Inflicts 'confusion' status on all enemies (one side). Always works except against immune targets.

Inflicts 'poison' status and unblockable Poison magic damage to all enemies (one side). This has the same base power at 20 as Thunder, but maintains full damage even on multiple targets, making it twice as effective against a group.

Inflicts 'darkness' status and unblockable magic damage to all enemies (one side). At 42 power, this has twice the potency of the Fire spell, but maintains full damage even on multiple targets, making it more effective than -ra spells against a group.

Unblockable defense-ignoring physical damage to one enemy at 252 attack power. Sometimes attempts to inflict 'incapacitated' instead of causing damage; this alternate attack has its own animation and ignores evasion, but immunity negates it and stamina can block it, causing it to have no effect, not even damage.

Makes one enemy weak against one of Flame, Ice, Thunder, Water, Wind, Earth, Poison, or Holy, choosing randomly from weaknesses it doesn't already have, and removing any protection it may have against the same trait. Always works, even on bosses, unless the target already has all eight weaknesses.

The Weakmaker does have one weakness of its own, though. A handful of enemies have a weakness against a trait they also negate or absorb, and it can't help you with that. Since the weakness technically exists already, the Weakmaker can't affect that element, even though the immunity or absorption takes effect when attacking. In other words, these weaknesses do nothing except make the corresponding protection unremovable.

Unblockable defense-ignoring physical damage to one enemy, 191 attack power.

Though the Chainsaw is more damaging, the Drill is a safer bet on anything that's immune to instant death, since the Chainsaw may try that and fail. The Drill will average slightly more damage over time, and just increases its lead if Edgar gets powerful enough for the Chainsaw to run into the damage cap.

Inflicts some physical damage (128 attack power) and makes the target drop dead after its next action. Unblockable unless the target has immunity to instant death, in which case it has no effect, not even damage.

Though the delay is a drawback, this has a distinct advantage over other instant death options, in that it never fails unless the enemy is outright immune. Also, whether this was intentional or not, a status effect like 'regenerate' or 'slip' adding or draining health counts as taking an action for this.

ボーガン, from "bowgun", refers to crossbows that fire by pulling a trigger.

Unblockable physical damage to all enemies (one side), 125 attack power. Full damage even on multiple targets.

火遁 (katon), a term linked to ninja fire skills, approximately translates to "unleashed fire". The skean, a type of dagger formerly used in Ireland and Scotland, has no relation. Based on the icon and on various ninja in anime, these skills are stored in scrolls, not knives or any other usual weapon.

When used with Throw, inflicts unblockable Flame magic damage on all enemies (both sides) at 100 power, a bit weaker than Figa.

水遁 (suiton), a term linked to ninja water skills, approximately translates to "unleashed water".

When used with Throw, inflicts unblockable Water magic damage on all enemies (both sides) at 100 power, a bit weaker than -ga spells.

雷迅 (raijin), a term related to ninja lightning skills, approximately translates to "swift lightning".

When used with Throw, inflicts unblockable Thunder magic damage on all enemies (both sides) at 100 power, a bit weaker than Thundaga.

木の葉隠れ (konoha gakure), associated with the ninja, approximately translates to "hiding in the leaves".

When used with Throw, sets 'transparent' status on the user.

影分身 (kage bunshin), yet another ninja-related term, very loosely translates to something like "shadow decoy".

When used with Throw, sets 'decoy' status on the user. This is one of very few ways to gain this status.

Don't bother. Because of the evade bug, 'darkness' does nothing except prevent Stragus from seeing Memorized Techniques to learn them.

Amusingly, the conceptual side effect of extra MEvd often helps at least as much as the primary effects.

Despite the NA version's claim, the Jewel Ring does not prevent 'darkness' status. Not that it matters much considering how impotent 'darkness' is.

Also incidentally prevents 'slow' status.

A character wearing this accessory will intercept physical attacks intended for other characters in 'near death' status, taking the damage in their place. The effect does not activate if the wearer has 'petrified', 'transparent', 'zombie', 'sleep', 'confusion', 'stop', 'frozen', 'chanting', or 'hidden' status, or if the weakened character has 'transparent' status (and thus can't be hit anyway).

Using Jump briefly removes the character from the battlefield to strike for extra damage, especially if wielding a spear. It also ignores row.

A unique dodging animation may occur when wearing a Zephyr Manteau.

And no, it can't be uncursed.

Increases base magic damage 25%. The effect stacks with a Brave Ring or second Earring for a 50% total increase.

Increases base physical damage 25%. Wearing one with a Brave Ring or second Giant's Bracer has no further effect on physical damage. Despite what the NA description suggests, this affects all physical attacks (except those that bypass normal damage calculation), not just the Battle (Fight) command.

