They are not the summoners of DZ. Yevon is the summoner of DZ, and the people who are glowing on Gagazet are the fayth that gives DZ form.
Contrast this with Yuna (or any other standard summoner) who can use Valefor/Bahamut, etc., of whom are the fayth in the temples. Notice even more that you can't summon two copies of the same Aeon at any time (e.g., Remiem Temple challenges or the final sequence).
>>> Jecht entered Spira while out practicing in the sea and running upon Sin. The Zanarkand he hailed from, as well as Jecht himself, were but a dream recreation of the original city, created from the memories of its original citizens and maintained by Yu Yevon, the summoner who was Zanarkand's leader. The dream Zanarkand is based on Zanarkand as it existed 1000 years ago in Spira's history, whose ruins have since become the destination of pilgrimages. Unaware of any of this, Jecht was seen as a crazy drunkard and locked up in Bevelle.
Jecht asserts some control and makes his way to Dream Zanarkand where he communicates with the now-unsent Auron and transports him and Tidus to Spira, hoping that Tidus would find a way to destroy Sin for good. (source ffwikia)..
There is no temporal vortex..
>>> Its possible, if they can survive Sin..
>>> As Karifean mentioned, There's no problem with a dream of the fayth becoming a fayth themselves.
>>> The strain of trying to control Sin was beyond Yu Yevon, and the process destroyed his mind, removing any conscious control he may have had on it. Sin thus became a monster that knew only its two instincts, and indiscriminately attacked cities and villages all over Spira, starting with the true Zanarkand itself. (source ffwikia)..
I always assumed that it was a physical location out in the ocean and lo and behold by this thread it's a physical location out in the ocean.
It must be pretty smurfing far out to sea if nobody has been able to see it. Wonder why you can't just go there on the airship? I mean, it would simply be ruined Zanarkand 2.0, but if it's straight up there then easy.
Also, why the hell hasn't anyone else from Zanarkand just sailed out of there? If our own history is anything to go by, humanity wants the entire world charted. And if Spirans are anything to go by, they live smurfing everywhere else. So to have a physical location that is entirely unknown to people despite the existence of giant salvage ships and whatnot seems utterly bonkers.
Well I can think of one good reason why people would have trouble exploring the oceans...
You mean sailed away from DZ? The primary reason would be that Yu Yevon has created people that don't care. They don't need to explore if that desire has been suppressed. If all else fails, we know that Yevon has a hard-reset switch for DZ.
There weren't many airships to begin with. Even the one scrounged up during the story was one-in-a-million, and at the end of FFX-2, there are only two airships, total, and this is after the technological growth (the first one even stopped working). Is it that hard to believe that magical-zombie-Hitler-O-Brien-Stalin-Napoleon-Jesus was able to control a world where he and his daughter were the center of a global religion?
For people coming from mainland Spira, technology and population is continually reset by attacks coming from Sin. Plebs of Yevon (99% of the population) are afraid of technology. The Al Bhed are limited by their resources and by manpower (and that they're second class citizens). You reference our history of exploration, but your impression is incredibly exaggerated.
The number of explorers in Western history is extremely small. The fact explorers existed is only prominent because Europeans love starting fights. It took many of the historical explorers great efforts to get funding from their governments. Exploration was largely fueled by militaristic ambitions i.e., "we require more minerals."
Eastern exploration was largely stopped by executive order. The Chinese ended their own exploration efforts because why explore that which is inferior? If you're at the center of the world, who cares about anyone else? The Japanese and Koreans shared isolationist tendencies.
Native American exploration pre-colonialism was non-existent. Native African exploration was equally non-existent.
Exploration of Spira's oceans didn't happen because thing like this tended to happen. If I'm a denizen of Spira, I'm probably avoiding the water.
Exploration outward of Zanarkand wouldn't be affected by that, because they don't know about Sin. The only possible explanation is that they don't care what else is out there, but that still feels weak. And why would Jecht go, if they were all designed to have minimal desire for exploration?
Sin was present starting immediately before the end of the war. Sin ended it. It was known.
Plenty of survivors.Originally Posted by Maechen regarding Zanarkand, emphasis mine
Jecht didn't do it on purpose. He went out for a swim one day, went too far out, and was caught in the tide. Sin then brought him to the mainland.
Before you ask, I'm not doing a calculation of the tides of Spira and how far he would have had to swim before he could not physically swim back. If you want an answer for that, test it yourself. You can download that app that makes your phone waterproof if you want to let us know how it goes.
Originally Posted by Opening background announcers in DZReference:Originally Posted by Kilika
http://www.ffwa.org/ff10/script.php?page=p4-02
http://www.ffwa.org/ff10/script.php?page=p1-01
http://www.ffwa.org/ff10/script.php?page=p1-04
I meant Dream Zanarkand.
I don't care about the logistics of the tides. Everyone else has said he was on a boat. If he swam, I don't care. Being a sarcastic bastard and telling me to download an app to waterproof my phone which clearly would not work is probably not the best way to continue the discussion.
"Everyone else" as in the one other person in this thread who conjectured that Jecht got on a boat but which was clearly untrue? I answered your questions and I gave you sources. He did not simply "get on a boat."
If you think that people not wanting to leave DZ because they didn't care is a weak explanation, you can feel free to do so. I never said it wasn't weak. It's just the only one we have based on evidence found within the game.
Your hostility is unfounded.