Maighdean Uaine

Category:Bestiarycategory:SaplingsCategory:Notorious Monsters
Job: 
Family: Sapling
Crystal: 
Weak to: ,	
Zone 	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
North Gustaberg	11 	
*Optical Earring	 	1 	A, L, H
Nyzul Isle
:Floors 81 - 99	 	
*Treant Bulb 
*??? Earring *
*Nyzul weapons	 	1 	A, L, H
 	 	 	 	 	
 
===Notes:===
:* Lottery Spawn from the Walking Saplings around H-6 / I-6. Placeholder respawn time is 4 minutes.
:* If you stand close to H-6,on wide Scan, the PH is the last mob of the group of 5, between 2 Young Quadav and 3 Vultures.
:* PH ID is 135.
:* Can Spawn after 15 minutes. Someone killed it when I was at camp, and 15 minutes later, he popped again in front of me
:* Spawn Time is 15 minutes to 6 hours
:* Soloable by most jobs 12+. 
:* Nyzul Isle: The Armoury Crate it leaves behind contains an ??? Earring, which may rarely appraise into an Optical Earring.
Hunt Registry	Elusiveness	Ferocity	Required Scylds	Rewarded Scylds	Evolith 	Evolith
:Bastok Mines (I-9)	1 	1 	0 	5 	Benediction: ability delay	
:Bastok Mines (I-9)	 	 	 	 	 	
:Bastok Mines (I-9)	 	 	 	 	 	
:Bastok Mines (I-9)	 	 	 	 	 	
=== Historical Background ===
Maighdean Uaine is from Scottish folklore. It means "green maiden" in Scottish Gaelic (maighdean "maiden" + uaine "green"). The more common name for her is the Green Lady or Glaistig Uaine. In many accounts, specifically Scottish Highlands accounts, the Green Lady is considered a woman garbed in a green dress who is a frightful portent of death, similar to the Irish Banshee. However, the account this NM seems to draw from is the Green Lady of Caerphilly. In Welsh folklore, she is a spirit who inhabits a ruined castle (Caerphilly Castle). She is said to be hiding in the ivy or has transformed into ivy, intermingling with the natural ivy on the walls. This version is not viewed as a death portent. It seems Square-Enix took the name Green Lady and translated it to its cognate in Scottish and figured ivy is close to a Sapling-type monster.