Mana Eggs are a recurring item in the Grandia series, often allowing the character to learn and utilise magic skills. Collecting Mana Eggs is imperative if you want to gather a wide range of skills and abilities for the characters.
Grandia
In the original Grandia, Mana Eggs can be found in the field screen or rewarded after certain boss battles. By trading Mana Eggs at stores, you can teach characters Magic skills. They can learn magical attributes including Fire, Wind, Water and Earth. Once you've learned certain elemental affinities, they can be combined to create other effects, which are Lightning, Blizzard, Forest and Explosion. It must be noted that these can't be taught by trading Mana Eggs in stores per se but rather levelling up Fire, Wind, Water or Earth will allow access to the greater magic. Once a Mana Egg is used, it can not be returned, though there are enough Mana Eggs throughout the game to teach Justin, Sue, Feena and Rapp each type of magic (excluding Fire for Feena and Rapp).
Mana Eggs, as mentioned above, can be traded in for four different types of magic at cetain stores throughout the world of Grandia. The magic and its effects are as follows:
| Magic | Description |
| Fire | This deals damage to the target by utilizing the element of fire. The higher the skill level, the more potent the damage caused. |
| Wind | This can be used to damage a number of enemies or cause status advantages for the party. The higher the skill, the greater the range and damage. |
| Water | This allows characters to heal their HP or put enemies to sleep. The higher the skill level, the more HP is healed as well as being able to revive knocked out comrades. |
| Earth | This can be used to increase your defense or decrease an enemy's defense and even halt their actions. It can also be used to cause some damage. The higher the skill, the better the status that can be inflicted and the more damage that can be dealt. |
By acquiring two or more types of magic for one particular character, when two seperate magic skills gets to certain levels, more skills are learned, these are listed below:
| Magic | Magic Combination Needed | Description |
| Lightning | Wind + Fire | This deals Lightning damage on one or more enemies. The higher the skill of wind and fire, the more damaging the attacks and the more enemies that get attacked. |
| Blizzard | Water + Wind | This deals positive status effects on the party and negative status effects on the enemies. It can also deal damage to enemies. The higher the skill of water and wind, the more imposing the status that can be inflicted on the enemy, the better the status that can be put on the party and the more enemies that can be hit with the ice attacks. |
| Forest | Earth + Water | This is used to cure negative status effects. The higher the skill of Earth and Water, the more difficult ailments become available to remove. |
| Explosion | Fire + Earth | This deals massive damage upon the enemies via explosions . The higher the skill of Fire and Earth, the more enemies that get hit and the greater the damage. |
There are 18 Mana Eggs in the game. They can be obtained in the following locations:
- Won after beating the Squid King.
- Found in Merrill Road.
- Found beneath New Parm.
- Found in West Rangle Mountains.
- Found in East Rangle Mountains.
- Found in Dom Ruins (2).
- Found in Valley of the Flying Dragon (3).
- Found in Valley of the Flying Dragon (4).
- Found on Mt. Typhoon.
- Found in Typhoon Tower (1).
- Found in Volcano Slope (1).
- Found in Petrified Forest (1).
- Found in Castle of Dreams (Dining Hall).
- Two are found in Savanna Wilderness.
- Found in Abandoned Laine Village (Warp Space (2)).
- Found in Underground Ruins (4).
- Found in Alent.
Grandia II
In Grandia II, Mana Eggs work in a slightly different way than the first game. As before, you can find Mana Eggs on the field or after defeating bosses; unlike the first game, you learn different magical attributes by gaining Magic Coins, which are won after battle and can be used to learn different Magic abilities. Magic efficiency increases and casting time decreases as the magic is levelled up. Another key difference between the Mana Eggs in this game and those of the previous game are that the eggs are interchangeable between characters, so you can swap a Mana Egg from one character to another whilst retaining all the abilities learned previously on the Mana Egg. In this way, it is not the character that learns the skill but rather the Mana Egg itself.
