The stage where the story of the planet takes place, because there is no indication of which planet it is in FFVII, so it is directly called "planet". The planet has its own consciousness, and ancient humans more than 2,000 years ago have the ability to communicate with the planet. The planet uses the energy of the river of life to create 4 summoned beasts, which can eliminate substances harmful to the planet.
Xenovia
Parasitic creatures on alien stars. Xenova does not belong to the planet of Final Fantasy VII, but is the only life inhabiting the universe. About 2000 years ago, Xenova fell on Nolusp (near the ice village in the game) and brought a terrible disaster to the planet. At that time, there were still a large number of ancient species that fearedly called it "a disaster that fell from the sky." Eh". Jenova has a grumpy temperament, high offensive power, and very cunning. It will not consider the situation after the destruction, but will only destroy things other than itself according to its instinct, and use its "mimetics" to spread viruses and invade other creatures. Jenova's extremely tenacious vitality is also one of its characteristics. Even if the body is torn apart, the cells can interact with each other and regenerate to the original state. Once other planets are invaded by Xenovia, they will not be absorbed by them, depleted of resources and depleted. So when Xenovia invaded the planet, the ancient humans realized its harm and worked together to seal it. Most of the ancient humans were eroded by Xenovia and died during the battle, and only a small part remained (only in FFVII). Alice is left). Xenovia has a strong ability to repair the host, and Zachs and Crowder who were severely injured in the battle with Sephiroth might die if they were not injected with Xenovia cells. The crater formed by the collision between Jenova and the planet remains, and it is now called the "Great Northern Hole".
River of Life (life stream)
on the planet origin of life, is divided into two parts: the conscious part of the soul (thoughts) and energy sector (body structure). After the creatures on the planet die, their bodies and souls return to the river of life, and the next life will take out the corresponding soul part (thought) and energy part (body structure) from the river of life. This constitutes an unfailing cycle of life.
Shinra
A huge company on the planet has its own army. The scientists of Shinra discovered that the energy of the river of life can be used as a resource, and named it "Mako", so there is a magic furnace (the energy part is extracted from the river of life and the soul part is discarded), and Mo Huang is used in his own troops. Doing so will inevitably exhaust the energy of the river of life and cause the planet's extinction. The planetary life absorbed by Shenluo using the magic furnace cannot return to the planet, but will be consumed by humans. As a result, the spiritual energy cycle inside the planet is disrupted, and the planet's own power will be constantly weakened and eventually go to extinction. This status quo is little known, and only some people who study astrology and have a sense of crisis about the status quo have formed organizations and are engaged in anti-Shinra activities.
Warrior: Shinra's elite soldiers. After implanting Xenova's cells into the talents selected by Taksi and irradiating them with magic shock, the person whose physical ability is artificially strengthened is the soldier. This process will cause the body to produce changes that are usually impossible, so many people will fall into an abnormal state, and only those who can tolerate such changes can become fighters. The selected elite soldiers are further divided into three levels according to their strength. The higher the level, the fewer the number of people, and there are only a handful of people who can be called the highest level. Each level will be equipped with corresponding uniforms, and only first level people can wear personal clothing. Sephiroth made the teenagers full of yearning for fighters, and both Cloud and Zach wanted to become fighters because of Sephiroth's existence.
Xenovia Project
The ancient female corpse (infected by Xenovia and stored in the magic stove in Nibelheim) discovered by the scientists of Shinra in the earth formation more than 2,000 years ago, named Xenovia. The parasitic creature found on her body was also named Xenovia (the same name but a different concept). As part of the "Finding a place where the magic is rich in restraint", about 30 years ago, the project initiated by Dr. Gast, who coordinated the scientific research department of Shinra, was the "Project Xenova". The purpose of the project was artificial Create people with ancient abilities. Based on the erroneous view that Jenova found in the Great Hole in the north was mistaken for the ancient species, the researchers implanted Jenova's cells into the body of ordinary people in an attempt to artificially create the ancient species Setra. But most of them fail (Xenovia will fight against the host's thoughts and immune system, causing the host to cause great harm). The research was carried out in the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim, and was initiated by the three persons in charge, Gast, Hojo and Lucresia. Gast proposed to withdraw midway, and the power of the plan was transferred to Hojo. Later, Xenovia was injected into Lucretia's embryo and gave birth to the perfect parasite, Sephiroth (the immune system is not formed so it is perfectly parasitic). Zachs and Crowder were injected with Xenovia cells when they were seriously injured, so the immune system was unable to resist.
Dr. Gast and Jenova Project
About 2000 years ago, Xenova that fell to the planet almost wiped out the ancient species, but the people who survived sealed it deep underground and put it into long sleep. And the one that awakened Jenova was the official Shinra research department headed by Dr. Gast. About 30 years ago, Gast unearthed Jenova, who had become a zombie, and mistakenly believed that it was an ancient species. Randomly he started a plan based on this view. In the course of the plan, research member Bao Tiao used his colleague and lover Lucresia as a test object. By implanting Xenova cells into Lucresia's body, a new life was born, and that was Sephiroth. . Dr. Gast realized that his knowledge of Jenova was wrong for many years, and at the same time began to regret his inhumane experiments, so he quit Shinra's job. He settled down near the ice and snow village where Jenova was found, and began to conduct research on his own. Later, he met Faluna, the true descendant of the ancient species, and learned from her the history of the ancient species, Xenova's mimicry ability and weapons, and other facts that the Shinra didn't know. Gradually, Gast and Faluna fell in love, so the two formed a family and had a daughter, Alice. But Gast was eventually killed by Hojo, and all his research results fell into Hojo's hands.
