Sky (location)

Sky is a recurring battle location and terrain type in the Final Fantasy series. Most of the time, battles takes place high up in the sky, usually standing on the deck of an airship fighting an aerial enemy. These battles are in most cases one time only encounters, but in some games the player can engage random encounters while flying across the skies.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy III===
The player can engage enemies while flying their airship in the sky, while piloting the Invincible. Battles on board the airship begin with a volley of cannonfire at all enemies. A Geomancer that uses Terrain during these battles will use Tornado to deal Wind-elemental damage to all enemies.
===Final Fantasy IV===
The only battle that takes place in the sky is right at the beginning on board the Red Wings when monsters attack Cecil's airship.
====Final Fantasy IV: The After Years====
Only a few battles take place on board the Red Wings airship when monsters attack it. Ceodore, Biggs and Wedge engage in battle with them.
===Final Fantasy VI===
The first sky battle occurs when the party tries to leave Vector and they are attacked by two Cranes. Later, they engage in a few battles while trying to reach the Floating Continent, and the party is later knocked off from their airship by Typhon. While falling from the sky, the Air Force attacks them. The optional battle against Deathgaze in the World of Ruin also takes place on the deck of the Falcon. Furthermore, the final battle against Kefka is fought far up into the clouds.
Mog can learn the Wind Rhapsody dance when fighting in the sky.
===Final Fantasy VII===
Ultimate Weapon second encounter takes places in the sky, and the party will fight it while on the deck of their airship, the Highwind. The player will need to ram it in the sky to engage into an aerial battle against it.
===Final Fantasy IX===
The first encounter against Black Waltz 3 takes place on board the Cargo Ship after it leaves the village of Dali.
===Final Fantasy X===
Evrae appears before the Fahrenheit while the airship heads towards Bevelle, the party fights it on the deck of the airship. Other battles includes Left Fin, Right Fin, and Sin. In the International/HD remaster versions, the superboss Penance can be fought on the airship's deck after defeating every Dark Aeon.
===Final Fantasy XIV===
The primal Bismarck is fought on a floating rock being towed by the airship Enterprise, in the trial "The Limitless Blue."
===Final Fantasy Tactics===
There's a terrain tile called Sky, but there is no Geomancy ability associated with this tile and units cannot walk or stand on it. The map is called Eagrose Castle Solar and it does not appear within normal gameplay, it only appears within a cutscene. The only way to see this tile is by using a hacking device to battle inside the office map and then rotating the map. The terrain tile "Sky" appears only on this map at the two edges.
===Final Fantasy Legend III===
Like Final Fantasy III, the player can encounter enemies while flying across the skies. Talon will detected the enemy and it will attack with its primary weapon which will depend on what the player set it to be. The surviving enemies with board the ship engaging the party into a battle.
===Bravely Default===
A battle takes place on board the Grandship when the player reaches the "The End" chapter, fighting Airy's first two forms.
==Gallery==
FFIII NES Sky.png|Final Fantasy III (NES).
FFIII iOS Airship Battle.jpg|Final Fantasy III (iOS).
FFIV Battle Background Airship SNES.png|Final Fantasy VI (SNES).
FFIV Airship Background GBA.png|Final Fantasy VI (GBA).
FFIV PSP Airship Battle.png|Final Fantasy VI (PSP).
Ship Battle iOs.PNG|Final Fantasy VI (iOS).
FFVIA Blackjack BG.PNG|Final Fantasy VI (GBA).
FFVIA Blackjack BG 2.PNG|Final Fantasy VI (GBA).
FFVIA Sky BG.PNG|Final Fantasy VI (GBA).
FFVIA Falcon BG.png|Final Fantasy VI (GBA).
FFVIA Final Battle Background.png|Final Fantasy VI (GBA).
Battleback airship a.png|(iOS/Android).
Battleback airship b.png|(iOS/Android).
Battleback sky.png|(iOS/Android).
Battleback airship c.png|(iOS/Android).
FFVI Kefka boss background iOS.png|Final Fantasy VI (iOS).
Battlebg-ffvii-highwind.png|Final Fantasy VII.
CargoShip1-ffix-battlebg.png|Final Fantasy IX.
FFT Eagrose Castle Solar.png|Final Fantasy Tactics.
FFLIII Airship Battle.png|Final Fantasy Legend III.
Bravely Default Airship Battle.png|Bravely Default.
Category:Recurring location types