Editing Strago Magus (section)

==Appearances==
Strago Magus is character in the 1994 [[Square Enix]] video game ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', [[character class|classified]] as a [[Blue Mage]], a recurring type of magical user in the ''Final Fantasy'' franchise that can learn and use certain abilities from enemy monsters. An elderly gentleman living in the village of Thamasa, he is the adoptive grandfather of the character [[Relm Arrowny]] and a descendant of the warriors who fought in the War of the Magi, a battle that occurred long before the events of the game but relates heavily to its central plot. He initially hides his magical ability until the protagonists rescue Relm from a fire, and he accompanies them in their goal to discover the home of the espers, a race of magical beings. Upon discovery that the game's antagonist, the Gestahlian Empire, is enslaving espers for their magic, he fears a repeat of the War of the Magi and both he and Relm join the party fully to stop the Empire's ambitions.<ref name="Twenty01Strago"/>

Later in the game's second half, after the world has been devastated and the party separated, Strago believes Relm to be dead and falls in with a group of cultists, becoming lethargic and unresponsive. However, after the party rescues Relm if they bring her to him, he snaps out of his stupor and rejoins the group. Later he discovers a longtime friend of his was seriously injured by a monster the two had hunted when they were young men. Traveling to the monster's last known location at Ebot's Rock, Strago faces and defeats it with the party's help,<ref name="Twenty01Strago"/> and learns its unique attack "Grand Delta".<ref>{{cite web |website=The Gamer |url=https://www.thegamer.com/final-fantasy-6-vi-pixel-remaster-every-strago-lore-location-guide/ |title=Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster: How To Get All Of Strago's Lores |first=Quinton |last=O'Connor |accessdate=2024-04-27 |date=2023-08-16}}</ref>

In other games, he is additionally a playable character in ''[[Final Fantasy Record Keeper]]'' and ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia]]'', where in the latter he is voiced by [[Kenichi Ogata (voice actor)|Kenichi Ogata]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gamebiz.jp/news/224221 |language=Japanese |website=gamebiz |script-title=ja:DeNAとスクエニ、『FF レコードキーパー』で「レコードダンジョン」第2部「CANON」をリリース！　9日から『FFXIII』イベント「恩讐の果ての赦罪」を開催  |accessdate=2024-04-27 |date=2018-11-08}}</ref><ref name="dissidia"/>  Outside of video games, cards representing Strago have been produced for the ''[[Final Fantasy Trading Card Game]]'' and ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fftcg.square-enix-games.com/na/news/all-stars-draft-cube-list |title=All Stars Draft Cube List |date=2020-01-12 |accessdate=2024-04-16 |website=[[Square Enix]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite website |website=[[TheGamer]] |accessdate=2025-05-26 |date=2025-05-10 |first1=Joe |last1=Parlock |first2=Sai |last2=Vsr |first3=Ben |last3=Jessey |first4=Helen |last4=Ashcroft |url=https://www.thegamer.com/magic-the-gathering-mtg-final-fantasy-visual-spoiler-every-card/ |title=Every Card Revealed For Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514155408/https://www.thegamer.com/magic-the-gathering-mtg-final-fantasy-visual-spoiler-every-card/ |archivedate=2025-05-14}}</ref> A keychain figure based on his [[chibi (style)|chibi]] artwork was also produced by [[Bandai]], as part of a series to promote the release of ''Final Fantasy VI''.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[V-Jump]] |date=December 1994 |title=FF Colosseum |pages=190–192 |issue=18 |language=Japanese}}</ref>