The Final Fantasy series, developed in Japan, is known for telling great stories within f🌳antasy driven RPG. Each game takes players on a journey of heroics, love, laughter, and more importantly, adventure.

The series began 22 years ago in 1987 and gained millions of fans over the years. Just like anything with a huge fan following, each and every entry is scrut🃏inized and analyzed to its very core. Each game is filled w🍰ith huge amounts of lore for players to discover.

However, there are times the lore doesn’t quite go far enough or the finer details get lost in translation. This often leads fans into coming up with their own ideas and theories to explain what can b🅺e holes in the plot or unresolved elements of the story.

Nearly every Final Fantasy fan worth his or her salt has found themselves in a debate about Sephiroth’s motivations or the true identity of Rinoa. Thankfully, most of the biggest debates have been put to rest by the Final Fantasy Ultimania guides, interviews with the developers, and other official so☂urces.

Here 🧜we 𓆏take a look at some of the most famous and infamous fan theories ever constructed and find which ones are confirmed as fact or completely debunked.

25 Confirmeﷺd: Terra Was Supposed To Disappear With The Espers

Even though Final Fantasy VI is considered an ensemble piece with no official lead character Terra is commonly associated as being such. This is especially true when considered that she is the game’s representative in the Dissidia: Final Fantasy fighting series.

It was long assumed that Terra was meant to disappear with the Espers for added emotional impact to the game’s ending. This was officially confirmed in the Final Fantasy VI Ultimania and in an unearthed developer interview for Hippon Super magazine.

24 Rejected: Sephiroth Was Jeno𒅌va’s Puppet

A debate that still rages on with fans of Final Fantasy VII nearly 22 years later is that Sephiroth was never the true villain of the s✱tory. Rather, it was 💃the Jenova cells in his body that somehow had a psychological influence, meaning Sephiroth was nothing more than a puppet.

However, it was confirmed by the developers in the Final Fantasy VII: Ultimania guide that Sephiroth was indeed the one that was in contro𒆙l and he only inherited Jenova’s power and need for destruꦜction.

Sephiroth’s will, in fact, overpowered Jenova’s and had the ไability to influence and control those infected with the Jenova Cellsꦰ.

23 ꧋ Confirmed: Final Fantasy X Connection To Final Fantasy VII

In Final Fantasy VII, the Shin-Ra was an antagonistic corporation that gained government control ꦛthrough its technology controlling the world’s sourꦓce of energy – Mako -- and its development of military grade weapons.

Those who played Final Fantasy X-2 will re🐬member encountering a young boy-genius called Shinra who talks about extracting the world’s life force to be 🅰used as energy. Many fans initially shrugged this off as nothing more than a bit of fan-service.

However, Final Fantasy scenario-writer Kazushige Nojima confirmed that Shinra and his descendants traveled to o♔ther planets utilizing Mako e൲xtraction and establishing the Shin-Ra company one thousand years later on Gaia.

22 ✨ Re𓆏jected: Vincent Was Sephiroth’s Real Father

Another fan theory that has raged on through the years is that Vincent is Sephiroth’s real biological father. Some fans believed that Sephiroth’s birth mother Lucretia was injected with Jenova Cells by Hojo whilst pregnant with Vincent’s child♌.

This would have gone some way in explaining꧑ the resemblance between Vincent and Sephiroth.

Unfortunately, as interesting as the theory is the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania confirmed that Hojo was, in fact, Sephiroth’s biological father. In addition,𒁃 despite being in love with Lucretia, Vincent backed off because he respected her will to be married to Hojo – a decision that would have major imꦛplications for everyone.

21 Confirmed: Gilgamesh Is An Iꦅnterdimensional Traveller

Gilgamesh is a recurring character and as a mini-boss in the Final Fantasy universe. He has often been portrayed as an antagonist and sometimes anti-heroic✤ figure in the series. Gilgamesh’s importance to the series is often shrugged off as fan-service and his appearance in the games is in line with the series’ tradition of recurring themes.

However, it was confirmed in Final Fantasy: Dissidia – a game which Square-Enix consider to be canon – that Gilgamesh is an interdimensional warrior that travels the void b👍etween worlds,ও space and time.

20 Rejected: It Wa🎀s Possible To Resurrect Aerith

One of the key moments in Final Fantasy VII’s story was Aerith perishing by Seph🏅iroth’s hands. Fans couldn’t believe that a character that they loved and invested time into over a large part of the game’s sto⛎ry was gone.

It seemed that fans struggled so hard to accept her lo🃏ss that it was once a common belief that if you follow a specific set of actions in the game that you could resurrect Aerith. It was debunked and no one knows how this theory gained any traction but it has since become one of gaming’s most infamous myths.

19 🐻 Confirmed: It Really Was Ifrit’s Body Buried At The Volcano

It could be argued that at launch, Final Fantasy XV was very light in content and there ✅were significant gaps in the plot that needed to be filled. Fans debated that was a deliberate expression of the story and it was left to the fans to piece together the game’s puzzling story on their own.

One of the things fans noticed was that the unusually shaped mountain at the Rock of Ravatogh looked suspiciousl𝔉y li🙈ke the body of Ifrit. This was eventually confirmed in the game’s first drop of downloadable content packs and free updates.

18 🦄 Rejected: Squall Perished At The End Of Disc 1

A popular, if somewhat ridiculous fan theory for Final Fantasy VIII was that the game’s angsty lead protagonist Squall was eliminated at t꧑he end of disc 1 and everything that occuꩲrred afterward was just a dream.

Despite only being stabbed iꦕn the shoulder, ✨some fans latched on to this idea like it was canon for years.

Thankfully, this idea was shot down in👍 flames when Squa🦩re-Enix's Yoshiro Kitase confirmed it wasn’t true in an interview with , when asked about his previous work.

17 Confirmed: Shiva And Ifrit Were In Love 💧

Another fan theory that gained traction in the early days of Final Fantasy XV’s launch was that Ifrit, one of the ൩game’s main bosses, and Shiva were in love. Even though the two Astrals represent the opposite ends of the magic spectrum representing fire and ice, fans noticed there could have been more to their relationship than was on the surface.

The relationship between the two Astrals was eventually confirmed in an update patch. It revealed that Shiva tried to save Ifrit and rel𓆉ease him from Ardyn’s control but was destroyed before doing so. This confirmation also gave more meaning to the final kiss Shiva gave Ifrit afꦓter she cast Diamond Dust on him.

16 🍷 ℱ Rejected: Knights Of The Round Were The Spirits Of The Cetra

Those who played Final Fantasy VII back in 1997 would remember that the summon spells in the game were an epic sight to behold. There was a lot of efforᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt and time in collecting all of the optional Summons too. The most powerful and the most difficult to collect was the Knights of the Round Summon.

It was assumed by many fans that the Knights of the Round, rather than simply being a nod to Arthurian legend, were the original Cetra that defeated Jenova. Unfortunately, producer Yoshir🍷o Kitase confirmed that the fans were “ꦫthinking too deeply and reading between the lines too much.”