| Mana Egg | Type and Magic | Description | Location |
| Holy Egg | Priestly Mana Egg - Water/Earth/Forest | This egg is mostly concerned with healing health and status effects, though there are a few Earth and Ice related attacks that can be used. | Equipped to Elena at the start of the game. |
| Chaos Egg | Demonic Mana Egg - Fire/Wind/Lightning | This is effectively the polar opposite of the egg above, this egg mostly focuses on devestating attacks utilising Fire, Lightning and Wind. Though it does have the potential to grant a few healing properties. | Equipped to Millenia at the start of the game. |
| Mist Egg | Airy Mana Egg - Wind/Water/Blizzard | This egg is mainly used for healing and reviving fallen characters as well as inflicting and relieving status effects. There are a few Ice and Wind based offensive moves, but not too many. | Obtained after defeating Troglodytes in Durham Cave. |
| Gravity Egg | Earthy Mana Egg - Earth/Fire/Explosion | This sees to be a well-rounded egg being able to cast fairly strong offensive attacks involving Fire and Earth; it is also a fairly good egg for healing characters and inflicting status effects. | Obtained after defeating The Eye of Valmar in Aira's Space. |
| Soul Egg | Sagacious Mana Egg - Wind/Water/Lightning | This egg allows for strong Wind and Lightning based attacks, having a good range of attacks to learn as well as having good healing potential. | Obtained after defeating the Crimson Tails in Cecile Reef. |
| Fairy Egg | Defensive Mana Egg - All Recovery and Status Magic | This is the best egg for healing and inflicting or removing status effects as well as allowing fallen characters to be resurrected in battle. | Obtained on the second visit to Raul Hills (special stage) within the labyrinth. |
| Dragon Egg | Offensive Mana Egg - All Offensive Magic | This egg features all of the offensive magic that can be learned and is great for inflicting devestating attacks upon enemies. | Obtained on the first level of the Birthplace of the Gods after solving the reflecting light puzzle. |
| Star Egg | Ultimate Mana Egg - Lightning/Explosion | Definitely the best egg, utilising the most potent in offensive and healing spells, this allows a combination of the best of offensive and defensive magic. | Obtained after the boss fight with the two Naga Queen's in Demon's Law. |
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Grandia III
Once again, Mana Eggs appear in Grandia III. Mana Eggs can be equipped to a character to obtain a boost to spells of certain elements; so rather than being equipped to teach magic, they are equipped to boost the power of certain magic element's potential, these are Fire, Stone, Water and Wind: with Fire and Water being opposites; and Stone and Wind being opposites.
It is also possible to extract spells from a Mana Egg at certain shops at the expense of destroying it in the process, this is the method of learning magic abilities in Grandia III. It is also possible to fuse two Mana Eggs together to create a more powerful Mana Egg, again this can only be done at certain shops, the more powerful egg can then be equipped to grant a greater boost to magic or have more powerful spells extracted from it.
In order to equip a specific Mana Egg, the character's magic level must be equal to or greater than the Mana Egg they are to equip, likewise spells are limited by the amount of magic points each specific character has. It is also notable that some Mana Eggs are only available by fusing other Mana Eggs.
The list of Mana Eggs available, the spells that can be extracted and the boosts that they offer as well as which eggs you can fuse to get them are as follows:
| Mana Egg | Magic Level | Extractable spells | Elemental Boosts | Fusion Exclusive | Description |
| Flare Egg | Magic Level 1 | Burn | Fire + 1 | No | This is a relatively basic Mana Egg, which offers a slight boost to fire and can have a basic fire-based spell extracted from it. |
| Stone Egg | Magic Level 1 | Diggin' | Stone + 1 | No | This is a relatively basic Mana Egg, which offers a slight boost to stone and can have a basic stone-based spell extracted from it. |
| Aqua Egg | Magic Level 1 | Heal | Water + 1 | No | This is a relatively basic Mana Egg, which offers a slight boost to water and can have a basic water-based spell extracted from it. |
| Wind Egg | Magic Level 1 | Howl | Wind + 1 | No | This is a relatively basic Mana Egg, which offers a slight boost to wind and can have a basic wind-based spell extracted from it. |
