Artwork from Final Fantasy III.
A shield forged for swordsmen who have mastered every technique and achieved knighthood's most exalted rank.
Description, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.
Onion Shield (オニオンシールド, Onion Shīrudo?), also known as Onion, is a recurring shield in the series. It is the most powerful shield in the games it appears in, giving outstanding defenses but lacking any other special properties such as that of the Adamant Shield or other such high-leveled shields. It is part of Onion equipment.
Appearances
Final Fantasy III
Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is the strongest shield and is dropped by Yellow Dragon, Green Dragon, and Red Dragon. It can be equipped by the Onion Knight.
In the NES version, it provides 48 Defense, 48 Magic Defense, and 48% Evade. In the 3D versions, it provides 30 Defense, 30 Magic Defense, and +2 to all stats.
Final Fantasy IV
Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is the strongest shield in the 3D remakes. It provides Defense equal to the user's Level/10, Stamina equal to the user's current Level/3, and resistance to all statuses except Berserk. It is obtained by trading a Blue Tail to the Tail Collector, and can be equipped by Cecil, Kain, Rosa, Rydia, and Edge.
Final Fantasy XIV
Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is a item level 90 shield equippable by Gladiator and its job Paladin. It has a 92 block strength and a 295 block rate, and provides 9 Strength, 10 Vitality, 7 Parry and 11 Critical Hit Rate.
Final Fantasy Tactics
Template:Sideicon Onion Shield is the strongest shield in the War of the Lions version, providing 80% Physical Evasion and 75% Magic Evasion. It can be obtained in Rendezvous mode, and can be equipped by the Onion Knight.
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Etymology
The onion, also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is used as a vegetable and is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.
In a 2020 Famitsu interview with Koichi Ishii and Hiromichi Tanaka about Final Fantasy III, Tanaka stated that he created the term "Onion Knight" after seeing Ishii's character design for the job, likening the shape of its helmet's large, white plume to that of an onion.[1]
Fans had previously speculated that "Onion Knight" refers to the Japanese metaphoric idiom "peeling away one layer at a time and crying all the way" (referring to poverty) or from the slang phrase "to know one's onions" (meaning to be very versatile).
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- ↑ "『FF3』30周年で訊く、開発秘話ミニインタビュー。ジョブデザインや魔剣士、たまねぎ剣士の秘密も" by Famitsu (2020), translated into English in "The Origin of Final Fantasy’s Onion Knight (Translated Interview)" by Lost in Localization (2022)