Final Fantasy IX: Blue Magic (Quina) Guide

This guide consists of the following

• Introduction
  
• Blue Magic
  
• Quina
  
• Eat and Cook commands
  
• Blue Magic Spells: Quick start table: First Attainable and End Game Tables as well as First Attainable (New Player) and End Game (Veteran Players) World Maps.
  
• Blue Magic Glossary (listed by first attainable): Frog Drop, Aqua Breath, Mighty Gaurd, Pumpkin Head, Angel's Snack, Vanish, Level 3 Def-Less, Limit Glove, Mustard Bomb, Magic Hammer, Night, Matra Magic, White Wind, Auto Life, Level 4 Holy, Goblin Punch, 1000 Needles, Level 5 Death, Bad Breath, Earth Shake, Frost, Twister, and Doom.
  
• Frequently asked questions
  
• Credits
  
• Related guides

You will need the following:

• A save file with access to the character Quina
  
• A save file with access to the world map
  
• A save file with an airship

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This guide is designed to fulfill two needs. (1) To provide new players with a comprehensive overview of blue magic. (2) To provide end of game players (i.e., those on disk 4), who simply want to know the quickest way to obtain Blue Magic spells (see End of Game [Fast Track]).

• For the new player, this guide defines what Blue Magic is, how to obtain it using the character Quina, and outline a glossary of each enemy Quina consumes to learn a new Blue Magic.
  
• End of game players may skip to Quick Start Table and World Map listed for the End of Game players.
  
• Both users may be particularly interested in the glossary, which lists the magic power cost, type of enemy needed to consume, location. Each gloassry contains a picture and video detailing how to learn each Blue Magic spell from the respective enemies.

DISCLAIMER: There are several methods to obtaining each Blue Magic. While this guide demonstrates where you can locate each Blue Magic, it is designed to tell users aiming to collect each Blue Magic at its earliest availability, or summarize where each can be located for an End of Game Users. In other words, the method listed in this guide may not be the easiest way to obtain each Blue Magic.

Blue Magic is a skillset consisting of abilities used by monsters. Most of the time a character capable of using Blue Magic is known as a Blue Mage. Blue Magic first appeared in Final Fantasy V and has since appeared in nearly every game in the main series (excluding Final Fantasy XII and XIII). The exact method of learning Blue Magic has varied, but all involve them being learned (directly or indirectly) from enemies.

In Final Fantasy IX Blue magic is learned by defeating enemies with the Eat or Cook commands used by the character Quina.

Quina Quen is a playable character in Final Fantasy IX, who is a Blue Mage with the ability to cast Blue Magic obtained from consuming specific enemies. Unlike other Final Fantasy characters Quina does not learn new Blue Magic skills by being hit by an attack. Instead Quina consumes the enemy who possesses the attack (see Quick Start Table: First Attained) with the Eat or Cook commands. There are a total of 24 Blue Magic spells which can be acquired throughout the game.

Recruiting Quina:
Quina will join your party permanently the first time you visit Qu’s Marsh. Please note that recruiting Quina on disk 1 is optional. You may obtain Quina the first time you visit the Qu's Marsh (see World Map: First Attainable).

Tips and Tricks:

• The Steam "I'm So Blue” achievement is unlocked if Quina uses 100 Blue Magic spells.
  
• Toward the start of the game the temporary character, Cinna, levels are transferred to Quina, should Cinna's level be higher than the party average upon Quina's joining the party. Cinna's skills will not transfer.

Blue Magic Demonstration:

The following section provides a brief overview of the two abilities Quina can use to consume enemies. Note that the eat command is the default ability, whereas cook is granted upon Trance.

What is the eat command?

The Eat command is the ability required for obtaining new Blue Magic skills.

Once Quina's enemies drop to less than 25% health of their maximum hit points (HP), Quina can instantly defeat the enemy by eating it. If Quina successfully eats their enemy, a new skill will be learned.

