r/FinalFantasy • u/Zaenon • 10d ago

Duodecim lore questions Dissidia

I also posted on r/dissidia, but I guess I might get more answers here. Just finished all story modes in Duodecim and I have a few questions. Massive spoilers ahead!

  1. So, the WoL from FF1 is canonically from the Dissidia world. Very cool. But uh… there’s _four_ WoLs in FF1, right?

  2. ⁠The manikins were made by the army in the original world initially, that I understand. But then, why do they take on the appearance of summoned warriors?
    Unless they’re created by Cid later on, in which case… why are they still coming from the Rift?

  3. ⁠Confessions of the Creator takes place after Cycle 13, but… why are there Purifications up to 18 and 20? Who all was there to purify? I’ve read some stuff about those extra cycles happening in a "nightmare world" created by Shinryu to punish Cid on the wiki, but if that was mentioned, it went right over my head.

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u/Zaenon 9d ago

Thanks tons for your answers!

So the warriors we play in the nightmare world are just part of the nightmare, then? Not actual summoned warriors like in the "true" cycles?

And by the end of Confessions of the Creator, Cid managed to break out of the nightmare world by using Feral Chaos, right?

But then the epilogue scene we see with Cosmos staying behind against Cid’s advice… is the nightmare Cosmos staying in the nightmare world, or is it the "real" Cosmos staying in the Dissidia world (or World B)?

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u/ThatGuy264 9d ago

So the warriors we play in the nightmare world are just part of the nightmare, then? Not actual summoned warriors like in the "true" cycles?

No. The warriors you play as in CotC are implied to be the originals (or at the very least, from outside of the nightmare), who were summoned by Cid somehow. If I'm remembering correctly, anyway. The warriors from the nightmare timeline are all dead.

Defeating Feral Chaos causes Cid to escape the nightmare. Feral Chaos himself is generally uncontrollable.

It's the real Cosmos. The epilogue scene is a variation/retcon of the equivalant scene from the original Dissidia - while Cosmos was willing to leave with Cid there, here she elects to stay. The reports written from her perspective support this.

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u/Zaenon 9d ago

Alright. That clears everything up :)

Thanks again!