So let me get this straight...
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azuriteI can play FFX and FFX-2 over and over, read plenty of summaries, go through the Ultimania guides, and check out countless websites, but plenty of things will keep confusing me. Right now, the one that's got my brain in a knot is the concept of the fayth.
In FFX, Lulu tells Tidus that the fayth are the souls of people who willingly gave their lives to battle Sin. She says that their life force was taken from their willing, still-living bodies and sealed within statues-- blueprints for the Aeons. The Aeons can be summoned when a Summoner passes the trials and is found worthy of the Aeon-- they make a strong mental bond with them. Because of the particular spirit of the Summoner (something that sets Summoners apart from ordinary people), the dream of the fayth can take shape and have a physical form in the real world-- this is the Aeon, which closely resembles the statue. The pyreflies (of the fayth? Or in the surrounding area?) make it possible for the dream of the fayth --in this case, the Aeon-- to become visible, tangible, and powerful.
From what I can understand of this, prior to giving up their lives, these people have an idea of what they want to become (cf. Bahamut's fayth having the symbol for Bahamut's Mega Flare disc on the back of his hoodie; Anima's necklace bearing an image of Seymour's mother; the fayth must be inspired by various things that are compiled in the form of a fearsome Aeon. Statues are constructed in the desired image, and when the people become fayth, the statues essentially "become real" in the form of an Aeon. However, no one would be able to see/use the Aeon without a Summoner.
Now, here's something odd: Lenne, Yu Yevon, and Yunalesca were all "gifted" (in Yu Yevon's case, "peerless") Summoners that existed prior to Sin. There were also countless other Summoners (unnamed) that would have gone to the frontlines of the battle between Zanarkand (home of Yu Yevon, his daughter Yunalesca, the songstress-summoner Lenne, and her lover Shuyin) and Bevelle (machina central, home of Vegnagun).
But if fayth didn't exist prior to Sin, what did the Summoners summon? Why were they even necessary? In FFX, Maechen implies (IMHO) that the pyreflies are a naturally occurring phenomena that relate to spheres, fiends, visions of the past, and Aeons. In order to prevent the souls of the dead from becoming fiends (for those that did not accept death while they were still living, or for those that did not die a gruesome/unclean/violent death), Summoners were necessary to guide those pyreflies to the Farplane, so the "spirits" or "lifeforce" of the dead did not become fiends.
It stands to reason that fiends appeared anyway, because Summoners were so rare, and as a result, people felt the need to protect themselves against fiends. Thus, people may have sacrificed their lives for their homes (similar to how Lenne was going to do for Zanarkand, prior to her chasing after Shuyin and going to Bevelle and dying there) and become fayth (in other words, the fayth MUST have existed prior to the destruction of Zanarkand/the creation of Sin). They may not have had a particular Summoner in mind when they made this sacrifice (the way Zaon did for Yunalesca), but they may have hoped that, knowing a fayth existed in a certain spot, a Summoner would be drawn there to manifest the fayth's dream into a physical, magical being-- the Aeon.
Basically, pyreflies are naturally occurring and essentially mindless or without sentience-- it is why the inhabitants of Zanarkand were willing to give up their lifeforces to Yu Yevon to "protect" Zanarkand, but after the fact, had no control over how Yu Yevon went about it-- using their mindless pyreflies/soul remnants to construct an armor, and continue using their lifeforce to summon the pristine dream Zanarkand, one that had no need of Summoners, martial machina, etc. At some point though, because the pyreflies that were once part of the Gagazet fayth's souls were doing double-duty, they became aware of their situation-- that they were both the reason for Sin's existence and that their plan to protect Zanarkand had backfired by helping Yu Yevon-- Zanarkand had been destroyed, and even if Yunalesca succeeded in restoring his name, it would not bring Zanarkand back to its former glory. Worse, the dream Zanarkand bore no "reality"-- up until Sin, having lost the human remnant of Yu Yevon within it-- was drawn to it, and destroyed it in an endless cycle. The first time it did this (or came close to doing it), it pulled Jecht into the real world; the second time, it brought Auron along for the ride. The third time, when it actually attacked Zanarkand (because it was truly Jecht this time, and not another guardian-gone-fayth), it brought Auron back to the real Spira, Tidus along with him.
