Compiled and useful
for Final Fantasy III for the Super the Super Nintendo
or Final Fantasy VI for the Sony Playstation.
*** Introduction
Strago comes within a hair's breadth of not being cool. Thankfully, he has a
few saving graces, like Pearl Wind, L.? Pearl, Aero, Big Guard, Aqua Rake,
Quasar and GrandTrain. However, the quest to collect all of Strago's Lores is
an end in itself, rather than actually being useful. This guide should help
you get all of the Lores in the fastest time, and save you a lot of paper to
boot ('cuz I'm just efficient like that, yo).
*** Revision History
3.7, October 10th, '06 - Reformatted Section I into a step-by-step list, and
incorporated Assassin17's and Ebmid2's advice. Also,
reformatted Section II for readability.
3.6, July 17th, '06 - Section II now indicates when monsters are immune to
Muddle, and other small corrections and notes.
3.5, March 5th, '05 - Added the Chart of Lores by Skill (kick ass, IMO), as
well as a dozen of Assassin's "ninja-star" corrections
(as in, small but deadly)
3.4, March 3rd, '05 - Various corrections and additions. (Thanks to
Assassin's super-human editting skills).
3.3, March 1st, '05 - Revived Lore material as a separate guide (hence the
new version number). Made several corrections based
on Assassin's advice.
3.2, February 1st, '05 - Removed all Lore material. Cleaner, nicer guide to
Rage.
3.1, January 31st, '05 - Added information on some Rages and modified
formatting and rewrote some paragraphs.
3.0, January 30th, '05 - It returns! I FINALLY filled in the status effects of
Rages, and redid the tables. Also, modified
formatting, and other minor changes.
2.5.5, May 5th, '03 - I skipped a number. Rewrote the Lores guide and chart.
Made lots of minor corrections.
2.3, April 25th, '03 - More niceties, rearranged the order of the guide.
2.2, April 24th, '03 - Added to Rage skill descriptions, and a brief
explanation of column titles, and changed Gau's
"Minimum of Fuss" guide.
2.1, April 22nd, '03 - Filled in gaps, corrected some mistakes.
2.0, April 20th, '03 - Complete rewrite, added Strago section.
1.0, April 9th, '03 - Added to "Important Rages" section, updated
Introduction, and modified Strategy section.
0.9, April 8th, '03 – Microsoft Word version.
0.8, April 7th, '03 - The first draft! Lists Rages in a few ways; not easy
to read and not convenient to print.
*** Other Lore Resources (and their specific contributions)
Lores Acquisition Guide 1.4 by Assassin:
Assassin (Assassin17 to yous thugs) has shown a huge enthusiasm for this guide,
and has provided lots of data and filled many potholes. So remember kids:
Assassin = free labor. Good.
(In)Complete List of Monsters 3.0 by Garry Dobson:
A very thorough Monster by Order of Apppearance list. Helpful!
FF3us Monster Stats Guide 1.1 and
FF3us Attack Guide v1.1 by Master ZED (cytekzed at aol dot com):
Correct spellings of monster names, accurate locations, filled in nasty gaps
of information and immense help for the Lore Locations Chart. Also special
thanks for suggestions for improvement.
Algorithms FAQ by Terii Senshi (teriisenshi at aol dot com):
Accurate information on the effects of Lores.
Lord J's FF3usME v. 6.2 (lord_j at hotmail dot com):
Accurate information about enemy scripts, which I scanned for hours looking
for Lores.
*** Table of Contents
CHAPTER I: All of the Lores with a Minimum of Fuss
A. WORLD OF BALANCE
B. WORLD OF RUIN
CHAPTER II: Chart of Lores by Monster Order of Appearance
A. WORLD OF BALANCE
B. WORLD OF RUIN
I. All of the Lores with a Minimum of Fuss Walkthrough
Once you have control of Strago, you're already at the end of the World of
Balance. That means that you can get gobs of Lores right away. The following
guide is a barebones step-by-step guide that should allow you to have collect
each of the Lores in each "World" within just a few minutes. How's that for
efficiency? Just be sure to have Strago (a) in your party and (b) alive at all
times.
A. WORLD OF BALANCE
Lores to Collect:
Aqua Rake Stone Revenge Exploder Pearl Wind
Condemned Pep Up Step Mine Dischord L.3 Muddle
L.4 Flare L.5 Doom Roulette Blow Fish
1. Strago begins with Aqua Rake, Stone, and Revenge.
2. In the burning house in Thamasa, cast any fire-elemental spells on Balloons
until one of them uses Exploder.
