Mysidia

Once Kain betrays you, then go back to Giott. He suggests the Big Whale of Mysidia. You can’t get back to the light world though, until Cid comes to add a drill to the ship to drill through the sealed up hole.

Once this happens, take your ship to the northeast to exit to the light world. Now travel east to Mysidia.

The elder rushes up to you when you enter. They pray for the Big Whale and it emerges. Take your party into the Big Whale and then touch the crystal in the center to travel to the moon.

You’ll want to find the crystally blue-ish thing, and then land northwest of it (see screenshot). Go down the white bridge and then into the cave.

Lunar Path

Take the east path for some easy monsters (use Titan) and an Elixir for a reward. Northeast for a Cure2, Heal, and the exit.

Travel east and eventually southeast all the way until you can see a cave. Just go southwest here to exit out and then northwest on the overworld to get to the Lunar Lair.

Lunar Lair

This is where the Lunarian’s are. Well, you can go west and east to get your HP / MP up and then go north to meet FuSoYa. Fu So Ya is a Lunarian and one of the coolest FF characters of all time IMO. He’ll join you and he puts Tellah to shame with his spells (although he suffers from the same problem, too low of a max MP). The first order of business should be to put FuSoYa in the back row.

Cave Bahamut

Just warning you, this place is extremely hard right now even with FuSoYa and there are minibosses (Behemoth’s) everywhere.

Go south for a Samurai Gauntlet and northeast for a Samurai Shield. Southeast to exit.

West when you get to a new area and northwest for a Samurai Armor. Go east now for a Samurai Helmet. Rest up and north for a Behemoth fight. The good news? You can leave after and this fight will be gone if you defeat it. However Behemoth’s are very tough especially now. They take 1 damage to most spells not named White or Nuke. They counterattack physical attacks with powerful attacks of their own, and have a Storm spell which is basically like Weak on everyone. Ugg. You’re going to expend lots of your magic healing, casting life and Nuke / White. You may wish to cast Exit after this battle (and the other behemoth battles) so that you can rest for free in the Big Whale before continuing on. Take the northeast to exit here.

Now in this new area, go south for another Behemoth. Use Meteo and all your other good spells, Exit out and rest, and go back in. Yet one more Behemoth before you reach Bahamut. You’ll definitely want to rest and be full strength before you get here.

Bahamut

is a lot easier than you’d think, especially with two characters that use Wall (hence the reason you’re doing this now, because you won’t get another shot with the same group). Start off by attacking it with Cecil and Edge, using Virus (because it’s fast) with Rydia, and then have the other two cast wall. They should be able to wall four characters and then when the timer runs out, Bahamut will MegaNuke one character and the other four wall’s will push it back to Bahamut, taking off 9999 on him. Now just unload on him, you should be able to kill him before he gets another off (if not just use Wall again) but with White and Nuke you should be able to do him in fast. You get the most powerful summon of all Bahamut.

Giant of Babil

When you hit the crystal and go back to the light world with FuSoYa, something bad happens. The Giant of Babil comes out of the Tower of Babil. It destroys everything. But all your old friends that you thought were dead come out to help fight it. Cid rushes your party into the giant so you can destroy the Core’s Control System.

This is one of my favorite places in any FF, especially to level up. The monsters around here are always a challenge and give tons of EXP, and it’s an ideal place to build up with some tough bosses ahead. Go north when you enter for the exit to the Neck and then Chest of the Giant of Babil. Get the Shuriken Cure2, Ether1, and Cabin along your way southeast and then back north. Before you head to the Stomach in the center, go to the northeast for some Samurai Arrows.

North right away for Life and then east for another life. Take the middle path north and then west into the Passage area. The treasure you’ll see going east is an Elixir but you have to fight a Last Arm for it. There is a save point ahead and here is where you build up levels, preferably to at least when Rydia learns all the level 3 elemental spells (Lit3 Ice3 Fire3). You’ll get plenty of Cabins dropped around here so use one and Save, and then go north to the Lungs.

You have to fight the Four Fiend’s of Elementals all at once. You get healed at the start but that’s it. They don’t go in the order you would think. First it is Milon Z, then Rubicant, then Kainazzo, then Valvalis. The reason you got those spells is to have two characters using Fire 3 on Milon, Ice 3 on Rubicant, and Lit 3 on Kainazzo and Valvalis. Expect to see lots of 9999 damage. Milon will curse you and generally isn’t much more than a nuisance, as you would expect from the weakest element. Rubicant is up next and although he now has Fire3 and uses Glare on everyone, it doesn’t do as well. Your HP is much higher and can Cure the mediocre damage he puts up. A couple of Ice 3’s should oust him. After this, just start throwing Lit 3’s out like crazy since the rest of the enemies are weak to it. Kainazzo is a pushover too despite his dangerous Big Wave and decent attacks. Valvalis though has a decent chance to kill you when she uses Storm on your entire party. Cure immediately of course, and Heal with Ray although you can probably ignore that.

Go back and use a Cabin of course, then continue north. This battle is tricky too but in a more strategic way. There is the CPU, Attacker and Defender. As FuSoYa says you need to kill the Defender first. After this you’re just going to have to put up with the Attacker because if you kill both the Attack and Defender the CPU will just murder your party. The Attacker doesn’t do much but it allows the CPU to be in the back row the entire time making this battle last hours (okay not really but close). You’re going to need to just attack, and you can’t berserk your characters since they’ll hit the defender then. Fast can help though. If you really want, when you feel you’re getting close, use Bahamut or Levia, but it’s a risk incase the CPU doesn’t die.

