explanations. *serious spoilers. do not read uless you hae completed the game.*

[Pharoh Amon Khan III]

To add one thing:

"Enjoy your Happy Ending O'Fated Children, for time... it will not wait... no matter how hard you hold on, it escapes you. Fate, you can not escape it. The War of the Witches is coming. Let the Witch Hunts begin... Starting with Sorceress Rinoa. "

We know that witches were eventually persecuted, but considering that Rinoa is close with the president of Esthar, a high ranking General of Deling and the commanding officer of SeeD, it seems highly unlikely that even IF persecutions started properly within Rinoa's lifetime, she'd be at all effected. I mean, hardly anyone actually knows she's a sorceress to begin with.

Further, the persecution of sorceresses is a great background for Ultimecia, but there's nothing that indicates that it isn't simply one of Rinoa's successors who is persecuted. Especially considering that Ultimecia (who is the one persecuted mostly) lives too far into the future for it to be Rinoa.

Then Laguna should have prevented her confinement to Lunatic Pandora the first time... Who's to say he can prevent another? Gen. Caraway is a apparently more of a soldier first and hardly a father at all. He organized the assasination of one Sorceress, why not another?

Also, Ultimecia is the only one that talks about persecution. There is no mention of generations of witches being persecuted. So...

There is nothing that indicates that it simply isn't Rinoa or that Rinoa has a successor.

And Ryukazie, as I explained earlier. they were so much as 'travelling to the future'; they 'hitched a ride' as Ultimecia was compressing time to gather all the fragments of Sorceress Power (Sorceresses) that we see the Fated Children destroy, compressing the past to the present. NOT Sorceresses from the 'future'. Read my previous posts before you just go off on me when I've been ignoring you as Leeza asked me to.