Horknight

The Horknight is a recurring monster in the Dragon Quest series, first appearing in Dragon Quest XI. It is an armoured Grublin riding on the back of a wasp mount.

Dragon Quest monster Horknight
Art by Akira Toriyama Japanese ビーライダー Romaji Bīraidā First appearance Dragon Quest XI

Characteristics

Horknights are more heavily armored cavalrymen compared to their foot soldier counterparts, donning simple iron breastplates and horned iron masks, along with a pair of leather gloves. They wield jousting lances in their right hands instead of their chipped swords, using their left hands to hold the reins that maneuver their wasp mounts. The wasps have yellow bodies with brown stripes on their abdomens and they wear leather masks and saddles on the back of their thoraxes in order to seat their riders. They can fire off stingers laced with a sleep-inducing toxin at their opponents.

Appearances

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

Horknight (ビーライダー, Bīraidā ) Defeated Monster List No. : #094

Image Attributes Family HP MP EXP Gold Attack Defence Agility Humanoid 76 12 92 31 77 75 83

Resistances Fire Ice Wind Lightning Earth Dark Light MP Theft Insta-Death -110% 0% 25% -110% 25% 0% 0% 0% 0% Poof Dazzle Fizzle Confusion Paralysis Poison Sleep Blunt Deceleratle 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% Sap Spooky Aura Stumble Stun Charm Beguilement Double Down Elem Res Down 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Additional information Spells Skills Locations Dropped item Kasap Counterstrike Grows ever more angry (increases Attack and Agility) Shoots off sleepy stingers (damages and puts one character to sleep) Double Multithrust Dundrasil Region (first act) Insula Occidentalis (first act, 3DS and 2D mode of Definitive Edition only) Butterfly wing1⁄8 Yellow eye1⁄16 Description Elite grublin warriors who ride astride great big wasps. Beware their two-pronged spear and stinger strikes.

If a horknight is sparkling, its mount can be ridden after defeating it in battle. The wasp hovers in midair and can fly over low bodies of water, as well as being able to make small hops.

Vicious horknight (ビーライダー・強, Bīraidā・kyō ) Defeated Monster List No. : #275

Image Attributes Family HP MP EXP Gold Attack Defence Agility Humanoid 164 16 561 108 151 144 149

Resistances Fire Ice Wind Lightning Earth Dark Light MP Theft Insta-Death -110% 0% 25% -110% 25% 0% 0% 0% 0% Poof Dazzle Fizzle Confusion Paralysis Poison Sleep Blunt Deceleratle 100% 0% 25% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% Sap Spooky Aura Stumble Stun Charm Beguilement Double Down Elem Res Down 0% 0% 100% 25% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Additional information Spells Skills Locations Dropped item Kasap Counterstrike Grows ever more angry (increases Attack and Agility) Shoots off sleepy stingers (damages and puts one character to sleep) Double Multithrust Dundrasil Region (second act, day only) Insula Occidentalis (second act, 3DS and 2D mode of Definitive Edition only) The Sage's Trial - The Fierce Forest (third act, night only) Butterfly wing1⁄8 Yellow eye1⁄16 Description Horknights driven to dangerous extremes by the dark power of the Lord of Shadows.

Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D

Horknight appears as a D-rank monster of the Nature family exclusive to the SP version of the game.

Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru and Luca's Marvelous Mysterious Key

Horknight appears once again as the same rank and family exclusive to the SP version.

Gallery

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  The Luminary hovering over a lake on the back of a horknight's mount.
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  XI polygon model
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  A vicious horknight

Related monsters

Similar species

• Midnight horknight
• Honeyhead horknight
• Horknight watchman

Close cousins

• Gloomy grublin
• Grublin
• Gleeful grublin
• Grumpy grublin