| Bomb Egg | Magic Level 2 | BOOM! | Fire + 1
Stone + 1 |
No | This is a fusion of fire and stone type Mana Eggs, thus resulting in explosion magic, which can be extracted from the egg to deal powerful attacks. It also boosts the power of fire and stone-based attacks slightly. |
| Leaf Egg | Magic Level 2 | Cure | Stone + 1
Water + 1 |
No | This is a fusion of stone and water type Mana Eggs, thus resulting in forest magic, which can be extracted from the egg to use curative magic. It also boosts the power of stone and water-based attacks slightly. |
| Frost Egg | Magic Level 2 | Crackle | Water + 1
Wind + 1 |
No | This is a fusion of water and wind type Mana Eggs, thus resulting in blizzard magic, which can be extracted from the egg to deal chilling attacks. It also boosts the power of water and wind-based attacks slightly. |
| Thunder Egg | Magic Level 2 | Zap | Wind + 1
Fire +1 |
No | This is a fusion of wind and fire type Mana Eggs, thus resulting in lightning magic, which can be extracted from the egg to deal offensive lightning magic. It also boosts the power of wind and fire-based attacks slightly. |
| Blaze Egg | Magic Level 4 | Burnstrike | Fire + 2 | No | This Mana Egg offers a devastating fire-based attack that can be extracted from it; it also offers a good boost to the power of fire-based magic. |
| Quake Egg | Magic Level 4 | Tremor | Stone + 2 | No | This Mana Egg offers a devastating stone-based attack that can be extracted from it; it also offers a good boost to the power of stone-based magic. |
| Rain Egg | Magic Level 4 | Healer | Water + 2 | No | This Mana Egg offers water-based healing magic that can be extracted from it; it also offers a good boost to the power of water-based magic. |
| Cyclone Egg | Magic Level 4 | Howlslash | Wind + 2 | No | This Mana Egg offers a devastating wind-based attack that can be extracted from it; it also offers a good boost to the power of wind-based magic. |
| Blast Egg | Magic Level 5 | BOOMOR!
Poizn |
Fire + 2
Stone + 2 |
No | A fairly powerful Mana Egg with good boosts to fire and stone magic as well as a couple of good magic abilities that can be extracted. |
| Tree Egg | Magic Level 5 | Resurrect
Crackle |
Stone + 2
Water + 2 |
No | A fairly powerful Mana Egg with good boosts to stone and water as well as a couple of good magic abilities that can be extracted. |
| Icicle Egg | Magic Level 5 | Diamond Dust
Zap |
Water + 2
Wind + 2 |
No | A fairly powerful Mana Egg with good boosts to water and wind as well as a couple of good magic abilities that can be extracted. |
| Lightning Egg | Magic Level 5 | BOOM!
Zap All |
Wind + 2
Fire + 2 |
No | A fairly powerful Mana Egg with good boosts to wind and fire as well as a couple of good magic abilities that can be extracted. |
| Life Egg | Magic Level 5 | Absorber
Healer Alheal |
Fire + 1
Stone + 1 Water + 1 Wind + 1 |
No | This Mana Egg offers a slight boost to all magic elemental propeties. Strong healing spells can be extracted from this Mana Egg. |
| Burst Egg | Magic Level 5 | BOOMOR!
Diamond Dust Zap All |
Fire + 1
Stone + 1 Water + 1 Wind + 1 |
No | This Mana Egg offers a slight boost to all magic elemental properties. Strong offensive magic can be extracted from this Mana Egg. |
| Volcano Egg | Magic Level 6 | Burnstrike
Hellburner |
Fire + 3 | No | This grants a massive boost to fire power. It also allows for the extraction of powerful fire-based magic. |
| Gravity Egg | Magic Level 6 | Tremor
Quake |
Stone + 3 | No | This grants a massive boost to stone power. It also allows for the extraction of powerful stone-based magic. |
| Lake Egg | Magic Level 6 | Healer+
Snooze |
Water + 3 | No | This grants a massive boost to water power. It also allows for the extraction of potent status inflicting magic as well as powerful healing magic. |
| Tempest Egg | Magic Level 6 | Howlslash
Howlnado |
Wind + 3 | No | This grants a massive boost to wind power. It also allows for the extraction of powerful wind-based magic. |
| Booster Egg | Magic Level 7 | WOW!
Diggin' Runner |
Fire + 2
Stone + 2 Water + 2 Wind + 2 |
No | This egg gives good boosts to all magical properties and allows for the extraction of beneficial status magic. |
| Heal Egg | Magic Level 7 | Cure
Halvah Resurrect |
Fire + 2
Stone + 2 Water + 2 Wind + 2 |
No | This egg gives good boosts to all magical propertiesand allows for curative spells to be extracted from the Mana Egg. |
| Calamity Egg | Magic Level 8 | BA-BOOM!