After the battle Golbez comes over because he’s upset the Giant stopped working. FuSoYa immediately recognizes him and eliminates Zemus’ control over Golbez. Golbez is the son of KluYa but Cecil is Klu Ya’s son also, so that means they are brothers. Golbez leaves to confront Zemus and FuSoYa just leaves without saying anything. However Kain comes by to get you out of the Giant of Babil.

Moon

After this, Cecil decides to go to the moon but without Rydia and Rosa. They aren’t pleased and eventually come on with anyway. Return back to earth though.

If you go to the Baron Castle and then the east-side basement, you’ll find the King of Baron. The King is Odin and challenges you to a battle. You only have a set time to defeat him (like 60 seconds or so) and you’ll know it’s getting close when he raises his sword. Lit3 is the best to use for 9999 and Virus is good since it’s fast, but other than that just attack him. You’ll likely be able to beat him and gain the Odin Summon to kill the enemies in one hit.

Lunar Subterranean

Back at the moon, land where you normally do and walk to the blue crystally Lunar area where you saw FuSoYa. In the back you can teleport to where Zemus is.

Take the left path when you get done teleporting. You will walk through the wall and into a new area. North for some monsters (Warlocks and Kary’s) and you’ll get a Life Rod for your victory. Take the southwest path to exit and then go north to see a sword. Rest up before going to it, it’s a special boss. There are several of these that are guarding the top weapons / armor in the game. This particular battle is against Pale Dim for the Murasame. The Pale Dim looks like the Dark Elf. It likes to counterattack with powerful physical attacks and use Slow on you as well. If you keep yourself cured, keep jumping and casting Virus, you should be able to put it down. Use Baham towards the end to finish it off and acquire the Murasame.

Exit out and return to the Lunar Subterranean. Go to the northeast this time when you enter and you’ll come to a Monster Chest with two RedGiants that yield a Ninja Suit. It’s great for Edge, so use Baham to make quick work of the enemies, exit out, cure up, head back in.

Take the south path at the entrance and go through. Go southeast through the wall then north, going west when you can for a Flame Whip then north more until you can go west at the very north. West more for a Dragoon Shield and the exit.

Go to the very south where you can walk through the wall. Go east for a Dragoon Helmet, Dragoon Armor and Dragoon Gauntlet. Go back and take that exit before now.

In the new area, go east for some Artemis Arrows. Go south a little then west for an Elixir and east for some stairs going further south. Take the southeast exit.

Now go northeast for a Cure3. West for another Cure3 and the exit. The chest by you is a Stardust Rod guarded by an angry Behemoth. A tough fight and not really a worthy prize. Take the south exit.

As you go south in this area you’ll see a sword to your right. Can’t get it now so go south, get the west treasure. Unfortunately it’s a Red Dragon and a Blue Dragon. They are tough. Ice3 is useful on the Red Dragon and Bahamut works well on both. It’s going to be a hard battle so dedicate Rosa to healing. Your reward is a Crystal Shield. Take the exit now.

North and east for a Protect Ring. Southeast through the wall to continue and south. Another Behemoth here and a Crystal Armor for victory. Exit to the northeast now. East for two R. Dragon’s again and they yield a Crystal Gauntlet. West a bit for another exit now.

Get the White Shirt and go north. West for a battle with a D. Fossil and a Warlock that yields a Crystal Helmet – not a hard battle at all. East of this for a building with a Cabin then south to continue.

Right for a Ninja Shuriken and left for some Artemis Arrows. Take the left bridge for a Cabin and then west to the west on the thin cliff where it looks to be a dead end – you’ll walk through. Take this to the exit.

Grab the Life by you then go east for a grey teleport. You’ll be on that ominous thin west bridge going north, watch out because the battles are tough as hell around here. Go north for the exit and then north again this time getting the Protect Ring (Behemoth battle though) and then north more for the exit.

Use a Cabin and save and then go south. Thankfully you saved because one of the hardest fights in the game is up ahead. The Wyvern is protecting the best weapon in the game, the Crystal Sword. It starts the battle with Mega Nuke but it’s not as powerful as Bahamut’s version. Hopefully you are leveled enough to survive it. If not, obviously you are to get your HP up for each character so that they survive this. Wyvern then works on using just Nuke (unless you use like Bahamut on it, then it’ll use Mega Nuke on you again). Pretty early in the battle the Wyvern will throw up a wall and cast Nuke on himself. He has a ton of HP and uses Remedy sometimes to recover. Because of this it may be worth risking using Baham on him when you think he’s about to die. Just stick with it and if you’re leveled enough you should be okay once he uses his Mega Nuke. About this Crystal Sword. It’s holy based and has +99 ATP than the next best sword (Defense Sword). Cecil will become a powerhouse.

Return to the save point and then the back to the invisible bridge. Go east and south to get the exit. You’ll be in a small room now, taking the left path for some monsters (Warlock and 3 Kary’s) for a Heroine Shirt. Go right now and take the first building entrance in the next area. You’ll see another Save Point.

East of this is a room with the White Lance. This is Kain’s best weapon but it’s guarded by Plague. This guy casts Count on you and then you have 10 seconds to kill him before you all pass away. He’ll also cast Fast on you to expediate the process. No wasted motion – just attack with Cecil and Edge (maybe use a dart), jump with Kain, Bahamut with Rydia and Arrows or White with Rosa (if you have it). If you can get some decent damage out of your weak spots (rosa / rydia) you should be able to get this done. It’s still difficult though.

