Maighdean Uaine

Job: 
Family: Sapling
Crystal: Earth
Weak to: Dark, Fire
Notorious Monster	
Zone	
Level	
Drops	
Steal	
Spawns	
Notes
North Gustaberg		
*Optical Earring		
2	
A, L
					
Notes:
:*Lottery Spawn around J-5 to H-6, from the Walking Sapling around that area approximately every hour. 
:*Around 380HP 
:*Item drops: Optical Earring drops 100% of the time.
=== 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.
Category:Bestiary
Category:Notorious Monsters
category:Saplings