Tidus was the only "human" bit of Zanarkand that remained "real." Auron was Unsent; Jecht had become Sin, and Lenne and Shuyin had both died and become "restless spirits" of sorts; Lenne within an as-yet-undiscovered Songstress sphere lost atop Gagazet (how it ended up there is still not explained) and Shuyin in the Den of Woe (how his spirit ended up there despite having been killed in Bevelle is another mystery; it's not like there was a fayth in the Mushroom Rock gorge). The fayth were tired from the "endless" cycle of dreaming up Zanarkand and yet having it destroyed (or come on the verge of being destroyed, what with Sin existing "between" realms, the only "living" being able to access both the dream and the real world) and also of their plan having backfired-- the real Zanarkand had not been protected by Yu Yevon OR Sin, Zanarkand's true history had been grossly altered, leaving it in ruins. They wanted to make Zanarkand "real" again, even if it was only a bit-- starting with Tidus.
(Question: the moment Yu Yevon became Sin, did he lose his humanity as an unexpected side effect, which would explain why he destroyed his home town and the place he'd vowed to protect, or did he KNOW that would happen, which is why he warned Yunalesca in advance to leave with Zaon, what she might try to "destroy" Sin and restore his name/peace to Spira, and why he asked the inhabitants to give up their lives to create a Zanarkand that could NOT be tampered with --supposedly-- and to create his armor?)
Did the fayth that existed all around Spira (Besaid, Kilika, Djose, Cavern of the Stolen Fayth, Remiem Temple, Bevelle, Macalania) exist prior to Yu Yevon requesting the inhabitants of Zanarkand to become fayth? Were they essentially "local" fayth, as described earlier, or were they originally Zanarkand fayth that DID NOT get "slated" to be used for the dream Zanarkand (with the other fayth at the cluster atop Gagazet) and instead were spread around, perhaps at Lady Yunalesca's behest? Were they people she'd convinced to also give up their lives in the name of Zanarkand (it's possible she convinced people that were not natives of Zanarkand to do this, or that natives of Zanarkand had been out of town and had nothing left to return to, nowhere to go, and essentially, no life or place outside of their original home)?
I know that Baaj Temple was the only "temple" that, while it may have originally been a temple (perhaps the original home of Yojimbo?), the Aeon there was created very recently-- when Seymour was a child, by his mother. From what I understood, because Jyscal Guado marrying a human woman and fathering a child was so unheard of, both the mother and son were sent to Baaj Temple (presumably before it became a ruin, but PERHAPS afterward, since they would have been harder to detect that way, if people really wanted to hurt them). Seymour's mother gave up her life to become a powerful Aeon, in order to give Seymour the chance to live a "normal" life-- to integrate into society as a gifted Summoner, and eventually become the High Summoner who would defeat Sin.
It's not explained whether this process was done by Seymour's mother WILLINGLY at Baaj Temple, leaving Seymour to construct her statue and set up the Cloister of Trials himself (just in case-- it does seem his style, though, to have gone to all the other temples and added the Destruction Spheres that led to the treasures required to gain access to Anima at Baaj) OR if they went to Zanarkand together and had Yunalesca do it there. However, something tells me Yunalesca would NOT have done it
a) if Seymour hadn't journeyed to the other temples already, and obtained other Aeons... which he probably couldn't have, if he was being ostracized to the point of needing to be exiled from his own hometown/father
b) if there was even the smallest chance that Seymour might NOT become a Summoner, able to use his mother's fayth, and thus any other fayth as Aeons... and thus be unable to have the High Summoning done.
At the time, Seymour had no Guardians, technically-- unless he'd truly made the pilgrimage with his mother and she had acted as his Guardian the whole time, and Yunalesca turned HER into Anima with the intent that Seymour would ONE DAY use Anima to defeat Sin. However, at the time, Sin had not yet reappeared... right? When Seymour was with his mother, he had to have been between 9-13 years old, and I think that's after Sin attacked (when Wakka and Chappu were young children, and lost their parents). So if Yunalesca HAD done that, then basically Seymour reneged on the time-honored tradition of becoming a Summoner with multiple Aeons, let alone the High Summoner that defeated Sin).