3. Go to Esper Mountain (northwest of the Thamasa peninsula, past the forest)
and fight an Abolisher. After fighting for three turns, it will use Pearl
Wind.
4. When you regain control of the airship, switch Gau into your party along
with Strago. Have Gau perform the Zombone|Condemned and Intangir|Pep Up
Rages, and Stago will learn them. Also, if Gau happens to have the
Trapper|L.3 Muddle Rage, he can 'teach' it to Strago, too (but not
dreadfully necessary, since we will need to find real Trappers again soon).
5. Fly in the airship to the plains outside of South Figaro, and fight
Greasemonks. Use Muddle, Cait Sith (sorry, "Stray"), or Edgar's NoiseBlaster
until the Greasemonks use Step Mine.
6. Now, fly to the Veldt and walk around until you find either Telstar or
Chaser (they are both flying saucers with arms). Do not kill Telstar for ten
turns, and it will use Dischord. Chaser may use it sooner. Also, Trappers on
the Veldt will eventually use all of L.3 Muddle, L.4 Flare, and L.5 Doom if
you wait long enough--just make sure you can survive them! Finally, with
Relm in your party, scour the Veldt for Pipsqueaks. Sketch a Pipsqueak for
Roulette.
7. Now, go to the Floating Continent. When you see Brainpan, kill all the
monsters except for the Brainpan. It will use Blow Fish.
B. WORLD OF RUIN
Lores to Collect:
Big Guard Rippler Aero Sour Mouth CleanSweep
L.? Pearl GrandTrain Quasar Reflect??? ForceField
1. After you use Relm to rescue Strago, fly all the way back to the Solitary
Island (where you began the World of Ruin) and Sketch an EarthGuard for Big
Guard.
2. Zip over to the land outside Maranda and fight a Reach Frog until you learn
Rippler.
3. Fly to the plains outside Kohlingen and fight a Harpiai until you learn
Aero.
4. Run into Daryl's Tomb, just south of Kohlingen, and fight Mad Oscar until
you learn Sour Mouth.
5. Fly to Figaro Castle, and use it to burrow down to the Ancient Castle. In
the underground pathway, an Enuo will use CleanSweep when you kill its
buddies.
6. L.? Pearl gives you a couple of options. If you haven't done the Phoenix
Cave, I recommend going there and letting Relm Sketch the Red Dragon.
Otherwise, take Strago into Cyan's Dream and fight some Critics until you
learn it. If both events are gone, you can look for Critics in the Veldt, or
fight Innoc in Kefka's Tower. Finding Critics will probably be easier,
depending on your party's strength.
7. For GrandTrain, go complete Strago's side quest by talking to his friend in
Thamasa. When you reach Hidon, make sure to kill all the little Hidonites
first, and Hidon will use it.
8. On Kefka's Tower, Dark Force has a one-in-three chance, every seven turns of
casting Quasar and Reflect??? (along with several other Lores you might have
missed--see below), so be patient. As an alternative for Reflect???, Didalos
will cast it if any of your characters have the Rflect status (e.g., wearing
Wall Rings).
9. Sadly, the only way to learn ForceField is to fight (and win against--duh)
Doom - the first statue. Make sure Strago is in Team #1 when you enter
Kefka's tower.
This chart is very simple. It is organized in rough chronological order by
monster. However, there are many variables which I will describe in the
'Situation' column for each monster's Lore skill. They are as follows:
KEY:
Rg - Obtain Lore by performing the Rage of this monster.
Sk - Obtain Lore by targetting this monster with Sketch.
Ct - Obtain Lore by targetting this monster with Control (or the
"Nightshade|Charm" Rage).
Md - Obtain Lore by targetting this monster with Muddle.
Bt - Obtain Lore by Battle--no special strategy necessary.
Nt - See note below for a special strategy needed to obtain Lore.
Vd - One-time-only monster; look for it on the Veldt.
! - Best/earliest monster to learn from.
A. THE WORLD OF BALANCE
Locale Monster Lore Obtain With
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Narshe Repo Man Exploder Rg
Outside S. Figaro Greasemonk Step Mine Ct Md !
Imperial Camp Telstar Dischord Nt Vd !