Tips and Tricks:

• Quina may only learn a single skill once. Eating additional enemies which provide the same skill will not have any additive effects.
  
• If you are attempting to learn a Blue Magic ability and your opponent could be killed in a single hit, use Demi-based abilities, or Quina's Matra Magic ability. These attacks are designed to reduce your enemy's health to a fraction of their HP, ensuring that your enemy will survive the attack.

What is the cook command?

The cook command is a special form of the eat command, which allows Quina to consume enemies below 50% health. In order to use the Cook command, Quina must be in Trance form.

Trance is the Limit Break system in Final Fantasy IX that temporarily transforms a character into a more powerful form, increasing all physical damage by a factor of 1.5x. While in Trance, party members have their innate unique skills enhanced in some fashion. Importantly, when in Trance form, Quina’s Eat Command becomes the Cook Command.



When Quina is in Trance, the Eat command is replaced with the Cook command. The application of Cook is identical to Eat in every way, except for being able to consume an enemy whose HP is below 50% as opposed to 25%.

The following section contains spell specific information. Specifically, it consists of two Quick Start Tables, two world maps, and a glossary of all 24 Blue Magic Spells. In addition to displaying a picture of the enemy Quina must consume to learn each spell, the glossary contains MP cost, location, description, as well as a video demonstrating how to defeat each enemy.

The Quick Start Table below is intended for new players who are just starting FFIX and are looking to learn the Blue Magic spells as quickly as possible. This table lists a suggested order for when each Blue Magic spell could be obtained. A world map, corresponding to the numbers in this table, is provided beneath the table.

Note: For a full alphabetical list of all possible Blue Magic spells, see the Quick Start Table: End Game, displayed directly under the World Map for First Attainable.

The Quick Start Table below is intended for end of game players who have already played through the game and unlocked all areas. This table lists a suggested order for when each Blue Magic spell could be obtained. A world map, corresponding to the numbers in this table, is provided beneath the table.

Please consult with the world map (pictured below) for pictured locations in FFIX. The numbers on this map below correspond with the Quick Start Tale: First Attainable.

WOLRD MAP - FIRST ATTAINED

Please consult with the world map (pictured below) for pictured locations in FFIX. The numbers on this map below correspond with the Quick Start Tale: End Game Players.

The World Map below is intended for veteran players, such as those who have completed (or nearly completed) the game, and wish to collect missing Blue Magic spells. Because it is assumed that you already have some Blue Magic spells just from playing the game, this table lists all possible spells in alphabetical order, for ease of lookup. A world map which corresponds with this table can be viewed below.

WOLRD MAP - END GAME

The following section lists all 24 Blue Magic spells (in order for first attainable). Within every entry for each spell you will find the MP cost, enemy the spell can be learned from, location, image, and video

MP Cost: 10

Learn From:

• Gigan Toad

Location:

• Qu's Marsh near chocobo forest

Game's Description: Amount of damage depends on the number of frogs you have caught.



First attainable: Gigan Toad in Qu's marsh near cocobolo forest.
Disk 4: Gigan Toad in Qu's marsh near cocobolo forest.


Note: Frog Drop is one of the first Blue Magics available by eating a Gigan Toad. It costs 10 MP to cast. The amount of damage that Frog Drop may do is as follows:

• Damage = (Quina's Level) times (Number of Frogs Caught)
  
• It is possible to get Frog Drop to deal 9,999 point of damage making it one the best skills in the game due to its low MP cost and non-elemental damage.

MP Cost: 14

Learn From:

• Axolotl
  
• Sahagin

Location:

• Qu's marsh near cocobolo forest
  
• Qu's Marsh

Game's Description: Water damage to all enemies.




First attainable: Axolotl in Qu's marsh near cocobolo forest.
Disk 4: Axolotl in Qu's marsh near cocobolo forest.

