Mystia Lorelei

ミスティア・ローレライ Mystia Lorelei
Mystia Lorelei in Phantasmagoria of Flower View Wonder of the Night Sparrow More Character Titles
Species	Night Sparrow
Abilities	Driving people insane by singing, bewildering people by singing
Age	Unknown, but implied to be young.
Occupation	Grilled lamprey vendor, tricking humans into getting lost.
Location	Some forest path near the Human Village
Music Themes
Show Music Themes もう歌しか聞こえない (Imperishable Night) もう歌しか聞こえない　～ Flower Mix (Phantasmagoria of Flower View)
Appearances
Official Games
Show Official Game appearances Imperishable Night (Stage 2 Midboss, Stage 2 Boss) Phantasmagoria of Flower View (Playable Character, Possible Opponent)
Print Works
Show Print Work appearances Strange and Bright Nature Deity (Cameo) Silent Sinner in Blue (Chapter 9 Cameo) Oriental Sacred Place (Minor Character) Wild and Horned Hermit (Cameo)

Mystia Lorelei (ミスティア・ローレライ Misutia rōrerai) is a little night sparrow with an egocentric personality - at least she sounds arrogant - that enjoys infusing confusion and terror into the hearts of humans using her ability: a song that creates confusion in those who hear her. Her song seems to attract nearby monsters as well. She roams a road near the Human Village that Keine tries to protect, in search of humans to frighten. She is indeed feared by the locals as people around her become blinded by darkness.

Concept

Name

• The "Lorelei" part of her name most likely is a reference to a German poem about the siren Lorelei, that also had a mesmerizing song.

Appearance

• (Touhou 8,9) Grey eyes, pink hair, pointed ears like an owl, light pink bird-like wings with purple highlights. Dresses in white and brown clothing. Hat and dress contain numerous bird-shaped ornaments.
• (Touhou 9, alternative outfit) Same as above, but her clothes are green, and her wings have red highlights.

Ability

Ability to driving people insane or bewilder them by singing

It is an ability to dull and weaken people's ability to make judgments through her singing voice. Despite that, since she pretty much only sings, her existence is an annoyance to others. The true worth of this ability is unclear, but as Yuuka Kazami said, it "isn't coming from inside you, but rather you're singing a song you're hearing from a faint voice," and as Shikieiki Yamaxanadu said, "if you continue singing without thinking, the souls around you will become more than strange." Therefore, Shikieiki concluded, "that may be connected to an unprecedented grave sin." By Shikieiki's judgement, it seems like Mystia herself does not understand the power of her own songs.

Ability to inflict blindness to humans

Something that Night Sparrow also possess in real legends, it is an ability to inflict night-blindness on the opponent. Unlike the aforementioned song whose details are unknown, in the game she exercises this ability to her heart's content. Thanks to this, in battle time, nothing but the player's surroundings can be seen, and in the last spell, it becomes somewhat difficult to know what kind of danmaku it is. Incidentally, unlike Rumia's darkness, since it is always merely an ability to make the darkness unable to be seen through, it can be of no use at all during daytime.

King of winged insects

Although it is unknown how she does it, it is an ability to rule and subdue moths and countless other winged insects, and sparrows and countless other birds. In the game, this can be seen in the form of spell cards and danmaku. At night, she mainly uses winged insects, and at day, mainly birds. She even used several hundred birds to restore the legendary sake.

Story

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Phantasmagoria of Flower View

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Mystia with her food cart in Oriental Sacred Place.

During the events of Phantasmagoria of Flower View, Mystia aimlessly wanders around singing, hoping to catch and eat humans attracted by the flowers. Instead, she attracts (or rather, annoys) the other protagonists and ends up fighting each in turn.

Relationships

Kyouko Kasodani

Together with Kyouko they have a band called "Choujuu Gigaku".