Phantom Forest Bomb Exploder Sk Ct Md Nt
Vector/MagitechRF Chaser Dischord Ct Md Bt Vd
Trapper L.3 Muddle Rg Sk Ct Md Bt Vd !
L.4 Flare Ct Md Bt Vd !
L.5 Doom Sk Ct Md Bt Vd !
Pipsqueak Roulette Sk Vd !
Exploder Nt Vd
Forest w/of Veldt Grenade Exploder Nt
Sealed Gate Zombone Condemned Rg Vd !
Burning House Balloon Exploder Rg Sk Ct Md Nt Vd !
Esper Mountain Abolisher Pearl Wind Nt !
Triangle Island Intangir Pep Up Rg Ct* !
Step Mine Sk
Floating Contnt Brainpan Blow Fish Rg Sk Ct Md Nt !
Apokryphos L.3 Muddle Rg Sk Ct* Nt
L.4 Flare Rg Sk Ct* Nt
L.5 Doom Nt
Nerapa Condemned Bt
Roulette Nt
* These skills can technically be acquired using Control/Charm/Muddle; but
since their monsters are immune to Muddle, and there is no way to Control or
Charm in the WoB, it is a moot point.
Strategy for Obtaining Lore (alphabetical by monster name):
-Abolisher casts Pearl Wind on its third turn.
-Apokryphos may cast L.3 Muddle, L.4 Flare, or L.5 Doom, only when attacked,
when alone.
-Balloon may cast Exploder every third turn, or when attacked with Fire Magic.
-Bomb may cast Exploder after any attack.
-Brainpan may cast Blow Fish only when alone.
-Grenade may cast Exploder when hit with 'Fight'.
-Nerapa casts Roulette when hit with 'Fight' six times.
-Phase may cast Blow Fish when attacked or when alone.
-Pipsqueak may cast Exploder when hit with 'Fight'.
-Telstar casts Dischord on its tenth turn.
B. THE WORLD OF RUIN
Locale Monster Lore Obtain With
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Solitary Island EarthGuard Big Guard Rg Sk !
Peepers Pearl Wind Rg Sk
Southern Contint Mesosaur Step Mine Rg Sk Ct Md
Serpent Trench Lizard Dischord Ct Md
Figaro Cave Dante L.3 Muddle Rg Sk Ct Md Nt
Outside Kohlingen Harpiai Aero Rg Sk Ct Bt !
Pearl Wind Bt
Muus Pep Up Rg Sk Ct Bt
Daryl's Tomb Mad Oscar Sour Mouth Rg Sk Ct Md Bt !
Presenter Blow Fish Bt
Airship Doom Gaze L.5 Doom Bt
Aero Bt
Outside Maranda Cactrot Blow Fish Rg Sk Ct Bt
Reach Frog Rippler Bt !
Mt. Zozo Storm Drgn Aero Sk Bt
Pearl Wind Sk
Cave in Veldt Rhyos Aero Ct
Allo Ver Condemned Bt
Outside Thamasa Harpy Aero Ct Md Bt
Owzer's House Still Life Condemned Ct Nt
Phoenix Cave Phase Blow Fish Rg Sk Ct Md
Red Dragon L.? Pearl Sk !
L.4 Flare Bt
Narshe Mag Roader L.4 Flare Rg
Umaro's Cave Tomb Thumb Step Mine Rg Sk Ct Md
Pug Step Mine Bt
Triangle Island Wart Puck Exploder Rg Sk Ct
Ogor Pearl Wind Ct Md
Mobliz Phunbaba Blow Fish Bt
Outside Doma Sprinter Aero Rg Sk
Pearl Wind Bt
Crawler Step Mine Rg Sk Ct Md
Dischord Nt
Cyan's Dream Critic Condemned Rg Sk Ct Md Bt Vd
Roulette Bt Vd
L.? Pearl Bt Vd !
Curley Pearl Wind Bt
Ancient Castle Enuo CleanSweep Rg Sk Ct Nt !
Figaliz Dischord Rg Sk Ct Md Nt
Goblin L.3 Muddle Nt
L.4 Flare Nt
L.5 Doom Nt
Master Pug Step Mine Nt
CleanSweep Nt
Blue Drgn CleanSweep Bt
Rippler Bt
KatanaSoul Blow Fish Nt
Ebot's Rock Hidon GrandTrain Nt !