Since Umaro already wears a Snow Muffler, the absorption here does him no good.

The agility is an incidental bonus, not the advertised one. Agility has no effect on Steal success rate.

Wearing a Thief's Bracelet doubles Steal (and Mug) success rate, though it's more complicated than that. Refer to Lock's Steal skill for more details on how it works and why the simple version of the explanation is misleading.

Increases base physical damage 25%. Wearing one with a Giant's Bracer or second Brave Ring has no further effect on physical damage. Despite what the NA description suggests, this affects all physical attacks (except those that bypass normal damage calculation), not just the Battle (Fight) command.

Also increases base magic damage 25%. The effect stacks with an Earring or second Brave Ring for a 50% total increase.

Because only the magic bonus stacks, wearing one Brave Ring and one Earring has the same effect as wearing two Brave Rings.

The Ribbon does not protect against all status ailments, just the ones listed above. It has no effect against 'death sentence', 'slow', or 'stop', various other effects that are generally positive, or unpreventable status effects like 'frozen' and 'charmed'. It also won't stop instant death (which should come as no surprise).

Umaro can use this even though he can't do anything with his MP.

かみかざり is a generic term for decorative hair accessories. Though "hairpin" is nice for brevity, it's just too specific. An ornamental comb is just as likely. "Headdress" seems to be the closest English equivalent, though the lack of "hair" in the term threw me for longer than I'd like to admit.

It's rather odd that Umaro can use this, especially since he can't use the Three Stars, or most other accessories that do him no good.

Wearing a Gauntlet has approximately the same effect as increasing the attack power of a weapon by 75% (e.g., a 200 attack weapon will act as 350 attack) in exchange for not being able to wear a shield at the same time.

Umaro, at least, particularly benefits from the Gauntlet. Since he can't use a shield anyway, you're basically getting boosted attack for nothing.

When wielding two weapons, the attacker hits twice during normal attacks, once with each weapon, and each attack behaves as a normal independent attack with that weapon. When using Jump with two weapons, only one hit occurs, with one of the two weapons chosen at random. Using a Genji's Bracer reduces base damage for physical attacks by 25% unless using two weapons (in all likelihood, the penalty ought to apply only when using two weapons, but doesn't work as intended). The lack of a penalty when dual-wielding makes the Gauntlet largely pointless in comparison.

Keep in mind that once strength hits 128, any further increase has no effect. Otherwise, each point of strength roughly equals two points of attack power.

皆伝の証 in kanji. 皆伝 (kaiden) implies having received instruction in secret techniques.

When using a Proof of Initiation, a character's normal attack strikes four times, and can never miss unless the target has 'transparent' status.

There are downsides, though. These attacks will never be critical hits (even for weapons with auto-critical) and will never trigger weapon-cast spells. Each hit also targets a random enemy, so you can't control where the damage goes. The most important downside, though, is that physical damage is halved (except that the Dice and Fixed Dice ignore this penalty, and so does the Valiant Knife's damage bonus for lost HP, but not its normal damage). This means that each of the four hits inflicts half the damage of a normal attack, but less obvious is that this affects all physical attacks. Don't try combining this with physical skills like Edgar's Auto Crossbow or Cayenne's Fang, or you'll just get the penalty without the benefits.

On the other hand, the attacker won't waste hits by striking targets that have already taken fatal damage (unless there are no enemies left that haven't). This means, for instance, that when facing four enemies, if none can survive a hit, all four will go down, guaranteed, every time.

This affects the Mug command in addition to the Battle command (though the stealing part gets buggy; refer to Lock's Mug skill for more details). It also affects most physical attacks in Gau's Rages, but never magic. Additionally, the random skills of the Thief's Knife, Assassin Dagger, Ichigeki Blade, Wing Edge, One-Shot Darts, Zantetsuken, Hawkeye, Sniper, and Kazekiri Blade may trigger on any or (potentially) all of the four hits, so if you're trying to boost the chances of seeing them, this will help considerably.

This is the ultimate accessory for physical attackers. It increases net damage and allows attacking multiple enemies in a single round. Even better, breaking the attack up into four hits creates a loophole in the damage cap, making it possible to reach nearly forty thousand damage in one turn. Combine it with the Genji Glove, and it's possible to inflict 79,992 total damage with a single Battle command, and if that's not obscene enough, you could always start off with a Quick spell to get two turns in a row like that. For reference, no enemy in the game, bosses included, has more than 63,001 HP. So if you were wondering if it's possible to be excessively powerful in FFVI, the answer is a resounding YES, but keep in mind that overleveling figures into these values.

General Leo has one of these permanently equipped.

