Final Fantasy 13 Prologue
January 25, 2008
Famitsu has been quite forthcoming with new info concerning Final Fantasy XIII lately and a translation for the official prologue has been floating around. Games in the series have always been accompanied by a story-setting piece and this should give you a good taste of the planned plot for FF13.
Built by a great entity, it is a society floating in the sky, enclosed in a “shell” - Cocoon.
It flourishes, protected by the great machines and living creatures invented by the Crystal.
The inhabitants of Cocoon, in a long period of tranquility, fear infection from the outside.
Outside the shell, an underworld — the entity of “Pulse” awakens. Fearing this faceless invader, the people begin to suspect one another, and hatred takes root.
Cocoon’s government, wishing for stability, takes emergency measures. They arrest large numbers of citizens, suspected of being “infected from the outside”, and announced that they would be compelled to migrate to this underworld, “Pulse“. In reality, it meant banishment, but the fate which awaited them was even more cruel than that…
The crystal, a symbol of harmony, chose a person to whom they would entrust destiny… to lead the world.
She was chosen.
To be the enemy of mankind, who will ruin the world.