Now, to add to the complexities, in FFX, the Aeons tell Yuna to summon them during the battle against Sin. She finds this an odd request, until she figures out that Yu Yevon will use the aeons to create a new armor, and she must destroy them --the Aeons and the new armor-- in order to prevent Yu Yevon from creating a new Sin, and thus repeating the cycle. She knows this will mean the end of the fayth's dreams (the Aeons), but she doesn't end up realizing that Tidus is ALSO a dream of the fayth-- which implies that the fayth in the temples ALSO have some sort of role in creating the dream Zanarkand, even if they're not part of the inhabitants of Zanarkand that got turned into the cluster atop Gagazet.
Basically, those fayth atop Gagazet are constantly being summoned, generating a massive amount of power so that Dream Zanarkand can be summoned. As a result, there is no Aeon (or Aeons) to be summoned from said Cluster; the dream Zanarkand is so massive, nothing else can be summoned from the cluster or any one person from within it. The massive energy output is also what conceals the ruins atop Zanarkand, though it isn't known what they might have been PRIOR to Sin destroying Zanarkand.
When Yu Yevon, the one who is mindlessly summoning those fayth, is completely destroyed, those fayth can rest. Because they, unlike the fayth in the temples, are not technically in statues (from what I could tell, but I could be wrong-- it could be a massive carving... or even the people as they originally were, petrified), they simply disappear (which explains the lack of a fayth cluster or even remnants of it in FFX-2). When they vanish, so too, does their dream-- the dream Zanarkand, and all pieces of it, even if they traveled to the "real" world and "became" real. In other words, traveling to the real world is not all it takes to make a dream of the fayth become real-- the fayth must actually will it through a Summoner-- either Yu Yevon (for Dream Zanarkand and its elements) or a Summoner that summons an Aeon (like Yuna). Thus, in order for Tidus to come back for FFX-2, the Aeons had to return and restore that connection with Yuna (a connection that was severed when she summoned and subsequently destroyed all the Aeons for the Final Sending, but because she still kept that part of herself alive, it wasn't as if she'd lost the qualifications to become a Summoner again).
This is something I felt was unanswered in FFX-2 as well: the fayth returned, but not to become Aeons again for Summoners so they could defeat Sin. Does that mean they simply existed, able to wander, when before, they were confined to their statues in their temples? Or were they still "trapped" there, essentially, but unbound to any particular Summoner (Yuna and Dona still lived, and I presume both of them had gotten the majority of the Aeons)? Basically, I don't think Tidus was made "real" 100%-- he was still a dream of the fayth, and if they decided to stop dreaming of HIM, he would cease to exist. However, because Aeons were not necessary, he was basically tied to Yuna, who essentially kept "summoning" him all the time-- she, using the fayth's powers, making them visible as Tidus. That's what I figure, anyway.
Another thing: post-Calm, the natural phenomena of the pyreflies don't fade. Even though the fayth disappear (and that affects many things, like the melting of Lake Macalania, the sinking of Macalania Temple, the disappearance of the clouds atop Gagazet, and the destruction of the Macalania Woods), the pyreflies still exist-- on the Moonflow, on the Farplane, and as fiends (I find it interesting how some people become fiends after death, while others can become Unsent, which seem infinitely more powerful, cf. Auron, Seymour, Belgemine, Maechen, Maester Mika and Yunalesca... but there are exceptions, cf. Jyscal, who was basically a zombie, Lulu's former Summoner, etc.). All of this begs the question: is what Beclem said about the age of the Summoners having passed true? Aren't Summoners still needed for Sendings? If not, why do people not care about fiends existing when people die and still LONG to be alive, and become jealous of those living? I personally wouldn't want someone I knew and cared about to become a fiend and then have to get destroyed-- whether it's by someone's sword, someone's machina, or something else. Better to just send them ahead of time (immediately post-mortem) and not have to worry about it, right?
Since there's no way any average person can just "become" a Summoner, it stands to reason that their gifts are still few and far between, unique, and someone with those talents stands out from a crowd. But the question is, how is one BORN a Summoner? While it would be nice if people could just CHOOSE to become a Summoner, it's likely that there has to be some sort of "gift of spirit" that they must possess in order to handle the power of Aeons/the fayth. Then again, someone with particularly strong convictions (as with Braska) could have become a Summoner without a particular genetic trait already having been in place... Then, even with the Eternal Calm, would people "born" with such traits, or possessing such fierce conviction, be recognized as potential Summoners, or would that be impossible? Or would it simply not matter, because one living High Summoner is enough for all of Spira?
