One Question That Needs Clearing Up...

[Renmiri]

But if Sin is just an Armour, it doesnt need Fayth to exist. So why couldnt Yu Yevon become Sin, obliterate Zanarkand and once the survivers become the fayth couldnt Yevon begin summoning the Dream Zanarkand from within Sin

Precisely!

But they say Yu Yevon is kind of mad (ya think ?) and just lives for the summoning so maybe he didn't care about what the other fayth were doing as long as he had his Sin

But wasnt Yu Yevon the Original Core, before Zaon (Yunalesca's Final Aeon) defeated Sin and whatever was left of Yevon possessed him? there was no final aeon at Sins birth, and because of this, Yevon may have had a considerable degree of control over Sin, for short periods at least, eg, allowing the time for the survivors to becme fayth for the dream.

I think Zaon, Jecht and all previous final Aeons are not "core". We see in the game that they are a lot less powerful than Yu Yevon (even though Jecht gives the mad summoner a run for his money sometimes). He must use them as a way to control or create Sin but from the Sin as an armor concept I get the impression that Sin and it's Aeons are ALL around Yu Yevon, like a protective shell around it's core. They can't be core and armor at the same time IMHO

Incidentally, I incorporated some of the info from here in my short story about Yunalesca
Look for it on the Writers Corner of this Forum

Or FanFiction.net

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2687313/1/

This brings me to a question about what is Sins true nature. To bring death and destruction as Yevon and the Fayth claim, or did Yu Yevon have some other purpose in mind for Sin, eg only attack places where the people might become developed enough to destroy the Fayth or even find the physical manifestation of the Dream?

Yu Yevon is a villain IMHO. He got a taste of Sin's power and wouldn't, couldn't let go of it. As the fayth says in the game: "He lives for the Summoning"

Incidentally, I have some ideas about how the whole Calm / Sin violence can be explained.

It seems Sin needs "fresh" fayths to be able to show up again, as it is always killing people. Why else it would do it ? Yu Yevon is not a murderer - remember Bahamut's fayth: "Yu Yevon is not good or bad" ? So we can assume Yu Yevon / Sin need the killing to keep their power

But if Sin just kill all in Spira it will not have any more "fresh" fayths to form anew. If Yu Yevon wants to be immortal AND invincible in his Sin Armor he can not kill his golden goose, i.e., the people of Spira that "feed" his invincible armor. Like a lion praying on zebras Yu Yevon / Sin would instinctively know it has to refrain from killing any on that herd for a period, after it feeds. The lion goes hunt somewhere else, Sin goes to sleep and Spira has it's Calm...
Hence Sin needs the 10 year Calm as much as Spirans do.

Makes a twisted kind of sense, heh ?

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