Relm Arrowny Relm Arrowny is a playable character in " Final Fantasy VI " . She is a talented artist , and she can make her paintings come alive with magic . Profile . Appearance . Relm is a young girl from Thamasa . She has blonde hair covered by a large hat and wears a black tube top and a yellow cape . Her portrait sprite depicts her with a red dot on her left cheek , presumed to be paint due to her artistic tendencies . In the smartphone version her field sprite is the same height as the other characters ' but in the original versions she is considerably shorter . Personality . Relm is a sassy little girl . She constantly scolds Strago for making stupid decisions . She also makes biting remarks when someone is acting foolishly . Despite this , she does so with a good heart and only means to help her comrades . If irritated , Relm often threatens to paint the offender ' s picture , much to the fear of the party , knowing what her paintings are capable of . Story . Terra Branford , Locke Cole , and Shadow visit Strago in Thamasa to ask him about the espers . While Strago feigns ignorance , Relm rudely barges in on the conversation and asks the visitors if they can use magic too . She then takes an immediate liking to Shadow ' s dog , Interceptor . This confuses Shadow because Interceptor does not normally like people . Strago invites them to stay at the inn for the low price of 1 gil . However , during the night , Relm is caught in a fire while spending time at a friend ' s house ( to play with a Fire Rod ) . Strago tries casting ice spells to put the fire out , but to no avail . The Mayor of Thamasa shows up and exclaims that Magic is forbidden , but Strago would not listen . Strago asks Terra and Locke to help him save Relm . The three go inside the burning building to rescue her , but are cornered by flames . At the last moment , Shadow and Interceptor come in and save them all . Afterward , Strago explains to Terra and Locke the villagers ' magic abilities were inherited from the Mage Warriors , who , after the War of the Magi , were shunned by the world and left to found their own community in Thamasa . Strago agrees to help find the Espers and Relm asks if she could come too , but Strago refuses . She follows anyway and catches up with them during a fight with Ultros . During the fight , Relm asks Ultros if she could paint his portrait , causing one of the more humorous scenes in the story to occur . She proves to Terra , Locke , and Strago that she can indeed be useful and together they continue on to find the Espers and Terra speaks to their leader , Yura . She convinces them to negotiate peace with General Leo Cristophe and the Gestahlian Empire . She also takes notice of Celes and Locke ' s reconcilement and inadvertently embarrasses them by asking Strago if they are all " hot and heavy " . However , the peace deal is revealed to be a trap set up by Kefka Palazzo to get more magicite . Kefka ' s plan is a tragic success , and Relm and Strago join the others in the fight against him . What happens to Relm after the end of the world depends on whether or not the player waits for Shadow before jumping off the Floating Continent . If the party did not wait for him , Relm is found wounded in the Cave on the Veldt and the party has to defeat the Behemoth King to rescue her and take her back to Thamasa to recover . But before she can rejoin the party she disappears . The villagers in Thamasa mention that Relm had been hired by Owzer , a wealthy art collector in Jidoor , to help him remove a demon named Chadarnook that has possessed one of his prized paintings . Relm could do nothing until the party showed up to help out . After the fight , Relm rejoins . If the party does wait for Shadow at the Floating Continent , however , Shadow will be found wounded in the cave in Relm ' s place and Relm will already be in Jidoor having been hired by Owzer . After Relm rejoins , she goes to the Cultists ' Tower where Strago has become a member of the Cult of Kefka . Relm awakes Strago up from his trance with a few choice words , and he rejoins , mentioning that Relm is as foul - mouthed as ever . Relm and Strago go back to Thamasa where they find Strago ' s old friend , Gungho , injured by Hidon , a monster he and Strago used to hunt in their youth . Strago and Relm go to defeat Hidon , and come back victorious . In the ending , Relm and Strago have a few conversations , and Relm says she would like to paint a traditional , non - magic painting of Strago using a real canvas . If Strago is not re - obtained by the player in the World of Ruin , then Relm , stuck on a conveyor belt , is passed along by Celes , Setzer , and Edgar . She threatens to paint their portraits , saying , " You can ' t just throw me aside ! " and they return to help her . Relm ' s Father . Through of a series of flashbacks unveiled by resting in various inns with Shadow in the party , it is revealed that Shadow is Relm ' s father . Shadow ' s dreams tell the story of him as a train robber named Clyde who fled the authorities with his partner Baram . Baram was killed but Shadow escaped to Thamasa , where he married with an unnamed woman and fathered a child before leaving the village to keep his past from catching up with him . The village dog , Interceptor , followed him . This is why Interceptor is so friendly towards Relm , and why both Shadow and Relm can use the Memento Ring , said to be empowered by the love of a departed mother — in this case , Relm ' s mother and Shadow ' s wife . If the player allows Shadow to die on the Floating Continent , the flashback sequence viewed when the player rescues Relm changes to show Strago speaking to Relm , who then cries out for " Daddy " and asks where he went and if he will come back , before Interceptor leaves . This fits perfectly with the flashback viewed if the player rescues Shadow instead of Relm , which shows him , as Clyde , walking away from Strago ' s home when Interceptor runs up from behind him . In the original English SNES release , he tells Interceptor to stay with " the girl " , but the word used for " girl " in the Japanese release could also be used as a humble form of " daughter " . In the Game Boy Advance release the word " daughter " is used instead , making it clear that Shadow fathered a child in Thamasa before fleeing the village . Shadow and Relm ' s relationship was officially confirmed in developers ' interviews in 1995 . The developers considered having a scene in a bar ( presumably in Thamasa ) where Strago asks Shadow to reveal his identity . The dialogue was supposed to be as follows : Gameplay . Relm is a Pictomancer whose primary role is casting Magic , as her very high Magic stat and access to female - exclusive equipment make her a very powerful mage . Her Sketch ability allows her to replicate the attack of an enemy , and she can turn it into she can turn into Control with the Fake Mustache relic . Relm has good Speed , but her physical stats are generally low . Her equipment is limited , though her rods , maces and robes can boost her magical prowess further , and she can equip the Cat - Ear Hood , one of the strongest pieces of armor . Her Desperation Attack is Star Prism that instantly kills an enemy not immune to Death . Creation and development . Relm ' s design and story were created by Kaori Tanaka ( later nicknamed Soraya Saga ) , who also created Edgar Roni Figaro , Sabin Rene Figaro , Duncan Harcourt , and Vargas . Relm ' s " Control " command is based on the idea that monsters have s , and whoever knows these true names has power over them ( this is an idea well - known in real - world demonology ) . In the game ' s original strategy guide , Strago and Relm are said to fight with stuffed toys . This might be another idea that was tossed around during development , but in the end was never implemented . The idea wasn ' t used until " Final Fantasy X " where Lulu uses stuffed toys as weapons . The developers wished they could have used Yoshitaka Amano ' s artwork in the game by having one of Relm ' s drawings being Amano ' s artwork , and in the ending have Relm painting a wall mural showing scenes of all the adventures the heroes had undertaken . However , it was not possible due to hardware limitations . Musical themes . Relm ' s theme is simply named " Relm " . It is mixed into the ending theme . Other appearances . Relm has made appearances in the following games in the " Final Fantasy " series : Other media . Games . In " Secret of Evermore " , Relm appears among the crowd of spectators that includes other " Final Fantasy VI " characters at the gladiator battle of Antiqua . She appears alongside Terra , Locke , Mog , Strago , and Umaro .