Meteor Strike |
Fire + 3
Stone + 2 |
Yes | This grants a massive boost for fire and a good boost for stone. It offers some of the most poweful explosion magic to be extracted from it. |
| Forest Egg | Magic Level 8 | Meteor Strike
Alhealer |
Stone + 3
Water + 2 |
Yes | This grants a massive boost for stone and a good boost for water. It offers some of the most poweful forest magic to be extracted from it. |
| Blizzard Egg | Magic Level 8 | Crackle Fang
Erebos |
Water + 3
Wind + 2 |
Yes | This grants a massive boost for water and a good boost for wind. It offers some of the most poweful blizzard magic to be extracted from it. |
| Photon Egg | Magic Level 8 | Burnblaze
Gad Zap |
Wind + 3
Fire + 2 |
Yes | This grants a massive boost for wind and a good boost for fire. It offers some of the most poweful lightning magic to be extracted from it. |
| Cluster Egg | Magic Level 9 | Galactic Bang
Quake |
Fire + 3
Stone + 3 |
Yes | This gives a massive boost to both fire and stone. It also has the most potent of explosion magic up for extraction. |
| Holy Egg | Magic Level 9 | Crystal Wall
Healer+ |
Stone + 3
Water + 3 |
Yes | This gives a massive boost to both stone and water. It also has the most potent of forest magic up for extraction. |
| Fenrir Egg | Magic Level 9 | Absolute Zero
Howlnado |
Water + 3
Wind + 3 |
Yes | This gives a massive boost to both water and wind. It also has the most potent of blizzard magic up for extraction. |
| Chaos Egg | Magic Level 9 | Hellburner
Astraea Zap |
Wind + 3
Fire + 3 |
No | This gives a massive boost to both wind and fire. It also has the most potent of lightning magic up for extraction. |
| Dust Egg | Magic Level 1 | Gravity
Craze Fiora |
No boost | No | To fuse this egg, you must fuse with Mana Eggs of singular and opposite properties (fire and water, stone and wind!) In terms of boosts, this is undoubtedly the worst egg to equip; although it does have a few good spells that you can extract from it. |
| Ether Egg | Magic Level 10 | Galactic Bang
Absolute Zero Astraea Zap |
Fire + 3
Stone + 3 Water + 3 Wind + 3 |
Yes | Arguably, the best Mana Egg. It grants massive boosts to all properties as well as having the best offensive magic up for extraction. |
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Grandia Xtreme
Mana Eggs in Grandia Xtreme are found in dungeons. They can be equipped to characters allowing them to use the magical moves of that particular egg. Mana Eggs, as well as other equipment, can only be equipped at certain buildings in Locca. There are four base types of Mana Egg - Wind, Flare, Aqua and Stone. These eggs can be combined by the magician in Locca to create more powerful eggs which can then be further combined. During combination, there is a chance that a bonus effect is added to the Mana Egg produced, such as more MP or damage for particular moves.
