Happy New Year 2006


 * From: FINAL FANTASY XI
 * Dec. 31, 2005 07:00 [PST]

Happy New Year!
Season's greetings and a happy New Year! Incidentally, a certain impetuous summoner, looking for a way to accomplish the arduous, onerous task of defeating Maat, called on Fenrir to read his fortune for the New Year. Unfortunately for him, Fenrir refused to listen, and ran outside of town instead! Won't you lend the poor summoner a hand and help him catch Fenrir if you see him? Fenrir claims that he just wanted to teach the inconsiderate little summoner a lesson, but apparently the avatar does plan to forgive him.


 * This event is scheduled to commence on Dec. 31, 2005 at 07:00, and will last until Jan. 10, 2006 at 0:00 (PST).


 * Please note that the 2005 New Year's Special Event was followed up with a more comprehensive Event later on; take note that the same may occur here.

Walkthrough

 * In most outdoor areas, Fenrir (in NPC form) will appear with three Summoner NPCs trailing him.
 * Trading Fenrir certain items (or stacks of items) will grant a random En-type Enhancing Magic effect (Enthunder has already been reported), or a New Year's Gift that, when used, will grant a random Guild Synthesis Image Support effect.
 * Item trades to trigger effects of items are not yet fully known.
 * Methods for determining the En- effect or Synthesis Image Effect type are not known.

(More Data to Follow)

Background
2006 is the Year of the Dog in the Chinese Zodiac, hence the appearance of Fenrir, a wolf. (Note that 2005's New Years pre-event featured a Bird-type NPC called a Bird of Wonder, as 2005 was the Year of the Rooster.)

Rewards
New Year's Gift