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FF8 story events

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Disc 1 events

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Injured during his fight with Seifer, Squall recuperates in the infirmary and receives a mysterious, and fleeting, visitor.

Instructor Quistis Trepe arrives to collect Squall, and a little is learned about the trainee as the pair head to class. A meeting with a newly transferred student gives Squall the chance to explain the layout of the Garden compound.

Squall is required to complete his final course unit before he can attempt the field exam; it was to this training area that Squall was en route when he was 'ambushed' by Seifer (re: Story Introduction)

Having completed his course units, Squall is teamed with Zell Dincht, an enthusiastic martial arts expert, and placed under Seifer's captaincy for the duration of the field examination. The uneasy team are sent to perform a flush-and-secure mission in nearby Dollet, a town recently invaded by their powerful neighbours, Galbadia.

New SeeDs Squall, Zell and Selphie attend the Garden graduation ceremony. It is there that Squall meets an entrancing girl from outside the Garden who is looking for someone else. After sharing a stunning FMV waltz the girl spots her target and disappears, leaving Squall in a reflective mood. Meanwhile, Quistis Trepe is having serious thoughts about her future, and tries to share them with Squall.

Squall, Zell and Selphie are assigned their first mission, and are sent to assist a resistance faction located in the distant Galbadia-controlled city of Timber.

With the three SeeDs unconscious, events head off in an unexpected direction. Three new characters are introduced, who are in something of a predicament of their own.

Arriving in Timber, and trying to put the strange 'shared dream' behind them, Squall, Zell and Selphie meet with the Forest Owls resistance group. Squall is disappointed with the apparently amateur conduct of the members, but it surprised to find a familiar face among their number.

Rinoa outlines the Owls' daring plan to kidnap the Galbadian president, but the group may not have bargained on the consequences of success...

With the Owls foiled, Galbadian president Deling proceeds to make the first international TV broadcast in seventeen years, not previously possible since the RF interference blanketing the planet began. However, before the address is complete, an unexpected and uninvited guest interrupts, and the SeeD's find their assistance requested by a second, more welcome, visitor.

As the Sorceress departs with Seifer, freed president Deling calls his forces into Timber. Since their contract instructs the SeeD's to aid the Forest Owls until Timber's liberation, Squall, Zell, Selphie and new addition Quistis have no choice but to escape the city and take Rinoa to a place of safety.

Laguna and his two companions are on a scouting mission in Centra. They discover a large scale excavation project, apparently being led by forces from the technologically advanced country of Esthar. The soldiers prove less than hospitable to the three Galbadians, and the trio are soon forced to search for an alternative escape route.

The party arrive at Galbadia Garden. Although located within belligerent Galbadia's territory, the Garden remains independent, as do the others. Squall's companions, presuming Seifer dead, begin to share their memories of Balamb Garden's troublemaker, provoking an uncharacteristic outburst of emotion from their recalcitrant leader.

The party receive a briefing from Galbadia Garden headmaster Martine, with Rinoa claiming B-Garden heritage in order to, in her words, "make things easier". Martine informs the group that he and Balamb headmaster Cid Highwind have agreed that a stand must be taken against the Sorceress. Introducing them to Irvine Kineas, SeeD and sharpshooter, Martine charges the team with the assassination of the Sorceress - by inconspicuous sniping by preference, but by direct confrontation if necessary.

Upon arrival in Galbadia, the operation is temporarily put on hold as their contact, General Carraway of the Galbadian military, requires the SeeD's to perform a test to prove their identities.

The team meet with General Caraway, who briefs the SeeDs on the daring, two-pronged assassination plan. Left out of the arrangements, Rinoa offers her own idea for how she can help.

Quistis leads her team back to Carraway's Mansion so that she may apologise to Rinoa for her earlier harsh words. Unfortunately, Rinoa has already been stung into action, and Quistis, Selphie and Zell find themselves trapped in the mansion by an auto-lockdown mechanism, activated by Carraway to keep his wilful daughter out of trouble!

En route to their sniping position, Squall and Irvine spot Rinoa up in the Presidential Residence. When the Sorceress decides to end her ascension speech with a 'sacrifice', it's time for the duo to spring into action.

Escaping from Carraway's Mansion, Quistis and the rest of the second team face a long and smelly trek through Deling's sewers if they hope get back in position before 8 o'clock.

The clock strikes eight, but is it really going to be possible to kill a sorceress with a single bullet from a sniper..?

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1 Main playable characters
2 Other major characters
3 Minor characters

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Pyreflies

Pyreflies are an ambiguous, naturally occurring phenomenon that heavily influence the events of the computer role-playing games Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.