| Mana Egg | Magic Level | Element | Spells |
| Dust Egg | Magic Level 0 | Support | Refresh, Freeze!, Evap |
| Flare Egg | Magic Level 1 | Fire | Burn!, Guard up |
| Stone Egg | Magic Level 1 | Land | Shake, Diggin |
| Aqua Egg | Magic Level 1 | Water | Heal, Snooze |
| Wind Egg | Magic Level 1 | Wind | Howl, Runner |
| Lava Egg | Magic Level 2 | Fire & land | Burn!, Burnflame, Def-Loss |
| Heat Egg | Magic Level 2 | Fire & Wind | Burn!, Howl, Howlslash |
| Mist Egg | Magic Level 2 | Water & Wind | Alheal, Erebos, Fader |
| Sand Egg | Magic Level 2 | Water & Land | Shake, Tremor, Evap |
| Burst Egg | Magic Level 3 | Mainly Attack | Burnstrike, Howlslash, Tremor, Erebos |
| Bomb Egg | Magic Level 3 | Fire & Bomb | BOOM!, WOW!, Res-Loss, Burnstrike |
| Thunder Egg | Magic Level 3 | Wind & Bolt | Zap!, Wham!, Runner, Stram |
| Leaf Egg | Magic Level 3 | Land & Forest | Poizn, Cure, Diggin', Regenera |
| Frost Egg | Magic Level 3 | Water & Blizzard | Crackle, Heal, Healer, Freeze! |
| Forest Egg | Magic Level 4 | Water & Forest | Poizn, Alheal, Alhealer, Resurrect, Craze |
| Booster Egg | Magic Level 4 | Mainly Support | WOW!, Diggin', Guard up, Speedy, Runner |
| Decrease Egg | Magic Level 4 | Mainly Support | Stram, Def-Loss, Res-Loss, Cold, Freeze! |
| Darkness Egg | Magic Level 4 | Mainly Support | Snooze, Shhh!, Fiora, Binder, Craze |
| Star Egg | Magic Level 4 | Land & Bomb | BOOM!, Meteor Fall, Res-Loss, Refresh, Gravity |
| Lightning Egg | Magic Level 4 | Fire & Bolt | Zap!, Blade Zap, Binder, Burnflame, Guard up |
| Icicle Egg | Magic Level 4 | Wind & Blizzard | Crackle, Diamond Dust, Wake, Shhh!, Fiora |
| Fairy Egg | Magic Level 5 | Mainly Support | Healer, Vanish, Fader, Snooze, Craze |
| Volcano Egg | Magic Level 5 | Mainly Fire | Burn!, Burnstrike, WOW!, Hellburner, Guard up, Res-Loss |
| Cyclone Egg | Magic Level 5 | Mainly Wind | Howl, Howlslash, Runner, Howlnado, Wham!, Stram |
| Rainbow Egg | Magic Level 5 | Mainly Water | Heal, Healer, Healer+, Evap, Tartarus Rain Cold |
| Gravity Egg | Magic Level 5 | Mainly Land | Shake, Tremor, Quake, Calm, Halvah, Gravity |
| Cluster Egg | Magic Level 6 | Mainly Bomb | Zap!, Zap All, Gad Zap, Burnstrike, Wake, Binder |
| Photon Egg | Magic Level 6 | Mainly Bolt | Zap!, Zap All, Gad Zap, Burnstrike, Wake, Binder |
| Blizzard Egg | Magic Level 6 | Mainly Blizzard | Crackle, Crackle Floe, Crackle Fang, Healer, Shhh!, Fiora |
| Soul Egg | Magic Level 6 | Mainly Forest | Alhealer, Reviva, Cure, Purify, Speedy, Craze |
| Restore Egg | Magic Level 6 | Mainly Cure | Absorber, Alheal, Alhealer, Cure, Regenera |
| Life Egg | Magic Level 7 | Mainly Cure | Alhealer+, Reviva, Evap, Erebos, Tartarus Rain, Regenera |
| Astral Egg | Magic Level 7 | Attack & Support | BOOM!, Zap!, Crackle, Poizn, Magic Wall |
| Protect Egg | Magic Level 7 | Cure & Support | Healer, Purify, Diggin', Guard up, Crystal Wall |
| Void Egg | Magic Level 7 | Attack & Support | BOOMOR!, Erebos, Wham!, Vanish, Giga Vanish |
| Crown | Magic Level 8 | Attack & Cure | BOOMOR!, Zap All, Diamond Dust, Healer+, Halvah, Curse |
| Calamity | Magic Level 8 | Mainly Bomb | Inferno, BOOM!, BOOMOR!, BA-BOOM!, Curse, Gravity |
| Dragon | Magic Level 8 | Mainly Bolt | Hellburner, Zap!, Blade Zap, Dragon Zap, Resurrect, WOW! |
| Fenrir | Magic Level 8 | Mainly Blizzard | Crackle, Crackle Floe, Crackle Glacier, Tartarus Rain, Cold, Binder |
| Chaos | Magic Level 9 | Ultimate Magic | Inferno, Howlnado, Quake, Zap All, Astraea Zap, Absorber |
| Ether | Magic Level 9 | Ultimate Magic | Galactic Bang, Alhealer, Resurrect, Snooze, Fader, Speedy |
| Holy | Magic Level 9 | Ultimate Magic | Diamond Dust, Absolute Zero, Healer+, Reviva, Halvah, Regenera |