Final Fantasy VI sur Super Nintendo marque un tournant dans la saga des Final Fantasy avec son côté plus sombre et tragique que précédents volets. 1000 ans après une guerre terrible, la magie a presque entièrement disparu au profit de la technologie Magitek qui donne à l'Empire le plein pouvoir sur le Monde. Les Returners, un groupe de rebelles mené par le héros Lock tente de se dresser devant la puissance de l'Empire.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