Also meant to halve enemy hit rate against the wearer, but due to the evade bug, this item does nothing useful. It's really too bad... between the 20 evasion and the halved enemy accuracy, this would have given a character with no other evasion whatsoever a chance (however slight) to dodge any physical attack with a hit rate of up to 237 (instead of needing the attack to have under 100 hit rate), while reducing an attack with 100 hit rate to just over a 42% chance to hit.

Now try that with Shadow... 21 base evade, plus 10 from even a basic shield, plus another 20 from this, and the halved enemy accuracy on top of that. That would give an attack with 254 hit rate less than 77% chance to hit, put 166 hit rate under 50% success, and make something with 100 hit rate, normally not bad, hit barely 30% of the time. And that's all without better equipment and before factoring in Interceptor.

25% chance of striking back with a normal attack when hit physically. The wearer will never counter attacks from allies, and cannot counter when in 'petrified', 'zombie', 'sleep', 'confusion', 'stop', or 'frozen' status, or when dancing or riding Sorcerous Armor.

Unlike other characters, Umaro may use any attack currently available to him when countering, not just a normal attack.

The kanji are 平次の十手. Kahran042 points out that this is a reference to Heiji Zenigata, a fictional law enforcement character who throws coins to capture criminals.

An impresario manages or organizes public entertainment, often opera. Or, in other words, is the one in charge.

飛竜 (hiryuu), literally flying dragons, appear in Final Fantasy V.

A character equipped with a Wyvern's Horn who lands after being airborne from the Jump command or Quetzal summon Sonic Dive will jump back up and come down again at least once more for a total of at least two hits. The final number of attacks can be two (3/4 chance), three (3/16 chance), or four (1/16 chance).

Wearing the Medal allows a character to use nearly every piece of equipment in the game, in addition to what the character can already use. This excludes the Bone Club, Hairband, Tiara, Mystique Veil, Royal Crown, Oath Veil, Cat-Ear Hood, White Dress, Princess Dress, Minerva Bustier, Sleepy Cat Suit, Chocobo Suit, Moogle Suit, Nutsin Suit, Behemoth Suit, Snow Muffler, and all accessories.

The NA version also excludes the Ultima Weapon, though it's unclear whether this is meant as a limitation for characters who can't inherently wield it or as a way to avoid an odd glitch that occurs when combining the Ultima Weapon with Rages that use physical damage special attacks. Sometimes the effect is as innocuous as using the wrong color palette, but it's also capable of locking up the game, so be careful if you try it.

The Medal particularly benefits Gau, who can't otherwise equip a weapon, but has such high base attack power he can reach maximum (255) attack even with a relatively weak one. Many of his Rage skills also take on any special effects the weapon provides.

However, it does nothing at all for Umaro, since you can't change his equipment anyway.

The question here is whether in Shadow's case this means his mother or Relm's, considering it's strongly hinted that he's Relm's father.

The Memento Ring and Safety Bit seem to have exactly the same effect. The Memento Ring, however, is available much sooner.

The Ring of the Dead makes the wearer undead during combat, which has at least the following effects: Most healing spells, skills, and items damage the wearer. Attacks against the wearer that drain HP and/or MP are reversed, causing the wearer to recover and the attacker to take damage. Many types of instant death attacks against the wearer instead restore full HP.

All of these only take effect during battle, so you can heal the wearer normally in the field.

The ghosts that can temporarily join your party on the Grim Train have these permanently equipped (that's how the game makes them undead).

Moruru is one of the moogles that helps Lock early in the game. Specifically, the low-level one right next to Mog. Possibly a best friend, relative, or lover? Kahran042 adds that Djibriel's FAQ on GameFAQs calls her Mog's lover. Djibriel references a Japanese Creation Data Collection Book that "supposedly clearly says the Moogle Charm is a 'crystal ball charm given by his lover, Moruru'". Considering that this is secondhand information even to Djibriel, I'll have to classify it as probable but unconfirmed.

When Mog is in the active group and wearing Moruru's Charm, no random encounters will occur, always useful for raiding dungeons and avoiding being harassed. Don't be too careless, though, since fixed encounters (bosses, event battles, etc.) are unaffected.

退魔の腕輪 in kanji. More literally "monster repelling" than "warding".

When anyone in the active group is wearing a Warding Bracelet, random encounters will occur about half as often as usual. Fixed encounters (bosses, event battles, etc.) are unaffected.

Also incidentally prevents 'slow' status.

When anyone in the active group is wearing an Alarm Pierce, monsters will never attack from behind or from both sides, unless the monster formation disallows all other types of attacks (double Tyrannosaurus, for example).