Go back and rest and save. There is another boss two doors over. You have to fight two D. Lunars to get two Ribbons. A Ribbon is the best head armor for Rosa / Rydia. Anyway, Cecil should be taking off 9999 with the Crystal Sword and Kain should be doing good damage with his jumps too. These guys are really tough actually though because they cast Virus on you which takes off a ton. They also put walls on themselves so you can’t block it. Use Bahamut and attack one of the enemies with your melee fighters so you can single them out faster. Grab your Ribbons and save again.

Deep Lunar Subterranean

After you save again, go to the east, north, west, then south when you can and enter. You will be in the deepest part of the Lunarian Subterranean. You’ll fight some Masks and Behemoth’s around here. It’s best to just run (yes, you can run from these behemoth’s).

Start off going east, south a little, then west for a Ninja Shuriken. Go south now and east (rest up of course) and another boss battle. Ogopogo isn’t fun as he uses a double Big Wave. He then uses just one Wave or attacks you afterwards. The usual should work and Rydia really shouldn’t cast spells on Ogopogo unless you want a magical counterattack. Rydia may be better served to cast Asura and Rosa should heal too (or use White). A Masamune is the reward.

Take the stairs going down to continue. Go south and grab the nearby Elixir and then southwest for the Whistle. Southeast to continue.

Get the eastern Ninja Shuriken and then the other Ninja Shuriken to the west. Southeast to continue to the next area. Just follow the path around here and you’ll be at the last place eventually.

Zeromus / Zemus

As you enter you’ll see a thin bridge. Only go up here if you’re ready for the end of the game. It’s a good idea to be in the mid-50’s for levels and have Rydia with about 2000 HP so she can survive the powerful Big Bang attack coming up.

Golbez and FuSoYa will be fighting Zemus. They defeat him pretty easily but he turns into Zeromus and they cannot defeat him as Golbez is filled with too much evil to use the Crystal. He hands it over to Cecil as he and the party get cured by their friends that are no longer in battle (like Tellah, Edward, Golbez, etc).

When the battle starts, have Cecil use the Crystal to get Zeromus to change forms. Now the real battle begins. Kain should be Jumping the entire time, Cecil attacking, Edge darting the best swords / Ninja Shuriken, Rosa casting White / Cure4 / Life2, and Rydia using Baham. Zeromus will likely use Virus then Big Bang shortly after the battle starts, and Big Bang can take off 2000 or more on each member. It can be devastating so make sure to Cure4 or Asura to relieve yourself. White should be taking off the most so whenever Rosa gets a chance, use it. Rydia should be using Bahamut because it’s the most efficient in terms of speed / damage. Other attacks Zeromus uses includes Black Hole for negating positive status affects for your party, a weak version of Meteo, and a pretty weak attack in Nuke. Big Bang is really the only threat for taking off more than 1500 or even 1000. That said if you’re not leveled up enough, Rydia and Rosa may die from it which is basically death, and Zeromus uses the spell more than once in the battle.

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Baron

After taking the Serpent Road you should Cure yourself and go to the Inn. Up to the bar area and you’ll see Yang consorting with some Baron Guards.

Unfortunately Yang sends the guards after you. They aren’t that hard other than when they cast Size. Just have Tellah cast Size on whoever is small. Then you have to fight Yang. He’s pretty tough but a twin combo and Virus and regular attacks should do him in.

Yang regains his senses and joins you. They go to the Inn to talk and Yang seems to have the Baron Key. You can open a lot of the locked doors around town now. First, go to the weapons and armor store and get the Thunder Claw behind the table for Yang (look to the southeast for a passage). Then, buy another Thunder Claw and two Thunder Rods (lots of Lit-weak enemies ahead). Hopefully you bought Cecil a bunch of Paladin stuff in Mysidia (you can still go back if you didn’t) but you should also buy Karate Gear if you can afford it especially for Yang.

Baron Castle Sewer

In the west part of Baron (north of the serpent road) you can use the Baron Key to enter the castle Sewers. Go east to get 2000 GP and then down the stairs.

Go south as you enter for Cure2, Ether1 and Life. Go ahead to the northeast to the next room.

The next area consists of walking through the walls. Go to the south for 500 GP and Life. Back north so that you can go east and get the Life, and then through the east wall and north to exit.

You’re out of the water area. Go northeast and west through the wall at the end for Ether1. Exit to the north and west for a save room. Tent and Save but get the Ancient Sword through the northeast wall before leaving.

Baron Castle

You are at Baron once you go east past the save room and north to exit. You’ll be in the moat area, and travel west and south to go through the opening. Cecil’s room is useful for resting if you don’t have a tent for the previous camp.

As you go east and head for the King’s throne, Baigan comes by. He joins you, but you already have 5 members…Palom and Porom know something is up. Baigan turns into a monster and battle begins. Baigan has two hands that do damage and paralyze you temporarily. Start off right away casting Virus on Baigan’s body and then he’ll put up a wall. Now you can’t cast magic on him for a few turns until his wall disappears (he usually puts it right back up though). If you still want to cast magic like Virus on him, you can Wall one of your members and cast the attack magic on your member and it’ll bounce off and hit Baigan (although not always his body of course). His hands regenerate if you kill them. This really is a tough early fight especially if you aren’t leveled or have good equipment.

After this, return to Cecil’s room to rest up. Now go to the king’s throne room. Kainazzo is here impersonating the king. The real baron king is gone it seems. Kainazzo is the fiend of water but doesn’t provide much resistance. You have two Black Mages so Lit 3 and Lit 2 should be used constantly. The Thunder Claws should do good damage from Yang, and this battle should really go very easily. Kainazzo will summon a wave but the Lit will dissolve it. The waves hurt if he gets them off. But Lit 3 can take off nearly 4000 damage!

