Harpy enemy line

A Harpy as they appear in Dark Dawn.

The Harpy, Virago, and Harridan are enemies that are randomly battled throughout each game in the Golden Sun series. These monsters, resembling humanoid bird creatures without beaks, are palette-swapped variants of each other that have differing levels of power and defense and are fought in different locations in the games. This is the only enemy line in the series in which each variant is present in all three games.

In Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Harpy

For the Harpy Psynergy, see Emu Psynergy set.

A Harpy (ハーピィ) is a blue variant with yellow eyes, and it is level 10 in Golden Sun and level 12 in The Lost Age. In Golden Sun, it is battled throughout Mercury Lighthouse. In The Lost Age, it is battled throughout Air's Rock.

In the first game, none of the Harpy's statistics are as strong as the Siren it is often fought alongside, and it is also outperformed by the Lizard Man in durability. It is generally not something to watch out for there; in The Lost Age, on the other hand, it's easily the best enemy on the exterior portion of Air's Rock, and is outperformed by the Mummy in the interior portion of the dungeon only by a small margin.

A Harpy is especially likely to be affected by Sleep-inducing effects. Its statistics are as follows:

Name	HP	PP	Attack	Defense	Agility	Luck
Harpy	105	0	104	25	46	4
Elemental Resistances and Levels			Exp	Coins	Item Dropped	Drop Rate
127 (Lv 1)   72 (Lv 1)   48 (Lv 1)   7 (Lv 2)			38	53	Elixir	1/16

A Harpy uses the following battle commands with low intelligence:

Command	Chance to use	Elem. Stats used with *	Description
Attack	6/8 (75%)	--	Standard physical attack.
Shriek	2/8 (25%)	110 Power	Enemy ability that launches rings of green energy through a targeted Adept. Deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 30 base damage.

Virago

A Virago (ハルピュイア Harpyia) is a light-green variant with violet eyes, and it is level 17 in Golden Sun and level 24 in The Lost Age. In Golden Sun, it is an enemy that does not appear in random encounters at all, only appearing as parts of limited scripted encounters along with other enemies, namely one alongside two Man o' Wars as the third battle on the Tolbi-bound Ship and two alongside the Hobgoblin at the entrance to the first dungeon floor of the optional Crossbone Isle. In The Lost Age, it becomes a traditionally battled random enemy, appearing throughout Aqua Rock.

In the first game, since only three are ever fought, two of which are weak "assistants" to a bigger enemy, they should be no problem at all to deal with area-of-effect offensive Psynergy. The same could be said of its appearance in the second game, where from the start of Aqua Rock it is quite outperformed in all stats by the Roc, which itself is hugely outperformed in Agility by the Faery, and that is not to mention the other stronger monsters fought throughout the dungeon interior.

A Virago is especially likely to be affected by Sleep-inducing effects. Its statistics are as follows:

Name	HP	PP	Attack	Defense	Agility	Luck
Virago	185	0	199	47	89	4
Elemental Resistances and Levels			Exp	Coins	Item Dropped	Drop Rate
127 (Lv 1)   72 (Lv 1)   48 (Lv 1)   7 (Lv 2)			87	120	Elixir	1/16

A Virago uses the following battle commands with low intelligence:

Command	Chance to use	Elem. Stats used with *	Description
Attack	6/8 (75%)	--	Standard physical attack.
Banshee Howl	2/8 (25%)	110 Power Level 2	Enemy ability that launches rings of purple energy through a targeted Adept. Deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 70 base damage, and there is a chance that the hit Adept will be inflicted with the Stun status condition.

Harridan

A Harridan (サイレンハーピィ Siren Harpy) is a whitish-red variant with turquoise eyes, and it is level 22 in Golden Sun and level 27 in The Lost Age. In Golden Sun, it is randomly fought throughout Suhalla Desert, and one of them appears alongside two Stone Soldiers as the monsters supporting the Lizard King mini-boss that is fought in a scripted battle in front of the fifth dungeon floor of the optional Crossbone Isle. In The Lost Age, it is battled throughout Tundaria Tower, Ankohl Ruins, and the earlier, easier portion of the optional Treasure Isle.

In the first game, it is the fastest of the enemies fought throughout Suhalla Desert, and its attacking and power is about the same as the others, with less durability in comparison to them. In the second game, however, it is nothing special, with monsters like the Minotaurus providing higher threat levels with all of its statistics being higher.

