In the remake trilogy, the figure of Sephirot reinvents and loads even deeper relevance. This article explores how their presence and power influence the Rebirth Final Fantasy VII, marking the destiny of the cloud and its companions
From his first appearance in Final Fantasy VII, Sephirot He embodied the ideal of the absolute bad: imposing, distant, almost mythological. But in Final Fantasy VII RebirthHis role takes an unexpected turn. It is no longer a question of pursuing a gloomy figure through ruins and mountains; Now, Sephirot manifests itself as an active and multifaceted force, which ends the journey of the protagonists from the first moment. This article explores how its representation evolves into the new delivery and what implies its transformation for the general narrative of the remake trilogy.
One of the most popular confusions in the narration of Final Fantasy VII remake is the assumption that Sephiroth has traveled in time. What if it never happened? This theory offers a more disturbing and elegant alternative: Sephiroth has not traveled in the past, but has learned from the vital current. When he falls there, his conscience does not disintegrate, but expands.
Sephiroth accesses memories, trauma, dreams and possibilities of thousands of souls. Instead of temporarily jumping, it gets up in a dimensional way. His knowledge derives from a omnidimensional perspective offered by the same vital current. From that high vision, you can shape fate, manipulate events towards a reality that is useful.
The whispers are corrupt or manipulated souls
The first thing to which Final Fantasy VII fans think “Whispers” or “Echoes of Destiny” They are agents who protect the original line from events. However, this theory claims that they are not entities created by the planet, but souls trapped in Vital current and manipulated by Sephiroth.
These souls, once human, have been convinced by Sephiroth that their mission is to protect the “fate”. But this “fate” is not the real natural flow of the planet, but one designed by Sephiroth for its purposes. Red XII Interprets them as Guardians of fate simply because it is what they believe they are. In reality, they are at the service of an illusion.
Why do Sephiroth want certain events to occur?
Because you need certain conditions to express your plan, such as:
The meeting between Aeris and Cloud.
Access to the elderly temple.
Obtain black material.
The wall of fate and omen: final control of the whispers
Him Destiny Wall From Remake Final Fantasy VII It is more than a visual edge. It is the symbolic limit between what it was and what could be. Here, Sephiroth manipulates the protagonists to fight Omen, the central entity that governs the whispers. Why?
Because this clash against Omen allows Sephiroth to absorb total control of the whispers. They are no longer confused souls, now they are extensions of their will. They stop protecting the “fate” and become tools for the reconfiguration of reality. With this symbolic and spiritual victory, Sephiroth can start modeling the flow of time as if he were a sculptor who works with clay.
The fall of corrupt souls releases more realities
After the fight against Omen and Sephirot in the Final Fantasy VII remake, unresolved dreams, dreams, dreams and trauma of whispers are manifested as divergent realities. Sephiroth, after creating this illusion structure, let those worlds collapse and merged with Gaia.
This is not accidental. His plan – the same as Final Fantasy VII Original – consists in hurting the planet with meteorite, forcing the vital current to meet at that point, and therefore absorb that energy to become a divinity. But so that this happens, Gaia must last. Sephiroth wants eternal gay, able to receive infinite vital currents of divergent worlds that merge and reborn.
This infinite flow not only strengthens it, but makes Gaia a perpetual cosmological container and transforms Sephiroth into a kind of eternal God.
What is the horizon of creation?
Him Creation horizon Final Fantasy VII is a site that exists outside space and time, in which fundamental decisions that affect all existence are possible.
From this theory, the horizon of creation is not a simple “place”, but a metaphysical border between three floors:
The reality that exists (Gaia).
The realities that could have existed (divergent worlds).
The void between the two, in which dreams, memories and desires collapse or manifest themselves.
Sephiroth built this space to project his will. The horizon is the limit in which its design begins to take shape. Here, the divergent worlds that has released can be observed, absorbed or destroyed.
It is the point of maximum expansion of your will.
The Final Fantasy VII horizon not only represents the internal battle between Cloud and Sephiroth, but also between the collective will of the planet and spiritual corruption.
According to the doctrine of yogachara, this space is nourished by the mental waste of the karma of trapped souls. The horizon is the manifestation of all unresolved mental seeds, fueled by fear, desire and pain. It is where Sephiroth can intervene in the spiritual rewriting of existence itself.