Cid barges in after the battle. The whole party leaves but in the previous room the walls begin to come at you and the doors lock. There is no way out, but the twins cast Stone on both sides to stop the wall. What a rash thing to do.

Cid shows the party the Enterprise and they escape. Kain and Golbez meanwhile plot to make Cecil get the Earth crystal of Toroia for them and exchange it for Rosa. Kain meets you after this to tell Cecil formally.

Toroia

You finally have an airship to travel the world freely. Toroia and the Earth Crystal are to the northwest in the really foresty region. You’re going to need to land in one precise spot near the town of Toroia.

Not much to do in the actual town of Toroia although it may be wise to buy non-metallic armor / weapons (like a bow and leather defense) so that your characters aren’t screwed in the following cave. Go to the castle now and you’ll know more.

If you talk to the clerics you’ll hear the Dark Elf took the Earth Crystal from Toroia and it’s in the Magnes Cave east of here. Dark Elf is weak vs. metal so it sealed metallic weapons (like swords) and characters that use them are paralyzed hence the bow / leather gear comment in the last paragraph. For now though, go west in the castle to a room where you’ll find Edward! He survived but is injured. Since he can’t join, he gives you the TwinHarp.

When you are ready, leave Toroia and go north to a chocobo forest (very north). There are Black Chocobo’s here that can fly and land in the forest. Take one if you want to go to the Magnes Cave east of here. However note that it’s very difficult here and this is a great spot to level up with the tough monsters and Tellah’s high level black magic to wipe enemies out quickly.

Cave Magnes

Well you need at least one character to not have a metallic item equipped otherwise you’ll be wiped out before the battle even starts. I highly advise you just run from the monsters in this cave and build up in another area.

Go east for a Cure2 as you enter. Then, southeast and eventually southwest for Heal. Enter the building near. West for a Life and then northeast for two treasures (500 GP and Ether1). Exit and northwest to leave.

The nearby building has a place to Tent / Save. South of here for Cure3 / Cure2 / Life. Further west and north to exit.

Go northeast a bit for Charm Claw then west to exit. North but don’t enter, getting the Ether2 on the west side first.

Next you’ll be in the crystal room. Go up to the Dark Elf but he’s going to destroy you. Just take it. Edward senses you’re in trouble and plays his harp – your TwinHarp plays the tune and the Dark Elf can’t handle the music. You can now use your weapons (oh, your party is restored to full hp / mp too). Physical attacks work best as he takes 1 damage from spells like Virus. When he transforms just keep the attacks up and he’ll be gone, and the Earth Crystal is yours.

Leave the throne room and cast Exit to leave.

Toroia

As you get back to Toroia and give the Earth Crystal to the maidens, Kain contacts you. Rest and go to your ship – you’ll be transported to the tower where Rosa is immediately.

Tower of Zot

Pretty intimidating place. Hopefully you’ve built up well enough to survive here. As you enter, go northwest for a Fire Armor, and northeast to continue.

Go south, west, and take the first path north for a Flamedog Monster and the Fire Sword for your victory. Northwest to exit. The next room, just go east all the way, north, and west to exit.

As you go east in this next floor, take the first path north and straight north for the Earth Hammer. The left path has a Poison Claw and Fire Shield and the east has a Wizard Outfit. To the far east (or southeast) and you can continue on.

Definitely go in the first building so you can Tent and Save. You may want to build up levels here, either way head left for a boss fight.

You’ll meet the Minions of Valvalis the Air Fiend. They are Mindy Cindy and Sandy of the Tower of Zot. Don’t be fooled, this is probably your toughest battle yet. Out of all of the Magus Sisters, you’ll want to kill Cindy first. She can revive the other two so it definitely has to be her. Unfortunately she’s big and can take a lot of damage (decent defense too). Casting Fast on your attacks is a good idea and keeping them Cured since Tellah can’t really cast offensive magic when they have a wall up. Once Cindy is done you’ll want to focus your attention onto Sandy in the back because she’ll cast Charm, which is very bad. If it’s done on Yang (since he probably has Charm Claws) it could be death. Make sure to attack the confused character (s) right away and Cure up.

It might be a good idea to go use a Tent and Save again. If you really want, unequip Tellah. Back north now and you’ll see Golbez and Kain!

Tellah rushes up after Golbez takes the crystal. Tellah uses Meteo causing Golbez to retreat and lose control over Kain. However Golbez is still alive and Tellah is dying after using the spell. Go up to Kain when you regain control and he says to rush north. Save Rosa with Cecil and then after that the two will join you to form a 5 character party. Equip Rosa with Tellah’s defensive gear and then go south.

Valvalis The Fiend of Air stops you. She is a tough fiend unlike Kainazzo. She can cast Weak when she’s spinning and also Ray to slowly petrify you. Make sure to heal that, and Cure 2 to get the Weak-ed character back up. Kain can stop her spinning with his jump so utilize that, and Berserk your other attackers. Just beware of Weak.

Baron

Rosa casts Exit to leave after the battle. The party discusses the Dark Crystals and Kain gives over the Magma Staff.

Agart

Go south of Baron to Agart. Head north into the door as you get in. See that well? Use the Magma Staff when it prompts you. The crater north of the village is destroyed and you can take your ship through!

Dark World

As you fly into the Dark World, it seems you’ve come right when the Dwarves and Red Wings are fighting. Cid’s Enterprise goes down and when you wake up, you can walk into the build castle nearby.