'Jurassic Park' Tyranosaur Aero Sk
Brachosaur Step Mine Sk
Kefka's Tower Mover Big Guard Ct Nt
Blow Fish Nt
Guardian Big Guard Sk
Dark Force CleanSweep Rg Sk Ct
L.5 Doom Sk Ct Bt
Pearl Wind Ct Bt
Condemned Bt
Roulette Bt
L? Pearl Bt
Step Mine Bt
Dischord Bt
Sour Mouth Bt
Aero Bt
Blow Fish Bt
Exploder Bt
Rippler Bt
Quasar Bt !
L.4 Flare Bt
L.3 Muddle Bt
Reflect??? Bt !
Retainer Condemned Ct
Veteran Condemned Sk Bt
Roulette Rg Sk Ct Md Nt
Scullion Dischord Rg
Exploder Sk
IronHitman Dischord Rg Sk Ct Md Bt
Sky Base L.5 Doom Bt
Junk Exploder Ct Md Bt
Pep Up Rg Ct Md Bt
Innoc L.? Pearl Sk Ct Md Bt
Vectaur Pearl Wind Rg Sk Ct
Evil Oscar Sour Mouth Sk Ct Md Nt
Dueller L.4 Flare Bt
L.5 Doom Bt
Didalos L.5 Doom Bt
Reflect??? Nt
Atma CleanSweep Bt
Skull Drgn Condemned Bt
Doom ForceField Bt !
Poltrgeist Aero Bt
Goddess Quasar Bt
Strategy for Obtaining Lore (alphabetical by monster name):
-Crawler may cast Dischord only when alone.
-Dante may cast L.3 Muddle when attacked with Magic.
-Didalos casts Reflect??? if your character(s) are 'Rflect'ed
-Enuo may cast CleanSweep only when alone.
-Evil Oscar may cast Sour Mouth only when alone.
-Figaliz may cast Dischord only when alone.
-Goblin may cast L.3 Muddle, L.4 Flare, or L.5 Doom, only when alone.
-KatanaSoul may cast Blow Fish only if not attacked long enough.
-Hidon casts GrandTrain when all Hidonites are dead.
-Master Pug may cast Step Mine when attacked.
-Master Pug may cast CleanSweep if it assigns itself weakness against 'earth'.
-Mover casts Big Guard or Blow Fish only when alone.
-Still Life casts Condemned when attacked.
-Veteran may cast Roulette when attacked with Magic.
What would a Lore guide be without a chart of the Lores themselves? Here they
are in all their alphabetical glory. Pay close attention to the KEY if you want
to have any idea what the heck's going on. I had to do a lot of funky things to
save space, but look ma: no footnotes! This is one of the densest charts I've
ever done; I'll tackle anyone who don't appreciate it!
KEY:
MP - Magic Points necessary to cast the spell.
Pwr - Power; Non-damage-dealing spells and spells whose "Pwr" does not reflect
their actual strength are n/a.
Hit - Hit Rate; unblockable skills are n/a.
El - Element of attack, as follows:
f - Fire p - Poison e - Earth
i - Ice a - Air/Wind w - Water
b - Bolt/Lightning h - Holy/Pearl - - Non-elemental or n/a
I - Ignores Defense; sometimes means that a skill is very powerful, but
sometimes refers to healing or to a special mode of damage
calculation. Non-damage-dealing spells are n/a ("/").
U - Unblockable; these skills won't miss except in cases of enemy immunity.
Untargetted spells are n/a ("/").
N - No Split Damage; these spells do not become less effective when cast on
multiple enemies at once. Single target and non-damage-dealing spells are
n/a ("/").
Unless stated otherwise, all Lores target one enemy.