In other words, it is a rough existence plan, without a defined form, because it has not yet decided which form will take the future.
From a symbolic point of view, the desolate aspect of the horizon can be interpreted as the representation of:
The pure possibility before creation. As if it were a white canvas, where everything can be modeled, but nothing is born yet.
The destruction of the known form. The empty cosmos and floating rocks can symbolize that the world, as we know it, has been fractured and what remains is a kind of “zero existential zero”.
The death of the stable. Physical life, organic, everything that is absent. This is a more mental space than the truth, a battlefield in which this could become, not what is already.
The choice of Sephiroth to bring cloud to this place also has a clear narrative purpose: here it can act as an “architect of the future”. By eliminating the limits of the physical world, Sephiroth can present his vision without restrictions, looking for a cloud to see the world as he sees: a broken structure that must be reconstructed by the void.
In fact, in the remake of Final Fantasy VII Sephiroth, he says he wants to avoid the same fate of the world (the “death of the planet”) and impose a new one. For him, The horizon is the perfect scenario to rewrite the future from its bases.
Who is the Sephiroth of the creation horizon?
This is not the physical sephiroth or a version of the future. It is the manifestation of the idea of Sephiroth, nourished from inside the mind of Cloud.
This Sephiroth represents the Jungian shadow: the repressed part of the psyche, the trauma not transformed, fault does not face.
From the view of yogacara, it would be a vase, a karmic mental impression that continues to project the pain because it has not been purified. This figure not only lives in the cloud, but has grown, strengthening through the vital current and the emotional imbalance of the planet.
Why do this Sephiroth want the cloud to follow?
This Sephiroth does not simply want to beat cloud, tries to seduce him, convince him that both are part of the same existence. The phrase “remain only seven seconds until the end …” is not a physical threat, but a symbolic invitation. It is the decisive moment, the Greek Kairos: the moment of choice.
The cloud can accept the illusion, fatality and eternal cycle of trauma … or resisting and transforming itself.
The struggle of the Remake Final Fantasy VII trilogy is not against a bad outside. It is a battle against the illusion, against the fragmentation of the soul, against the lie that we are talking about who it is.
What is “there are seven seconds until the end …”?
The phrase that Sephiroth says to Cloud at the end of Final Fantasy VII remake is not a threat, it is a key warning. “There are seven seconds until the end …” refers to a critical moment: the moment you can end or everything can change.
Second Motomu ToriyamaCo -Director of the remake of Final Fantasy VII, at that moment the weather is stopped. If the weather moved again from that point, the world would end up in seven seconds … unless the cloud made a decision that alters that destination. It is a limit scenario: the last point in which it is still possible to intervene in the future.
So why seven seconds?
Because this is the symbolic period that represents a choice. Not no decision, but the most important of all: to face the inevitable or the challenge. In this context, Cloud is not physically fighting Sephiroth, but in the face of a possibility: a future that has not yet been written, but that could be satisfied if something essential does not change in him.
From a more symbolic aspect, we can understand those seven seconds as a moment suspended in the soul, a parenthesis in which consciousness can awaken. Jung would have called him a transformation point, in which the human being decides if he remains linked to fear and trauma (the shadow) or if he takes a step towards truth and personal integration.
In Yogachara philosophy, this moment is like a crack in the mind: the space between a conditioned thought (dictated by pain, habit, karma) and a lucid action. It is an eternal moment in which the soul can be freed from the cycle and change the course of everything.
Sephiroth knows. That’s why it does not threaten in the remake of Final Fantasy VII: tempt. It offers cloud a choice, but disguised as enigma. And it does so at that suspended point when there is no reversal, but there is still room for changing.
“There are seven seconds until the end …” is the moment when fate is at stake. It is a pause over time, a liminal space in which the cloud has to decide if it accepts the course of events or if this time chooses something different. It is the key moment in which the future can be rewritten. And it all depends on him.
What do the gold flakes mean by beating the echoes?
These flakes we see in the remake of Final Fantasy VII represent the purification of the trapped mental energy. Are fragments of consciousness that have been issued by the illusory control. In Jung, they are the “alchemical gold” resulting from the shadow integration process. In yogacara, they are mental seeds that have reached clarity.