MP Cost: 64

Learn From:

• Myconid
  
• Serpion
  
• Ant Lion
  
• Gigan Octopus
  
• Gargoyle

Location:

• Forest Maze,IIFA Tree
  
• Grasslands outside the Dragon's gate
  
• Outside Desert Palace,Cleyra
  
• In the shores near Esto Gaza
  
• Ipsen's Castle

Game's Description: Casts Shell and Protect to the entire party members.



First attainable: Serpion in the Grasslands outside the Dragon's gate
Disk 4: Serpion in the Grasslands outside the Dragon's gate

MP Cost: 12

Learn From:

• Hedgehog Pie
  
• Ladybug
  
• Basilisk
  
• Skeleton
  
• Yeti
  
• Python
  
• Bandersnatch

Location:

• Grasslands outside the Dragon's gate
  
• Outside Gizamaluke's Grotto
  
• Burmecian Kingdom
  
• Gizamaluke's Grotto
  
• Outside Burmecian Kingdom
  
• Mist Continent
  
• Near Alexandria

Game's Description: Damages with the difference between your max HP and current HP.



First attainable: Hedgehog Pie in the Grasslands outside the Dragon's gate
Disk 4: Basilisk in Burmecia

MP Cost: 4

Learn From:

• Ironite
  
• Mistodon
  
• Behemoth
  
• Epitaph

Location:

• Near the Chocobo Forest , Burmecia
  
• All over the continent,disc 4
  
• Memoria
  
• Oeilvert

Game's Description: Cast Remedy on all party members.



First attainable: Ironite near the Chocobo Forest.
Disk 4: Ironite in the Burmecia

MP Cost: 8

Learn From:

• Vice
  
• Hornet
  
• Drakan
  
• Troll

Location:

• Near the Chocobo Forest , Outside Gizamaluke's Grotto
  
• Gizamaluke's Grotto
  
• Desert Palace
  
• All over the continent - disc 4 or area near Iifa Tree (Pualei Plains)

Game's Description: Makes a party member disappear.



First attainable: Vice Near the Chocobo Forest.
Disk 4: Hornet in Gizamaluke's Grotto

MP Cost: 12

Learn From:

• Lamia
  
• Grand Dragon
  
• Ochu
  
• Lizard Man
  
• Sand Scorpion
  
• Carve Spider

Location:

• Gizamaluke's Grotto
  
• Outside Daguerreo
  
• Madain Sari Mountain Path
  
• Near Cleyra
  
• Pinnacle Rocks
  
• Near Dali,Outside Treno,Outside Linblum

Game's Description: Reduces defense to enemies that levels are multiples of 3.


First attainable: Lamia in Gizamaluke's Grotto
Disk 4: Carve Spider outside Treno

MP Cost: 10

Learn From:

• Mandragora
  
• Axe Beak
  
• Jabberwock
  
• Blazer Beetle

Location:

• Patch of forest to the west of south gate
  
• On top of the Lindblum plateau
  
• Forgotten Continent
  
• Shores outside Madain Sari
  
• Outside Village of Dali, In the dirt near the Lifa Tree

Game's Description: Causes non-elemental damage to the target when your HP is 1.



First attainable: Axe Beak on top of the Lindblum plateau
Disk 4: Blazer Beetle in the dirt near the Lifa Tree

MP Cost: 10

Learn From:

• Bomb
  
• Grenade
  
• Red Vepal
  
• Crystal Maliris

Location:

• Forest outside Linblum, On top of the Lindblum plateau
  
• Mount Gulug
  
• Esto Gaza,Mount Gulug
  
• The Crystal World

Game's Description: Causes Heat to the enemy.



First attainable: Bomb on top of the Lindblum plateau
Disk 4: Crystal Maliris on the Crystal Path in Memoria


NOTE: When getting Mustard Bomb, you only have a brief window of opportunity to go back to Lindblum Plateau before the game cuts off access to it for a little while. You have from when you get Quina for the first time to when you enter Gizamaluke's Grotto. After that, the Dragon Gate closes down and can't get into Lindblum until after you need to head to Fossil Roo.

