Final Fantasy XIII
2009 · the l’Cie, the fal’Cie, and a cast under sentence
Final Fantasy XIII opens with its six leads already condemned. Branded l’Cie by god-machines called fal’Cie, they are given a task they are not told and a deadline they cannot read: complete it and be crystallised, fail and become a monster. The entire game runs on that clock.
It is the most linear entry in the series and the most argued about, but the premise is unusually pure: six strangers with nothing in common except a death sentence, forced to decide whether to obey it.
The mythology introduced here, with Etro, Lindzei, Pulse and Bhunivelze, is worth flagging for the quote puzzle. Texts that read like their words are usually prayers addressed to them by someone else, which is why those entities carry no quote in this game.
This cast in the puzzles
A compact playable cast with a large mythological layer above it, most of which are deities rather than antagonists in the fighting sense.
| Characters in the roster | 15 |
|---|---|
| Debut year / era | 2009 · Modern era |
| Roles | 2 protagonist · 5 party member · 5 antagonist · 3 npc |
| Most common weapons | Sword (2) · Rod (2) · Projectile (1) · Gunblade (1) · Spear (1) |
| Races represented | Human (10) · Other (3) · fal'Cie (2) |
| Eligible for the Quote puzzle | 10 of 15 |
| Summons debuting here | 2 |
The Final Fantasy XIII cast (15)
Cid Raines Antagonist
Etro NPC
Galenth Dysley Antagonist
Hope Estheim Party member
Jihl Nabaat Antagonist
Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII) Protagonist
Lindzei NPC
Oerba Dia Vanille Party member
Oerba Yun Fang Party member
Orphan Antagonist
Pulse NPC
Sazh Katzroy Party member
Serah Farron Protagonist
Snow Villiers Party member
Yaag Rosch Antagonist
Summons introduced in Final Fantasy XIII (2)
Play today's puzzle
Any of these 15 characters can be the answer to the daily Character or Silhouette puzzle. A new subject is drawn every day at 00:00 UTC, the same one for everyone.