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Telethia (Japanese: テレシア, Tereshia; English dub: /tᵻˈlɛθiə/), referred to as Dinobeasts by the Nopon, are an ancient race that live on Bionis in Xenoblade Chronicles. Their purpose is the destruction of all lifeforms existing on Bionis, by draining their Ether to serve as food for the Bionis.

Colony 6

XCplot019 — The first sighting of a Telethia

A Telethia is first seen after Dunban and Dickson join the party for the battle against Metal Face upon exiting the Ether Mine. When all hope seems lost, the Telethia sweeps from the skies and fires a beam of ether lightning at Metal Face. The Faced Mechon retreat, and the Telethia lands on a cliff nearby to communicate with a young man with silver hair.

Makna Forest

The second appearance of a Telethia is when the Leone Telethia is seen attacking the party of a young girl. All of her helpers are killed by the Telethia, but she manages to repel the beast before passing out.

Later on, Shulk is attacked by three Telethia when trying to collect pure Ether Crystals to revive the girl. Alvis, who is there with him, remarks that the Telethia were drawn by the wavelength of the Monado. Shulk tries to attack them, but it is revealed that all Telethia have the ability to read a person's mind, rendering all attacks useless, even with Shulk's foresight. However, Alvis manages to use the Monado against them, and teaches Shulk to use Monado Purge. After defeating the foes, Alvis warns Shulk that the Telethia they fought were merely the spawn of the primary Telethia.

Between the recovery of Melia and the introduction of Riki to the party, it is said that a Telethia consumes large amounts of ether, killing all life in the process. Also, they usually rest near large amounts of ether crystals. Eventually, the party manages to destroy the Leone Telethia, by an overexposure of ether cast by Melia.

Alcamoth

The Emperor of the High Entia tells Shulk that the revival of the Telethia into the world heralded the reawakening of the Bionis, and the destruction of their civilization.

Tyrea uses a Telethia to attack Melia inside the High Entia Tomb. When this fails, she orders it to destroy as many of the party as it can with its death. Alvis causes the Telethia to die harmlessly, leaving the party unscathed, although Tyrea disappears.

A hidden laboratory deep within the High Entia Tomb is shown to have been doing research into the Telethia.

Agniratha

Upon arrival of the party to Agniratha, the party recognizes fossilized Telethia lying around the capital's ground. Later, Meyneth reveals that Zanza used Telethia in his attack on the Machina.

The Reawakening of the Bionis

Dickson with slaney telethia in background — Dickson and the Sureny Telethia

After Zanza is reawakened and reaches Prison Island, he starts a ceremony of destruction and recreation. He exposes all the High Entia living in Alcamoth to a torrent of ether. Telethia are revealed to be the true form of the High Entia race. They were cells cast away by Zanza eons ago to become beasts worthy of the destruction of all life. Eventually Zanza gave them free will and sentience, which made them evolve into another race — the High Entia. However, all pure-blooded High Entia maintained the Telethia gene, which would devolve them into Telethia if they were exposed to high frequency ether. This is shown when Lorithia turns Kallian, Melia's older brother, into a Telethia. Melia is half-Homs because of her Homs mother the Second Consort, and does not transform. Many ordinary High Entia are also not pure-blooded and do not transform, but are forced to flee Alcamoth and scatter to refuges across Bionis.

After this reveal, the Telethia wander all around Bionis. The most common locations for them to appear are Alcamoth and Bionis' Interior.

The Telethia seem to obey the orders of all of Zanza's disciples, as they are used by Dickson in the attack on Colony 6 and by Alvis when he 'betrays' Shulk in the open.

It is unknown if a transformed Telethia can revert into a High Entia. However, some of the Telethia seem to retain their memories from their previous form. Kallian especially shows this, as he is able to retain his free will at first, going so far as to attack the disciples. Some of the quests to reclaim Alcamoth also tell of Telethia who rescued their fleeing kin when Alcamoth fell.

Telethia Types

With the exception of the Sani Telethia and Disciple Lorithia, all kinds of Telethia come in one of four basic shapes:

Phoenix-type Telethia are bipedal, not much larger than the size of untransformed High Entia, and resemble praying mantises with tails and head antennae.
Licorne-type Telethia are vaguely asterisk-shaped with six limbs and a truncated abdomen, and levitate through the air.
Drakos-type Telethia are enormous in size, are vaguely shark-shaped, and swim through the air as a shark swims through water. They use soul read more often than the other types
Gigas-type Telethia appear as large, monstrous Cerberus-like beasts with three heads and two tails.

All Telethia can use the Soul Read art, except Disciple Lorithia.

List of Telethia Enemies

Normal Minor Enemies

Quest-Exclusive Enemies

Story-Exclusive Enemies

Unique Monsters

Bosses

Quest-Exclusive Boss

Mysterious Telethia

Trivia

According to Lorithia, the word Telethia means "that which eliminates impure life".
- Telethia may be derived from Theresia (Θηρεσία), a Greek name meaning "huntress" or "harvestress." The term has been transliterated into Japanese as テレシア (Tereshia) or テレジア (Terejia), the former serving as the Japanese word for Telethia.
The Telethia's role in the story bears a strong resemblance to the role of the Seraph Angels in Xenogears. In that story, human life on the planet is allowed to grow for the purpose of being food for the recovery and growth of Deus. Near the end of the story, Deus unleashes its Seraph Angels to harvest human life to provide it with food to grow. On a relatively smaller scale, the role of the Telethia also resembles the role of the Wels in Xenogears, which are humans transformed into insatiable killing machines that grow and feed on the life of other humans to help facilitate their later harvesting by the Seraph Angels for Deus. The revelation that Wels are actually transformed humans is much like the revelation that Telethia are actually transformed High Entia, with the difference that humans were biologically conditioned by Deus to transform into Wels at the proper time, whereas Telethia are the High Entia's original form that they are transforming back into.

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 == Trivia ==
 * According to [[Lorithia]], the word ''Telethia'' means "that which eliminates impure life".
-** ''Telethia'' may be derived from ''theresia'' ({{lang|grc|Θηρεσία}}), a Greek name meaning "huntress" or "harvestress." The term has been transliterated into Japanese as {{lang|ja|テレシア}} (''Tereshia'') or {{lang|ja|テレジア}} (''Terejia''), the former serving as the Japanese word for ''Telethia''.
+** ''Telethia'' may be derived from ''Theresia'' ({{lang|grc|Θηρεσία}}), a Greek name meaning "huntress" or "harvestress." The term has been transliterated into Japanese as {{lang|ja|テレシア}} (''Tereshia'') or {{lang|ja|テレジア}} (''Terejia''), the former serving as the Japanese word for ''Telethia''.
 * The Telethia's role in the story bears a strong resemblance to the role of the [[w:c:xenosaga:Seraph Angels|Seraph Angels]] in ''[[w:c:xenosaga:Xenogears|Xenogears]]''.  In that story, human life on the planet is allowed to grow for the purpose of being food for the recovery and growth of [[w:c:xenosaga:Deus|Deus]].  Near the end of the story, Deus unleashes its Seraph Angels to harvest human life to provide it with food to grow.  On a relatively smaller scale, the role of the Telethia also resembles the role of the Wels in ''Xenogears'', which are humans transformed into insatiable killing machines that grow and feed on the life of other humans to help facilitate their later harvesting by the Seraph Angels for Deus.  The revelation that Wels are actually transformed humans is much like the revelation that Telethia are actually transformed High Entia, with the difference that humans were biologically conditioned by Deus to transform into Wels at the proper time, whereas Telethia are the High Entia's original form that they are transforming back ''into''.