Maliris

Maliris is a boss from Final Fantasy IX. The party fights her in Memoria.
Maliris was created by Kuja from the crystal's memory of the Fire Guardian in the Fire Shrine who challenged Freya and Amarant. The Fire Guardian is not fought as a boss, but Freya and Amarant fight her off-screen to place the mirror.
Maliris appears in Memoria on the bridge leading to the memory of the Battle of Alexandria.
==Stats==
== Battle ==
Maliris frequently uses Fire magic, especially with her sword attacks. She casts Mustard Bomb, which inflicts the Heat status. She casts Reflect on herself and will reflect Fire spells off herself to hit the party. When defeated, Maliris attacks with Raining Swords that will do about 4000 HP to all characters. She will not perform this if asleep and killed by a magic ability.
Defeating her in the mobile/Steam version yields the Putting Out the Fire achievement.
=== Strategy ===
Ice and Water magic are useful, as are eidolons, such as Shiva and Leviathan.
If the party has Auto-Reflect, the player doesn't need to dispel Maliris's Reflect status, merely reflect Blizzaga or Water off a character, or the whole party for a stronger effect. Vivi can equip Reflectx2 to bolster his spells with this tactic. Zidane should steal all the items Maliris has, as they are hard to find elsewhere.
Most of the party should have their HP almost fully healed by the end of the battle to survive Maliris's Raining Swords, although it is recommended at least one of the player characters has Auto-Life. If Freya is in the party, she can avoid Raining Swords by jumping at the appropriate time. Quina can use Night to put Maliris to sleep, but the player party needs to be protected against the status with Insomniac. Quina's LV3 Def-less and LV4 Holy also work against both versions of Maliris, the normal and the crystal.
=== Crystal World incarnation ===
The translucent form of Maliris is considerably weaker, as she does not perform Raining Swords upon her defeat and has a substantially less HP. A barrage of Ice-elemental magic and physical attacks charged with the Devil Killer ability should be enough to bring this snake down quickly. Crystal Maliris doesn't give EXP. Zidane's Soul Blade with Sargatanas equipped defeats her instantly.
== AI script ==
=== Boss ===
=== Crystal World incarnation ===
==Other appearances==
===Pictlogica Final Fantasy===
===Final Fantasy Record Keeper===
==Behind the scenes==
Data hacking shows that there are many gaps in the numerical sequence of battle formations and monster IDs, showing that many battle formations and monsters were deleted prior to the final version. In addition to many more, three missing monster IDs appear around the "Earth Guardian", making one suspect that in the original version the player was to fight all four of the guardians instead of only one (in the final game, the other three are defeated via cut-scenes, including "Fire Guardian"/Maliris). Design artwork for these other three guardians is known, as well as deleted locations, which would probably have been where they were fought.
Maliris alludes to Marilith boss from the original Final Fantasy, one of the Four Fiends the guardians of Terra of Final Fantasy IX are based on.
Maliris is the only enemy where the player can acquire (steal) one of the two pairs of Genji Armor. The other pair can be found with Choco by digging the Outer Island chocograph treasure.
== Gallery ==
Maliris-ffix-body.png|Body of Maliris.
Maliris-ffix-crystal-body.png|Body of Maliris's crystal form.
FireGuard-ffix.png|Model of the Fire Guard.
Maliris FFIX Art.jpg|Concept artwork of Maliris.
Fire-Guard-FFIX.png|Maliris as Fire Guardian in the Fire Shrine.
FFIX Spare Change.png|Maliris in battle.
FFIX Flame Slash.png|Flame Slash.
Maliris uses Reflect from FFIX Remastered.png|Reflect.
FFIX Sword Quiver.png|Sword Quiver.
== Etymology ==
== Related enemies ==
* Kraken
* Lich
* Tiamat
Category:Bosses in Final Fantasy IX
Category:Final Fantasy IX Edible Enemies