FF8 Riddles

[Heero Yuy NWZC]

Myself,
The victim of the preceptor,
Avoidance,
The dilatory assassin,
The daedal burg, (Esthar)
and The red saviour (Ragnarok)

Am I all? No.
Am I some? (The answer is not all the answers to the lines in first paragraph)

Mayhaps, in clearer light
and in array
my true self will come forth,
as I am in all. (One you find out the answer to all lines, the true answer will be revealed.)

I am the beginning.

So far we have four lines in the first paragraph we have yet to decipher, and the last line as well.

[Rantz]

Pretty much so, Heero, except for this:

Mayhaps, in clearer light
and in array
my true self will come forth,
as I am in all. (One you find out the answer to all lines, the true answer will be revealed.)

It won't be revealed directly, but you'll be half finished with the riddle.

The riddle:
Myself,
The victim of the preceptor,
Avoidance,
The dilatory assassin,
The daedal burg,
and The red saviour

Am I all? No.
Am I some? No.

Mayhaps, in clearer light
and in array
my true self will come forth,
as I am in all.

I am the beginning.

Wrong guesses:
Cid
Eden
Ellone
GeroGero
Gilgamesh
Ifrit
NORG
Rinoa
Ultimecia

Clock puzzle in Ultimecia's castle
First disk
Junctioning system
Junk shops
Obel Lake quest
Squall's love/process of discovering love
Time compression
Side quests
Machines

Deep Sea Research Centre
Esthar's shield
Lunatic Pandora
Moon

Hints:
The answer is not a major part of the game (i.e. main characters, time compression etc.)
The answer is not an enemy.
The answer is not abstract (no feeling, mood, event or process for example).
The answer is not related to Triple Triad.
The answer is not a machine.

The later part directly refers to the earlier part.
The second, third and fourth paragraphs all give clues about how to solve the first paragraph. The first one is possible to solve without their help, but easier with.
Try to put the first paragraph in other words.
The answer has little to no ties to any story or plot at all. It is involved in a process, though.
The first six lines are not a description of the answer's attributes or surroundings, but rather a list of individual "things" that can lead you to the answer.
The riddle is much more trivial than it may seem. There is little to no metaphorical speaking.
One of the remaining lines looks for an enemy, another line simply looks for a synonym.

"Myself" refers to the answer.
"The victim of the preceptor" refers to X-ATM092.
"The daedal burg" refers to Esthar.
"The red saviour" refers to Ragnarok.
"Am I all? No. Am I some? No." refers to the paragraph before: The answer is neither one of the above nor all of them. The answer is rather given by solving the first six lines, and "processing them" according to what the rest of the riddle says.

[snakebyte91]

damn i just dont have the time to think about this right now...but if i did i probably couldnt do it anyway lol

[jaxun]

time compression??

[thegirth]

no, it is not a main thing

[Rantz]

It is also not anything abstract.

Hint: Preceptor means instructor. Victim is as in death. Who or what got killed by an instructor?

The riddle is also much more trivial than it may seem. There is little to no metaphorical speaking.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

Adel's prison?

[Heero Yuy NWZC]

Can't be the prison since it was not destroyed by an instructor, since Rinoa is not.

I don't see what could be related to Esthar and the Ragnarok. Is the instructor an NPC in this game?

[Timster]

The only thing I can think of is the X-ATM092 which Quistis... well you know...:shoot:

[Rantz]

Adel's prison is not correct, whether you meant it as an answer for the riddle or the second line.

I don't see what could be related to Esthar and the Ragnarok.

Again don't look for connections there. It's close to impossible to find the key to the first paragraph from the first paragraph. Either you'll have to solve the whole first paragraph, and then look for the key, or you'll have to figure out what the three other paragraphs wants you to do with the first, and then solve the riddle from that.

X-ATM092 is correct for the second line! Good job.

[BG-57]

I'm wondering if there isn't an anagram of the first letters of the first six lines. Ragnarok, Esthar, and XATM092 would give R-E-X, which are included in several monster names, among others.

I doubt it's T-Rexaur, since that's a monster and technically has seven letters.

[jammi567]

is it the side quest missions you can do in it, as they involve the Ranarock, but are optional to the main story.

[Cledarius]

The dilatory assassin, (could this mean the lunatic pandora?)
Avoidance, (could this be a car you can drive? Then you don't have to fight enemies.)

If that so, i come to think, that the first paragraph describes all machines in the game.

And Myself, may be the missing machine, the answer.

[Rantz]

BG-57, you're getting close but you're not quite there yet. Keep thinking in those lines, though.

The answer is not Sidequests or Machines (or a machine).

Hint: One of the remaining lines looks for an enemy, another line simply looks for a synonym.

[BG-57]

Is the synonym I for Myself?