Relic (Final Fantasy VI)

Relics are accessories in Final Fantasy VI that form a character customization system. In this system, which was conceived and designed by Hiroyuki Ito, each character can equip up to two relics which provide special bonuses. However, not every character can equip every single relic, as some can only be equipped by specific characters. Temporary playable characters cannot equip relics. The smartphone version has no separate equip screen for Relics and they are equipped in the main equipment menu.

The majority of the relics can be bought in shops, while others must be found or dropped from enemies. Several shops change their inventory during the course of the game, therefore not all relics listed on this page as being sold by a shop will be available at that shop at all times.

List of relics
Relics serve to give the party various abilities, enhancements, and bonuses to attributes depending on what relics they have equipped. Below is a list of relics equippable by the party, organized by the types of effects they provide.

Status immunity
These relics grant status immunity to the wearer.

Status effects
These relics grant permanent status effects on the wearer which cannot be dispelled or removed by certain enemy spells or abilities such as Vengeance.

Stats
The following relics are related and focus on increasing the wearer's stats. In the Super Nintendo version, the Evade bug made the Evasion stat useless.

Battle commands
The following relics affect the character's battle commands directly, such as upgrading the command into a new one, improving them, or granting new power when the character who has these specific commands equips them.

Abilities
The following relics grant the wearer specific passive abilities, and some of them are only triggered under certain conditions.

Field
These relics takes effect outside of battle unlike all the relics above.

Etymology
Реликт (Final Fantasy VI)