Pyreflies are prevalent throughout the world of Spira and are closly linked with the concepts of lifeforce and spiritual energy that the two games put forth. In their natural form they are attracted to and are seen to congregate near areas that contain concentrations of such energy.

Despite the allusion their name gives them to the real-world insect, pyreflies are not depicted as living creatures. Though the problems they cause for the world of Spira are many, they are never shown to possess self-awareness, nor act upon their own agenda. They appear to be nothing but a force of nature.

Nature

Pyreflies appear to exist in one of three distinct states. When inert, their first state, they manifest as insubstantial points of light, similar to the fireflies from which their name is partially inspired, which float aimlessly within a particular area of attraction. Inert pyreflies also generate a delicate, audible sound. In their second state, concentrations of pyreflies can take the form of physical creatures, yet remain insubstantial, reminiscent of ghosts. In the final state, pyreflies can take on the properties of solid matter. It is known, for example, that the 'body' of Sin consisted entirely of a vast quantity of pyreflies, apparently compressed together using gravity magic.

Pyreflies and death

In Final Fantasy X, when a person dies their body cannot simply be laid to rest, first their spirit or lifeforce must be released from the body and allowed to return to the Farplane. A Summoner is required to effect this release, in a ritual known as a Sending. If the Sending is not performed, then the body's spirit is said to be trapped in the physical plane, growing first envious then hateful of the living; the hatred eventually grows strong enough to attract pyreflies, which transforms the emnity into a fiend: a fully substantial and dangerous monster. It is not known whether all of the recently-deceased must be Sent, or just those who have suffered a violent or untimely death.

In some cases the transformation into a fiend does not occur. If the deceased possessed a powerful will, this can remain strong enough post mortem that in attracting pyreflies it can create a physical being in the image of the body's former self. This being, which acts and functions for the most part as it did in life, is referred to as an Unsent and may be benign or malicious, depending upon the nature of the will that created it. The Unsent are unwilling to enter the Farplane using the various gateways that exist in Spira; whether they are physically unable to enter, unable to subsequently leave, or simply wary of taking the risk is unclear. They are also vulnerable to the effects of the Sending, which can banish the controlling spirit to the Farplane and disperse their pyreflies no matter how strong the will that binds them.

The Sending

When a Sending is performed, its effect appears to be to transfer sentient lifeforce to the Farplane; the lifeforce, if any, of the flora and fauna are not affected (it can be inferred, in fact, that such wildlife as well as the planet itself draw energy from the lifeforce contained within the Farplane). Fiends, whose souls have apparently been completely subsumed by hatred, are subsequently not affected.

A Sending, therefore, is known to affect the following:

the lifeforce/soul/spiritual energy of a recently-deceased, self-aware creatures (humans and the Guado, at least, are shown to require Sending)
Unsent beings, ie, those the spirits of whom have remained on the physical plane after death and retained the purpose of their former lives.

Interestingly, during a Sending pyreflies are shown to eminate not only from the dispersed 'bodies' of the Unsent, but also from the recently deceased. This may indicate that pyreflies are always present to some degree in the body of the living, or are, perhaps, the undirected physical manifestation of the planet's lifeforce itself.

Pyreflies and the continuation of memory

The Farplane

The people of Spira have long enjoyed the ability to make occational visits the Farplane, primarily using the gateway that exists within Guadosalam, the purpose of which is to call up their memories of those who have died. Since the Farplane is naturally filled with vast quantities of pyreflies, some are attracted to the evoked memories and give them partial substance, forming a ghostlike image of the subject being recalled.

The physical plane

The attraction pyreflies show to the energy of strong memories is not restricted to the Farplane, nor are pyreflies limited to providing vessels for the wilful spirit of an Unsent. These two phenomena have been shown to merge, resulting in the unsettling ability to perpetuate a spirit's memories against their will.

1000 years before the events of Final Fantasy X-2 take place, the game's primary antagonist Shuyin was caught and killed by agents of the Bevelle army while attempting to operate their superweapon, Vegnagun. Despite Shuyin's motivations in life, his will did not linger after death, perhaps due to his reunion with his lover, Lenne, immediately prior to his death. Instead, however, pyreflies present at the location in which his body was disposed took on the imprint of his memories and refused to allow them to fade. Over time these memories and the feelings they evoked fused with the energy supplied by the pyreflies, gained self-awareness and began to act on their own, using the original Shuyin personality, and his memories of the Zanarkand/Bevelle war and his subsequent murder, as a template.

Shuyin: I wanted to rest forever, but the pyreflies make me relive that moment...
Again and again and again.

Once exisiting as an entity in themselves, known as a Shadow, the personified power of Shuyin's memories of despair and hate are able to influence and control any entity they come into contact with, be they people or fayth.