Dwarve’s Castle

Go straight north and talk to the king Giott. A nice guy, your party senses something is wrong with their trap door to the crystal. Giott opens it and sure enough Calbrena are there. Cal Brena are separate dolls and once you defeat all six, a big Calbrena doll comes by. She can confuse you and do some more potent attacks but your physical attacks and Jump should be way too strong for it – especially if you Berserk your fighters.

After the battle, Golbez shows up. He talks about his intentions with the Tower of Bab-il. A battle then ensues with Golbez. Jump right away with Kain so he doesn’t get screwed with Golbez’s summon Shadow. This summon uses Demolish to just kill your characters easily. Fortunately after two uses a Mist summon kills Shadow and a new battle begins! Rydia is back and you should use Titan or some other of her new powerful spells. Golbez has really low HP here so this should be easy.

Rydia is all grown up and will join the party once again.

Go to the Right Tower for some items, like Dwarf Axe, 500 GP, Cure1, Elixir, Ether2, Strength Ring. The left tower has some more GP, Cure2, Ether1, Elixir and Black Belt. Also you’ll want to buy Wizard Gear and maybe some other odds and ends if they are needed.

To continue on you’re going to have to find the dwarf by the hospital underground and after you talk to him he’ll open the entrance to the underground. There are some Cabin’s to the southeast here but just continue on. Near the exit is a pot for HP / MP restoration making outside of here a brilliant place to build levels. I advise you do this for a while before moving on.

Tower of Babil

Go north as you enter, then right for an Ether1. On the left side are two sets of Ice Arrows. North for the exit.

Head south for the Bandanna and then further south for a building to go in. It is an Alert monster and they will summon monsters like a Stoneman, Naga, Flamedog or Chimera. Make sure to kill the Alert in the back before killing the monster it summons, or else it’ll continually summon that monster. Your reward is a Blizzard Spear. To the east another treasure with an Alert, this time yielding an Icebrand. Northwest now to exit.

Go west for a CatClaw. Get the south treasure (Life) and then go up to enter a new area in the 4th floor. Grab the Archer Bow left of you and the Life east. Back to the third floor and get the Cure2 to the east and then wrap around west (along the north wall) until you reach a staircase in the south.

There is a save point in the west building. Then go east for three buildings. The closest one south of you has another Alert monster chest with the Ice Shield being the reward. The other south building is closed so go north for an Ice Armor room. North and west to continue on.

The next area has a 2000 GP chest just east of you. The center room (if you go north as you go east) is locked but we’ll come back here later. The southeast has a Cure2 and the northeast an exit.

Take the west exit, there is only one. Now go east for a save point, then south all the way for a Cure2. Southeast for the exit.

In this area you’ll see a path north. Doctor Lugae and Rubicant are here. Rubicante is the final elemental fiends. Dr. Lugae is put in charge to hold the crystals at the Tower of Babil. For some reason, they can’t see that you’re right next to them. Rubicant teleports away and a battle with Lugae ensues.

He has his pet project Balnab with him. Balnab begins attacking Lugae but eventually he does some decent damage on you. Just attack them both, Virus is good and quick to pull off. Stay Cured though because the real battle with just Lugae begins afterwards. He tranforms and poisons your party. After this though he is pretty weak, as Emission doesn’t take off much and he wastes lots of turns trying to use Gas. Continue to use Virus on him and Lugae will go down, dropping the Tower Key.

Bring the Tower Key to the center room on the floor below. As you enter you’ll fight some Dark Imps and then Yang will do something rash to save the dwarves. Go south and exit the Tower of Bab-il. As you do, Golbez destroys the bridge and Cecil is about to fall in the lava – but Cid and the Enterprise save him. Red Wings are after him so Cid plugs up the hole and you’re back in the overworld.

Baron

In Baron, go to the east in the castle. Cid’s airship workers will attach a hook and then hint you on bringing the Hovercraft (at Mt. Fabul) to Eblan Cave. So, take the airship to Mt. Fabul and pick up the Hovercraft. Travel southwest of Baron to come to Eblan and the Tower of Babil. Eblan is the destroyed castle to the southeast of this island but the cave to the west is where you need to go.

Eblan

At the deserted castle, you can go west inside and then east through the wall to get that eastern treasure. There are monsters inside (Staleman and 4 Skulls). To get the Ether1 on the other side, go up the stairs and then west and south. Check all the pots for 2 Cure2’s and the east treasures are Mute Arrows and 2000 GP.

Head to the east part of the castle. You can walk northwest through the wall for 600 GP and the east treasure, you have to go up and fall into the pit for 800 GP. You can then fall south into the basement for two Ether1’s and a monster chest with Three Mad Ogres. Use Mist on them and just attack for an Elixir. You’ll be out of the castle, but go back in for the east second floor treasures. Get the Life in one of the pots then east through the northeast wall for that treasure that is guarded by the pit. It is a Lamia and two Black Panthers that yield a Drain Spear. Get the other treasures, a Cabin, Cure2, and Ether1.

In the north part of the castle is a Cure2 and further north (through the northwest wall) is a Heal and Cure2 and there is a Cabin Life Cure2 through the northeast wall.

Eblan Cave

Once you leave Eblan, get on the hovercraft and go west.

Now go to the southeast for 1200 GP and then north (through the wall to the west) to get a Shuriken and Heal. To the southwest is the Kingdom of Eblan.

You should probably buy some Ice Armor for whoever doesn’t have it, and the Black Shirt for Rydia. There are some Cure1’s in the far west room but other than that just go northwest to exit. Just as you walk in you’ll see an Ether1 and a Tent. Traveling southeast through the wall for a Cure2. North to exit.

Go to the northeast here for a Cure3. You can walk a little south and east through a wall for Shuriken. South to exit.

