Final Fantasy VI/Chapter 1: From Narshe to Figaro Castle

Title Sequence

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• Watch the opening scene

During this scene, three characters are introduced. Biggs, Wedge, and an (as yet) unnamed sorceress. In the original english translation of Final Fantasy VI, released in the US and other markets as Final Fantasy III, Biggs was translated with the alternate name of Vicks. However, current rereleases, including 'Final Fantasy Anthology' and 'Final Fantasy VI: Advance', refer to this character as Biggs.

• Watch the opening credits

After the opening teaser, the credits are displayed. Press any button to skip them.

Narshe

Items
Should Skip	Last Chance	Cointainer	Name	Location
No	No	Clock	Elixer	South Narshe: Arvis' House
Yes	No	Chest	Phoenix Down	West Narshe Mines
Yes	No	Chest	Sleeping Bag	West Narshe Mines
No	No	Chest	Potion	Adventuring School: Advanced Battle Tactics
No	No	Chest	Sleeping Bag	Adventuring School: Battle Tactics
No	No	Monster-in-a-box (Lobo)	Potion	Adventuring School: Field Science
No	No	Pot	Ether	Adventuring School: Field Science

Beastiary (Final Fantasy VI: Advance)
Name	HP	Gil	Experience	Rage	Lore
001 Guard	40	48	48	Yes	No
002 Silver Lobo	27	30	37	Yes	No
003 Megalodoth	115	90	50	Yes	No
004 Wererat	24	22	21	Yes	No
005 Spritzer	15	29	23	Yes	No
006 Bandit	35	25	25	Yes	No
276 Ymir	50,000	---	---	No	No
277 Ymir	1,600	---	---	No	No
278 Guard Leader	420	350	---	Yes	No

South Narshe

• There's pretty much only one path at this point, just head north.

You may want to start out by opening up the field menu and modifying your configuration settings. Particularly, you may want to set whether the game will memorize the cursor location of your last attack on the battle screen, or reset it to default every turn, and modify the battle and message speeds to your taste. If you're new to this game, you should take some time to familiarize yourself with all the menus.

If you try to head south, Biggs and Wedge will just order you to turn around, so go north into the town. At this point in the game, you also can't explore much of Narshe. There are paths you can't travel down inside these bulky magitek armor suits, leaving essentially only a single northward path to go down. As you do, you'll encounter your first battles of the game. The unnamed character will have a great deal of firepower to select from. The Magitek Missile is the most powerful attack in her arsenal against a single foe, but the Bio Blaster is capable of damaging the entire enemy party at once. Biggs and Wedge are limited to a selection of a few different single-enemy attacks which produce the same damage, only with different elemental attributes.

If you find at any point that you're getting seriously hurt, use the "Healing Force" command, currently available to all your characters. However, that's not likely to happen until the boss battle, because the enemies at this point are quite weak. Enjoy the free ride, and take your time getting used to the game mechanics.

North Narshe

• The enemies get a little tougher here, but there's still pretty easy. Press on.

North Narshe Mines

• Enter the mines, and travel north until you reach the esper

After all that fighting, you'll be at the mouth of a cave. Enter and follow the path, defeating random encounters as you go, and you'll come to a save point. If you step on it now, you'll have the option to be given a short tutorial on how to use them. You'll come to a small gate. Talk to it, and Vicks will smash it open. You will then face the boss Whelk.

North Narshe Mines: Esper Cave

• After defeating the Whelk, continue forward, and you meet with the frozen Esper.

South Narshe: Arvis' House

• Give Terra her name

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After the conversation with it, ????? will wake up in strange bed. After a long conversation with Old Man about the state of ?????'s health, you get to name her. The default name is Terra.

• Be sure to pick up the Elixer in Arvis' clock

Before exiting the house through the northern door, take the time to go out the southern door, and then west to examine the clock. Like almost all clocks in the game, you will be rewarded with an elixer for examining it, which will restore all your HP and MP in a pinch.

South Narshe

• Take the only path available, across the bridge

As Terra flees across the bridge, she's be spotted by the guards, but there's only one way to go at this point. West across the bridge, and into the mine entrance.

West Narshe Mines

These treasures improve in the World of Darkness.

• Don't grab the treasure chests.

If you grab the chests, you'll be missing out. They turn into much better stuff later on in the game. Try to resist the temptation, and pass them by. If you do grab them, however, you'll receive a Phoenix Down, and a Sleeping Bag.

• Head northwest until you're cornered by the guards

There is no way to proceed at this point, except heading northwest within this area of the dungeon until Terra is cornered by the Narshe guards, and falls through a hole in the unstable cave floor. A cinematic scene is triggered, and Terra falls unconscious.

South Narshe: Arvis' House

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• Give Locke his name

A short pain induced flashback later, you'll be able to name your second character of the game: Locke.

Narshe Mines: Puzzle Chamber

If you want to avoid fighting any guards, try the following sequence:

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• With the help of the Moogles, fend off the Narshe guards

Locke will then come to Terra's aid, with the help of the Moogles! After breaking into three groups of four, you'll face off five groups of enemies. After being given the chance to read a tutorial on how to defend Terra, they'll slowly crawl up the pathways from the south, and if they get close enough to any of your three parties, you'll enter battle with them. If you want to avoid any battles (Which is okay, even if you're trying to build up your beastiary in the Final Fantasy VI: Advance version, because there will be nothing here you haven't seen before), move quickly down to the northern edge of the southmost rock, and wait there. After a moment, you will be presented with an opportunity to squeeze between two guard groups to the east, and then you should be able to wait there until a path opens up in the west, backtrack, and then head south to the enemy commander. Defeat him, and the battle ends.

After that's done, take the group that's in the best health and walk to the bottom of the screen. But before you do, you may want to remove Mog's equipment, because that shield and spear are the best ones you'll find for quite a while. After healing your group, talk to the stationary guard to begin a boss battle.

South Narshe: Adventure School

• Head into the adventure school to grab some treasure

South Narshe: Adventure School: Field Science

South Narshe: Adventure School: Battle Tactics

South Narshe: Adventure School: Advanced Battle Tactics

Figaro Castle

After the fighting's done, you'll be at the entrance of Narshe. You can go to the classroom for beginners, or you can just leave. Once on the world map, travel south to the desert. In the middle of the desert, you'll find a castle: Figaro Castle.