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Referred to as a demon sword, this katana was said to drink the blood of countless enemies.
Final Fantasy Tactics description
Muramasa (ムラマサ or 村正, Muramasa?) is a recurring weapon in the Final Fantasy series. The Muramasa is usually associated with the Ninja and Samurai job classes.
Appearances
Final Fantasy III
Template:Sideicon The Muramasa is the reward given to Ninjas by the Legendary Smith after reaching job level 99. It has an Attack power of 140 and adds +5 Strength, Vitality, Intellect, and Mind, and +10 Agility.
Final Fantasy X
Template:Sideicon The Muramasa is one of Auron's katana. It has the Triple Overdrive, Triple AP, and Overdrive → AP abilities on it.
Final Fantasy XII
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The Muramasa is one of the strongest katanas and cannot be bought in any shop. It can be found as a treasure in the Pharos, dropped by the Crypt Bunny, and stolen from the Avenger. It has an Attack power of 84, and its license costs 50 LP. All katana have 2.39s charge, and 1.2s action time, making them average what it comes to attacking speed.
In the Zodiac versions, it now provides 104 Attack, 31 Evade, 31 CT, 20% combo rate, and requires the Katana 4 license for 100 LP. It can be found as a treasure in the Pharos - Second Ascent (The Bounds of Truth), Cerobi Steppe (The Terraced Bank), dropped from Crypt Bunny (3%), or stolen from Avenger (3% chance). It can be equipped by the Bushi class.
Final Fantasy XIII-2
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A weapon of fey power feared as the blade that will strike down time's master. Increases chain bonuses.
Description
The Muramasa is a DLC weapon for Noel, which increases chain bonuses in battle.
Final Fantasy Tactics
Template:Sideicon The Muramasa has an attack power of 14 and 15% weapon defense when equipped. It can be bought for 15,000 gil from Chapter 3 and onwards. It can be found with the Treasure Hunter ability at Limberry Castle Keep as a rare treasure. The katana's Iaido ability is called Doomed Aspirations, which deals non-elemental magick damage and has a chance of inflicting Doom and/or Confuse statuses.
Final Fantasy Type-0
Template:Sideicon The Muramasa is a katana for Jack. It increases his Strength by 58 and his max MP by 30%. It can be bought from the Akademeia Armory for 35,000 gil. In the PSP version, it can be unlocked after Jack has participated in missions 200 times. In the HD version, it can be unlocked after Jack has dealt 200 Killsight strikes.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
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Brilliant blade made shiny by a coat of blood. Even so, it has an alluring quality about it.
Description
The Muramasa is a high-powered weapon only usable by Clavats. It can be made using the Cursed Weapon scroll, and provides +160 Attack.
Final Fantasy Legend II
Template:Sideicon Muramas has a sword icon before its name. It can be found in Nasty Dungeon. Taro is equipped with a Muramas as well, the only other one. It has 40 uses, it also increases a Robot's HP by 99 and increases their Str by 22. The damage formula for Muramas is the user's Str x15, and its effective against Humanoids such as humans and mutants.
Final Fantasy Legend III
Template:Sideicon Muramas has a sword icon before its name. It has an Attack power of 100 and also has innate Curse. It becomes the Mystic Sword Masmune when the curse is lifted by Masa. It deals Mystic-elemental damage, making it the only non-Mystic Sword weapon that can deal Mystic-elemental damage.
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
Template:Sideicon The Muramasa can be bought in the Mysterious Lighthouse for 9,000 G. The sword has an attack of 14 and can reduces the foe's status levels.
Bravely Default
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This katana bears the name of Muramasa, a famous swordsmith from the lost land of Wa. It came to be feared as cursed after it claimed the lives of the shogun's grandfather, father, and eldest son.
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Murumasa is a katana that when used a an item triggers the Defang skill. It can be found in Starkfort Interior inside a blue chest.
Bravely Second: End Layer
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This katana bears the name of Muramasa, a famous swordsmith from the lost land of Wa. It came to be feared as cursed after it claimed the lives of the shogun's grandfather, father, and eldest son.
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Final Fantasy Dimensions
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Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
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Final Fantasy Explorers
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A katana known as the demon blade. It plagues the world by increasing ailment infliction rate.
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Mobius Final Fantasy
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Non-Final Fantasy guest appearances
Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring
Raises life power.
Description
The Muramasa appears as a 2-handed sword within the Forsaken Dungeon. It provides 67 Weapon Atk, 8 Durability, +5% MAX HP, -2 Speed, and -1 Consumption Rate.
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Etymology
Sengo Muramasa was a Japanese swordsmith of the Muromachi Period famous for his extremely sharp blades, who was said to be insane. His works had symmetrically matching temper lines on both sides of the blade, fish belly styled tangs, and clean cut boundaries of temper lines, showing the focus of practicality rather than a balance. The blades forged by him were involved in numerous famous yet unfortunate accidents in the early years of the Tokugawa Shogunate-run Edo Period that led to the superstition of his swords being evil and bloodthirsty to the point that once drawn, they could not be returned to their scabbards without having first drawn blood, even if it required the wielder to commit suicide, and led to his swords being banned. Muramasa is famously compared to Masamune in Japanese legend as blacksmiths representative of their times; Masamune of the golden age of katana in the prosperous times of Kamakura, with Muramasa of the turbulent and violent warring age of the Sengoku.
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