Final Fantasy III/Magic

Many spells and skills exist in Final Fantasy III. The spells are divided into 3 categories: Black Magic, White Magic, and Summon Magic. This section also describes the effects of the Geomancer's Terrain skill and the Bard's Sing skill.

White Magic

These spells are mostly used to heal and protect your allies, though there are some attack spells among them.

White magic users:

• Wind crystal jobs: White mage, Red mage
• Fire crystal jobs: Knight (DS only), Scholar (DS only), Ranger (NES only)
• Water crystal jobs: Mystic knight (NES only)
• Earth crystal jobs: Devout, Sage
• Secret job: Onion knight (DS only)

Lv.	Spell	Type	Effect
1	Cure	Field/support	Restores health points
1	Poisona	Field/support	Cures "poison" status
1	Sight	Field	Shows the world map
2	Mini	Support/debuff	Causes or cures "mini" status
2	Toad	Support/debuff	Causes or cures "toad" status
2	Aero	Attack	Element: wind
3	Cura	Field/support	Restores health points
3	Blindna	Field/support	Cures "blindness" status
3	Teleport	Field	Teleports party to the world map
4	Libra	Debuff	Shows enemy HP and weaknesses
4	Confuse	Debuff	Causes "confuse" status
4	Silence	Debuff	Causes "mute" status
5	Curaga	Field/support	Restores health points
5	Raise	Field/support	Cures death
5	Protect	Support	Raises defense
6	Stona	Field/support	Cures "petrify" status
6	Haste	Support	Increases speed
6	Aeroga	Attack	Element: wind
7	Curaja	Field/support	Restores health points
7	Esuna	Field/support	Cures all status ailments
7	Reflect	Support	Creates a magic barrier
8	Arise	Field/support	Cures death and health points
8	Tornado	Attack	Element: wind
8	Holy	Attack	Element: light

Black Magic

These spells are used to deal damage and to cause status effects.

Black magic users:

• Wind crystal: Black mage, Red mage
• Fire crystal: Scholar (DS only)
• Water crystal: n/a
• Earth crystal: Magus, Sage
• Secret: Onion knight (DS only)

Lv.	Spell	Type	Effect
1	Sleep	Debuff	Causes "sleep" status
1	Fire	Attack	Element: fire
1	Blizzard	Attack	Element: ice
2	Blind	Debuff	Causes "blind" status
2	Thunder	Attack	Element: lightning
2	Poison	Attack	Deals damange and causes "poison" status
3	Fira	Attack	Element: fire
3	Blizzara	Attack	Element: ice
3	Thundara	Attack	Element: lightning
4	Shade	Debuff	Causes "paralysis" status
4	Break	Debuff	Causes "petrify" status
4	Blizzaga	Attack	Element: ice
5	Erase	Debuff	Removes status upgrades
5	Thundaga	Attack	Element: lightning
5	Raze	Attack	Instantly kills enemies whose level is lower than the caster
6	Warp	Field/attack	Creates a portal to another dimension
6	Firaga	Attack	Element: fire
6	Bio	Attack	Non-elemental damage
7	Breakga	Debuff	Causes "petrify" status instantly
7	Drain	Attack	Attacks and restores caster's HP
7	Quake	Attack	Element: earth
8	Death	Attack	Instantly kills enemy
8	Flare	Attack	Non-elemental
8	Meteor	Attack	Non-elemental

Summon Magic

There are two types of Summon Magic: a type with two effects that occur randomly, and a type with one fixed effect. The former is used by Evokers, and the latter is used by Summoners. Sages can use the two-effect summons in the DS version, but in the NES version they used the fixed effect ones instead.

Summon magic users:

• Water crystal: Evoker
• Earth crystal: Summoner, Sage

Unless specified otherwise, Evoker attacks target one enemy only, while Summoner attacks and Evoker indirect effects target all enemies.

Lv.	Summon	Evoker: indirect	Evoker: attack	Summoner
1	Escape / Chocobo	Chocobo Dash Party runs from battle Stumble Usually has no effect	n/a	Chocobo Kick Damage proportional to the level difference between caster and enemy
2	Icen / Shiva	Mesmerize Casts sleep on enemies	Icy Stare Ice damage	Diamond dust Ice Damage
3	Spark / Ramuh	Mind Blast Casts stop on enemies	Thunderstorm Lightning damage	Judgement Bolt Lightning damage
4	Heatra / Ifrit	Healing Light Restores HP to party	Hellfire Fire damage	Inferno Fire damage
5	Hyper / Titan	n/a	Clobber Stomp Both deal earth damage	Earthen Fury Earth damage
6	Catastro / Odin	Protective Light Casts Reflect on party	Slash Attacks all enemies	Zantetsuken Instant kill
7	Leviath / Leviathan	Demon Eye Casts petrify on enemies	Cyclone Wind damage to all enemies	Tidal Wave Water damage
8	Bahamur / Bahamut	Aura Casts Haste on party	Rend Instant kill	Mega Flare Non-elemental damage

Terrain

The Terrain skill is useable only by Geomancers. It harnesses the power of the earth to cause different elemental damage. The determining factor of what effect is caused is the environment the skill is used in. This skill does not consume MP.

A (+) by the skill name indicates a high chance of being cast. A (-) indicates a low chance of being cast. Note that Wind Slash, Ice Storm, or Ice Pillar occur frequently in all environments.

Environment	Effect	Element	Targets
Desert	Cave-in (+)	earth	one enemy
Desert	Earthquake	earth	all enemies
Forest	Wind Slash (+)	wind	one enemy
Forest	Ice Storm (+)	ice	all enemies
Forest	Shadowflare (-)	non-elemental	one enemy
Lava cave	Magma (+)	fire	all enemies
Cave	Whirlpool	instant death	all enemies
Cave	Ice Pillar	ice	one enemy
Cave	Shadowflare (-)	non-elemental	one enemy
Airship	Wind Slash (+)	wind	one enemy
Airship	Ice Storm (+)	ice	all enemies
Airship	Shadowflare (-)	non-elemental	one enemy
Underwater	Whirlpool	instant death	all enemies
Underwater	Ice Pillar	ice	one enemy
Dungeon	Black Hole	instant death	one enemy
Dungeon	Flame Burst	fire	one enemy

Sing

The Sing skill is useable only by Bards. Using different harps can have different effects on the songs sung. Note that the strength of the effect increases with job level.

Note that the effects of Minne, Minuet, and Elegy only last for 2 rounds of battle.

Harp	Song	Effect
Madhura Harp	Minne	Support: increase physical defense power of the party.
Loki Harp	Minuet	Support: increase physical attack power of the party.
Lamia Harp	Requiem	Attack: damage all opponents.
Dream Harp	Paeon	Healing: heals the party a little.
Apollo Harp	Elegy	Support: decrease the amount of damage the party takes from any attack.

In the NES version, the Sing ability simply attacks the enemies, with no added effect, regardless of the equipped harp. Instead, the NES bard has two more skills, as shown in the table below.

Skill (NES)	Effect
Sing	Attack: replaces "fight" command
Cheer	Support: increases speed and physical strength of all allies; effect is cumulative
Scare	Debuff: lowers the level of all enemies, eventually making them flee; stronger enemies are immune