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[Jimsour]

Reading around on the internet, I read that "dream zanarkand" is actually located out at sea. This would make sense since something thats summoned becomes a physical entity.

However, if the Al Bhed could locate Baj temple, whats stopped them from locating Dream zanarkand?

[theundeadhero]

Dream Zanarkand doesn't exist anywhere in the physical world. Dreams just don't do that.

[Jimsour]

1000 years ago. It was the Machina War between Zanarkand and Bevelle. Despite being a great machina city, Zanarkand relied on summoners to fight. Bevelle's machina though, assured their victory and Zanarkand was doomed to destruction. Yu Yevon, not wanting Zanarkand to die forever, decided to preserve its memory. He called on all the surviving people, turned them into fayth and placed them on Mt. Gagazet, protected by a dense mist. From their memories he created Dream Zanarkand and set it far out at sea. To protect himself and his city while he summoned it, Yu Yevon amassed a great amount of pyreflies to form an armor around him; an armor called Sin. Thus, Sin was born, with its purpose to protect the Dream Zanarkand by any means possible. Summoning both the city and Sin was a greater strain than Yu Yevon could handle; thus only his instincts to protect his beloved city remained and the spiral of death started. Jecht and Tidus, father and son and citizens of the dream city, became real when they touched Sin and were brought to Spira to end the spiral of death that has ravaged it for 1000 years.

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[Renmiri]

I have photographic proof actually, scanned from my Ultimania

The map bellow shows a square with DZ on the top right (after you rotate the picture to it's proper setting). The layout of the land is quite different from the Zanarkand ruins on Yuna's area.

Image:Zanarkand us.jpg - FFProject

Ultimania FFX says that Yu Yevon and Sin kept all ships away from it.

[Jimsour]

But Sin doesnt exist during the calm?

[Tavrobel]

Originally Posted by Jimsour ^

But Sin doesnt exist during the calm?

Yu Yevon can reset things at will.

[BG-57]

This has to be the most confusing aspects of the game. Since Tidus was convinced through most of FFX that the real Zanarkand was the same as his DZ, and that it lay in ruins for 1000 years, he (and the player) were convinced that he travelled 1000 years in time. The game obviously did not do a great job clarifying this.

Once it becomes clear that they coexist in time, logically they cannot coexist in space. So they have to be in two different locations. Nowhere in DZ do we ever see Mt. Gagazet. Nor do we see land boundaries. So it being an island fits.

As for the dreaming, the dreams of the Fayth can actually take on a coporeal state using Pyreflies: Aeons, people, and an entire city even. What's equally interesting is that most of the inhabitants of DZ seem pretty unaware that they are living in an isolated self-contained place. Only Jecht and Auron seemed to be aware of anything beyond the borders.

[Tavrobel]

It could be argued that this point was left intentionally obscure by the writers. Having to explain it in game would take a lengthy amount of time. I rather give to the writers for leaving it obscure, since it would take a heap of logic and putting things together to arrive at the conclusion that there was no time travel involved, especially because nowhere does it say in the game that Sin can defy physics. He flies because of his wings; he swims with fins; if anything, only Yu Yevon can do so, and at this point, he is a mass-less blob of octopussy.

Jecht was not initially aware that there was anything. He only was after an unfortunate occurance of running into Sin while training. Auron was also not originally from DZ, and since he's dead and all that, he's allowed to know these things.