My life has been a bit hectic lately, but I'm still trying to get writing done, working on two projects at once. While I'm still in the middle of my Grimm Fanfic (currently at Grimm Forum) I also have let my mind wander to some world building for a sequel to Final Fantasy Spirits Within. I know, the movie wasn't that good, but hear me out, a common theme of Final Fantasy is that there was some event that was almost the end of the world "a thousand years ago" what if the events of Spirits Within is such an event and we do a proper Final Fantasy story one thousand years after the movie?
After the eight spirits neutralized the phantoms, life returned to the world, but not as it once was. Some creatures are benign, like chocobos and moogles that are easily domesticated. Others are vicious monsters that threaten to destroy what is left of humanity. But humans are resilient, they continue to fight, and some are born different, evolving with the monsters, some people have psychic abilities referred to commonly as magic. Of those who exhibit such abilities, males have the power to manipulate electricty and heat energy to generate fire and ice, while females can promote healing and generate protective fields. Females can develop their ability to generate force fields to conjure eidolons, which invariably take on eight forms which people believe are the eight spirits that saved the world during the Phantom War. Thus the Church of Eight Spirits is formed, with the Summoners as the highest order, the White Mages beneath them aspiring to ascension, and the Black Mages ostensibly equal to white mages, but due to an inability to ascend to the rank of Summoner, are in practice forever second class among the church. Eventually there is a schism, the Black Mages decide to revolt and lay claim to the authority of the church themselves. The Red Mages form as a splinter group of weaker males with limited powers who compensate by developing their physical prowess more and side with the White Mages and Summoners and together the Black Mage revolt is suppressed. However, Black Mages continue to be born and not all are conent to join the ranks of the Red Mages, instead, they go off and form their new state of Mysidia with the Order of the Dark Knights serving their cause. Meanwhile, the Church of Eight Spirits continues to build their numbers with the Order of the Dragoons, non-magical warriors who prove themselves in ritual combat against the eidolons and earn the right of holy protectors of the church. The church serves and protects the ordinary citizens while they continue with their day to day lives, but twenty-one years after the Black Mage Revolt, the Mysidian Empire of black Mages reveals itself.
A White Mage named Sara Corneria has just summoned Carbuncle for the first time, marking her as Summoner. Her ascension is paired with the final trial of Biggs Highwind, aspiring Dragoon. The ceremonies are interrupted by Emperor Garland the Blue Mage and his lieutenant Gilgamesh, leader of the Dark Knights and support from tamers, non-magical specialists who command wild beasts to hunt other monsters, or in this case, the mages of the church. In the conflict, four survivors are isolated, Sara and Biggs as well as Wedge Lionheart, one of the last five Red Mages who is only capable of Fira, and Gilbert the Spoony Bard with his dancing moogle Mog. They seek respite at the Gysahl Ranch under the engineer Cid who loans them chocobos and ultimately his own restored vintage airship as they try to save the world by recovering the crystal quarters of the phantom meteor and fulfill the prophecy of the church, that in the darkest of times, hope will lie in four Warriors of Light...
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