The bodkin archer is a recurring monster in the Dragon Quest series. First appearing in Dragon Quest IV, they are hooded goblin-like creatures armed with a bow and arrow.
Squat little munchkins, the bodkin family resembles the goblins of Welsh myth. Bodkins prefer to fight from a distance, letting fly with long-distance arrows from their shortbows, while supporting their front-line friends with Buff.
They have green skin and wear robes and hoods made of simple brown cloth. Other varieties of bodkins have different skin tones and will swap out their clothing as they become more deft with their bow, and gain new accolades to reflect this.
Bodkin archers appeared from the beginning of the game. They are able to protect their allies with Buff and can call for backup from more of their kind. The archers also have a tendency to waste their turns by pulling out a watering can and are more likely to miss their shots when enraged. Starting with Version 5.0 of the game, vicious bodkin archers began appearing in the Netherworld, as well, gaining the ability to perform Rain of Pain.
These cautious creatures are always ready to unleash an arrow from the shadows. Sadly it seems that when it comes to matters of the heart, they're always missing their mark...
These wary warriors stay well away from the action, preferring to fire on their foes from afar. The other bodkins constantly belittle their basic bow skills, so they vent their resentment on passing adventurers.
The Archers act as normal enemies in the first area of chapter 2, but also appear as NPCs in the Prickly Plains section accessed through the blue teleportal. Several are friendly towards humans, and will reward the Builder for countering their own parlaying perils.
The fishing Archer explains that, being newcomers to Alefgard and the Dragonlord's legion, his kind are bullied by other monsters on the regular. In particular, the Killerpillars cause great strife for the little goblins, to the point that a duo of Sharpshooters mount an attack on the main nest in the area out of fear that their village will be wiped out if they don't.
Bodkin archer appears as an E-rank monster of the Demon family. It can be recruited from Chapters 3-3, 8-3, 8-7, and 15-3 of the main storyline and it can participate in Dracky and Leery lout's Battle Roads as a party member. The bodkin archer and its variants have the distinction of being able to attack from one square away in any cardinal direction.
A play on Guglielmo Tell, the Italian name for William Tell, a folk hero from Switzerland who lived in the early 14th century and was said to be an expert marksman with a crossbow.
A bodkin defines a small, blunt needle with a large eye used to punch through cloth and leather. In terms of archery, it means the archer is using less than ideal ammunition.
Lilliputians are a diminutive, humanoid race described in the 1726 English novel Gulliver's Travels written by Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift.
Bodkin archer (リリパット Lilipatto)
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