Two Cure2’s and a Cabin here. East through the wall for two Elixir’s. South more for 800GP. Another 850 GP and two Life’s in the southeast. Northeast to exit. East for a Save Point and northeast through this wall for a Drain Sword.

Exit and go west for a life then north for an Edge / Rubicant scene. West through the wall for an Ether2 and then north to exit.

Tower of Bab-Il

Go north and Edge will jump through the wall. North for a Cure2 then continue west and south. All the way east for a Cure3 then the exit.

West and south when you can for Four Mad Ogres, if you beat them you get the Ogre Axe. Southwest for the exit in this area.

The exit is just east of you but go farther east for 2000 GP then take the exit. In the next area, take the east path as it goes north and south for a Middle Sword. North and east for a Save building and then the next area.

Go west all the way for 82000 GP. Wow. Now take that path just a little east and north of you. Equip your Ice-based weapons first if you took them off in favor of the Drain weapons.

Because up ahead are the parents of Edge, the King and Queen of Eblan. They cast some level 2 spells but really aren’t a threat to you. Just use Virus, Titan or regular attacks and they’ll come to their senses before they perish.

Next is Rubicant. He will restore your HP / MP before battle, but he’s still the toughest elemental. Glare is his devastating attack. It will likely kill any character in one shot unfortunately. His Fire2 and regular attacks aren’t that bad though. Just watch out for casting spells because he quickly gets that coat up to absorb it. Flood and Ice2 are your best shots. If you have the Blizzard Spear Kain will do about 5000 on a Jump and Cecil does almost 2000 with his regular attacks with Icebrand. Hopefully you got those two because Rubicant has a lot of HP.

Chamberlain of Eblan runs up after this. Go north into the crystal room and of course it’s too good to be true, and your party finds a pitfall. Get the Cure2 and then go south for the exit.

Go a long way south then east for a Cure2, and then west to find a ship. Take this back to the Dwarve’s place and visit Giott to get the Luca Key for the last crystal. Now go see Cid in the underground (where the secret entrance is, and by the Chocobo). He’ll fix your ship so you can fly over the Magma.

Magma Airship

Now that you can fly over the Magma, lots of sidequests are available to you. Powerful spells and items can be found along the way so they’re definitely useful to go through.

Tomra

At Tomra which is southwest of the Dwarves, you’ll see they have some nice armor and another Middle Sword for Edge. Not much else to do here besides buy things.

Land of Monsters

Southwest of the dwarves is the land of monsters. Hopefully Rosa has learned Float otherwise it’s probably pointless to go here (you’ll have to cast it on each floor).

Go northeast for an Ether1 and Life. Southeast for a Cure2. Southwest for the exit (if you fight an Arachne they’ll cast quake so again make sure you have float on at all times).

Northwest in this new area for a Cabin. South for a Cure2 and east to continue.

You’re in the last area. Try to go through the west wall then south a little for a Cure2, Poison Axe and Ninja Sword. You can continue to travel around the outskirts of this room and in the southeast you’ll see a Cure3 and west a little for a Life. In the northeast is a tough battle against five Warriors. A Titan and Blitz should be enough to do them in, you’ll get a powerful Defense Sword for your efforts. It’s +30 ATP and +8 DEF for Cecil compared to the Icebrand. Take the center exit.

Land of Summoned Monsters

This is where Rydia was, and everyone knows her here. Go west for an Ether1 and 2000 GP. Take the nearby exit and then get right back in it to get the Rat Tail. Continue east on this floor for 2000 GP and south for 3000 GP.

Town of Monsters

Take the north exit for the Town of Monsters.

The Sorcerer Shirt and Aegis Shield are great buys. The Long Sword and Charm Arrow might be worth it at the Weapon Shop.

The northwest building has a Heal and Life and save point. Use it, then go to the library south of here. You can read a bunch of books around here, or go to the basement to meet Asura. She is a summoned monster that challenges you to a battle.

She’s very difficult even when you know the trick to beat her. The idea is to cast Wall on her otherwise she’ll continually Cure herself on her turn (unless she uses life). When you attack her she counterattacks with a powerful attack so you’ll need to stay healed (she’ll help by casting Cure on her Wall and then on one of your characters). For this reason try to use your best attacks like Jump and maybe you’ll want to Berserk Cecil and / or Edge. Have Rosa keep everyone alive and Rydia can attack or use Titan (since the wall is up black magic is worthless). Once you defeat her you’ll get Asura’s use for Rydia (casting Cure2, Cure3, Cure4 or Life I think).

Leviatan is next to Asura, even though he was denying it before. Talk to him (well, rest first) and then you can battle him. He’s actually easier, although he uses Big Wave a lot. This takes off about 300 on each character, so just Cure3 to get it back. His Ice2 can do decent damage too. He’s weak against lighting so Blitz is useful and Lit 3. It’s unlikely you have Lit 3 though and Virus is probably better and faster than Lit2. Keep jumping and Blitz Cecil, and have Rosa cast Cure. Not too hard, and Levia is a sweet Summon.

Not much else to do here so leave.

Sylvan Cave

If you go west of the Tower of Babil you’ll see a new cave. This is the Sylvan Cave. We can go through the cave but can’t do the sidequest yet, so we’ll return later.

Sealed Cave

In the south part of the Dark World, northwest of Tomra, is the Sealed Cave. You get in via the Luca Key that Giott gave you.

Take the southeast path and go to the white door. This is your first trap door. They are all over this cave and they’re tough enemies that do automatic kills and then sometimes summon monsters before they die, generally Mantcore’s but sometimes dragons. What a pain. The trick is to do damage quick so it only kills one character (it will always kill at least one character). Virus and Jump get the TrapDoor down quick. There is a LongSword and Ether in this area.

