Characters?

[chronic_Maniac]

I played the game and got pretty good at it but I couldn't get every character. What are all the characters names and what to they do?

[Crossblades]

Locke - He's a thief but hates to be called that. He prefers the term ''Treasure Hunter"

Sabin - He's a Martial Artist that uses diffrent kinds of attacks called "Blitz"

Terra - She's an Esper that came from another world.

Edgar - King of Figaro and Sabin's brother. Use tools

Cyan - A swordsman from Doma. Uses Swordtechniques

Celes - Former Magitek Knight. Use Runic skill to absorb magic

Mog - Moogle Dancer. Uses Dance Techniques

Gau - Wild Boy of the Veldt. Learns traits of monsters

Strago - Blue Mage. Uses Blue Magic

Relm - Strago's granddaughter, Draws pictures that comes alive

Shadow - Ninja who would do anything for money

Gogo - Mime. Uses Mimic to copy allies abilities

Umaro - Sasquatch.

[Excalibur11]

I got them all on my first game except shadow :( I didnt wait on the floating continent long enough...

[KoShiatar]

I think that if you go on the frontsite, you will find every information you need about getting them.
In the first part of the game (World of Balance), Mog is an optional character, while you still can't get Gogo and Umaro (or so I think.)
In the second part of the game (World of Ruin), there are only 3 compulsory characters: Celes, Edgar and Setzer.
You can recover all the others in no special order, the exceptions being Strago (You have to have Relm in your party to get him back) and Umaro (you have to have Mog with you).
If you want to ever meet Shadow again remember to wait for him at the end of the World of Balance, or he'll be gone for good.

[Memoria]

Yeah, I never realized you had to wait for Shadow until it was too late...

Me: choses to "leave"
Bro: Hey sis! My friend told me if you wait long enough Shadow will come with you if you don't he'll die.
Me: ...AND YOU TELL ME THIS NOW?!
Bro: MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Levian]

There's also this ghost in the phantom train that can join your team for like 5 minutes. It's the ghost that doesn't attack you.

[Neco Arc]

you can control general leo for at least one battle... or walk around with him as long as you want in circles around thamasa....

[Levian]

You can control Terra's father for a few minutes too.

[Bendak]

You can also control Biggs and Wedge for a few minutes.