Quote Originally Posted by Link_5
Ok I just beat Seymour Flux at gagazet.

I came to this glowing wall (which was fayth) that was being used by something somewhere to summon. well i have questions......
1. Tidus collapses and the little purple fayth kid says zanarkand was only a dream....So does that mean zanarkand never existed??
2 .and if zanarkand was destroyed by bevelle how did sin destroy it in the beginning??
3. why were jecht and tidus chosen to come to spira??
please someone give me answers to these 3 questions I cried aloud with mirth and merriment...however, if it's something that i'll find out later in the game by playing, dont ruin it for me.. i just wanna know what i might have not understood
You will find out later (in pieces). It's however, up to you to put the pieces together.
Long story short...

(SPOILER)That purple fayth you mention is the fayth of Bahamut. Zanarkand did exist 1000 years ago. There was a war between Bevelle, which used Machina, and Zanarkand, which used Summoners; imagine the Blitz versus... everyone except the States and England. Yeah.

At the end of the war, Yu Yevon called all the Summoners who were still alive, and made them all fayths, so they could preserve their vision of Zanarkand. They also summoned Sin, who destroyed the city (most likely, inadvertently, but it benefited the Dreaming fayth to prevent Bevelle from finding them), and decimated the armies of Bevelle. They fled, and while on the slopes of Mt. Gagazet, they heard singing, which explains the Hymn of the Fayth. Zanarkand is preserved, as a memory, and is now called Dream Zanarkand. The ruins is the REAL Zanarkand, not Dream Zanarkand, where Tidus is from.
Afterwards, Yevon's daughter, Yunalesca was approached by the people of Spira to stop Sin. She did, and she sacrificed her husband to do it. However, Yevon possessed Zaon after Sin fell, and Zaon became the next Sin. She would most likely have known that Yevon could revive Sin, and if not, then she learned it after being dead.

During this time, Vegnagun was also developed to fight Sin, but never used (FFX-2).

Jecht was taken accidentally, as he went out one day, and he wandered too far, and Sin found him. Tidus was taken from DZ through conspiracy of Jecht (now Sin) and Auron, who was now dead, and could pass over from either world freely.

Quote Originally Posted by Link_5
ok but when the REAL zanarkand existed (not the dream one) tidus wasnt there was he? he only existed in the dream zanarkand that sin dosed right??
REAL zanarkand was destroyed by bevelle but the DREAM zanarkand was destroyed by sin?
No, Tidus was not there. Shuyin (whom Tidus' template is based on) was there. (FFX-2)
Real Zanarkand is destroyed by both Sin and Bevelle, but not working together, mind you. The religion of Yevon was formed as a way to appease Yu Yevon by the people of Bevelle, and they hid the truth from the masses. Dream Zanarkand cannot be destroyed, except by destroying the fayth, which would never occur, because the only people allowed at that point are Summoners and Guardians. Summoners/Guardians would never, with intent, harm a fayth. The ones in their possession would get awfully pissed. Just wait until the end of the game, and talk to Machaen on Mt. Gagazet, and it should make more sense.