MP Cost: 2

Learn From:

• Magic Vice
  
• Ring Leader

Location:

• Burmecia
  
• Terra

Game's Description: Reduces enemy's MP.



First attainable: Magic Vice in Burmecia
Disk 4: Magic Vice in Burmecia

MP Cost: 14

Learn From:

• Grimlock
  
• Nymph
  
• Seeker Bat
  
• Abomination

Location:

• Desert Palace
  
• Grassland north of Cleyra
  
• Fossil Roo
  
• Fossil Roo

Game's Description: Causes Sleep to all targets.



First attainable: Nymph in the grassland north of Cleyra
Disk 4: Nymph in the grassland north of Cleyra

MP Cost: 8

Learn From:

• Zaghnol
  
• Armstrong
  
• Trick Sparrow
  
• Ogre
  
• Dragon Fly

Location:

• Pinnacle Rocks,Outer Continent
  
• Forgotten Continent,Outside Ipsen's Castle
  
• Outside Treno
  
• Oeilvert,Desert Palace
  
• Cleyra’s Trunk

Game's Description: Reduces target's HP to 1



First attainable: Dragon Fly on Cleyra's trunk
Disk 4: Trick Sparrow outside Treno

MP Cost: 14

Learn From:

• Zuu
  
• Griffin
  
• Garuda
  
• Zemzelett

Location:

• Cleyra's Trunk
  
• In the dirt near the Qu's Marsh on the Outer Continent.
  
• Esto Gaza,Forest from alternate exit of Gizamaluke's Grotto
  
• Forest Maze

Game's Description: Restores HP to the entire party members.



First attainable: Zuu on Cleyra's trunk
Disk 4: Griffin in the dirt near the Qu's Marsh on the Outer Continent


NOTE: With the Reflect Ring, it is very possible to get White Wind before Cleyra. Go to Popos Heights and encouter a Garuda. Auto-Reflect can protect you from their Firaga and Stop spells. You might able to whittle one down to let Quina eat it.

MP Cost: 14

Learn From:

• Stilva
  
• Yan
  
• Gimme Cat
  
• Carrion Worm
  
• Cerberus

Location:

• Memoria
  
• Vile Island
  
• Forest on the island with Daguerro
  
• Cleyra's Trunk
  
• Ipsen's Castle

Game's Description: Automatically cast Life when KO'd.



First attainable: Carrion Worm on Cleyra's trunk
Disk 4: Gimme Cat in the forest on the island with Daguerro

MP Cost: 22

Learn From:

• Feather Circle
  
• Torama

Location:

• Fossil Roo, in the snow outside Esto Gaza on the Lost Continent
  
• Desert Palace

Game's Description: Causes Holy damage to enemies that levels are multiples of 4.



First attainable: Feather Circle in Fossil Roo
Disk 4: Feather Circle in the snow outside Esto Gaza on the Lost Continent

MP Cost: 4

Learn From:

• Goblin
  
• Goblin Mage

Location:

• Mist Continent
  
• Outer Continent, Desert areas around Conde Peite

Game's Description: Non-elemental damage to the enemy



First attainable: Goblin Mage in the desert areas around Conde Peite
Disk 4: Goblin Mage in the grass near the Lifa Tree


Note: Goblin punch is hard to get in disk 4 as it is very rare to run into a goblin at that point in the game. Just be persistent and you will find one.

MP Cost: 8

Learn From:

• Cactuar

Location:

• Outer & Forgotten Continent

Game's Description: Reduces the enemy's HP by 1000.



First attainable: Cactuar in the desert areas around Conde Peite
Disk 4: Cactuar in desert areas on the Forgotten Continent

MP Cost: 20

Learn From:

• Dragon Zombie
  
• Lich
  
• Whale Zombie

Location:

• Lifa Tree
  
• Memoria
  
• Shore outside Esto Gaza

Game's Description: Causes Death to all enemies that levels are multiples of 5.