Exit out and go southwest for a Life and then northwest for a trap door and the exit.

Get the Cure2 by you and an Ether1 on the right side. The two northern TrapDoor’s lead to nothing. I always fight them for the high EXP. Southeast to exit now.

South and across the rope for a Life in the next room. North and east for another Life and north more for a ton of TrapDoor’s. Again I suggest you fight them all but you may be fatigued, if so just choose the one with the Save Point to rest afterwards. Starting from the right, here are what is in the TrapDoor’s: Nothing, Light Sword, 5000GP / Elixir / Ninja Shuriken, Nothing, Save Point, and finally Long Sword / Ninja Helmet. In the southwest is the trap door to continue onward.

Grab the Ether1 and leave this area. Get the Cure2 and Life in the next area, then fight the TrapDoor (although it leads to nothing).

Go all the way east here for a Life then the TrapDoor nearby (although again, it leads to nothing). Back in this area and take that rope that looks to lead to nowhere – instead you go under and to the south to a new area.

The east trap door leads to an Ether2 and Cure3, and the west exit leads to a save point. Continue south, and walk south in the new area until you can take the exit. You’ll eventually come to one last TrapDoor and then the crystal room. Grab the Dark Crystal and leave.

Unfortunately you’re greeted by an Evil Wall. This thing attacks fast, each time it moves, and can also petrify you (which is annoying to waste a turn to heal it). Berserking Edge and Cecil is a good idea so that they attack faster and harder. Kain should keep jumping and Virus works wonderfully. After it’s defeat you have to walk all the way out, you can’t cast Exit. As you leave, something surprising happens (okay not really) but you don’t get the Dark Crystal after all and the Tower of Babil is about to be revived.

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Baron Red Wings

The game starts with Cecil and crew going to Mysidia to steal their crystal. They are on orders from their king and afterwards the crew is tired of their behavior. Cecil calms them but has his own dissentious feelings.

He tells the king about this afterwards and is retired from his post as captain of the Red Wings. Kain is ordered to leave with him when he comes in to object.

When you gain control, leave and go south and east for 300 GP, Tent and Cure1. Leave to the west and Rosa will come out. Exit and go north to see Cid and then enter the north cylinder tower door. Have Cecil go to bed and then exit the city the next day for the opening thing.

Mist Cave

As you leave Baron go to the northwest to the Mist Cave. You shouldn’t need to buy much or build up levels with Cecil and Kain being formidable already.

As you work your way to the northwest you’ll begin to hear a voice, ignore it and get the Cure1 treasure in the northwest corner. Take the bridge east and north for a Heal and then a Tent if you go south a bit. Start going to the northeast for a Cure1 and then more voices.

Eventually you meet the boss of this cave, the Mist Dragon, or D. Mist. He’s not that difficult, only using really difficult attacks when you attack him when he is mist. Ignore him at this point and wait until he turns back into dragon form and then begin attacking and Jumping on him. He’ll go down, you might gain a level, and then exit out to Mist.

Village Mist

As you enter, the Package from the Baron King opens immediately. It is a bomb, intended to kill all of the Callers (Summoners) of Mist. As Cecil and Kain argue over the situation, a little girl casts Titan on the two and a chasm forms.

Cecil is only with the girl, Rydia. He takes her with him.

Kaipo

You wake up on the overworld. Go north and east to an oasis and Kaipo village. Cecil brings Rydia to the inn and then Baron guards come to get her in the middle of the night. Cecil doesn’t agree with this and battles the three Soldiers and Captain. Just kill the soldiers and the Captain flees. You’ll have earned Caller Rydia’s trust and she joins. She can cast a little bit of white magic, black magic and can Call summons. Put her in the back row though. Before you leave Kaipo make sure to go to the northeast building and visit Rosa and the old guy tells you that you need SandRuby from Antlion to heal her.

For now Rydia is weak and really only has Chocb (Chocobo) as an asset. So fight around a bit so she can gain some much needed HP. Once she has near 100 HP you can feel safe about going to the cave to the north.

Kaipo / Damycan Cave

After you enter this cave, go north for Cure1 and Heal. West for a Tent and talk to Tellah. He will join you as he wants to get through this cave. East for 120 GP and northeast for IronRing. Northwest to exit.

North and west a little for a Cure1 and back south. West for an Ether and then south and west for the exit and a save point.

Northeast for an Ice Rod and then east and north to exit. Take the east path at the intersection for Cure1 and 200 GP. West to exit.

If your brightness is high enough you should be able to see the path going through the wall on the left. Go through there and try to go right as you’re going north and then you can get the Cure1. You can go back through the wall and north, and then work your way east to get the Leather Helmet which is actually useful for Tellah. Return and take the staircase. West for an Ether1 and Cure1. East for a Heal and Darkness Sword for Cecil. Exit out and do as Tellah says, using a Tent to rest and save.

Enter the next cave and go down the waterfall. Go up the bridge and get the Darkness Helmet and Darkess Gauntlet. Through the northwest door and go east in the next room for a Darkness Armor and Ether1.

North and go up to the kraken. This is Octomamm. It ambushes you and starts to attack right away. Use your Lit spells to do the best damage on it. It’s really not that hard so long as you have Rydia and Tellah in the back row and healing them when needed. Just keep the Lit up, it’s better than Chocb even. As you leave through the waterfall, Damycan gets destroyed by the Red Wings.

