Now that the witch from the illusion is come to be seen as a friend of Galbadia, you sigh in relief? The terrible witch who burns your green fields and freezes your warm homes with ruthless magic.
Since time immemorial, we witches have lived within illusion.Īdorning their bodies in dreadful costumes, the witches who curse virtuous humans by means of cruel rituals. I’ll include the entirety of the Japanese version of Edea’s speech in this entry: In fact, this speech may be the biggest change in the script I’ve run across. [Translator’s note: This is from Edea’s speech in Deling City, obviously, and just as obviously, it’s significantly different from the speech found in the English version. Deling City: After murdering President Deling
Within are life and death and sweet dreams.” Together, we shall create the final fantasy.
“I shall dance for eternity as the witch who brings you dread! At one time, she was the foster mother to the orphans, and was called Matron. Having become a completely different person, Edea reveals the truth. Originally, she was a kind-hearted woman who raised orphans, until she became a slave to the witch of the future, Ultimecia.Īfter murdering Deling, she used her magical powers - specifically, a fascination technique - to drive the assembled populace into a frenzy. She was thought to be a wicked being, but after Squall’s team defeats her in battle, her witch powers are separated from her and she regains her sanity. Converting Galbadia Garden into a mobile stronghold and mobilizing it into direct combact with Balamb Garden, which escaped the missiles, she tried to erase everything to do with SeeD.
She approached President Vinzer Deling of Galbadia, who was scheming world domination, and - as the trump card of that ambition - was appointed the position of ambassador she murdered Deling during her inaugural address and immediately settled into her new seat of leadership, seizing full authority.īurning with intense hatred toward SeeD, she ordered an attack by missiles against Balamb and Trabia Gardens. Shattering a long silence, a beautiful witch who appeared on the world’s stage. The witch who is controlled by a will of hatred The students’ input isn’t in the text, and can only be guessed based on what the teacher says in response.
Tells us a few things we didn’t know at any rate, including the name of the scholar who first coined the term “witches.”īy the way - if it reads kind of strangely, it’s in part because I didn’t go to any great, painful lengths to smooth out the language, and probably also because we’re only privy to the teacher’s words. It’s pretty interesting, but not exactly riveting. Written by Kazushige Nojima, FFVIII’s writer, this is a short story depicting a classroom discussion at Garden about Hyne and witches. This post also includes the “A Day of Instruction at Garden” epilogue to FFVIII from the back of FFVIII’s Ultimania. They’re not exactly the most interesting profiles ever, but they do confirm a couple of things that fans have long suspected, and it’s a cool novelty to at last have some kind of profile for Ultimecia - even if it only contains stuff we already knew.Ī big thanks, by the way, to forum member Celes Chere for providing me with the scans from this book that I translated. Not all of it’s from the FFVIII Ultimania, though.Īmong what I have here are Ellone, Edea, Ultimecia and Adel’s profiles from the Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Ultimania File 1: Character guide. I’ve had quite a lot going on, and what translating I have been doing has mostly been about other stuff.Īnyway, I’m happy to report that I have some more translations to post. Sorry for the delay in new translations related to Final Fantasy VIII. Translations Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania - and related - Translations Continueīy Glenn, The Twilight Mexican Janu32 comments