Quote Originally Posted by Future Esthar
My theories weren´t incoherent.

And it makes no real sense to say they went to Winhill for that.At least no in FF8.
I played the game many,many times,went to many places and my experience says its bulshet.
Where else and when else do you find monsters entering a city to raid it?
You can only refer to Winhill and Esthar after the Lunar cry(which is Winhill on the future by the way).Where else?Actually the natural behaviour of a monster on FF8 is not to raid a town (unless their personal researcher let them into).
The reason monsters went into Winhill was cause there was no men to protect it, I believe Raine said that herself. THAT is proof. Laguna then patrols the town and rids the town of the nuisances, after that no more monsters. Simple as that.

Of course there will be monsters in Esthar! A freakin moon "Tear" full of monsters landed right next to it! The monsters do this pariodically, no one is controlling it ( no, not Odine or Hyne ). I believe the Tutorial explains this clearly...

So there is some solid in-game proof for ya. Someone besides FE tell me if I'm wrong...