Onrac, also known as Onlak in the PlayStation port, is a town from the original Final Fantasy located on the northwestern island of the archipelago where the game takes place. The Sunken Shrine is found underwater, near the shore. Some residents state that Onrac used to be a prosperous kingdom before the events of the game.

Some of the residents include Koppe, Dr. Unne's brother, a dancing girl who loves having legs, and a pilgrimaging dragon. The latter talks about their plan to visit the Citadel of Trials to find a token of courage for their king; they will be amazed the party is blessed by Bahamut after giving him the rat's tail.

History[]

The Warriors of Light headed to Onrac to find a way to enter the Sunken Shrine. After finding a submersible barrel built by a woman at Onrac's dock, she stopped them from using it, stating she tried to use it to save the mermaids in the shrine, but had to resurface since she could not breathe the further she went down. She wished to have brought some oxyale to travel underwater.

When the oxyale was brought to her, she asked the party to save the mermaids before rising to the air and fading away. When the party visited the mermaids in the shrine, whose hairstyle and color of their hair resembled the woman in the dock, they revealed the actions of the kraken threatened the mermaids' lives. Some of them mentioned a mermaid had left the sea to live on the surface.

After defeating the kraken, an elderly man waiting near Onrac's dock revealed the town had flourished as a kingdom two hundred years ago.^{[note 1]} Due to the Sunken Shrine holding importance to the past civilization of Onrac before the former sank by the kraken's actions with the latter likely being destroyed due to the violent weather caused by the Water Crystal's imbalance later on, it is suggested that the kraken inadvertently caused the collapse of Onrac's previous civilization.

Koppe, one of the residents in town, had seen a mechanical creature fall from the sky and land at a waterfall, though others did not believe his story.

Shops[]

Items[]

In the Pixel Remaster version, all normal item shops sell Potions, Hi-Potions, Ethers, Phoenix Downs, Antidotes, Eye Drops, Echo Grasses, Gold Needles, Remedies, Sleeping Bags, Tents, and Cottages.

Name	Cost
	NES/PS (Normal)	PS (Easy)/GBA/PSP/Mobile/PR
Potion	60 gil	N/A
Hi-Potion	N/A	150 gil
Ether	N/A	150 gil
Antidote	75 gil	N/A
Remedy	N/A	1,500 gil
Gold Needle	800 gil	500 gil
Tent	250 gil	N/A
Cottage	3,000 gil	2,000 gil

Level 7 White Magic[]

Name	Cost
	NES/PS (Normal)	PS (Easy)/GBA/PSP/Mobile/PR
NulDeath	45,000 gil	30,000 gil
Healaga	45,000 gil	30,000 gil

Level 7 Black Magic[]

Name	Cost
	NES/PS (Normal)	PS (Easy)/GBA/PSP/Mobile/PR
Saber	45,000 gil	30,000 gil
Blind	45,000 gil	30,000 gil

Encounters[]

Onrac is part of a greater encounter region it shares with Gaia and the Waterfall Cavern, looping around the east-west borders of the world map. The Onrac and Waterfall Cavern portions of the region share land borders with the Caravan region to their southwest, the Cardian Islands region to the southeast, and the Citadel of Trials region to the northeast.

Encounters		Areas
Pixel Remaster	Other releases
[100/1000] Troll x3 [70/1000] Lizard x1, Hill Gigas x1 [60/1000] Troll x4 [60/1000] Troll x2 [60/1000] Remorazz x1 [60/1000] Wyvern x3 [60/1000] Wyvern x2 [60/1000] Winter Wolf x2, Ice Gigas x1 [60/1000] Winter Wolf x1, Ice Gigas x1 [60/1000] Ochu x2, Hydra x2 [60/1000] Manticore x3 [60/1000] Manticore x2 [60/1000] Manticore x1 [60/1000] Lizard x1, Hill Gigas x3 [60/1000] Lizard x1, Hill Gigas x2 [50/1000] Hill Gigas x4, Lizard x1	[18/64] Wyvern x1–3 [12/64] Troll x2-4 [12/64] Remorazz x1 [12/64] Ice Gigas x1, Winter Wolf x0–2 [6/64] Hydra x1-2, Ochu x0–2 [3/64] Manticore x1–3 [1/64] Hill Gigas x1–4, Lizard x1	Surrounding region
	[30/64] Wyvern x1–3 [12/64] Troll x2–4 [12/64] Remorazz x1 [9/64] Manticore x1–3 [1/64] Hill Gigas x1-4, Lizard x1	Desert[note 2]

Musical themes[]

The Background Music that plays in Onrac is Final Fantasy's "Town" theme.

Other appearances[]

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy[]

Onrac appears as ruins on the world map, at the Land of Discord. In the Confessions of the Creator scenario, a Teleport Stone can be found near it, and it is the nearest to Feral Chaos's seal.

Onrac features heavily in the game's backstory given in the Reports. At a time of war with other nations, Onrac sought to create a weapon to combat the weapons of their enemies, specifically summoned monsters and Omega. Samples of crystal ore retrieved from a world beyond a portal to the Interdimensional Rift were experimented on, leading to the first manikins, but they are deemed unfit for military use. When the portal to the Rift closed, research stalled, and Onrac hired a researcher from Lufenia named Cid to assist them.

Cid used Lufenian memory rituals to infuse a manikin with memories and give it sentience, creating Chaos. Onrac used Chaos to destroy the summoned monsters and Omega, and when Cid and his wife refused to assist them, Onrac imprisoned them and used a clone of Cid's wife, named Cosmos, to pacify Chaos. Eventually Chaos, Cosmos, and Cid were pulled into the Rift, and Onrac lost their weapon of war.

Other media[]

Onrac is a recurring joke in the webcomic 8-Bit Theater (which is loosely based on Final Fantasy), where it is described as "a hole" or similar and is destroyed or greatly damaged several times.

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