was like "Why are there demons here..." then I saw him and was like Holy Crap! Then he came towards my pt and I thought we were all screwed but he didn't agro just walked past us. It was really awesome he's pretty impressive.