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This blog setup is not official with Square Enix or in any way connected. This project is about how Final Fantasy X-3 can be from my (Lee A. Funnell) perspective. The plot and ideas are mine. Anything that this project contains is not aimed to offend or insult non fictional related. This is a fictional story but an apology in advance anyway. This is just my explanation for my project at hand and for those who wish to learn more.

Wednesday 14 April 2010

No rest in the afterlife?!

When beings, plants and other forms of life die, their soul becomes pyreflies. If there is an emotion strong enough such as anger then the host won't simply lay to rest. Instead the pyreflies continue the life the host once had; sometimes as Unsent who live among the living of which no one could tell if they were an Unsent (unless a Guado happens to notice) or as fiends who prey and envy the living. To eliminate the risk, Summoners are to perform a "Sending" in order to guide the fallen to the Farplane and find rest. But of course all the "Sending" really does is move the potential problem onto some place else i.e. the Farplane.

But there is more to pyreflies then that. Pyreflies are assumed to cause a number of phenomenons throughout Spira. There are many unknowns about pyreflies and afterlife in Spira. Unsents live among the living that cannot find rest and therefore stay on Spira. Needless to say, the afterlife in Spira can be anything but restful.

In Final Fantasy X-3 "The Final Chapters", a titanic tragedy will send shockwaves throughout and alter the stories of many on Spira. But it is a tragedy with complications which are eventually understood and imply the magic words "We have no choice". And in the meantime while at first not knowing and then gradually knowing, the party and the inflicted have to restore the Eternal Calm and the road so then many stories can unfold upon which has been torn asunder by terror and the sorrow of what will be a loss to Spira like none other. Clearly death is not the ultimate and final liberatation where it frees the fallen from life's hardship which it is expected to be! And if the ending does not go the way as so dearly wished upon then there will be rest whatsoever for anyone or anything until its destruction where Shadows will remain alone searching for the one thing they want but cannot have.

The life of a Shadow fated to an eternity of wondering, pain, angrish, torment, harrowing and unanswered yearning sucks don't it? Not quite the peace hoped for after the journey of life is it?

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