Hunter-scholar (The Hawthorne Hut)
Hunter-scholar
“You have the aspect of an adventurer. Let me guess─you stalk an elite mark.
— In-game description
Hunter-scholar is an Elezen found in East Shroud.
Dialogue
What do yo do here?
I'm what some term a hunter-scholar. I not only pursue dangerous elite marks, but make a study of them. It's well worth the effort, my young friend. Every elite mark is worth a goodly number of Allied Seals. Still, their ferity cannot be underprized. Whatever your quarry, ask me your questions before you go in foolish pursuit. Elite marks are ranked according to danger, you see. The most dangerous are rank S marks, and those carry a double risk: hard to find and hard to survive.
Tell me about the rank B elite mark. (Stinging Sophie)
Stinging Sophie. Fattened on the honeybees of Fullflower Comb, this giant hornet inspires both disgust and complacency. Contrary to what its excess of embonpoint suggests, this grotesquerie is agile enough to evade its would-be slayers, and instead give them a deadly stitch with its needle-sharp stinger.
Tell me about the rank A elite mark. (Melt)
Melt. Unfathomable in its concoction and unspeakable in its coagulation, this voidsent has its origins in a sylph's jest. The codex speaks the truth, my young friend. Gaze overlong at its sucking tumescence and something inside you will die...and it's put me off flummery for good.
Tell me about the rank S elite mark. (Wulgaru)
Wulgaru, the false tree. Not a few poachers have vanished after being bound overnight to these vampiric man-eaters by unsuspecting Wood Wailers. Wulgaru is also drawn by noise and commotion, breaking its arboreal disguise to feast on the blood of its favorite prey: man. In other words, go quietly and fight stealthily, adventurer. If a tree comes alive in the forest, you're not likely to notice until too late.