These are just some of the thoughts that have crossed my mind in the past couple of days while playing FFX... if anyone can answer them, or point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Now, back to the game, because my teeth hurt and I have no life.
In FFX, Lulu tells Tidus that the fayth are the souls of people who willingly gave their lives to battle Sin. She says that their life force was taken from their willing, still-living bodies and sealed within statues-- blueprints for the Aeons. The Aeons can be summoned when a Summoner passes the trials and is found worthy of the Aeon-- they make a strong mental bond with them. Because of the particular spirit of the Summoner (something that sets Summoners apart from ordinary people), the dream of the fayth can take shape and have a physical form in the real world-- this is the Aeon, which closely resembles the statue. The pyreflies (of the fayth? Or in the surrounding area?) make it possible for the dream of the fayth --in this case, the Aeon-- to become visible, tangible, and powerful.
From what I can understand of this, prior to giving up their lives, these people have an idea of what they want to become (cf. Bahamut's fayth having the symbol for Bahamut's Mega Flare disc on the back of his hoodie; Anima's necklace bearing an image of Seymour's mother; the fayth must be inspired by various things that are compiled in the form of a fearsome Aeon. Statues are constructed in the desired image, and when the people become fayth, the statues essentially "become real" in the form of an Aeon. However, no one would be able to see/use the Aeon without a Summoner.
Now, here's something odd: Lenne, Yu Yevon, and Yunalesca were all "gifted" (in Yu Yevon's case, "peerless") Summoners that existed prior to Sin. There were also countless other Summoners (unnamed) that would have gone to the frontlines of the battle between Zanarkand (home of Yu Yevon, his daughter Yunalesca, the songstress-summoner Lenne, and her lover Shuyin) and Bevelle (machina central, home of Vegnagun).
But if fayth didn't exist prior to Sin, what did the Summoners summon? Why were they even necessary? In FFX, Maechen implies (IMHO) that the pyreflies are a naturally occurring phenomena that relate to spheres, fiends, visions of the past, and Aeons. In order to prevent the souls of the dead from becoming fiends (for those that did not accept death while they were still living, or for those that did not die a gruesome/unclean/violent death), Summoners were necessary to guide those pyreflies to the Farplane, so the "spirits" or "lifeforce" of the dead did not become fiends.
It stands to reason that fiends appeared anyway, because Summoners were so rare, and as a result, people felt the need to protect themselves against fiends. Thus, people may have sacrificed their lives for their homes (similar to how Lenne was going to do for Zanarkand, prior to her chasing after Shuyin and going to Bevelle and dying there) and become fayth (in other words, the fayth MUST have existed prior to the destruction of Zanarkand/the creation of Sin). They may not have had a particular Summoner in mind when they made this sacrifice (the way Zaon did for Yunalesca), but they may have hoped that, knowing a fayth existed in a certain spot, a Summoner would be drawn there to manifest the fayth's dream into a physical, magical being-- the Aeon.
Basically, pyreflies are naturally occurring and essentially mindless or without sentience-- it is why the inhabitants of Zanarkand were willing to give up their lifeforces to Yu Yevon to "protect" Zanarkand, but after the fact, had no control over how Yu Yevon went about it-- using their mindless pyreflies/soul remnants to construct an armor, and continue using their lifeforce to summon the pristine dream Zanarkand, one that had no need of Summoners, martial machina, etc. At some point though, because the pyreflies that were once part of the Gagazet fayth's souls were doing double-duty, they became aware of their situation-- that they were both the reason for Sin's existence and that their plan to protect Zanarkand had backfired by helping Yu Yevon-- Zanarkand had been destroyed, and even if Yunalesca succeeded in restoring his name, it would not bring Zanarkand back to its former glory. Worse, the dream Zanarkand bore no "reality"-- up until Sin, having lost the human remnant of Yu Yevon within it-- was drawn to it, and destroyed it in an endless cycle. The first time it did this (or came close to doing it), it pulled Jecht into the real world; the second time, it brought Auron along for the ride. The third time, when it actually attacked Zanarkand (because it was truly Jecht this time, and not another guardian-gone-fayth), it brought Auron back to the real Spira, Tidus along with him.
