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    Default Is it symoblism or something???

    Ive just noticed if you look closely at the fayth statue's theyre all face down. At first i thought most of them were face up with a few in profile, particularly the ones with one wing like thing. Is there some special signifigance or meaningful behind this? Was it meant to be blatantly obvious and im just unperseptive?
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    Seems like it's an artistic thing. If there were any plot value attached, it would be notable.

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    Something even stranger is that most of the entombed Fayth do not resemble their spectral forms when you meet them. I suspect its because the ghostly Fayth (other than Anima's and Bahamut's) were simply resued generic characters.

    Take Ixion for example. His entombed body resembles a muscular young man clutching a horn, while his ghost appears as a frail old man.
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    He looked like a sea captain to me, but when i looked closer he almost looks like cid.

    What's even more creepy is all those fayth you see just before you reach zanarkand, the ones stuck in the wall, making dream zanarkand or something. It was creepy enough with a bunch of bodies in a wall, its even creepier to think that they have thier face stuck inside a rock...
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    I think showing their faces would tip the balance of the game's tone into horror. Anima already brings it to the borderline.
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    The discrepancy between the Aeon / Fayth appearance and the Fayth Apparition could be different ways of the soul rendering itself. The fayth statue and the aeon is the soul's true rendering, showing a person's true nature. The apparition could simply be how they physically appeared at the time they were made into a fayth.

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    ...or the designers/renderers got lazy.

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    it might've been a last minute thing.

    "OH MY GOD YOU MEAN YOU'RE GOING TO LET THE SHEEP INTO THE TEMPLES?! WE ONLY DESIGNED TWO OF THE DUDES ARE YOU KIDDING?"

    "hey hey hey calm down, just pull out some random NPCs and it'll be cool"

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    Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
    "OH MY GOD YOU MEAN YOU'RE GOING TO LET THE SHEEP INTO THE TEMPLES?!
    That could be the tagline for

    Final Fantasy X-3: You Gotta Have Fayth

    EDIT: It's Saturday and I haven't posted in a while, sorry

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    Quote Originally Posted by BG-57 View Post
    Something even stranger is that most of the entombed Fayth do not resemble their spectral forms when you meet them. I suspect its because the ghostly Fayth (other than Anima's and Bahamut's) were simply resued generic characters.

    Take Ixion for example. His entombed body resembles a muscular young man clutching a horn, while his ghost appears as a frail old man.
    Just a question, do you have any more of those statue/tomb artwork stuff pictures?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Timerk View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
    "OH MY GOD YOU MEAN YOU'RE GOING TO LET THE SHEEP INTO THE TEMPLES?!
    That could be the tagline for

    Final Fantasy X-3: You Gotta Have Fayth

    EDIT: It's Saturday and I haven't posted in a while, sorry
    xD You win


    The Fayth at the Fayth Wall near Zanarkand all seem to be actual entombed bodies, while the Fayth in the temples might merely be statues that are carrying the trapped souls of the summoners. In both cases, the stone's containing the living spirit of a human being, so the effect's much the same regardless of the finer details.

    It's interesting that the Fayths' faces are always hidden, even when the statues don't have fully human features. Could be an artistic means of showing the dehumanised, isolated nature of the Fayths' existence. Or something.

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    thinking about it, that wall you mentioned kinda makes me think of those mass graves they dug for people in concentration camps in ww2. I mean, you have a whole bunch of people acting as fayths and they're all just stuck there being summoned to power this gigantic city. Kinda makes me wonder if yu-yevon killed them all at once. Well I say killed, I guess they can't have died first, since they have to have 'their still-living bodies' as lulu said :} But yeah, mass grave anyone?

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    Someone posted this link in a thread before
    Final Fantasy Project :: Final Fantasy X :: The Fayth
    Thats all the statues.

    I thought those people in the wall did it voluntarily
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    I want those in higher resolution. They'd make great wallpapers.
    everything is wrapped in gray
    i'm focusing on your image
    can you hear me in the void?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    I want those in higher resolution. They'd make great wallpapers.
    QFT!

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