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Ship Graveyard

FINAL FANTASY V guide · Maze of wreckage navigated after Syldra is lost to the whirlpool ✓ Checked against sources
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After their ship gets dragged down a whirlpool in the Torna Canal, the party washes ashore in a perilous maze composed of sunken vessels and wreckage. The party must traverse flooded decks, cabins, and submerged paths while discovering Faris's true identity during a rest stop. After reaching the end, Galuf's amnesia saves everyone from an illusion, prompting a boss battle to escape toward the town of Carwen.

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Key fights

Siren

Enemies: Siren

Threats: Uses elemental magic like Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder in living form, then switches to an undead form that uses Venomous Clasp and status spells

Weaknesses and resistances: Living form has no elemental weakness and high magic defense; undead form is weak to Fire and Holy and harmed by restorative magic, but absorbs Poison

Tactics: Attack with physical strikes during her living form, then quickly switch to Fire spells, Potions, or Cure magic when she turns into her undead state

Rewards: Bronze Armor

Enemies

Skeleton
Weak to Fire, HolySteal / drop Dagger drop

Undead foe vulnerable to restorative spells and fire

Calcruthl
Weak to LightningSteal / drop Potion steal, Elixir drop

Aquatic fiend that possesses the Transfusion Blue Magic spell

Undead Husk
Weak to Lightning, WindSteal / drop Potion or Ether steal, Elixir drop

Appears in submerged sections of the wreck

Tips

  • You can sleep in the bed inside the cabin of Faris's stranded vessel right at the start to completely restore HP and MP for free.

Not listed for this area: secrets, shops and people.

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