Comments on: Translations from the FF 20th Anniversary Ultimania — Sources of Power in FF

By: Dissidia 012 Plot Analysis FAQ | The Lifestream

Dissidia 012 Plot Analysis FAQ | The Lifestream — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:23:57 +0000

[...] interrelated appearances in such Final Fantasy titles as FFVII, IX, X/X-2, as well as the “Source of Power” article on pg. 8 of the Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Ultimania File 2: Scena…. If the graph under “Circle of Life” on that page is any indication, it seems that planets with [...]

By: Squall_of_SeeD

Squall_of_SeeD — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:33:27 +0000

Thanks for your post! Happy to do them!

By: Squall_of_SeeD

Squall_of_SeeD — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:29:46 +0000

Thank you. Glad you liked.

By: OWA-2

OWA-2 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:05:48 +0000

I wonder why…

God, where are my manners?! Thankyou for this wonderful job dude. We are lucky to have a member like you in this site.
Keep the excelent work.

By: Death Sin

Death Sin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:40:57 +0000

Very nice read. Shame there’s nothing about FFVI (and FF II also) but it’s very interesting all the same and I’ll really enjoying all of these new translations. Thanks a bunch and please keep up the good work!

By: Squall_of_SeeD

Squall_of_SeeD — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:24 +0000

True that. Moves us no closer to establishing what the hell Squall’s crystal is, though.

By: Squall_of_SeeD

Squall_of_SeeD — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:17:38 +0000

Glad you’re enjoying them!

By: Squall_of_SeeD

Squall_of_SeeD — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:16:17 +0000

Thanks for your posts, Teresa!

It’s not clear where exactly the universal Lifestream should be or what it’s called.

In both the description given in DC and the description given by this Ultimania and FFIX’s Ultimania for that game’s cosmology, it’s only been said that the spirits of planets return to space. Yoshinori Kitase said the same thing in an interview with EDGE magazine back in 2003, but that’s all he said.

So, really, where exactly a planet’s spirit goes is unclear.

As for all the FFs being on the same plane of existence, they’re not. In Dissidia, it’s said that the battleground world was formed from the shards of worlds that had been pulled from different realms/dimensions (“jigen” in Japanese). This word was used in the description of the world offered by Golbez in Chapter 2 of Shade Impulse, by Garland in Chapter 3 of the same, and it was also used in the game’s opening narration in the line “reigning from distant realms” (“jigen no kanata ni kunrinsuru; 次元のかなたに君臨する”).

As well, both FFVIII and FFXII showed that Gilgamesh makes use of the Interdimensional Rift to visit the various worlds.

So while they may or may not have all ultimately come from the same source, they’re not all in the same universe/dimension.

But certainly they’re all in the continuity of the same omniverse.

By: Squall_of_SeeD

Squall_of_SeeD — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:01:36 +0000

Nope. II and VI weren’t mentioned.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:19:56 +0000

Thanks for the info. It seems weird though how each Final Fantasy has their own little “afterlife”, even though Dissidia shows they all are on the same plane of existense.
Is there a name for the bigger Lifestream?

By: Tennyo

Tennyo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:24:40 +0000

Not right away, if we are to take DoC into account. According to DoC, at the end of the world Omega will imerge and take the Lifestream into an even bigger Lifestream that encompasses the entire Universe.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:32:12 +0000

So does each FF world have their own “afterlife”? Because with Dissidia it seems like all the heroes at least live in the same universe, even if at different times and/or on different planets. So would someone who dies in FF7 go into the Lifestream and not meet anyone from, say, FFX?