Peckerel

Dragon Quest monster
Peckerel
	; Art by Akira Toriyama
Japanese	アサシンエミュー
Romaji	Asashin emiyū
First appearance	Dragon Quest IX

The Peckerel is a monster in the series.

Characteristics[edit | edit source]

Peckerels are tall flightless birds like ostriches or emus with dark teal plumage and serpentine heads. They have lighter teal undersides and a long thin tail ending in a sharp point. Their tails are coated with a toxin that they use to paralyse their victims and they can even instantly kill them with Assassin's Stab. In Dragon Quest X, they have also gained the ability to spit out ink to blind their opponents. Their name is a play on the words "peck" and "cockerel".

Appearances[edit | edit source]

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies[edit | edit source]

Peckerel (アサシンエミュー Asashin emiyū)

Model
Bestiary no.: #114
Family: Bird
Experience: 580
Gold: 132
HP: 107
MP: 6
Attack: 107
Defence: 107
Agility: 107

In-game description: They fly fast at their foes with paralysing attacks, and treat troublesome opponents to an Assassin's Stab.

They're forever forgetting the paralysing poison on the points of their tails, and itching themselves immobile by accident.
Spell(s): None
Skill(s): Paralysis Attack
Assassin's Stab
Location(s): Iluugazar Plains
Mt. Ulbaruun
Item(s) dropped: Strong antidote¹⁄₁₆
Poison needle¹⁄₆₄

Fire resistance *: 0%
Ice resistance *: -25%
Wind resistance *: 25%
Blast/Lightning resistance *: 0%
Earth resistance *: 0%
Dark resistance *: 0%
Light resistance *: 0%
Drain Magic resistance: 0%
Whack resistance *: 50%
Dazzle resistance *: 25%
Fizzle resistance *: 100%
Fuddle resistance *: 50%
Paralysis resistance *: 100%
Snooze resistance *: 50%
Poison resistance *: 25%
Stun resistance *: 50%
Blunt resistance *: 25%
Deceleratle resistance *: 25%
Sap resistance *: 25%
Spooky Aura resistance *: 0%
Charm resistance *: 65%

During Quest #83: Beautiful Bowginnings, the player must defeat ten peckerels with Flutter Disaster and then return to Archie, the bow teacher, at Swinedimples Academy.

Dragon Quest X [edit | edit source]

Peckerels appeared from the beginning of the game. They are still able to perform Assassin's Stab and can also squirt out a spurt of jet-black ink that can blind characters.

In Other Languages[edit | edit source]

Language	Translation	Meaning
Español	Pollastre	From the Spanish pollo and desastre.
Français	Pirvert	From the French piquer and vert.
Deutsch	Pick-Aas	From the German picken and Aas.
Italiano	Sbeccadoon	Italian for "chipper", derived from the verb sbeccare.