Who is the Sephiroth motorway before the destination wall?
A manifestation of Sephiroth on a mental spiritual level, created in the “limit” between the material and the mental. This Sephiroth is a reflection of the consciousness of Sephiroth which has transcended the physical plan by absorbing knowledge from the vital current.
It is a highly concentrated spiritual residue, something like an autonomous form that has been invoked through vital current, with the help of the echoes.
What is singularity?
Although in the ULANIA of Final Fantasy VII remake it is defined as “Beyond”, This theory proposes that it is a collective mental field, created by the conflict between two cosmic testaments: Aeris and Sephiroth. It is not a place, but a moment of spiritual collision, in which the vital current fractures.
Why does it become white when defeating everything?
White is the symbol of the creative void. It is not absence, but potential. In yogacara, it represents the pure mental field before projection. In Jung, it is the collective unconscious before the manifestation of the symbols. Here, the group enters the space where everything is possible … and therefore, where everything can be manipulated.
Why does Sephiroth absorb the echoes and create a scenario of destruction?
When the white stage disappears in the remake of Final Fantasy VII, Sephirot appears and absorbs the echoes, manifesting an apocalyptic scenario (destroyed midgar, the Shinra building collided, meteorite in the sky).
It is a symbolic act. Sephiroth is modeling perception. The absorption of the echoes implies the assumption of control over the flow of fate. From Yogacara, a desired future projects. From Jung, reveals the total shadow of the psyche: the inevitable end if the trauma does not face.
This act has more symbolic readings:
a) in terms of yogachara:
Sephirot is projecting a reality based on desire and Kormic attachment: a future desired by him.
The absorption of echoes implies that it is taking control of the flow of consciousness and using it to express their world view.
b) in Jungian terms:
Sephirot embodies the shadow, the repressed and dark side of the psyche, especially from the cloud.
When they take control of the echoes (which were the assumptions of the tutors of the destination), they corrupt them even more, using their energies to support their catastrophic vision of the future.
This act is not physical, but mental and spiritual. It is a battle for the meaning of reality, not only a struggle for meat and blood.
Sephiroth and Black Echoes
These echoes are anime manipulated to corruption. They do not protect fate, they distort it. Its function is to eliminate threats to the vision of Sephiroth. That’s why they attack Zack: Represents a divergent possibility that puts the plan at risk.
The black echoes are fragments of dark consciousness, used as tools to forge a destination under a single will: that of Sephiroth.
The use of black echoes to attack Zack makes sense in the theory of divergent worlds. These echoes are a form of distortion of reality, a reflection of how Sephiroth manipulates the possibilities and how he is playing with decisions to ensure that his victory over the other characters and the planet is inevitable.
Sephiroth’s meeting with Aeris in the church of sector 5
This moment occurs in a divergent world close to the end of the Final Fantasy VII colon. The church of sector 5 is a symbol of purity and Aeris is the living connection with Gaia. Sephiroth knows. He can destroy his plan if he connects with the vital current. That’s why he tries to stop it.
Here, Sephiroth reveals his real fear: not to physical combat, but to spiritual liberation. Aeris represents hope, redemption and balance. He must turn off that light.
Conclusion: Sephiroth’s plan with vital current
In this theory of Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth does not travel in time. It rises through vital current. Learn, absorb, mold. He does not try to change the past, but to recreate reality in new conditions that allow him to achieve his goal: Fusion with Gaia, divinization and eternity.
The horizon of the creation of Final Fantasy VII is the space in which his will begins to model the universe. A spiritual, mental and symbolic battlefield.
In the next article we will explore deeper as the figure of Sephirot evolves during the Remake Final Fantasy VII trilogy.
If you want to know more about the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy, click on the following titles
Remake Final Fantasy VII: Jung, Yogācāra and narrative control through the echoes of fate
Divergent worlds in remake and rebirth of Final Fantasy VII: reality, dream or broken destination?
The Divergent Worlds of Final Fantasy VII: psychological reality and the mystery of fragmented consciousness
White matter and black material in Final Fantasy VII: a symbolic journey through the planetary soul