Tidus was the only "human" bit of Zanarkand that remained "real." Auron was Unsent; Jecht had become Sin, and Lenne and Shuyin had both died and become "restless spirits" of sorts; Lenne within an as-yet-undiscovered Songstress sphere lost atop Gagazet (how it ended up there is still not explained) and Shuyin in the Den of Woe (how his spirit ended up there despite having been killed in Bevelle is another mystery; it's not like there was a fayth in the Mushroom Rock gorge). The fayth were tired from the "endless" cycle of dreaming up Zanarkand and yet having it destroyed (or come on the verge of being destroyed, what with Sin existing "between" realms, the only "living" being able to access both the dream and the real world) and also of their plan having backfired-- the real Zanarkand had not been protected by Yu Yevon OR Sin, Zanarkand's true history had been grossly altered, leaving it in ruins. They wanted to make Zanarkand "real" again, even if it was only a bit-- starting with Tidus.
(Question: the moment Yu Yevon became Sin, did he lose his humanity as an unexpected side effect, which would explain why he destroyed his home town and the place he'd vowed to protect, or did he KNOW that would happen, which is why he warned Yunalesca in advance to leave with Zaon, what she might try to "destroy" Sin and restore his name/peace to Spira, and why he asked the inhabitants to give up their lives to create a Zanarkand that could NOT be tampered with --supposedly-- and to create his armor?)
Did the fayth that existed all around Spira (Besaid, Kilika, Djose, Cavern of the Stolen Fayth, Remiem Temple, Bevelle, Macalania) exist prior to Yu Yevon requesting the inhabitants of Zanarkand to become fayth? Were they essentially "local" fayth, as described earlier, or were they originally Zanarkand fayth that DID NOT get "slated" to be used for the dream Zanarkand (with the other fayth at the cluster atop Gagazet) and instead were spread around, perhaps at Lady Yunalesca's behest? Were they people she'd convinced to also give up their lives in the name of Zanarkand (it's possible she convinced people that were not natives of Zanarkand to do this, or that natives of Zanarkand had been out of town and had nothing left to return to, nowhere to go, and essentially, no life or place outside of their original home)?
I know that Baaj Temple was the only "temple" that, while it may have originally been a temple (perhaps the original home of Yojimbo?), the Aeon there was created very recently-- when Seymour was a child, by his mother. From what I understood, because Jyscal Guado marrying a human woman and fathering a child was so unheard of, both the mother and son were sent to Baaj Temple (presumably before it became a ruin, but PERHAPS afterward, since they would have been harder to detect that way, if people really wanted to hurt them). Seymour's mother gave up her life to become a powerful Aeon, in order to give Seymour the chance to live a "normal" life-- to integrate into society as a gifted Summoner, and eventually become the High Summoner who would defeat Sin.
It's not explained whether this process was done by Seymour's mother WILLINGLY at Baaj Temple, leaving Seymour to construct her statue and set up the Cloister of Trials himself (just in case-- it does seem his style, though, to have gone to all the other temples and added the Destruction Spheres that led to the treasures required to gain access to Anima at Baaj) OR if they went to Zanarkand together and had Yunalesca do it there. However, something tells me Yunalesca would NOT have done it
a) if Seymour hadn't journeyed to the other temples already, and obtained other Aeons... which he probably couldn't have, if he was being ostracized to the point of needing to be exiled from his own hometown/father
b) if there was even the smallest chance that Seymour might NOT become a Summoner, able to use his mother's fayth, and thus any other fayth as Aeons... and thus be unable to have the High Summoning done.
At the time, Seymour had no Guardians, technically-- unless he'd truly made the pilgrimage with his mother and she had acted as his Guardian the whole time, and Yunalesca turned HER into Anima with the intent that Seymour would ONE DAY use Anima to defeat Sin. However, at the time, Sin had not yet reappeared... right? When Seymour was with his mother, he had to have been between 9-13 years old, and I think that's after Sin attacked (when Wakka and Chappu were young children, and lost their parents). So if Yunalesca HAD done that, then basically Seymour reneged on the time-honored tradition of becoming a Summoner with multiple Aeons, let alone the High Summoner that defeated Sin).
Now, to add to the complexities, in FFX, the Aeons tell Yuna to summon them during the battle against Sin. She finds this an odd request, until she figures out that Yu Yevon will use the aeons to create a new armor, and she must destroy them --the Aeons and the new armor-- in order to prevent Yu Yevon from creating a new Sin, and thus repeating the cycle. She knows this will mean the end of the fayth's dreams (the Aeons), but she doesn't end up realizing that Tidus is ALSO a dream of the fayth-- which implies that the fayth in the temples ALSO have some sort of role in creating the dream Zanarkand, even if they're not part of the inhabitants of Zanarkand that got turned into the cluster atop Gagazet.
