Key Terms

Key Terms, also known as Keywords, is a system in Final Fantasy II. Key Terms further the story and receive additional dialogue. To learn Key Terms, a character first must say the Key Term in their dialogue. A learnable Key Term will be highlighted in red (green on the WonderSwan and GBA versions), and it can be stored using the "Learn" option. In addition to the Learn option, there is also the "Ask" option, which will ask a Key Term, and the "Item" option, which will display or give an item to the character. Only certain, usually plot important characters are able to be utilized through Key Terms, and often Key Terms will lead to the character giving another Key Term.
Key Terms also play a pivotal role in the Arcane Labyrinth, a bonus dungeon added in the PSP and iOS versions. Key Terms are used to unlock new floors in the dungeon, with each Key Term having a unique level and a level task, the reward of which is usually another Arcane Labyrinth-specific Key Term or a hint for another floor. The Arcane Labyrinth adds a total of 30 new terms to the original 15, bringing the total number of Key Terms to 45.
==List of Key Terms==
===Original terms===
Name 	Category 	Description 	Entry at Mysidia Library
(Ivy) 	Life and Nature 	The insignia of the Kingdom of Fynn. The rebels also use it as their password. 	None
(Silver) 	Matter and Materials	A magical metal. [[Josef(Final Fantasy II)|Josef]] of [[Salamand(Final Fantasy II)|Salamand]] has been searching for its source. 	Mythril is a strong, easily processed metal. Highly responsive to magic, it forms the basis of magical armaments.
 	Matter and Materials	A craft built by [[Cid(Final Fantasy II)|Cid]] of Poft. 	Recent technological advances have produced the airship. Should these technical arts proliferate, they could one day drive magic from the world.
(Warship) 	Matter and Materials	A massive, heavily armed airship under construction in Bafsk. 	None
 	Magic and Spirits 	The symbol of Kashuan. Its flame still burns on the ground floor of the keep. 	In a time before the world knew castles or kingdoms, a star fell to the land we now call Kashuan. A man gathered flame from the star and built an alter to enshrine it.
(Chime) 	Magic and Spirits 	The key to the gates of Kashuan Keep. 	Once, long ago, a king ordered the making of an indestructible lock and key. Three sets were fashioned. The first was forged from friendship, the second from love, and the third from wonder. The sets forged from friendship were soon broken. But the third was wrought from the wonder evoked by the ringing of a single pure note, and it held fast. That key was the Goddess's Bell. So pleased was the king, he hid the bell away in a [[Snow Cave(Final Fantasy II)|cavern of snow]], where it rests to this day.
 	Life and Nature 	Dragon knights of Deist. They can speak the tongue of the [[Wyvern(Final Fantasy II)|wyverns]]. 	The island of Deist was the ancestral home of the wyverns. A knight named Haan visited the island, and over a period of thirty years, he cultivated a bond with the wyverns. Haan later became the first Dragoon.
 	Life and Nature 	Flying dragons that fight as one with the dragoons. 	A close relative of the dragon, the wyvern is a beast trained to serve as the airborne mount of the dragoons. Though smaller than a dragon, a wyvern's strength allows it to carry four to five people into the air.
 	Locations 	A land found on a continent far to the south. Books filled with the secrets of this world can be found there. 	Fearing that the tremendous power they wielded might lead the world to destruction, the mages of old founded a settlement in Mysidia and dwelt there in seclusion.
(Xtal) 	Magic and Spirits 	A book containing the ultimate magic. It is said this magic will be released when the world is in peril. It lies enshrined within the Mysidian Tower.	In ages past, [[Pandaemonium(Final Fantasy II)|Pandaemonium]], the palace of the lord of Hell, emerged unto our land. The mages of old wove a spell of fearsome power and banished Pandaemonium, averting the crisis. However, the mages feared that the spell was so powerful, it could throw the world into chaos. So they constructed a great tower and sealed within it the tome inscribed with the spell's secrets.
 	Matter and Materials	An artifact used to enter the Mysidian Tower. Two masks are need to break the seal. 	Make of the [[White Mask(Final Fantasy II)|White Mask]] an offering to the goddess beneath Mysidia. If thou art pure of heart, the doppelganger will cease to move. Fit then the Black Mask upon him, and both he and his defiled heart shall fade.
(ETSOMADA)	Magic and Spirits 	An incantation that opens a door leading underground. 	None
(Tornado) 	Life and Nature 	A storm controlled by the emperor's magic. 	None
(Palakia) 	Locations 	The domain of the emperor. He rules from Castle Palamecia, a stronghold lying far to the south of Kashuan. 	The king of Palamecia was said to be a man of tremendous pride. Once he decreed that he would give his daughter as a prize to any man who could penetrate his castle. Men who scaled cliffs, men who dug tunnels - all were humbed before the walls of the impenetrable castle. But finally there came a man who succeeded where others had failed. Filling a great bag with hot air, he floated up, alighted on the castle roof, and entered the castle. Enraged at being outwitted, the king attempted to seize the man. But with an airy confidence, the man, together with the princess, escaped into the sky.
(Jade) 	Locations 	The passage by which the beasts of Hell are said to have entered the world. 	The Jade Passage is the path joining this world with Hell. The passage leads to Pandaemonium, the castle of Hell.
===Arcane Labyrinth terms===
Name	Category 	Description
 	Matter and Materials	A tool that reflects one's image.
 	Magic and Spirits 	The act of following and studying.
 	Life and Nature 	The flow of air that caresses the earth.
 	Locations 	A water vein that flows underground.
 	Locations 	A hole in a rock formation
 	Life and Nature 	One capable of wielding magic.
 	Matter and Materials	A tool that illuminates its surroundings.
 	Life and Nature 	Thick, expanding mist.
 	Magic and Spirits 	The complete and utter absence of light.
 	Life and Nature 	A cloud that accompanies thunder.
 	Locations 	A mass of land covered by sand.
 	Locations 	An area of the desert providing water.
 	Locations 	A dense and sprawling forest.
 	Life and Nature 	Burning heat.
 	Magic and Spirits 	The power needed to cast spells.
 	Locations 	A land of arctic frost.
 	Magic and Spirits 	The impulse of wanting.
 	Magic and Spirits 	The power to control others.
 	Matter and Materials	An object for storage or decoration
 	Magic and Spirits 	That which is said to hold life and spirit in a body.
 	Magic and Spirits 	Thoughts and feelings of compassion.
 	Life and Nature 	Beings of immense size and strength, resembling man.
 	Locations 	A mythical land that seems like a dream.
 	Matter and Materials	Bars composed of iron.
 	Matter and Materials	Written accounts of the past.
 	Magic and Spirits 	A toxin that drains life for death.
 	No category 	The state of being forgotten.
 	No category 	Belief in a wish.
 	No category 	The act of breaking and annihilating.
 	No category 	That which protects people.
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