About
Sephiroth When Lucresia was pregnant, Sephiroth grew up with Xenova in her body. Although physically he is the child of Hojo and Lucresia, from the perspective of planning, Sephiroth is an artificially created "ancient species" Jenova, or "son of Jenova", and he is also a warrior. . Afterwards, the mass-produced ordinary fighters adopted the simpler method of directly implanting Xenova cells into healthy adults and then irradiating them with magic, so their physique was completely different from that of Sephiroth.
Hou Qun
In order to stop the meteorite, Alice launched the white magic sacred. But due to Sephiroth's obstruction, the divine appearance was delayed. Therefore, when the planet is in crisis, the flow of life inside the planet spews out, and the sacredness resolves the crisis together. However, after Claude defeated Sephiroth, Xenova's cells returned to the flow of life. Therefore, when the flow of life and the divine huge light flow, the body of the person who was hit was also infected with Xenova cells. Inside the human body, there is a framework like the flow of life, which automatically eliminates foreign bodies in the body. The star-scar syndrome is the allergic reaction that the human body produces when it excludes Genova cells or the Sephiroth gene. The symptoms of star-scar syndrome are black spots on the skin and overflowing black pus. People who suffer from it cannot be cured and can only wait for death. Those who didn't know thought it was the punishment of the planet's destruction of human beings in the past, so it was called the "Star-Scar Sign Hou Group".
Fusion and Reunion If
Xenovia wants to erode the entire planet, there must be a leader (Safiros in FFVII) leading other Xenovia entities (infected) to fuse, only then will it pose a threat to the planet. Since Kadayu and others in the movie are not Xenovia (the weapon made by Sephiroth with the energy of the river of life, and the consciousness of Sephiroth), they have to find a "mother" to reunite (use their power to reunite with Xenovia). Combine the tiles to make yourself a real Xenovia individual). In the film, Kadayu takes the children to the river of life, the forgotten capital, in order to enhance Xenovia's appeal so as to gather together.
mother
The mother that Kadayu and others were looking for was a specimen of an ancient female corpse infected with Xenovia (Xenovia’s head. The Xenovia entity participating in the fusion in FFVII was wiped out, leaving only Crowder and that one Specimen. Two years ago, during the battle between Claude and Sephiroth, it was lost in the Great Hollow in the north, but then Shinra found it again and told Kadajo that Claude had hidden it. Xenova’s The head is the key to fusion, because the other parts of Jenova's body were defeated by Claude after being fused with Sephiroth., returning to the flow of life, and invading with the light flow of the sacred and the flow of life in the form of cells In the body of another person. Therefore, for the Sephiroth replica, the fusion can only be completed by obtaining the last more complete head of Xenova. However, Claude's will is firm and not affected by Sephiroth. This is why Kadayu calls him brother and betrayer). Alice used magic to communicate with the planet when she was killed by Sephiroth, so she was still connected to the planet after she died, which means that Alice's consciousness is the consciousness of the planet. So when Sephiroth was defeated, his consciousness disappeared, and Kadayu had the ability to think on his own. After hearing Alice’s call, because he was the material of the river of life and had a feeling of motherhood, he called her mother. Claude was called Mama Alice in a coma, also because of the feeling of motherhood. On the other hand, Alice’s consciousness is the consciousness of the planet, and Alice represents the planet, so all creatures on the planet can call her a mother, because the planet is the mother that breeds the entire civilization! ! !
Ancient species
Long ago, a race called "Setra" lived on the planet. Ancient temples and the Forgotten City are all traces of its unique culture. Legend has it that ancient species have the ability to talk to the planet and cultivate the planet. They can open the veins of the flow of life everywhere, activate the life cycle of the planet, and make the planet abundance. When Xenova fell from the universe, in order to heal the planetary trauma caused by the impact, the ancient species went to the northern end of the planet-Nolusp. But Xenova disguised as their relatives and friends and spread the virus, and the crisis of extinction approached the ancient species.
Place of restraint
The holy land that the ancients longed for-the land of restraint, according to legend, there was the supreme happiness asleep there. The land of restraint only exists in the legend, but where it exists, what kind of land it is, and what "Supreme Happiness" is, there is no way to prove it. Shinra believes that the place of restraint contains abundant magic energy, so the ancient species are allowed to find it; Sephiroth regards the place of restraint as a source of power to use the black magic stone to reincarnate as a god. Although their purposes are different, they all regard the Great Northern Hollow as the most ideal place, thinking that it is the place of restraint. Think that the hypothesis of the astrologer is that "the supreme happiness" means that the ancient species went to sleep (ie death) after completing their mission. Judging from this point of view, the place of restraint should be the stream of life that all people will return after death, or it may be any place in the world that can return to the stream of life, but neither of these two points can be asserted. Therefore, the legend of the land of restraint is still divided.
