allusions

(this thread is going to die fast) arite we all know how real life experiences or historical events can sway the mind a bit… well can anyone find any allusions relating our world to the world of final fantasy 9? maybe even biblical or literature allusions?

I think its in north or sout carolina or somethin i forget, but theres a city called Alexandria

There’s a whole lot of cities named Alexandria, most of them getting their name from Alexander the great when he went on that little conquering spree of his.

Yeah! Sure can. Puck is a character straight out of medieval folklore and a major character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He uttered the famous line "What fools these mortals be!"

Oh, and while this Puck obviously isn’t the same one as the Puck of folklore, the original Puck was also known for being very mischievous.

There’s a supervisor in Lindblum who when asked about the potions you’re trying to find to help Regent Cid shoots back with "Dammit, Jim! I’m a doctor, not a miracle-worker! Ask somebody else."

There are far too many references to real-life culture, places, people and events in FFIX (and the whole FF series for that matter) to include here. Several years ago I listed quite a few here in this Forum, but that thread is long since dead so don’t bother looking for it. FF Compendium at http://www.ffcompendium.com/h/incross.shtml and http://www.ffcompendium.com/h/excross.shtml has most of the well-known references (as well as a few not so well-known). However, a couple not mentioned:

Cid’s wife, Lady Hilda Garde, was the name of a real-life historical figure. She lived around 1000AD in Bergen, Germany, and was an abbess, philosopher, scientist, visionary, artist and musician. She also was something of a mystic, who experienced visions and interpreted them as ‘the breath of God’. Quite coincedental really, when Hilda in FFIX (and FFII for that matter) is shown to be a powerful sorceress.

The secret boss in Chocobo’s Air Garden, Ozma, is probably an in-direct reference to the third book in L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz series – the third book entitled Ozma of Oz. However, if I remember correctly, Ozma was portrayed as a sorcerer in the novel and not some weird multicoloured sphere….

Two monsters in FFIX, the Bandersnatch and the Jabberwock, are taken from Lewis Carrol’s stories Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The Bandersnatch is meant to be a huge, extremely fast, wolf-like beast, and the Jabberwock is portrayed in the story as a serpentine, winged dragon, making their FFIX counterparts quite accurate as to how Carrol invisioned them… (Incidentally, if you look closely the Jabberwock in FFIX is holding a book… intentional? Perhaps…)

There are more, but I can’t quite remember them at the moment.

The damn games have got me.
Everytime i meet somone new i relate to to a FF character. =)
Is this normal? 🙁

The damn games have got me.
Everytime i meet somone new i relate to to a FF character. =)
Is this normal? 🙁

hell no.

The damn games have got me.
Everytime i meet somone new i relate to to a FF character. =)
Is this normal? 🙁

yea, somethings wrong with you….