First attainable: Dragon Zombie at the Lifa tree
Disk 4: Whale Zombie on the beach near Esto Gaza on the Lost Continent

MP Cost: 16

Learn From:

• Malboro
  
• Worm Hydra
  
• Anemon

Location:

• Pandemonium, In the continent north of black mage village on Cazedil Plains Disc 4
  
• Mount Gulg,northwest of chocobo's lagoon,Forest Outside Daguerreo,in Uaho Island near Chocobo's Paradise
  
• Around the southwest Qu's Marsh, Qu's Marsh on the Forgotten Continent

Game's Description: Causes Confuse, Darkness, Poison, Slow, and Mini to enemy.



First attainable: Anemon around the southwest Qu's Marsh
Disk 4: Anemon Qu's Marsh on the Forgotten Continent

MP Cost: 20

Learn From:

• Earth Guardian
  
• Shell Dragon
  
• Adamantoise

Location:

• Earth Shrine
  
• Pandemonium
  
• Dark plains outside Qu's Marsh Lanar Island southwest continent near chocobo's lagoon, Uaho Island near Chocobo's Paradise.

Game's Description: Cause Earth damage to all enemies



First attainable: Adamantois around the southwest Qu's Marsh
Disk 4: Adamantoise in the swamp on the island near Daguerro with the Qu's Marsh

MP Cost: 8

Learn From:

• Chimera
  
• Kraken
  
• Wraith (With the Blue Candle)

Location:

• Memoria
  
• Memoria
  
• Mount Gulug

Game's Description: Causes Freeze to the enemy.



First attainable: Wraith (with the blue candle) on Mount Gulug
Disk 4: Chimera in Memoria

MP Cost: 22

Learn From:

• Abaddon
  
• Red Dragon
  
• Tiamat
  
• Crystal Tiamat

Location:

• Pandemonium
  
• Mount Gulug
  
• Memoria
  
• On the Crystal Path in Memoria

Game's Description: Causes Wind damage to all enemies.



First attainable: Red Dragon on Mount Gulug
Disk 4: Crystal Tiamat on the Crystal Path in Memoria

MP Cost: 12

Learn From:

• Ash
  
• Veteran

Location:

• Memoria
  
• Ipsen's castle, Memoria

Game's Description: Cast death after a 10 count.



First attainable: Veteran in Ipsen's Castle
Disk 4: Ash in Memoria

MP Cost: 18

Learn From:
• Zombie
• Hecteyes
• Ghost

Location:

• IIFA Tree
• Terra,Forgotten Continent,Black mage village forest,CD 4
• Outside Treno,Outside Village of Dali

Game's Description: Randomly cast Death to a target



First attainable: Zombie at the Lifa Tree (2nd visit on the outer Root)
Disk 4: Hecteyes in Black mage village forest

Q: Is it possible to miss a Blue Magic Spell and not be able to obtain it later?
A: No, while some spells are easier to obtain at certain points in the game (e.g., Twister), you may learn a spell at any point in the game. However in terms of efficiency you can learn spells as you naturally progress throughout the game. Obtaining spells as you play the game is recommended, as some spells become more difficult to acquire. For example, Goblin punch is hard to get in disk 4 as it is extremely rare to encounter a goblin at such a late point in the game.

Q: I never got Quina on the first disc, can I still get Quina on the second disc?
A: Yes, just go to Qu's Marsh and help them with the frogs quest. If you do not recruit Quina prior to Burmecia, s/he will join your party in the second half of Disc 2.

Q: Is Quina a secret character like Yuffie and Vincent in Final Fantasy 7?
A: No, Quina is not optional character. S/he will join the party when you travel through Qu's Marsh. If you keep progressing through the story line s/he will end up in your party.

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