Scylla is a recurring monster of the Etrian Odyssey series.
She first appears as a stratum boss in Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard, as the boss of the Frozen Grounds, and as a monster of significant relevance to the story, revealing part of the Overlord's's intentions on his rule over the labyrinth. In her human life, she was purportedly a War Magus, and served as the leader of guild Esbat.
Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight reveals more information on Scylla's backstory, establishing that, while human, she was Artelinde's sister, and her name was Marguerite.
She later returns in Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City as the boss of one of the sea quests. It is unclear whether it is the same Scylla from Etrian II, though it seems unlikely.
Her upper body is one of a beautiful, pale-skinned blonde woman, while her lower body is a terrifying blend of mollusk and crustacean, boasting numerous tentacles festooned with razor-sharp blades formed from sharpened coral, a hermit-crab like shell, and a set of extra eyes along her upper body. Whilst almost hypnotically beautiful, she is extremely powerful; her tentacles can rend through armor, her voice can lull foes into slumber, and she possesses immense magic power to spread ruin amongst the heroes. Her signature attack, and the most widely feared, is a soul-piercing scream, so charged with dark magic that those who behold it can be instantly struck dead. Her nature renders her aligned with the ice element.
Scylla (Etrian Odyssey II)[]
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| A beautiful ice monster that inhabits the Frozen Grounds. The love in her heart froze long ago. | |
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| HP | 3100 |
| ATK | 55 |
| DEF | 60 |
| EXP | 100000 |
| Skills | Cry Soul, Six Sins, Tentacle |
| Items | Snow Vine, Snow Bone (Conditional) |
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Scylla is a tough boss. Her HP is actually rather low for this part of the game, but her enormous attack power and devastating party-wide attacks enable her to cause enormous damage if she's not dealt with quickly.
Skills[]
- Cry Soul (Uses Head): 3-7 cut attacks across random party members.
- Six Sins (Uses Legs): May blind, panic, or paralyze 1 party member.
- Tentacle (Uses Head): May cause leg bind on entire party.
- Lullaby (Uses Head): May put entire party to sleep.
- Embrace (Uses Arms): Inaccurate bash attack to entire party.
Drops[]
- Snow Vine (Worth: 3890 en)
- Snow Bone (Conditional) (Worth: 30000 en)
- Condition: Defeat within the first 3 turns.
Scylla (Etrian Odyssey III)[]
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| A beautiful sea monster that threatens Aeaea. Late at night, you can hear its piteous song. | |
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| HP | 12160 |
| ATK | 54 |
| DEF | 51 |
| EXP | 56000 |
| Skills | Embrace Cry Soul Tentacle |
| Items | Princess Fang Princess Fur 
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Scylla is a sea monster that halted trade routes to the Trade City of Aeaea, and is the boss of its related Sea Quests.
Skills[]
- Embrace (Uses Arms): Powerful Bash damage to entire party, incredibly low accuracy.
- Cry Soul (Uses Head): Heavy Slash damage 3-7 times randomly across party
- Tentacle (Uses Head): Attempts to bind entire party's legs
- Six Sins (Uses Legs): Attempts to inflict Confusion, Paralysis, or Blind on a party member
- Lullaby (Uses Head): May put entire party to Sleep
Drops[]
- Princess Fang (Worth: 1890 en)
- One of the ingredients for the Ice Fang Rapier (Rapier, 144 ATK, +30% Ice damage)
- Princess Fur (Conditional) (Worth: 10000 en)
- Condition: Defeat with Curse backlash damage.
- One of the ingredients for the Vajrayana Robe (Light armor, 120 DEF, +5% HP, +1 STR, +1 VIT), the best armor for Monks.
Scylla (Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold)[]
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| A hauntingly beaultiful monster of the Frozen Grounds. Its icy embrace can be alluring... | |
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| HP | 23700 |
| ATK | 39 |
| DEF | 34 |
| EXP | 52000 |
| Skills | Cry Soul Lullaby Ice Shave Seven Sins Piercing Shell |
| Items | Ice Queen's Vine Lavish Bone
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Scylla returns in The Fafnir Knight and retains her role as the boss of the Frozen Grounds. This time, she's flanked by two Barrier Creepers, but the ice blocks surrounding her can be used to stun her and reduce her initial HP.
Skills[]
- Cry Soul (Uses Head): 5-8 melee cut attacks across the entire party randomly. Slow to activate, very low accuracy.
- Lullaby (Uses Head): Inflicts sleep on the entire party.
- Ice Shave (Uses Legs): Heavy ice damage to the front row.
- Seven Sins (Uses Legs): Inflicts confusion or paralysis on a single target.
- Piercing Shell (Uses Arms): 2 stab attacks to one target.
Drops[]
- Ice Queen's Vine (Worth: 3000 en)
- Lavish Bone (Conditional) (Worth: 6700 en)
- Condition: Defeat while she's asleep.
- Used to create Bindings (Light armor, 93 DEF, STR +3, LUC +3), the best armor for Dark Hunters.
Scylla (Etrian Odyssey Nexus)[]
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Scylla appears in this game as the boss of the Frigid Lake.
Skills[]
- Cry Soul (Uses Head): 5-8 melee cut attacks across the entire party randomly. Slow to activate, very low accuracy.
- Lullaby (Uses Head): Inflicts sleep on the entire party.
- Ice Shave (Uses Legs): Heavy ice damage to the one row.
- Shock Bind (Uses Legs): Volt attack to the entire party, may stun and bind legs.
- Seven Sins (Uses Legs): Inflicts panic or paralysis or blind on a single target.
- Piercing Shell (Uses Arms): 2 stab attacks to random targets.
- Ghost Tentacle (Uses Legs)): Cooperation attack involving 2 Ruin Creepers. Reduces the party's evasion for 3 turns and may bind legs.
Drops[]
- Ice Queen's Vine (Worth: 60000 en)
- Unlocks the Bikini Armor (Clothes, 1 DEF, Fire/Ice/Volt Resist ↑↑↑)
- Ice Queen's Fur (Worth: 150000 en)
- Condition: Kill with Curse backlash damage.
- Unlocks the Curse Mail (Light Armor, 95 DEF, 111 MDF, +50 TP), the best armor for the War Magus.
Strategy[]
- See Scylla/Strategy for more information.
Trivia[]
- Scylla's battle in Etrian Odyssey III is notorious for being extremely easy to manipulate the game's RNG (random number generator). If you use a specific method on the first sea quest, when you enter the battle, the wildling's tiger will surely land a instant death on the boss, granting your character around 23,000 exp points, turning this into the fastest way to level low/mid level characters (pasaran is still more effective for high level ones).
- It's possible that Scylla is based on the monster with the same name in Greek mythology. In one story, Scylla is a beautiful water nymph who is loved by a fisherman-turned-god Glaucus. However, she does not return his affections and runs away. To gain her affections, Glaucus goes to the sorceress Circe and asks for a love potion. Circe, however, falls in love with Glaucus, and out of jealousy, pours a potion into the sea that Scylla frequented. The potion turned Scylla into a sea monster with tentacle-like legs and other appendages. Scylla, in this form, attacks ships with passing sailors.
- Glaukos, one of the optional NPCs who helps the player in the battle against Scylla, shares his name with the Greek spelling of Glaucus. It's also stated in the game text that he "seems to have a connection" to Scylla, and that he's fighting against her to "cut his ties with the past."