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Fort Condor

Fort Condor is involved in several small side quests which you can complete throughout the game. Check out the Fort Condor side quest section for more information.

This section of the walkthrough pertains to Disc 2 when Cid ventures from North Corel to Fort Condor in search of the Huge Materia.

Fort Condor on the world map

Enter Fort Condor and speak to the man blocking the pathway. He will request assistance with defending Fort Condor from Shinra attacks. Agree to help him and then follow him up the path.

Fort Condor from the world map

Speak to the man sitting at the table once you reach the interior of the Fort and listen to his story about the locale. Climb the ladder on the left side and proceed upward.

Cid entering Fort Condor

Watch Room

You can take a look out the window in the Watch Room to see the Condor perched outside atop the reactor. Speak to the man standing on the lookout for more information about strategy, hiring soldiers, and how to conduct the actual battles.

Watch Room at the top of Fort Condor

You have had the opportunity to conduct the Fort Condor operations ever since your first trip to Junon, but at this point in the game, your characters have become strong enough that the boss you will fight for losing is a pushover.

You can also receive an excellent reward for defeating the boss, and you can save money by not spending gil on expendable combat units.

The Condor atop Fort Condor

With that in mind, you should avoid hiring and placing any soldiers and wait for the enemy to reach the base and engage you in combat. Your team will have to jump into combat to save the Fort against a boss-type battle against CMD. Grand Horn.

Starting the game at Fort Condor
CMD. Grand Horn
Boss Battle
Boss Battle against CMD Grand Horn at Fort Condor

HP: 8,000
Reward: Imperial Guard

This boss only has 8,000 HP, which means it will go down quite easily. Keep yourself healed up, as it can use Quake magic against your entire party. It will use one final “Grand Attack” before it dies.

Battle against CMD Grand Horn

Take the doorway outside the ‘Watch Room,’ which leads up to the “top of the mountain.” Pick up the Phoenix Materia lying on the ground. Speak to the old man at the table inside the mountain again to pick up the Huge Materia.

Fort Condor

You can now purchase Items and Materia in the shops that were previously closed for business. The items include the following:

The Materia Store sells lots of Materia that you could not purchase previously, including:

Picking up Phoenix Materia in Fort Condor Receiving the Huge Materia from the old man

Cid will suggest returning to Mideel to visit with Cloud. Head to Mideel once you exit Fort Condor.