The Warring Triad

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or are they more like the Occuria and Fal'Cie who are just extremely powerful and long lived that they might just be considered gods?

Oh god, think of the FF cross-over theories you just started.

Its not like it wasn't going to happen anyway, some people have been trying to link Espers and Guardian Forces for years. Technically the relationship between the Warring Triad and the Espers is not so different from the fal'Cie and l'Cie. Powerful godlike figure that imbues an unwilling human with magical power and forces them to do their bidding.

I dont understand why moving the statues caused all sorts of crazy tit to happen to the planet but once they and kefka were destroyed everything went back to normal

An NPC in Kohligen mentions that life won't grow on the planet because Kefka's Will is slowly killing the planet. Basically once Kefka himself is gone, the planet is able to finally recuperate.

My guess is that the Warring Triad are god-like beings on par with Asian cultures, though potent, they are not above the rules of nature itself (i.e. they can still be killed) but I would argue they are technically gods simply because they are the foundation of magic. Once their power is eliminated, magic simply ceases to exist in the VI world, so their existence in the VI world does have a far reaching impact. I can only imagine what the War of the Magi was like with the three of them running amok. They were potent bosses in VI, and they weren't even at full power by that point.