Additional Information

Trivia

Mystia, on the demo CD

• Mystia's self-confidence makes her one of the only enemies that attacks as a midboss but does not run away to recover when defeated the first time, while another character who also does not run away after defeat is Yuugi Hoshiguma. Instead, Mystia immediately launches into another attack, firmly believing that she will win.
• She was featured on the cover of the Imperishable Night "trial plus" disk.
• She hates Yakitori (grilled chicken on sticks) because she is a kind of bird. So she started a grilled lamprey stand instead of a Yakitori stand. (It was believed that lampreys had eight eyes and are able to cure night blindness.) She uses this as part of a con-act: she will travel with her stand at night, use her power to make unwary travelers night-blind, then sell them grilled lamprey, and slowly remove the effect as they eat it, claiming that the lamprey was what cured them.
• Mystia is also apparently a skillful cook, since even Aya concedes that her grilled lampreys taste good. In many fanworks, her stand is also very popular with people, especially heavy eaters like Suika Ibuki, Yukari Yakumo and Yuyuko Saigyouji.
• From Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, Mystia says that she cannot read the tiny letters on the newspaper. Aya takes this as Mystia admitting that she cannot read.
  • In Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 13, Mystia is shown to have the ability to read but somewhat struggles in it.

Fanon

• Even though the "ti" part of "Mystia" is supposed to be 「ティ」, many fans have found it more convenient to represent it by 「ち」 (pronounced "chi") instead. Thus, Mystia's name is commonly abbreviated 「みすちー」 or 「みすち」 ("misuchi" or perhaps "Misty") instead, which has become a nickname of sorts.
• Even though her songs are meant to scare and confuse humans, in many fan works she is depicted happily singing with a graceful voice, sometimes viewed with a microphone. It is also common to find her alongside the Prismriver Sisters in fan works, where the four makes up a band in which she serves as the main singer.
• In fan works, she is often seen with other lower level, childish characters such as Cirno, Rumia, and Wriggle Nightbug, making up Team 9.
• She gets "eaten" by Yuyuko Saigyouji of the Ghost team in Imperishable Night's story mode, making her a popular "joke character" as she's usually pictured as food. Even ZUN mocks her in his spell card comments.
• In fanworks while tending her stall, Mystia is usually depicted in a brown yukata with the sleeves rolled up, accompanied by a blue apron and kerchief. This version of Mystia (sometimes called "Okamisty") has not appeared in any official work.

Spell Cards

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Name	Translated	Comments	Games	Stage	Other Works	Related Spell Cards
Total: 12
声符「梟の夜鳴声」	Vocal Sign "Hooting in the Night"		IN	St. 2: E/N
声符「木菟咆哮」	Vocal Sign "Howl of the Horned Owl"		IN	St. 2: H/L
蛾符「天蛾の蠱道」	Moth Sign "Sphingid's Wingbeats"		IN	St. 2: E/N
毒符「毒蛾の鱗粉」	Toxin Sign "Poisonous Moth's Scales"		IN	St. 2: H
猛毒「毒蛾の暗闇演舞」	Deadly Toxin "Poisonous Moth's Dance in the Dark"		IN	St. 2: L
鷹符「イルスタードダイブ」	Hawk Sign "Ill-Starred Dive"		IN	St. 2: E/N/H/L
夜盲「夜雀の歌」	Night-Blindness "Song of the Night Sparrow"		IN	St. 2: E/N/H/L	GoM
夜雀「真夜中のコーラスマスター」	Night Sparrow "Midnight Chorus Master"		IN	St. 2: N/H/L
「ブラインドナイトバード」	"Blind Nightbird"		IN	LW
鳥符「ヒューマンケージ」	Bird Sign "Human Cage"		PoFV	Use
鳥符「ヒューマンケージダブル」	Bird Sign "Human Cage Double"		PoFV	Use
鳥符「ミステリアスソング」	Bird Sign "Mysterious Song"		PoFV	Use

Official Profiles

Imperishable Night - Demo おまけ.txt

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○ミスティア・ローレライ 　　二面ボス。夜雀。 　　歌で人を狂わす程度の能力を持つ。 　　人間は、鳴き声しか聞いたことが無く、その正体は不明。 　　鳴き声から雀と呼んでいるが、本当に雀かどうかはよく分からない。 　　人間は姿が判らない事から彼女を恐れるが、姿を見たらどう思うか不明。 　　人間を鳥目（暗いところでは視力が極端に落ちる病）にして、自分の姿を隠す事もある。

Mystia Lorelei Stage 2 boss. A Night Sparrow. She possesses ability to drive people insane by singing Seeing as humans have only heard her cry, her true form is unknown. From her cry she's called a sparrow, but it's hard to say if she is actually a sparrow. As humans don't know her form, they fear her, and it's unclear what they would think if they saw her. She's known to give humans night-blindness (an illness where one's eyesight degenerates a lot in dark places) to hide her form.

