New Summons Menu

However this gives me an idea for a new way of magic in FFVI; instead of learning magic "spells" it can take on the form of "derivative magic" where all their power is actually derived from the being itself. For example instead of having Fire, Fira, Firaga one could have Ifrit (the basic Fire summon) and have a lesser power single target power, a multi effect power, and his ultimate power.

For example:

Fire-> Ifrit's first power: Flame shot- medium fire damage to a single enemy
Fira-> Ifrit's second power: Heatwave- slightly less powerful than Flame Shot but targets all with a chance to berserk
Firaga-> Ifrit's final power: Hell Fire- Strong attack on all; less powerful than true summoning.

What I mean by "true summoning" is that all existing summons that you would use by pressing up on the magic screen when equipped with a magicite will have to be upped substantially in power to beat out even the final power since you are calling upon their pure essence. Since you would have to have them equipped you don't have to up their MP price by too much since they are already limited by one way.

There is also a patch where you can "assign" magicite to certain characters making it where Terra and Celes could use very different and opposing elements and magicite "calls"; However if you are going to go that far then Strago, Relm, Terra, and Celes would be the only ones who can cast magic and use this "derivative magic".

This is actually a pretty cool idea I think...I'll have to develop it some more I think.

Another thing to consider is Terra and Celes themselves...unlike Strago and Relm whose magical blood is so horrendously thin that one can only manipulate things via pictomancy and the other via watching the enemy's power; Terra and Celes are very closely magic themselves. Terra being half esper and Celes being infused with the essence of an esper. So this could mean that they would in fact have their own set of "spells" since it would just be their own power. So you could still save a few magic slots for their personal use. I don't know it something really different that I think could be really awesome if implemented.