Basically, those fayth atop Gagazet are constantly being summoned, generating a massive amount of power so that Dream Zanarkand can be summoned. As a result, there is no Aeon (or Aeons) to be summoned from said Cluster; the dream Zanarkand is so massive, nothing else can be summoned from the cluster or any one person from within it. The massive energy output is also what conceals the ruins atop Zanarkand, though it isn't known what they might have been PRIOR to Sin destroying Zanarkand.
When Yu Yevon, the one who is mindlessly summoning those fayth, is completely destroyed, those fayth can rest. Because they, unlike the fayth in the temples, are not technically in statues (from what I could tell, but I could be wrong-- it could be a massive carving... or even the people as they originally were, petrified), they simply disappear (which explains the lack of a fayth cluster or even remnants of it in FFX-2). When they vanish, so too, does their dream-- the dream Zanarkand, and all pieces of it, even if they traveled to the "real" world and "became" real. In other words, traveling to the real world is not all it takes to make a dream of the fayth become real-- the fayth must actually will it through a Summoner-- either Yu Yevon (for Dream Zanarkand and its elements) or a Summoner that summons an Aeon (like Yuna). Thus, in order for Tidus to come back for FFX-2, the Aeons had to return and restore that connection with Yuna (a connection that was severed when she summoned and subsequently destroyed all the Aeons for the Final Sending, but because she still kept that part of herself alive, it wasn't as if she'd lost the qualifications to become a Summoner again).
This is something I felt was unanswered in FFX-2 as well: the fayth returned, but not to become Aeons again for Summoners so they could defeat Sin. Does that mean they simply existed, able to wander, when before, they were confined to their statues in their temples? Or were they still "trapped" there, essentially, but unbound to any particular Summoner (Yuna and Dona still lived, and I presume both of them had gotten the majority of the Aeons)? Basically, I don't think Tidus was made "real" 100%-- he was still a dream of the fayth, and if they decided to stop dreaming of HIM, he would cease to exist. However, because Aeons were not necessary, he was basically tied to Yuna, who essentially kept "summoning" him all the time-- she, using the fayth's powers, making them visible as Tidus. That's what I figure, anyway.
Another thing: post-Calm, the natural phenomena of the pyreflies don't fade. Even though the fayth disappear (and that affects many things, like the melting of Lake Macalania, the sinking of Macalania Temple, the disappearance of the clouds atop Gagazet, and the destruction of the Macalania Woods), the pyreflies still exist-- on the Moonflow, on the Farplane, and as fiends (I find it interesting how some people become fiends after death, while others can become Unsent, which seem infinitely more powerful, cf. Auron, Seymour, Belgemine, Maechen, Maester Mika and Yunalesca... but there are exceptions, cf. Jyscal, who was basically a zombie, Lulu's former Summoner, etc.). All of this begs the question: is what Beclem said about the age of the Summoners having passed true? Aren't Summoners still needed for Sendings? If not, why do people not care about fiends existing when people die and still LONG to be alive, and become jealous of those living? I personally wouldn't want someone I knew and cared about to become a fiend and then have to get destroyed-- whether it's by someone's sword, someone's machina, or something else. Better to just send them ahead of time (immediately post-mortem) and not have to worry about it, right?
Since there's no way any average person can just "become" a Summoner, it stands to reason that their gifts are still few and far between, unique, and someone with those talents stands out from a crowd. But the question is, how is one BORN a Summoner? While it would be nice if people could just CHOOSE to become a Summoner, it's likely that there has to be some sort of "gift of spirit" that they must possess in order to handle the power of Aeons/the fayth. Then again, someone with particularly strong convictions (as with Braska) could have become a Summoner without a particular genetic trait already having been in place... Then, even with the Eternal Calm, would people "born" with such traits, or possessing such fierce conviction, be recognized as potential Summoners, or would that be impossible? Or would it simply not matter, because one living High Summoner is enough for all of Spira?
These are just some of the thoughts that have crossed my mind in the past couple of days while playing FFX... if anyone can answer them, or point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Now, back to the game, because my teeth hurt and I have no life.
