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These live in dark places. Their PoisonBarb is quite venomous.

Final Fantasy VI PlayStation Bestiary entry

The Cartagra (or Trilobiter in the SNES version) is an enemy in Final Fantasy VI.

Stats

Battle

It has inherent protect status and can Poison Poison characters. Due to protect, physical attacks will be ineffective, so the player should use Celes's Blizzard spell to defeat them. Antidotes can be stolen from it to cure the poison.

Formations

Number Enemies Encounter flags Introduction flag Musical theme Magic AP
Normal Back Surrounded Side
375 Cartagra, Acrophies x2 Y Y Y Y Sides, individual Battle 0
377 Cartagra x3 Y Y Y Y Sides, individual Battle 0

AI script

Attack Turns:
1st Turn: Attack (66%) or Poison Barb (33%)
2nd Turn: Attack (66%) or Nothing (33%)
3rd Turn: Attack (66%) or Nothing (33%)

Etymology

The Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Thomas Rudd's variant of the Ars Goetia, and the Dictionnaire Infernal go into more detail, with Gamigin forcing the souls of those who drowned into "airy bodies" to answer questions in either, with Weyer and de Plancy further claiming that Gamigin can do likewise for souls "which dwell in purgatorie (which is called Cartagra, that is, affliction of soules)".

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