Family: Flies Crystal: Wind Weak to: Ice Notorious Monster

Zone	Level	Drops	Steal	Spawns	Notes
Valkurm Dunes	29 - 30	Empress Hairpin (16.3%) Insect Wing (100%)		1	A, L, H
Nyzul Isle Floors 21 - 39		??? Headpiece * Nyzul weapons (???%)		1	A, L, H
A = Aggressive; L = Links; S = Detects by Sight; H = Detects by Sound; HP = Detects Low HP; M = Detects Magic; Sc = Follows by Scent; T(S) = True-sight; T(H) = True-hearing JA = Detects job abilities; WS = Detects weaponskills; Z(D) = Asleep in Daytime; Z(N) = Asleep at Nighttime

Notes (Valkurm Dunes)Edit

• Lottery Spawn from Damselfly in the area spanning (D-8) to (F-8).

• Window opens 60 minutes from its last Time of Death, but can take several hours until it spawns on death of PH spawns.
• The placeholder appears on Widescan as the first Damselfly in the group of four between the second set of Snippers and Thread Leeches.

• Wide Scan II can reach all possible spawn points for both the placeholder and Valkurm Emperor if used by the palm trees in the lower-left corner of (F-8).

• The NM appears below the other three flies and before the Thread Leeches on Widescan.
• Damselfly respawns every 5 minutes (2 hours and 7 minutes Vana'diel time).

• Will link with other flies in the area, and the flies will link with Valkurm Emperor.
• Soloable by all jobs at level 35 and by most jobs at level 30, with some difficulty; Duoable by Beastmaster at level 25. Soloable by Beastmaster Lv24.
• (see testimonials)
• NM needs killed x3 for Staff ToM #777
• Mob ID for PH is possibly 14A

Notes (Nyzul Isle)Edit

• The Armoury Crate it leaves behind contains a ??? Headpiece, which may rarely appraise into an Empress Hairpin.

Fan FavoriteEdit

• Valkurm Emperor was the winner of Notorious Monster Madness '09.

Hunt Registry	Elusiveness	Ferocity	Required Scylds	Rewarded Scylds	Evolith	Evolith
Northern San d'Oria (E-8)	3	3	0	10	Great Sword WS: Accuracy +	TriangleDownFilledLightningLightning 1~2

Historical BackgroundEdit

Valkurm Emperor is most likely named after Anax imperator, or the emperor dragonfly. The Emperor is one of the largest hawker dragonflies native to Europe.