7 Unexplained Final Fantasy Mysteries

I was mentioned in a Final Fantasy Union video?! I'm completely blown away, thank you so much!

It's stated in one of the Jecht spheres that Auron was a BIG EFFING DEAL back in his younger days. Not only was he a great warrior, but he was in line to be one of the four maesters of Yevon. The only reason he became the broken man we know of later on is because he refused an arranged marriage. Jecht in contrast is a complete stranger - an alcoholic stranger who is rude, arrogant and claims to be from a thousand years ago. I don't think anyone deliberately set out to forget Jecht, but he was very much overshadowed by Auron right from the beginning.

I bet that Shoopuf remembers Ject.

You also forgot to mention that the little girls dialogue changes in the church whenever Aerith disappears. She acknowledges her disappearance.

Regarding Aerith's ghost, if you actually position Cloud correctly, you run past the beam and she stays on screen... Now, here's where it gets interesting. If you manage to pull this off and talk to the young girl her dialogue is "I'll water them later'. Should you then make for the exit and have Aerith disappear, talk to the girl again and her dialogue reverts to "Hey where's the flower lady?" That doesn't essentially mean there was a quest or outcome involving Aerith, it certainly has some meaning.

The thing about the lunar cry is that the one we see in game was mitigated by the lunatic pandora. Causing the monsters to spread out across the land rather than causing a massive impact. And we do see the effects of it as Esthar is absolutely fucked afterwards. There’s no safety there anymore. And the monsters in the surrounding area are stronger than before too.

The biggest mystery is in FF8 about how they keep running out of hot dogs

I'd like to know more about who or what Minerva is in FF7's world. Is she a thinking, feeling being, or is she just, like, a magical puppet? Is she the goddess of Loveless or is it just coincidence that she resembles the character from the play? Could she ever be a Summon? And where is she by the time FF7 happens?

I always thought that Vivi's kids were made similar to how the genomes were made, because I'm pretty sure Mitoko made it to Gaia, and she would have known Garland's cloning process.

When there is a mystery, there is always one guy responsible. Chaos!

The lunar cry normally builds up a critical mass over centuries but the one in Trabia only had ~80 years' worth of monsters in it, and the one in Esthar had less than 20.

I used to go into the church to see Aeris’s ghost regularly. Never getting too close to make her disappear. Never has a death in a game hit me so hard.

The biggest mystery surrounding FF8 will always be Greiver imo. Who is he? Where is he in the present day? What is the connection to Squall's ring? Why can you rename him? Why does he fight you despite this connection? They seemingly went out of their way to make this GF as confusing as possible.

8. Who is making, filling, and placing all the chests in the dungeons. Without them, our heroes would go nowhere. Mystery person, you are the REAL hero!

For FF8's monster tear situation, perhaps the current era event was less destructive because it was called before it would naturally occur. Perhaps Monsters continue to build up to a critical mass that can deal the cataclysmic damage we see in the past events, but it had not been long enough yet to reach such destruction.

It's a shame they never finished FFXV. I'd have liked the base game ending and the one they were talking about adding with DOTF as options. Something about the ending just rubbed me the wrong way before, even moreso after I learned arden wasn't exactly the bad guy as much as bahamut.

I have an theory about the Lunar Cry, the one we see in the game, it's not as destructive because it was artificial, it was controled by the LP, think of it being like a super volcano, it happens every 50k years, in the game, the conditions were not yet met for it to happen naturally, but Odine found out how it happened, and managed to replicate it's conditions, and can do it in any scale with the LP controlling everything, so they used just enough to create chaos, but not destroy the LP or Adels tomb.

All I can think for how Cid in FFIV survived is the Red Wing broke his fall while the bomb is what badly hurt him.

The mystery that bothers me is Siegfried from FFVI. He has a unique sprite and shows up multiple times, but never really amounts to anything. Then there's the line of dialogue in the coliseum where he says someone's been impersonating him. Was he meant to have a bigger role but it was cut due to time? Who was the imposter? Why was there an imposter? Why did Ultros want his attention?

The insane amount of interconnectedness between all of the characters in FF8 is my favorite.