Damycan

Go into the castle and up the stairs. Grab the Cure1 and go up to see Anna, Tellah’s daughter hurt. She’s about to die and Tellah takes it out on her boyfriend, Edward the Spoony Bard. Prepare for one of the more comedic Final Fantasy moments ever. Afterward, Tellah is so upset with Golbez that he vows to seek vengeance for Anna and leaves the party. So you get Edward to join instead. Now that’s a bad trade off.

Fortunately there is a pot of recovery for HP and MP here. However after the scene you end up outside as the Hovercraft appears. You can use this to travel (without random fights) and more importantly you can go to Kaipo, Mt. Hobs and the Antlion / SandRuby Cave with it. First, go to the cave north and east of you. You’ll see it to your south.

Antlion SandRuby Cave

Go west for a Cure 1 and 190 GP. Go to the east for 210 GP and Cure1. A Tent and a Cure1 in the southwest. Southeast for a Life1 and a door. Inside is a Charm Harp and then continue west.

When you can take the northeast path do so. You’ll see another door, with a Life, Ether1, and a Tent (you should probably save). Go back into the previous room and get the Heal above the staircase, and then 250 GP west of it. Go south and into the south staircase to continue.

This is Antlion’s Nest so if you go south make sure you are Cured. Antlion isn’t that hard though. He will counter all of your attacks with Counter and that attacks a random target for about 20. Chocb takes off about 200 though and Cecil does some decent damage, and even Edward with his Charm Harp help. Worst case scenario is Edward dies.

Kaipo

Return to Kaipo with your hovercraft (Warp out of the cave with Rydia). Use the SandRuby on Rosa and she joins.

During the night, Edward has another funny scene. He begins playing music and Anna appears, but a monster does also. Just attack.

Mt. Hobs

Go east of the Antlion Cave with the hovercraft and Rydia will learn fire. Go north and take the exit, and go south and save. Get the Tent, Cure1, Heal and 350 GP east of you and then return north. Take the east exit this time.

Go east for the White Arrows and then north to meet Yang of Fabul. He routes some monsters but then a bomb comes and you join him. This MomBomb can be troublesome as it begins to expand when you damage it a lot. When this happens, Cure your party because it’s about to explode. It will do significant damage leaving you scrambling for Cure spells. There are now 6 bomb enemies that are easy to defeat but can kill you since you’re low. Edward will probably die especially if he’s in front. Kill them and you’ll meet Yang formally.

Fabul

Exit out of Mt. Hobs and then go east to Fabul. Inside you can buy Black Armor for Cecil and a claw for Yang. Head north past the Shop / Inn and then south in the next area.

You can go in the side towers for some treasure. 500 GP and a Tent in the right tower and Heal, Tent, and Cure1 (x2) in the left tower. Now go north through the center. Talk to the king and soon the enemy and Golbez will be invading Fabul.

Cecil and Edward agree to help with Yang. The battles aren’t difficult, just kill the soldiers and ignore the captain when fighting the humans. Towards the end Edward needs to be saved and you’ll probably be low on HP at this point.After you retreat to the crystal room, Kain comes and wipes out Cecil. Golbez then takes Rosa and the crystal and leaves.

When you regain control, grab the Cure1 in the previous room and hit the switch on the east part of the area. Now you can go through the door and east for a Cure1, Black Shield and Ether1.

Rest at the Inn and then you’ll discuss what to do next. The next morning, Yang talks to the king about a ship for Cecil and friends to find Rosa. Exit out, save and go to the ship.

Mysidia

After the ship incident, Cecil is stranded in an unknown area. Up ahead is the town of Mysidia, the place he robbed.

Just head straight north, some of the black mages will transform you if you talk to them. Speak with the village elder and he’ll remember Cecil. Cecil intends to be good so he begins a trip to Mt. Ordeals to become a Paladin. The Mysidian Elder sends Palom and Porom with you to help.

You’ll probably want to buy them new armor at the armor shop (and maybe a new rod for each too). The little guy casts black magic and the little girl white magic – they’re better than they look. Fight around with them for a while and head a good distance east (or do both) and you’ll see Mt. Ordeals. South of here is a chocobo forest (easy to find) so go inside if you need MP restoration (white chocobo).

Mt. Ordeals

Palom uses Ice to clear the area up. Milon of Earth is sent to stop you by Golbez.

Grab the two Cure1’s and take the north door. Up ahead and who do you see…but Tellah! Sage Tellah! He comes into the area, and then turns around and stairs off into the mountains. Cecil recognizes him though and then Tellah starts going off about Meteo. He joins you.

It’d be good if you bought Tellah the same armor you bought the twins. Also, have all three be in the back row.

Go through the north exit and then west for an Ether1. Another Ether1 to the north and then exit and you’re at the Summit. Definitely use a Tent to the east as your party will hear a hiss hiss. Save and up ahead is a boss.

Milon is the Fiend of Earth and he has some undead enemies with him. Fire1, Fire2 and the Twin Attack are especially useful for wiping them out. The same spells work well on Milon and he should die soon. Cure yourself after the battle and put all your mages in the front row.

Walk ahead and Milon ambushes you. If you put your mages in front then you’ll have them in the back here. Fire2 is the best here for about 1000 damage if Palom has it, otherwise use Flare / Comet and keep at him. He’s not that hard but he’ll poison you often.

Go to the middle stone ahead and Cecil will meet Cecil. Cecil will also become a Paladin but you’ll be in a battle with your old self. Don’t do anything and you’ll win (but if you really want to attack, you can win). Tellah also remembers Meteo but more importantly the rest of his spells! The only problem is his low max MP.

Return back to Mysidia and the elder will unlock the Serpent Road, allowing you to travel to Baron.

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