Editing Balthazar

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'''Balthazar''' is a [[Lupe]] [[wikipedia:Bounty hunter|bounty hunter]] who captures [[Faerie]]s with magical bottles, selling them for huge profits. Balthazar was abandoned by his family on the edge of the [[Haunted Woods]] as a child. He crawled through the twisted forest hungry and thirsty until he came upon a clearing where the purple lights of [[Dark Faerie]]s could be seen. He was unaware that Dark Faeries are not nice, so he asked them for help. So they laughed and started picking up stones and twigs and threw them at Balthazar as he ran away yelping and crying. He somehow managed to survive in the woods after living many years alone, and he never forgot what the Faeries did to him that day. That was what resulted in Balthazar in becoming a Faerie hunter.

==Plot Summary==
===NeoQuest II===
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It was believed Balthazar cast a spell with the [[Spider Grundo]] and [[Hubrid Nox]] (despite the fact they would never work together) which kept the sun up over the Haunted Woods. When [[Rohane]] and party come upon Balthazar at his grove, they find it bright and cheery unlike the rest of the Haunted Woods, and find Balthazar actually liking the presence of Faeries. After visiting [[The Brain Tree]], [[Rohane]] finds out [[The Four Faeries]] which Balthazar claims are his friends placed a curse on him, and needed to be defeated.

After killing the Faeries, Balthazar and his grove return to normal, and assumes [[Hubrid Nox]] is behind his and the Spider Grundo's curse. When Rohane asked why he didn't come with them, he said he needed to take a bath to wash the smell of Faerie off him.

==Battledome==
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|Balthazar
|[[Image:7.gif]]
|September 26, 2001
|320
|320
|30
|Stone Dome
|8=[[Random Event]] while visiting the [http://www.neopets.com/halloween/index_fair.phtml Deserted Fairground].
|9=Balthazar roams Neopia in search of faeries. Beware of this mystical faerie hunter though, once he finds prey they rarely escape!
|10=stone}}
Lacking any healing skills, he makes up for it with a large hit point count, making for a lengthy battle.

===Weapons===
*Attack Fork (Attack; 2 Water, 1 Darkness, 2 Physical Defence; 1 Fire)
*Bent Fork (Attack; None Defence; Shuts down all weapons with the word "Trident" or "Fork" in it except Bent Fork itself)
*Greater Orb of the Fire Faerie (Attack; 7 Fire Defence; 2 Fire, 2 Water)
*Wand of the Air Faerie (Attack; 3 Air, 1-3 Physical Defence; 3 Fire)
*Supersize Gargantuplex (Attack; 3 Physical Defence; 3 Physical)
*Balthazar Claw (Attack; 3 Earth, 3 Fire, 3 Light, 1-3 Physical)
*Balthzar Fangs (Attack; 5 Earth, 1-5 Physical)
*Balthazar Paw (Attack: 2 Fire, 2 Darkness, 1-2 Physical)

He also uses the abilities Aura, Frost, Inertia, and Psychic Attack.

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==Better Than You==
Balthazar has been a contestant on [[Better Than You]] twice:

{{BTY|September 10, 2009|Catching faeries all day is exhausting, so I like to unwind here on [[Terror Mountain]], helping out the local villagers. It's community service, you know, really rewarding stuff. You should try it!|Snowbeast Snackrifice|240|???}}


{{BTY|October 21, 2010|I'm the best Petpet-catcher in Neopia. You think a few Kookiths are going to give me trouble? Please. These Kookiths have no idea who they're up against. Stand back and observe a pro.|Kookia|330,000|[[Skritch]]}}

==Trivia==
*As of December 2006, Balthazar is featured in 12 different [[item]]s, one of which is called ''Circlet of the [[Air Faerie]]'', which is said to have been stolen by Balthazar long ago.
*Balthazar will sometimes decide to put 100 Faeries in the [[Money Tree]], called '''Balthazar's Mega Faerie Giveaway Bonanza'''. It usually happens daily at 7:00 AM NST.
*Balthazar is one of the few villains whose [[Gallery of Evil]] image is coloured.
*Balthazar (or ''Balthasar'' or ''Balthassar'')) is a [[Wikipedia:Balthazar|common name]] often attributed to one of the [[Wikipedia:Biblical Magi|Biblical Magi]]. It is also an alternate spelling of Babylonian king [[Wikipedia:Belshazzar|Belshazzar]].
*21 October 2010 was Balthazar Unappreciation Day.

==See also==
* '''Games:''' [[Extreme Herder]], [[NeoQuest II]]

==External links==
*'''Caption Competition:''' [http://www.neopets.com/games/caption/caption_archive.phtml?place=690 #690], [http://www.neopets.com/games/caption/caption_archive.phtml?place=797 #797]
*'''Editorial:''' [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=64 64], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=87 87], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=119 119], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=132 132], [http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=editorial&week=138 138], [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=218 218], [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=256 256], [http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=editorial&issue=268 268]
*'''Gallery of Evil:''' [http://www.neopets.com/evil/showcreature.phtml?villain=10 Balthazar]
*'''Game Links:''' [http://www.neopets.com/games/nq2/index.phtml NeoQuest II], [http://www.neopets.com/games/extremeherder.phtml Extreme Herder]
*'''[[In-Depth Battlepedia|IDB]]''': [http://idb.finalhit.org/?searchtype=oneplayer&challenger=Balthazar Balthazar]
*'''NeoDeck:''' [http://www.neopets.com/games/neodeck/colcardlookup.phtml?colcard_id=163 Balthazar the Bounty Hunter], [http://www.neopets.com/games/neodeck/colcardlookup.phtml?colcard_id=303 Extreme Herder]
*'''Neopedia:''' [http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=121 Balthazar the Bounty Hunter] [http://www.neopets.com/neopedia.phtml?neopedia_id=273 Balthazar discovers the Faeries' Ruin]
*'''Neopets TCG:''' [http://www.neopets.com/tcg/displayCard.phtml?edid=1&id=41 Balthazar]
*'''Official User Account:''' [http://neopets.com/randomfriend.phtml?user=balthazar balthazar]

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