White magic sacred
white magic sacred is the only way to fight against the black magic meteorite spread among the ancient species. According to legend, in ancient times, it was planted on an altar with water around the Forgotten City. The wearer prayed with the white magic stone to make his consciousness communicate with the planet, and then the sacred would activate. The white magic stone has been passed down from generation to generation between ancient species. Alice inherited it from her mother, Faluna, and hid it in a bow on her braid. What kind of power the divine possesses, if it has not been activated, there is no way to know. The only thing handed down is that it can eliminate "the existence of threatening planets." (Mentioned in the male vocal monologue at the beginning of the film)
Jenova's ontology surrounding the fusion action
The Jenova excavated 30 years ago became the experimental material of Jenova's plan at the magic stove in Nibelheim. Five years ago, Sephiroth, who learned of his own life, took the head of Xenova stored in the Nibühlheim's Oven, and fell into the stream of life from the Oven together with it. And Xenova, who was left in the Devil Oven without a head, was ordered by Baotiao to be taken to the Shinra Building for the experiment of Sephiroth's replication plan. After Crowder and others were arrested to rescue Alice from breaking into the Shinra Mansion, the fusion began. The fusion is centered on Jenova, who is kept in the Shinra Building without a head—but this is only from the view of Hojo. In fact, the fusion started with the large northern hole as the center. Sephiroth replicas from various places continued to flock to the big hole, and Xenova in the Shenluo Mansion also began to act. It broke the container, killed the chairman of Shinra, and then left the Shinra Building, heading for the area beyond Midgar. At this time, Jenova's appearance and voice changed to Sephiroth, and she has maintained this form.
Sephiroth replica
5 years ago, after Sephiroth took Genova’s head and fell into the stream of life, the test items that Baotiao used the remaining Genova cells to conduct experiments were collectively referred to as the “Safiroth replica Taste". The plan to use these copies to formally blend the illusions is called the Sephiroth Copy Project. The experiment accepted by Sephiroth’s replica was implanted with cells extracted from Jenova without a head, and then subjected to magic shock irradiation, which was no different from the soldier’s experimental method. The biggest difference between the two is that the soldier is a person whose body can withstand the experiment and will not be swayed by Jenova at the cellular level. But the replica is a vulnerable person who might become a part of Jenova. Sephiroth’s copy of the experiment was the survivor of the Nibelheim incident, and he did not go through a rigorous selection process like fighters. Therefore, most of them would lose themselves and could not continue their normal lives. Somewhere in the Sephiroth replica will be engraved with a tattoo representing the code of the experiment. Claude didn't have the code because he was a "failure", but he is also one of Sephiroth's replicas. The reason why Crowder stubbornly pursued Sephiroth was because Sephiroth had destroyed his hometown, and on the other hand, he did not realize that the Jenova cells in his body were seeking fusion.
Success product, failure product
Even if people who are both mentally and physically strong are implanted with Xenova cells, they will not be affected by it and become its puppets-Sephiroth replicas. They will still retain self-awareness and become warriors beyond ordinary people. . After receiving the experiment of Sephiroth's replication plan, the warrior Zac still did not become a puppet of Xenova, but maintained his self-awareness. On the other hand, the villagers of Nibelheim Village are not as powerful as Zach. They have changed the taste of the copy of Sephiroth and become the best experiment in Baotiao. And Claude is weaker than the average person both mentally and physically. He failed to become a fighter, or even a copy of Sephiroth like other residents, but was completely mentally broken. After Crowder reunited with Tifa in Midgar, he lived with a personality that was neither a copy of Sephiroth nor his original personality. Sephiroth himself is a very extreme exception. Before knowing his life experience, he had been alive as a legendary hero, but 5 years ago, he embarked on a road that runs counter to mankind. Sephiroth is not dominated by Jenova, but instead holds the dominant power. From this point of view, the actions of the controller Jenova can make people feel that Sephiroth is exceptionally powerful.
The magic stone and the post-war society
magic energy are condensed into a solid form to become the magic stone. Although natural magic stones can be formed in areas rich in magic under natural conditions, they are extremely rare. Generally, magic stones in circulation are artificially made by Shinra. Legend has it that the magic stone condenses the knowledge of the ancient species, which means that the magic stone enables ordinary people to acquire the knowledge and ability of dialogue between the ancient species and the planet to a certain extent. The basic purpose of the magic stone is to fight, and it has abilities far beyond conventional weapons. The weapon development company Shinra took the magic stone as a commodity, and personally participated in the war. Coupled with the investment of the soldiers, they easily ended the war that had lasted for many years on the mainland. Shinra, who invented and monopolized the magic stone manufacturing technology, will inevitably achieve a dictatorship after the war. Although the world has ushered in peace, but under the dictatorship of the Shinra, it has gradually developed to rely on the magic to sacrifice the planet and other lives. The age of price, to this day.
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