Fright knight: Difference between revisions

|image=[[File:DQIX Fright Knight.png|300px|center]]

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The '''Fright knight''' is a recurring monster in the {{DQSeries}}, first appearing in {{Dragon Quest VII}}. It is a heavily armoured skeleton warrior that wields a sword and shield in battle.

Fright knights are large hellish [[Undead family|skeletal]] soldiers adorned in massive teal and magenta armour, wielding a wicked giant sword in battle and a round buckler in the other. These undead fiends are capable of strategically saving their strength for the right time to strike, unleashing their brutal hits when their enemies are at their weakest. The knights also know how to unleash freezing attacks with both their breath and spells, strong enough to cause a serious threat. They can also support their allies by bringing them back from the dead with '''Zing'''.

|skills={{Desperate attack}} (250% damage)<br>[[Freezing Blizzard]]<br>[[Focus Strength]]

{{DQ9EnemyNew

|romaji=Naito ricchi

|defence=206

|skills=Blocks with its shield<br>{{Desperate attack}}<br>[[Freezing Blizzard]]<br>[[Attack Attacker]]<br>[[Psyche Up]]

|items=[[Sword breaker]]{{fraction|1|64}}<br>[[Dark shield]]{{fraction|1|256}}

|locations=[[Gittingham Palace]]<br>[[Oubliette]]<br>{{Grotto}} (Volcano, ranks 7-8)

|fire-resist=-25%

|dazzle-resist=50%

|sap-resist=25%

}}* A Fright knight is encountered in [[Upover]] as part of the main storyline, accompanied by a pair of [[Stenchurion]]s.

|fusions=[[File:Marrow escapee DQM3 portrait.png|64px|link=Marrow escapee]] X [[File:Fright knight DQM3 portrait.png|64px|Fright knight]] = [[File:Demon-at-Arms DQM3 portrait.png|64px|link=Demon-at-arms]]<br>[[File:Dragon rider DQM3 portrait.png|64px|link=Dragon rider]] X [[File:Fright knight DQM3 portrait.png|64px|Fright knight]] = [[File:Dread dragooner DQM3 portrait.png|64px|link=Dread dragooner]]<br>[[File:Fright knight DQM3 portrait.png|64px|Fright knight]] X [[File:Wight king DQM3 portrait.png|64px|link=Wight king]] = [[File:Night knight DQM3 portrait.png|64px|link=Night knight]]

==={{AHB}}===

Fright knight first could be faced as a boss in several levels, including Battle Arena: Season 2, Term 2. Its special move is Bitter Blizzard, a powerful ice breath which it unleashes after a 10-second countdown unless it is defeated or interrupted first. It would typically be assisted by other undead monsters, including [[Mummy|Mummies]] and [[Skeleton soldier]]s.

 

|fr=Seigneur malheur|fr-meaning=French for "Lord misfortune/sadness".

|it=Cavaliere della paura|it-meaning=Italian for "knight of fear".

==Trivia==

* The fright knight's original name Niterich and name in Japanese, ナイトリッチ, is intended to be "knight/night lich". [[Wikipedia:Lich|Lich]] is an English word dating back to the 9th century which simply referred to a corpse or dead body. In modern works of fiction, a lich has come to refer to a specific undead creature, a former wizard that seeks to defy death through necromancy. Unlike ordinary zombies, a lich retains some degree of its intelligence and spellcasting abilities. This usage originates from the 1976 [[Wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]] role-playing game booklet ''Greyhawk'', which contained a description of the lich.