Materia
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Materia are items in Final Fantasy VII. Materia allows a character to cast spells, Summons, use new commands, and have various other uses. Materia is crystallized Mako. Metaphysically, Materia calls upon the wisdom of the Ancients, Cetra, in order to manipulate nature itself. Sephiroth mentions that he and Professor Hojo debated the nature of Materia in Cloud's story flashback in Kalm. Hojo objected to the term "Magic" being applied to Materia, but could offer no better explanation.
The ability in a piece of Materia comes to effect when placed in a slot in weapons or armor. Also, Command, Summon, and Magic Materia can be paired with Support Materia in order to gain synergies, through the use of linked slots in weapons and armor, that allow the character to add status effects and elemental damage to their weapons. The inverse is true for armor. In Crisis Core, it is possible to fuse Materia together with items.
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[edit] Usage
Materia can normally only be used when slotted into a weapon or a piece of armor, although they are exceptions - in general the Materia merely needs to be in possession of a person for it to be used. Once slotted into an equipment piece the wearer is able to call upon the powers that Materia possesses.
Winning battles earns AP, which is a special type of Experience Points for Materia. Just like characters, Materia levels up when it gains enough AP. Some Materia allow access to stronger commands when leveled up, others allow the user to use the granted command more times, others give a stat bonus that grows larger, and so forth. When Materia reached its highest level, it was "Mastered", and a second Materia with the same powers was created. Thus, with patience and enough leveling up, even one-of-a-kind Materia could be reproduced infinitely.
Materia can be slotted into a single slot or a connected slot. When slotted into a connected slot, the Materia can be joined with a Support Materia to varying effects, including adding elemental properties to the slotted equipment, allowing the Matera to target multiple targets, etc. Some equipment also affects Materia growth through AP. Some have Materia slots but cause the Materia in them to gain no AP at all, while others double or triple the amount of AP given to the Materia. Other weapons have no Materia slots at all.
[edit] Types
There are 5 Types of materia, each with a different color.
- Red - Summon Materia: Used to summon monsters to aid in battle.
- Green - Magic Materia: Used to cast Magic spells, including Black, White, and status-inducing spells. Also affects Strength and Magic stats. Note that there are different shades of green denoting the types of magic in Crisis Core.
- Yellow - Command Materia: Allows the use of extra commands in battle like Throw and Steal.
- Blue - Support Materia: Can be linked to other Materia in order to enhance their effects.
- Purple - Independent Materia: Various functions, including increasing stats and auto-abilities such as Cover.
[edit] Other Materia
- There is a Black Materia in the game; however, this materia is unable to be used by the player. The Black Materia unleashes the Ultimate Destruction Magic, Meteor.
- The White Materia, Holy, is also in the game, but again is unable to be used. Aeris has this materia hidden in her hair, and when she is killed, it falls into the water in the Forgotten Capital.
- Enemy Skill Materia allows a character to learn attacks and spells only used by enemies, but only when the character is hit with the spell or attack while the Materia is equipped.
- Huge Materia are encountered several times in the game, and if the player manages to get one of them, they can be used to fuse mastered materia sets into Master Materia.
- Master Materia is available for Command, Magic, and Summon Materia, and contains all of the Materia for that particular type.
- In Dirge of Cerberus, there is also the "Protomateria." All that is known about it is that it keeps Chaos under Vincent Valentine's control, and that it was found and given to Vincent by Lucrecia Crescent.
- In Before Crisis, there is a Summon materia which summons Zirconiade. It was implanted by Fuhito into Elfé's body, which allows her to have superhuman strength but is gradually consuming her.
- In Crisis Core, there is an incredibly enormous red Materia called "The Goddess Materia" which resides in the secret cave at Banora Village on top of the Goddess' statue. Genesis ends up using this Materia in order to transform himself into Genesis Avatar.
- In Final Fantasy Tactics, White Materia, Black Materia and Red Materia are artefacts that can be collected. Both are described with the following text:
- These stones, developed by the ancient Saronians, are the result of experiments in storing knowledge within gems for later generations. They are said to enhance the abilities of the possessor.
[edit] Trivia
- Kadaj uses Materia in the film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Unlike in the game, Kadaj uses a blue Support Materia that allows him to use Enemy Skills and summon Bahamut SIN, both abilities that Support Materia could not normally provide.
- Vincent uses Red Materia as his Fire Magic Materia in Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-, which would normally be dark green.
[edit] See Also
| Materia |
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| Materia Types |
| Command Materia - Enemy Skill Materia - Independent Materia - Magic Materia - Summon Materia - Support Materia |
| Terms |
| Materia Fusion |