When anyone in the active group is wearing a Gale Hairpin, preemptive attacks occur twice as frequently (roughly, with RNG quirks throwing off the exact odds). The party will never get a preemptive attack when attacked from behind or surrounded, or when fighting certain monster formations (usually bosses).

Normal attacks cannot miss when using a Sniper Eye, unless the target has 'transparent' status. Rarely useful, thanks to the evade bug.

Since Tama is a common cat's name, "Kitty Bell" could be an alternate name.

Every step taken heals the wearer by 1 HP per four base stamina (equipment bonuses do not count).

Useless in combat and on the world map, but running around is such a timesaver that I habitually equip a pair on someone in the active party anyway.

The Rename Card lets you rename a character. Go figure.

These are useful mostly for wagering at the Dragon's Head Coliseum to get Miracle Shoes.

Holy Water also restores 1/8 of max HP, since zombies aren't generally very healthy.

Well, not quite any, but many. The Panacea will cure 'darkness', 'poison', 'kappa', 'petrified', 'silence', and 'slip' status.

万能薬 in kanji, which literally means "thousand-abilities medicine"

For comparison purposes, the Esuna spell will not remove 'kappa', but will remove 'confusion', 'sleep', 'slow', and 'stop', which a Panacea doesn't.

Sleeping Bags can only be used at save points and on the world map. They recover all HP and MP, and remove 'levitate', 'darkness', 'zombie', 'poison', 'transparent', 'kappa', and 'petrified' status.

Tents can only be used at save points and on the world map. They recover all HP and MP, and remove 'levitate', 'darkness', 'zombie', 'poison', 'transparent', 'kappa', 'petrified', and 'incapacitated' status.

"Yellow" was presumably changed to "Green" for space reasons, but why were they yellow cherries in the first place? Legends of Localization points to 黄桜 (Kizakura), a sake brewing company whose name literally means "yellow cherry" (though more likely the blossom than the fruit) and whose mascot is a kappa.

I think that's out of all of them, not just the ones you have. It would have been more interesting if they had tossed some unique ones in here, like the extra spells Cecilia can cast with Randomizer in Wild ARMs.

At least in theory, you have a chance to summon Ragnarök even early in the game, making it remotely possible to morph certain enemies into equipment that is otherwise unavailable until much later. However, given the limited availability of Magicite Shards, the low odds of getting Ragnarök as the summon, the low odds of the attack succeeding, and the low odds of getting the item you want even when it does succeed, this is more of a curiosity than a practical benefit.

On the other hand, you also have a chance to summon Jihad and risk wiping out your own party as it hits everything on the battlefield.

Super Balls are weird. They hit (or at least can hit) all enemies (one side), and seem to inflict damage in randomly chosen exact multiples of 256.

Recovers 150 HP, and unlike all other healing items, this will heal undead rather than inflicting damage.

This item fills the blank slots, and characters equip it when they're not using any real weapon. It counts as a weapon with 10 attack power, explaining why weapons don't raise attack power as much as the information seems to indicate they should. The hit rate is 200, just like claws.

A traditional Japanese alcoholic beverage. Lock takes this from a merchant in South Figaro and needs it to access the secret passage into the mansion.

The soldier "guarding" Celes has this, and it opens the secret passage out of South Figaro.

Fast fish caught near Cid's hut. Improves his health.

Normal speed fish caught near Cid's hut. Improves his health somewhat.

Normal speed fish caught near Cid's hut. Slightly worsens his health.

Slow fish caught near Cid's hut. Worsens his health.

Found in Cayenne's dream. Needed to keep a rude chest still.

(Get from Lola, attach to pigeon, leads to Cayenne. I think.)

Collect in the Eboshi Rock cave, use to pass the hungry treasure chest.

Found in Cayenne's locked treasure chest in Mt. Zozo. Useful only for laughs.

Too bad the NA version not only killed the joke but also made it look like something more important than it is.

Examine Gastra's portrait in Auzar's mansion twice. A clue to finding Lock and the Phoenix Genjuu.

Roughly. サビトレール (SABI TOREERU) exaggerates 錆取れる (sabi toreru), "rust comes off".

Zozo's only honest man has it. Needed to open the door into Mt. Zozo.

Cannot be obtained without cheating.

Guessing by some of these items, there had been plans to have more happen at the Opera House.

Cannot be obtained without cheating.

Cannot be obtained without cheating.

Cannot be obtained without cheating.

Cannot be obtained without cheating. I've seen speculation that this might have been Magicite found before the party knew what it was.

Cannot be obtained without cheating.

Cannot be obtained without cheating.

Tina has it from the beginning of the game. Its (minimal) significance gets a brief mention during the storyline, but it's never actually used.