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The Undead, also called the Living Dead, are a recurring type of enemy from the Final Fantasy series. Undead enemies vary in appearance, abilities and strength, but most share a few key characteristics: they are resistant to dark and poison spells, but are vulnerable to healing magic, fire and holy. They are immune to HP draining attacks, often employing such attacks themselves, and commonly can infect party members with debilitating status ailments. In most games, as they are vulnerable to healing spells and items, Undead can be often killed simply by throwing a Phoenix Down at them, or by casting a Raise spell.

Recurring classes of undead creatures include Ghosts, Skeletons, Mummies, Vampires, and Liches, all of which change forms and have different variations throughout each game.

Characters can become Undead in Final Fantasy V by equipping the Bonemail and in Final Fantasy VI by equipping a Lich Ring. In fact, Undead is also known as the status effect Zombie in the series.

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[edit] Appearances

[edit] Final Fantasy

Undead enemies appear in many locations and areas in the world map. They can simply be killed with Dia, a spell specifically for the White Mage job class. The Black Mage's Fire spells are also very useful.

The enemies in the Shadow family are cloaked skeletons that often appear in large groups and are very fragile. The Shadow and Wraith are very weak enemies, and the Specter and Ghost are like glass cannons: they hit multiple times for large damage, but can be felled quite easily.

Skeletons also appear in large hordes, but are similarly susceptible to weak Fire or Holy-based attacks. Other enemies in this group are the Skuldier, Bloodbones, and the Dawn of Souls exclusive Bonesnatch, which is marginally more powerful.

Enemies of the Zombie genus include the Ghoul, Ghast, Wight, and Revenant. They share the common trait of being able to inflict Paralysis with their physical strikes.

The Vampire is a boss in the Cavern of Earth, and its stronger counterpart, the Vampire Lord, inhabits the Flying Fortress and the Chaos Shrine. Both are far more durable than other undead enemies in Final Fantasy.

Mummies are also present in this game, but do not have any special abilities or characteristics. The King Mummy is just as weak as its common counterpart, but the Pharaoh has a large sum of HP and can often be found guarding treasure chests. All can inflict Sleep with their melee attacks.

[edit] Final Fantasy II

Many Undead enemies in this game are known to cause paralysis, as well as use drain attacks that replenishes their HP based on half the damage they cause.

[edit] Final Fantasy V

The number of the undead are in the ship graveyards Siren is also undead as she can turn undead at will.

[edit] Final Fantasy VI

Undeads are mainly found in the Phantom Forest.

[edit] Final Fantasy VII

Undead enemies are encountered in the Cave of the Gi, including the boss Gi Nattak along with his accompanying Soul Fires. Other undead enemies include:

[edit] Final Fantasy VIII

Undead creatures in this game appear sparingly in dungeons, fields, and as bosses.

[edit] Final Fantasy IX

[edit] Final Fantasy X

While there are less undead creatures there is a spell that can give zombie status and there is also an undead boss battle.

[edit] Final Fantasy XI

Undead are an entire ecosystem in opposition to Arcana. They are characterized by immunity to drain/aspir/absorb spells, tendency to menace travelers at night, and a habit of aggro-ing players when they're at low health. They encompass the following families:

  • Skeletons - the walking dead, they come in two flavors:
  • Ghouls, said to be the souls of gluttons in life are doomed to an undeath of feeding on the flesh of mortals
  • Draugar, undying infantry reanimated by the Lamia
  • Ghosts - frolicking spirits unaware of their passage into the afterlife
  • Hounds - undead scavengers that prowl the night
  • Fomors - vengeful shades of those who were slain during battle
  • Balor, summoned in the Sacrarium
  • Caithleann, summoned in the Sacrarium
  • Luaith, summoned in the Sacrarium
  • Lobais, summoned in the Sacrarium
  • Indich, summoned in the Sacrarium
  • Eba, found in the Phomiuna Aqueducts
  • Bres, found in Beadeaux during the war
  • Shadowhand, a dark sorceress and general of the Shadow Lord's elite armies
  • Doomed - bloated monstrosities reminiscent of a toad
  • Corses - reclusive liches that can strike instant fear in the heart of any unwary adventurer
  • Citipati, found in Attowha Chasm
  • Xolotl, also found in Attowha Chasm
  • Elel, found in the Sacrarium
  • Keremet, also found in the Sacrarium
  • Raigegue R d'Oraguille, ancient San d'Orian king back from the dead
  • Qutrubs - these corpse-eating ghouls are beings that have succumbed to the charms of the Lamiae while still alive
  • Vampyrs - unnatural monstrosities sighted in the Near East
  • Cointeach - floating skulls

[edit] Final Fantasy XII

The undead creatures are encountered in the following categories.

[edit] Final Fantasy Tactics

Undead creatures will revive 3 turns after they are KO'ed.

In addition, Zalbaag Beoulve is reincarnated as an undead creature at Orbonne Monastery.

[edit] Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Undead creatures will revive 3 turns after they are KO'ed. However, Tactics Advance introduced several abilities that defeated the undead permanently, such as the Archer's Burial skill.

[edit] Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift

Undead monsters in this game turn into tombstones when their HP reaches 0, and will be raised when three full turns have passed. They can be permanently removed from the field by either skills such as Burial or Excorcise (which has a low chance of working on an active undead, but 100% hit rate when the undead is in a tombstone form or under some status ailments), or by using a Phoenix Down or casting Raise (or most other revival skills, such as Phoenix) on the tombstone. Unlike previous games, in which the undead can be defeated by just throwing a Phoenix Down, it only defeats the enemy if it's a tombstone, as when the undead is still on the field, it deals slightly less damage than a Hi-Potion.

[edit] Vagrant Story

Undead is an entire class of enemies. They include:

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