>>4948 >>4951 >the flood of chaos energy occurred and as a result the vast majority of world (pulse) was consumed and what remained was renamed into nova chrysalia >as a result of the chaos flooding in, people no longer aged and were seemingly immortal but they could still die by accidents and fall victim to illness >beings in general (monsters too) cannot reproduce >the monsters part is reflected in gameplay where theres only a finite amount of each monster and when you kill enough there are fuschia toned recolors called last ones, which often bulkier and powerful than their slain kin and they also have Ω next to their names to indicate it (i'm gonna be copypasting some stuff, otherwise i'll be typing all day) >In the year 1000 AF, five hundred years after Chaos entered the mortal realm, Lightning awoke from her crystal sleep in the world of Nova Chrysalia. The world is doomed to be destroyed and Bhunivelze—the god who created the fal'Cie deities: Pulse, Lindzei, and Etro—chose Lightning to be the savior tasked to free mankind's souls and lead them into a new world he is crafting. In return, Bhunivelze assured Lightning he will resurrect her sister Serah. >he appearance of souls across the games varies, though they do have one constant form: glimmering crystals floating in the air. In Final Fantasy XIII the souls of humanity appear like this in preparation for journeying through Etro's gate. They also appear in this form in Final Fantasy XIII-2, although they are not mentioned in much detail and only play a cursory role in the story.
In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII souls also appear as glowing lights, revealed by Lumina to be linked to memories: the souls of the dead maintain some sense of individuality as long as they are remembered by the living. In turn, the destruction of a dead soul erases the memories of that person from the living. >at first one of the party members had the ability to hear the dead and a religious organization called the order, who revered bhunivelze wanted said person to do a ritual called the soulsong to "give peace" to the dead, which turned out to mean snuffing them, meaning that the memories of the dead would no longer exist from the remaining living people >bhunivelze wanted this in his new world because otherwise it would make the new humanity impure >towards the end it was revealed that he wanted to make lightning into the new goddess of death after etro died