Imperishable Night - キャラ設定.txt

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{{Profile Quote | | image = | text = ○２面ボス　夜雀の怪

　　ミスティア・ローレライ

　　Mystia Lorelei

　　種族：夜雀

　　能力：歌で人を狂わす程度の能力

　　二面ボス。

　　人を鳥目にする事も出来る。

　　人間は彼女を夜雀と呼ぶが、あまり姿かたちを見る事は無い。何故なら夜しか出ない上に、人間は何も見えなくなるからである。その姿を見てしまえば、雀とは呼ばなかったかもしれない。

　　彼女の歌声は人間の判断を鈍らせ、暗闇に誘い込まれた人間はそのまま消えてしまう。夜、道に迷う原因の一つでもある。

　　また、人間を鳥目（暗いところでは視力が極端に落ちる病）にして、自分の姿を隠す事もある。 | translation = Stage 2 Boss, Night Sparrow

Mystia Lorelei

Species: Night Sparrow
Abilities: Driving people insane by singing

Stage 2 Boss.

In addition to her song of confusion, she can make people night-blind.

Humans call her the Night Sparrow, but few have ever seen her appearance. This is because she only plays during nighttime, and humans around her become blinded by darkness anyway. Had they seen what she actually looks like, they probably wouldn't have called her a sparrow.

Her song can cloud a person's judgment;[[ humans who walk into the night in that condition inevitably disappear without a trace. This confusion ability is the main reason people lose their way at night so easily.

She can also make people night-blind in order to hide better within the darkness. }}

Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Demo Manual

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○夜雀の怪　ミスティア・ローレライ 　　夜道で人をさらう鳥の妖怪。 　　歌で人を惑わす程度の能力を持つ。 　　昼間は大して驚異ではないが、彼女の歌が途絶えることはない。 　　花見のバカ騒ぎの中で、最もハードで騒がしい歌声が聞こえたら、彼女の仕業である。

Night Sparrow, Mystia Lorelei A youkai bird that abducts people off night paths. She possess ability to bewilder people by singing Although nothing special during the day, her song never ceases. While fooling around viewing flowers, she has the noisiest singing voice.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt

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○夜雀の怪 　　ミスティア・ローレライ 　　Mystia Lorelei 　　種族：夜雀 　　能力：歌で人を狂わす程度の能力 　　　鳥頭で歌ってばっかりいる、傍迷惑な妖怪。 　　　彼女の歌を聴くと、人間は狂う事もある。 　　　お祭り騒ぎで騒々しい事が大好きで、今回の花の異変で包まれた幻想郷は、彼女にとっては格好の遊び場だった。

Wonder of the Night Sparrow Mystia Lorelei Species: Night Sparrow Abilities: Driving people insane by singing A troublesome spirit who doesn't do much else than sing. People go mad if they hear her song. She loves festivals and events with lots of noise and action, so she got caught up in the "flower incident" this time. She thinks Gensokyo is a good playground for her.

Official Sources

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• 2004/05/14 Imperishable Night Demo - Demo おまけ.txt (pre-official profile)
• 2004/08/15 Imperishable Night - Stage 2 dialogue; キャラ設定.txt (official profile)
• 2005/06/12 Phantasmagoria of Flower View Demo - Mystia's Scenario; Mystia's Vs. Mode Script; Demo Manual
• 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Mystia
• 2005/08/14 Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Mystia's Scenario; Mystia's Vs. Mode Script; キャラ設定.txt
• 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Perfect Memento and Strict Sense: Mystia
• 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Mystia Lorelei's Spell Card
• 2009/08/26 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 4 (cameo)
• 2011/02/26 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 13