princeofdarknez has the right kind of way of looking at the riddles. I know I said you don't HAVE to play FFX to get the riddle, but the logic you used for FFX wouldn't negate understanding the rest. Though that was the wrong idea you chose.
Also as I said look at the punctuation, I very rarely use a riddle style that simply describes a particular answer.

EDIT: didn't see your second guess, which DOES have too much FFX in it for it to be answerable otherwise.