This is the prologue to Spiral’s Curve! Welcome! In the tradition of Book of Days I’ve taken the history of Spira, starting from the end of X-2 and ran with it as far and as fast as I could. I tried to compact it so that it explained the historical background of this fanfic without confusing people. If confused review me and I’ll mess around with it. All in all it’s not that important to the main storyline, but it helps to know that the world wasn’t built on eggshells. Writing this hurt. A lot. So I hope you enjoy it because rewriting this now would be a b!&.

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Three thousand years ago the Machina War tore our world of Spira apart. The Great Summoner Yevon had created the ultimate summon. Sin. Humanity’s punishment. For a thousand years Sin terrorized Spira. Filled with religious fear the people worshipped Yvon and shunned Machina.

This became something of a problem for the Nomadic people known as the Al Bhed, whose entire culture revolved around machine. Scorned and shunned the Al Bhed remained mostly centralized around the desert island of Bikanel.

As the Holy City of Bevelle became more and more corrupt as the centuries passed the High Measters of Yevon began to rely on Machina more and more. The majority of the Al Bhed refused to be apart of such blasphemous dealings and sought to fight Sin on their own. Spira swiftly became divided between the Summoners, the Crusaders, the Al Bhed and, unbenowst to the general populace, the Measters. Many people died. The summoners, sacrifices to appease Sin, lived in eternal despair, their only hope the Calm that would follow their deaths.

For ten years Summoners trained and at ten years’ end Sun would return. So would continue the spiral of death. The Measters bound Spira with laws and traditions, killing and imprisoning those who did not follow them.

It was in that time that a young Summoner, urged on by her Guardians, questioned tradition and went against the church of Yevon. Excommunicate and on the run she continued her pilgrimage for love of her people. She went on to defeat Sin forever.

Two years after her ‘Eternal Calm’ began the church of Yevon awoke the terror of the Machina war, turning Summons against Summoner. The Fayth were captured. Once again Spira was divided. New Yevon, Youth league and those who were neither. Now High Summoner, Yuna Brask and her cousins whent to battle again and again prevailed. Luck. Fate. Hitsuzen. Vegnagun was destroyed.

After that High Summoner Yuna completely dropped from the limelight. She married one of her guardians and traveled Spira. The Tudus Award is the highest accomplishment a Blitzball Player can attain. Yuna’s Chocobo Ranch breeds the finest Chocobos in Spira.

The Legendary Historian, Paine, recoreded the grand rule of the three great leaders of Spira. Preator Baralai of New Yevon, Meyben Nooj of Youth League and Gippal of the Machine Faction. Public secreat was that she was mistress to all three. Rikku, Yuna’s cousin and guardian, took her father’s place and became Matriarch of the Al Bhed people. She had a violent on-off relationship with Gippal who, between Paine and Rikku, fathered five rambunctious and ambitious children who went on to continue his work in finding the balance between religion and progress.

Meyven Nooj married his long time lover, the Sphere Hunter LeBlanc, who ent on to head the Spere Hunter’s Guild of Spira, which made great leaps in discovering Spira’s lost treasures.

Preator Baralai never married, instead he continued his semi public affair with Paine and, rumor had it, Gippal and Rikku as well. The web of friendship that formed with Yuna at it’s center grew with children marrying into the web and grandchildren marrying out of it. But happy times for one marked by fate never last forever.

In the fiftieth year of Yuna’s Calm the body of Auron, the Legendary Guardian, was found, half embedded in the stone of a secret came below the sacred mountain of Gagazet. His soul spoke to the Ronso Elder Kimahru and foretold the end of peace. Rikku, Yuna, Paine and the Guardians sealed the cave and kept itse secrets well hidden.

Less than thirty years later a man by the name of Fe Wang Reed was excavating between Zanarkand and Gagazet following the rumor of Auron’s tomb. Instead he found the Sphere of Yevon, the diary of the man who nearly destroyed Spira. Now in their eighties Lulu and Wakka prepared for the worst as their grand-daughter, one of the workers on the sight, sent home letters of Fei Wang’s growing obsession.

The Reed family was, at that time, rising in fame for their advances in magic and technology advancements. The eldest son, Clow, had made a name for himself by creating a set of cards that could, with the help of a key shaped scepter that acted as a magic conduit, be activated to show a life-like hologram of an aeon. Fei Wang, the younger son, rankled in his brother’s shadow, history books could later proclaim. But the truth of the matter is that no one knows for certain what happened. Historians write that Yuna’s calm lasted for nearly seventy years before the sky grew dark and Clow Reed, along with his rumored current love; a black sorcorress of dubious reknown, disappeared.

This is where the history books end for in that time Yuna, her guardians and Recorder Paine vanished without a trace. Without their beloved icon, Spira was thrown into chaos. Lunne and Shuyin, the eldest of Yuna’s grandchildren took command. Lenne, with her unifying authority, and Shuyin, with his sense of leadership, soon brought the panic and discord into a modicum of control.

In the decades to come tragedy after tragedy struck Spira. The holy forests of Macalania finally died and with it the few forest spirits that remained. Sickness and famine spread, decimating the already depleted Guado. Without their leader the Ronso began to withdraw intot he mountains. Without a blood heir Kimahri had appointed the twins, Lian and Ayde, to rule, before his disappearance.

An age of darkness decended as a monster, many claimed was Sin, rampaged. For sixteen years Spira lived in unending rear, only protected by the temples, which still held some mysterious holy powers.

In the twentieth year since Yuna’s disappearance Preator Lenne’s daughter Bianca was traveling to visit relatives in Bikanel when her airship was attacked by “Sin”. In desperation and fear she called to her ancestors for help. She was answered. The first summoning in nearly a century blew “Sin” away. Close to death Bianca dragged herself into a cave near an oasis. Inside she found the embedded body of Leader Rikku. Nursed back to health by the fading Cactaurs of the Cactus Nation. Believed to be dead Summoner Bianca traveled Spira in disguise, collecting guardians as she went. In her travels she discovered the resting places of Yuna, Lulu, Wakka, Kimahri and Tidus. Rikku; Bikanel, Yuna, Bevelle; Lulu, Besaid; Wakka, Luca; Kimahri, Calm Lands; Auron, Gagazet; Tidus, Zanarkand. With the strength of their Aeons and Hitsuzen weighing heavily upon her sould Bianca faced “Sin” again. She survived by the mereset margin and “Sin” was sealed away. Horribly maimed she was manteled High Summoner, the first in almost a century. Although “Sin” was sealed there were still attacks on the people. As the years passed the number of SUmmoners began to rise and the tradition of puilgrimages were eventually restored.

However, many questions still remained unanswered to this day. Who or what is this creature proclaimed to be Sin reborn? Where did this creature come from and for what purpose? Why were Yuna and her Guardians sealed as Fayth? By what means shall Sin be defeated once again?

The answers may never be known…

-“A History of Spira; chapter thirty-two: The Second Coming of Sin”

Fujitaka Kishimoto, Archeologist, Historian. Bikanel Island, Home.

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"Hitsuzen... Destiny... Referring to an event that would definitely happen... Without it nothing is possible...From one thing, you see, many other things can be imagined... What I just said now... Was from the Kodansha Learning Dictionary 2nd Edition..." - Yuuko Ichihara

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