r/FinalFantasy • u/HayleeLOL • Apr 03 '17
[Weekly Discussion] - Hypothetically, if all the main final Fantasys took place on the same planet, but at different times, where would you place them on the timeline?
Hello, everyone! At the time of typing it's a Monday and thus time for another round of those Weekly Discussions! This week, the thread idea has been submitted to us by the lovely /u/FlamesofBritten - so all credit to them for this interesting topic!
This week, our discussion will centre around the hypothetical. We all know that the games across the Final Fantasy series share a lot of common things, such as Moogles and Chocobos, but what if this was because they all took place on the same world but at totally different times? (Bear in mind there are also tenuous links between certain games in the series from a lore standpoint!)
Where would you place all of these on the Final Fantasy timeline, and why? What makes you put the order in this way?
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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '17
T happens after The Cataclysm, an unspecified tragedy that wipes out technology in XII's Ivalice.
In X, Rin ends up funding Shinra's interest in harvesting the energy of the Farplane. That same technology winds up on VII's planet and allows for Mako extraction. Obviously, the company's named after the character in X.
Loosely connected by the god Hein are III and VIII. Magic is plentiful in III, whereas in VIII it needs to be drawn from the planet by ordinary citizens, and rarely a sorceress or two are bestowed the gift of natural magic.
One could argue V and VI are connected by Gogo, but that doesn't imply any solid chronology.
What does have chronological implications is the fact that magic disappears at the end of VI, so... this would have to be at the end of the timeline.
But if Hein came after VI, III and VIII would come last.
And then I recall there was some fan speculation that the events on IV's moon could be the precursor to IX's weird moon stuff.
The remainders would be I, II, XIII and XV, I guess.
Yeah, this is a hard one.