Effects
Skill MP Pwr Hit El I U N Monster Sources
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aero 41 125 150 a N N N Targets all enemies
Harpiai, Doom Gaze, Storm Drgn, Rhyos,
Harpy, Sprinter, Tyranosaur,
Dark Force, Poltrgeist
Aqua Rake 22 71 150 aw N N N Targets all enemies
Big Guard 80 n/a n/a - / Y / Causes Safe and Shell on all allies
Earthguard, Mover, Guardian
Blow Fish 50 n/a n/a - Y Y / Damage is 1000
Brainpan, Presenter, Cactrot, Phase,
Phunbaba, KatanaSoul, Mover,
Dark Force
Cleansweep 30 50 150 w N N Y Targets all enemies
Enuo, Master Pug, Blue Drgn,
Dark Force, Atma
Condemned 20 n/a n/a - / Y / Causes Condemned/Countdown
Zombone, Nerapa, Allo Ver, Still Life,
Critic, Dark Force, Retainer,
Veteran, Skull Drgn, Sleep
Dischord 68 n/a 100 - / N / Reduces target to 50% its prior level
Telstar, Chaser, Lizard, Crawler,
Figaliz, Dark Force, Scullion,
IronHitMan
Exploder 1 n/a n/a - Y Y / Damage is caster HP; kills caster
Repo Man, Bomb, Pipsqueak, Grenade,
Balloon, Wart Puck, Dark Force,
Scullion, Junk
ForceField 24 n/a n/a - / / / Nullifies all spells of a random element
Doom
GrandTrain 64 66 n/a - Y Y N Targets all enemies
Hidon
L.? Pearl 50 120 n/a h N Y Y Targets enemies of level divisible by
last digit of GP total
Red Drgn, Critic, Dark Force, Innoc
L.3 Muddle 28 n/a n/a - / Y / Targets enemies of level divisible by
3; causes Muddle
Trapper, Apokryphos, Dante, Goblin,
Dark Force
L.4 Flare 42 n/a 66 - Y Y Y Targets enemies of level divisible by 4
Trapper, Apokryphos, Red Drgn,
Mag Roader, Goblin, Dark Force,
Dueller
L.5 Doom 22 n/a n/a - / Y / Targets enemies of level divisible by
5; causes Death
Trapper, Apokryphos, Doom Gaze,
Goblin, Dark Force, Sky Base, Dueller,
Didalos
Pearl Wind 45 n/a n/a - Y Y Y Heals all allies; amount is caster HP
Abolisher, Peepers, Harpiai,
Storm Drgn, Ogor, Sprinter, Curley,
Dark Force, Vectaur, Girl
Pep Up 1 n/a n/a - / Y / Heals one ally; amount is caster HP;
removes caster from battle
Intangir, Muus, Junk
Quasar 50 57 n/a - Y Y N Targets all enemies
Dark Force, Goddess
Reflect??? 0 n/a n/a - / Y / Targets Rflect'd enemies; causes
Dark, Mute, Slow
Dark Force, Didalos
Revenge 31 n/a n/a - Y Y / Damage is caster max HP - current HP
Rippler 66 n/a 111 - / N / Trades caster status and target status
Reach Frog, Blue Drgn, Dark Force
Roulette 10 n/a n/a - / Y / Causes Death to random target
Pipsqueak, Nerapa, Critic, Dark Force,
Veteran
Sour Mouth 32 n/a 100 - / N / Causes Dark, Poison, Imp, Mute, Sleep
Mad Oscar, Dark Force, Evil Oscar
Step Mine / n/a n/a - Y Y / MP is minutes played divided by 30;
Damage is steps divided by 32
Greasemonk, Intangir, Mesosaur,
Tomb Thumb, Pug, Crawler, Master Pug,
Brachosaur, Dark Force
Stone 22 40 75 - N N N Targets one or all enemies; causes
Muddle; multiplies damage by 14x if
caster and monster at same level
Dark Force is an enemy in Kefka's Tower that uses 19 of Strago's 24 Lores,
*excluding* Big Guard, CleanSweep, ForceField, Pep Up, and GrandTrain (but he
can still teach CleanSweep using Rage, Sketch, or Control). He has a cycle of
seven turns, each of which selects randomly from a pool of three skills.
Launcher and Imp Song, sadly, are not Lores. Here is the Dark Force battle
script, dumped from Lord J's FF3usME:
Turn Chooses from one of these three
------------------------------------------------
First turn: Condemned | Roulette | Aqua Rake
Second turn: Revenge | Pearl Wind | L.5 Doom
Third turn: L.4 Flare | L.3 Muddle | Reflect???
Fourth turn: L? Pearl | Step Mine | Launcher
Fifth turn: Dischord | Sour Mouth | Imp Song
Sixth turn: Aero | Blow Fish | Exploder
Seventh turn: Rippler | Stone | Quasar
Repeat
If you liked this guide, write me at (skoobouy at hotmail dot com) and let me
know--I won't feel like such a yutz for wasting so much time. My thanks
again for the hard work of so many FF fans. Bye!