A Harridan is especially likely to be affected by Sleep-inducing effects. Its statistics are as follows:

Name	HP	PP	Attack	Defense	Agility	Luck
Harridan	231	29	261	66	118	8
Elemental Resistances and Levels			Exp	Coins	Item Dropped	Drop Rate
175 (Lv 1)   100 (Lv 1)   72 (Lv 1)   25 (Lv 2)			150	164	Nut	1/32

A Harridan uses the following battle commands with moderate intelligence:

Command	Chance to use	Elem. Stats used with *	Description
Attack	2/8 (25%)	--	Standard physical attack.
Banshee Howl	2/8 (25%)	110 Power Level 2	Enemy ability that launches rings of purple energy through a targeted Adept. Deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 70 base damage, and there is a chance that the hit Adept will be inflicted with the Stun status condition.
Crazy Voice	2/8 (25%)	110 Power	Enemy ability that generates a batch of small glowing purple musical note symbols that floats into a targeted Adept and shatters. Deals a Jupiter-aligned attack to the target's PP meter with 10 base damage.
Wind Slash	2/8 (25%)	110 Power	Psynergy costing 9 PP that projects a moderately wide glowing purple swath of energy through each of multiple Adepts. Deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 50 base damage that is spread out across 3 enemies with high damage distribution.

Category:Psynergy-capable enemies in Golden Sun | Category:Psynergy-capable enemies in The Lost Age

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Harpy

A Harpy (ハーピィ) is a light blue level 11 variant with purple-tipped wings. It is randomly fought on Passaj Mountain Climb, the overworld region between Passaj and Kaocho, and on the surface of Ayuthay; in all locations, they are only fought until the Grave Eclipse occurs.

A Harpy is especially likely to be affected by Delusion-inflicting and Sleep-inducing effects. Its statistics are as follows:

Name	HP	PP	Attack	Defense	Agility	Luck
Harpy	113	0	110	28	52	4
Elemental Resistances and Levels			Exp	Coins	Item Dropped	Drop Rate
127 (Lv 1)   72 (Lv 1)   48 (Lv 1)   7 (Lv 2)			103	59	Elixir	1/8

A Harpy uses the following battle commands with low intelligence:

Command	Chance to use	Elem. Stats used with *	Description
Attack	6/8 (75%)	--	Standard physical attack.
Shriek	2/8 (25%)	110 Power	Enemy ability that deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 30 base damage.

Virago

A Virago (ハルピュイア Harpyia) is a violet level 28 variant with orange-tipped wings. It is randomly fought in Belinsk Ruins.

A Virago is especially likely to be affected by Delusion-inflicting and Sleep-inducing effects. Its statistics are as follows:

Name	HP	PP	Attack	Defense	Agility	Luck
Virago	284	0	293	105	159	5
Elemental Resistances and Levels			Exp	Coins	Item Dropped	Drop Rate
127 (Lv 1)   72 (Lv 1)   48 (Lv 1)   7 (Lv 2)			628	144	Elixir	1/8

A Virago uses the following battle commands with low intelligence:

Command	Chance to use	Elem. Stats used with *	Description
Attack	7/8 (87.5%)	--	Standard physical attack.
Stunning Screech	1/8 (12.5%)	110 Power Level 2	Enemy ability that deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 70 base damage, and there is a chance that the hit Adept will be inflicted with the Stun status condition.

Harridan

A Harridan (サイレンハーピィ Siren Harpy) is a blue level 34 variant with light blue-tipped wings. It is randomly fought in the Eastern Sea region outside the Grave Eclipse.

A Harridan is especially likely to be affected by Delusion-inflicting and Sleep-inducing effects. Its statistics are as follows:

Name	HP	PP	Attack	Defense	Agility	Luck
Harridan	346	20	354	144	199	5
Elemental Resistances and Levels			Exp	Coins	Item Dropped	Drop Rate
127 (Lv 1)   72 (Lv 1)   48 (Lv 1)   7 (Lv 2)			1175	161	Crystal Powder	1/16

A Harridan uses the following battle commands with low intelligence:

Command	Chance to use	Elem. Stats used with *	Description
Attack	5/8 (62.5%)	--	Standard physical attack.
Stunning Screech	1/8 (12.5%)	110 Power Level 2	Enemy ability that deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 70 base damage, and there is a chance that the hit Adept will be inflicted with the Stun status condition.
Mad Babble	1/8 (12.5%)	110 Power	Enemy ability that deals a Jupiter-aligned attack to the target's PP meter with 10 base damage.
Wind Slash	1/8 (12.5%)	110 Power	Psynergy costing 9 PP that deals a Jupiter-aligned attack with 50 base damage that is spread out across 3 enemies with high damage distribution.

Category:Psynergy-capable enemies in Dark Dawn

Cultural references

Harpy, Virago, and Harridan are all archaic insults against women in general in some form:

• Harpy, as a term, has connotations that are comparatively evident due to the familiarity of the mythological creature in Greek myth that has that name, wherein it is a winged death-spirit with a woman's head and a bird's body. The name comes from the ancient Greek word "harpázein", meaning "to snatch". It is often envisioned as a violent creature, and much popular culture, Golden Sun included, depicts it as making piercingly loud, shrill shrieks.
• Virago technically denotes a strong, brave, or warlike woman, which seems to be a positive aspect and was viewed as such initially. However, since this was viewed as a departure from the normative gender roles of society that were in place in England at the time, Virago became a pejorative to demean women who acted aggressively.
• Harridan is a woman regarded as scolding and vicious.