FF 25th Memorial Ultimania Vol. 2 — Selected FFVIII artwork and translations

Supporting and main cast

• Group image “The Party,” by Yoshitaka Amano

• Squall on a chocobo

• Rinoa sketches (regular outfit and SeeD graduation ball ceremony)

• Irvine with goggles and Sephiroth’s “Bangs of Doom” instead of a cowboy hat

• Cid Kramer

• Edea

• Julia

• Raine

• Ellone

• General Caraway

• Kiros

• Ward

• Fujin

• Raijin

• Dr. Odine

• Garden faculty

• Dollet soldier

• Galbadian soldier

• Esthar soldier

• White SeeDs

• Lunar base space suit

• Parade dancers

• Adel sealed

• Adel unsealed (also absorbing Rinoa)
Accompanying caption:

The muscular witch who governed Esthar about 20 years ago. The illustration on the right is a sketch of her absorbing Rinoa, and it is in this state she is fought in the game.

• Time Compression witches

• Ultimecia
Accompanying caption:

A witch from the distant future with hatred for SeeD. She intends to create a world where only she can exist by casting Time Compression and causing the past and future to melt together. In pursuit of the ability harnessed by Ellone to send someone’s consciousness into someone in the past, she possesses the bodies of the witches Edea, Rinoa and Adel one after the other.

• Griever
Accompanying caption:

The legendary lion Squall aspires to materialized as a G.F. In similar fashion, the mane of its head grows into the accessories Squall wears.

• Ultimecia’s second form (junctioned with Griever)
Accompanying caption:

Ultimecia junctioned to Griever. Ultimecia’s form is visibly fused to Griever’s underside.

• Ultimecia’s final form
Accompanying caption:

Ultimecia’s final form, for absorbing all time and space. Her body from when she was human dangles upside down as her lower half, surrounded by the cosmos.

Locations and related iconography

• Balamb Garden gate statue

• Balamb Garden secret area

• Fire Cavern

• Deling City

• Deling City’s arc de triomphe

• Deling City’s carousel clock

• Deling City parade float

• Winhill

• D-District Prison

• Trabia Garden cemetery

• Esthar

• Tears’ Point statue

• Lunatic Pandora

• Crystal Pillar (also housed within Lunatic Pandora)

• Deep Sea Research Center

• Julia’s Grave (unused; adapted for later use as Raine’s grave)
Accompanying caption:

The grave of Rinoa’s mother, Julia. The design differs from Raine’s grave seen in the ending. Julia’s surname engraved on the gravestone is the same as Laguna’s (Loire).

Monsters and aliens

• Abyss Worm

• Abyss Worm (clay model)

• Anacondaur

• Armadodo

• Bite Bug

• Blood Soul

• Blue Dragon

• Buel

• Cactuar

• Caterchipillar

• Cockatrice

• Death Claw

• Fastitocalon and Fastitocalon-F

• Forbidden

• Gayla

• Grand Mantis

• Grat

• Grendel

• Imp

• Iron Giant

• Jelleye

• Mesmerize

• Ochu

• PuPu

• PuPu’s UFO

• Red Bat

• Ruby Dragon

• Slapper

• Snow Lion

• T-Rexaur

• Thrustaevis

Boss creatures and machinery

• Abadon

• Elvoret

• Iguion

• Krysta

• Oilboyle

• Propagator

• Raldo

• Trauma and Droma

• Tri-Point

• Ultima Weapon

• X-ATM092

Guardian Forces

• Alexander

• Bahamut

• Cactuar (Guardian Force)

• Carbuncle

• Chocobo

• Diablos

• Doomtrain

• Eden

• Gilgamesh (and swords)

• Ifrit

• Leviathan

• MiniMog

• Odin and Sleipnir

• Pandemona

• Quezacotl

• Sacred

• Shiva

• Siren