Accessory

An Accessory is an item type found in the Kingdom Hearts series, beginning with the original game. Accessories, when equipped on characters, provide a number of functions to them, including bonuses in their stats, additional abilities, or protection against certain kinds of damage.

In Kingdom Hearts II, a new kind of item, armors, were created and given the defensive abilities, including protection against specific kinds of magic. Accessories became soley focused on improving the character's offensive stats and abilities.

Kingdom Hearts
Accessories were originally the only kind of equipment the characters were granted other than weapons. They covered a wide range of abilties, and were able to improve the the character's defense, hit points, magic points, ability points, and strength, as well as providing defense against one or more of the kinds of elemental magic, Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, and Dark. Accessories could also provide bonuses to magic and Summons.

As they were the sole kind of equipment in the game, they could be gained in any number of ways. Each world had at least one accessory that could be won during events or upon completion of that world. Some were found in chests throughout the game, especially in the End of the World. The most basic kinds could be purchased, most notably at an accessory shop run by Cid. More complicated and powerful varities of accessories had to be synthesized with the Moogles. Finally, on rare occastions, accessories were dropped by Heartless in the course of battle.

Kingdom Hearts II
With the introduction of armors, accessories took on a simpler task in Kingdom Hearts II. Accessories only provided bonuses to a character's strength, magic, and AP. In addition, two accessories, the Lucky Ring and the Draw Ring, provided special abilities to the party when equipped on a character.