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[Tavrobel]

Originally Posted by Gloc 9 ^

1. How Long We're Calms? Was it ever explicitly stated?

2. What do you think happened to the temples after Sin and Yu Yevon were gone? My guess, just used to honor great summoners. You think they may have torn them down?

3. If all aeons were necessary to complete the journey, why was Anima not needed even though Seymour summons it. I Understand Magus and Yojimbo were optional for gameplay challenges, but Anima is shown in an important scene during the blitzball tourney.

No, they never were. Two years is incorrect: we don't know (based on lack of in-game evidence) of lengths between Calms (since you are asking for explicit evidence). They would simply last however long it took for Yu Yevon to craft his newly captured Aeon into another Sin.

10 years is the difference between when Braska defeated Sin, and the beginning of Yuna's journey. The Ultimania may clarify, but I do not recall such a statement being made anywhere. Two years is coincidentally, the amount of time that has passed since the end of Yuna's journey and the Eternal Calm video clip that comes with FFX International and the start of FFX-2.

In FFX-2, most of the Temples remain intact, whether it's because of continued religious reverence (old habits die hard), or practicality (the Machina Corps), or something else, is left to the interpretation of the player. Macalania collapses into the lake beneath due to Shiva no longer being present. The Calm Lands shrine is also inaccessible, along with Baaj. What is said to occur after is the realm of fan-fiction.

You don't need all of the Aeons. You only need to have journeyed long enough to grow powerful enough with the Aeon(s) and to have the proper experience. Seymour summons Anima because that is his own Final Aeon. Based on the "flashbacks" in Zanarkand when you get there, you can see a young Seymour complaining to his mother. What other reason would anyone have to be there, behind a mountain and a fall of fiends?

[Guardian XIII]

Ha. I never even thought of that. I knew Seymour had gone on a pilgrimage but I didn't put two and two together. I thought it was just one of his own memories from when he passed through. Seems kinda young to be going on a pilgrimage.

[leader of mortals]

Originally Posted by Tavrobel ^

Two years is coincidentally, the amount of time that has passed since the end of Yuna's journey and the Eternal Calm video clip that comes with FFX International and the start of FFX-2.

Gah, smurf Well, I wasn't entirely wrong, I guess...

And also, Anima was not Seymours final Aeon, Seymours mother was accepted as a Fayth, different from the Fayth decided for the Final Aeon. If she were used as the Fayth for the final Aeon, she(her Fayth) would have disappeared after the Aeon was called, as it is implied in the game, and Yuna could not gain her as an Aeon. Also, the Fayth is at Baaj Temple, and I have no idea why, but that would mean it is not at Zanarkand.

[Karifean]

in the flashback in the ruins of zanarkand, seymour's mother says, that seymour should destroy [sin], so she was quite probably going to become a final aeon. i think normal aeons are merely final aeons that weren't used.

[leader of mortals]

Originally Posted by Karifean ^

in the flashback in the ruins of zanarkand, seymour's mother says, that seymour should destroy [sin], so she was quite probably going to become a final aeon. i think normal aeons are merely final aeons that weren't used.

No, a final Aeon can only be Acquired once, and all other Aeeons are gained many times.

[Skyblade]

Actually, it might be possible for a Final Aeon to be acquired multiple times, if the circumstances were right. The limitations on the Final Aeons are as follows:

When the Final Aeon is summoned, it kills the summoner (thus Anima cannot be a Final Aeon, because Seymour survives summoning it and dies later).

After the summoner dies the Final Aeon does not vanish, it remains behind to be possessed by Yu Yevon. The fayth is constantly being used for a summoning (that summoning being Sin), so another summoner cannot call it again (the same Aeon cannot be called more than once at the same time).

[Jessweeee♪]

Well it seems to me like you can never call your Final Aeon more than once because either Sin kills you or the aeon does while being possessed by Yu-Yevon.

On the other hand, Seymour's mother does have her own temple.

[leader of mortals]

Well, I see two different possibilities...

1. The summoner, after summoning the Final Aeon, dies. The Final Aeon is then possessed by Yu Yevon, who works to recover Sin, and in the time it takes him to do this, there is a Calm.

2. The summoner may summon the final aeon as much as they want, and when the previous Final Aeon is killed, all of the Summoner's Aeons attack them(obviously shown in the game), and the Summoner dies this way. The Final Aeon was possesed by Yu Yevon, and so they live after the summoner dies. Yu Yevon works to recover Sin, and in this time there is a Calm.

I've always believed the latter, but I can easily see how both may be possible.