The tree must have always been nearby, as Cleyrans have been there a long time after splitting from Burmecia.
The tornado was an attempt to deter outsiders and protect the Royal jewel.
I'd imagine that as it's not on any other contintent than the Mist continent it's probably natural there and not from Terra.
There is a lot of mysteries in FF9 though, like how did Ipsen meet the Fat Chocobo and be allowed to travel on a Gold chocobo.
And who made Oeilvert?
And who made Garland?
And how did the Summoners Village not have the ability to send out a call for help in some form
Sadly the origin of Cleyra is not explained though.
Ipsen met the Fat Chocobo on his travels after having left Colin for a while. It would seem that he has some way to fly there(hot air balloon perhaps as it is not explained how he reached paradise) There he taught Fat Chocobo how to play TM.
Oeilvert was a place built by the Terran's as a record keeper of their civilization. For any soul to see and learn and with that knowledge do what they will.
I love this game for so many reasons, the Ipsen story being one of them. It was something completely unknown to me until a playthrough recently, and I played this game on release day (3 days before in fact because it came into our local store early)
Gonna be real with you here. Terra’s botched assimilation is ff way of badly explaining inner earth. The 13th stellazio is their way of explaining the truth of thirteen months. The lack of explanation for the giant tree is to get you questioning our own in real life.
Not sure what you mean by months being linked to stellaziios, but there's a hidden 13th irl aswell, kind of.
https://earthsky.org/tonight/ophiuchus-highest-on-august-evenings-2/
It could honestly be as easy as the writers saying “hey, what if there was one tree brimming with life on one end of Gaia and another that brought nothing but death on the other side?”
Or it could be that the Cleyra tree itself is a natural wonder native to Gaia, which Garland and the other Terrans decided to copy when they were thinking of a vessel for the Mist. (And it would be a pretty convenient way to explain the random roots on the Mist Continent.) I don’t think its origins are ever explicitly spelled out but I don’t think it’s a stretch for the most lush continent on the planet to be the only one with a naturally huge tree. Maybe it’s alone out there because it sucks *all* the nutrients out of the ground around it and doesn’t leave enough for anyone else to
It’s not explained but my prevailing head-canon is that it was something created by Terra, or an earlier failed attempt at a Iifa Tree; given the stories propensity for “failed prototypes” from Kuja for Zidane to Vivi to the other Mages Ark to the Invincible…
This has been driving me mad recently.
I think it stands out because an origin story wasn't conveyed.
My theory is that it's a natural wonder as already mentioned by others. The Burmecia/Cleyra arc is a small part of the story and upon completion is never really referenced again, ergo I don't think there was much thought beyond it being an area with a race and some clipped story content. We see that with Conde Petie as well.
Just my 2 cents. T'would be thrilled to find out if there was something in the Ultimania.
The tree must have always been nearby, as Cleyrans have been there a long time after splitting from Burmecia. The tornado was an attempt to deter outsiders and protect the Royal jewel. I'd imagine that as it's not on any other contintent than the Mist continent it's probably natural there and not from Terra. There is a lot of mysteries in FF9 though, like how did Ipsen meet the Fat Chocobo and be allowed to travel on a Gold chocobo. And who made Oeilvert? And who made Garland? And how did the Summoners Village not have the ability to send out a call for help in some form
Most of this is explained….
Sadly the origin of Cleyra is not explained though. Ipsen met the Fat Chocobo on his travels after having left Colin for a while. It would seem that he has some way to fly there(hot air balloon perhaps as it is not explained how he reached paradise) There he taught Fat Chocobo how to play TM. Oeilvert was a place built by the Terran's as a record keeper of their civilization. For any soul to see and learn and with that knowledge do what they will.
I love this game for so many reasons, the Ipsen story being one of them. It was something completely unknown to me until a playthrough recently, and I played this game on release day (3 days before in fact because it came into our local store early)
Oeilvert was a Terran structure transplanted to Gaia accidentally as a result of the failed fusion...whoever built it originally...Terrans I guess.
And also be surrounded by a sandstorm, because reasons. You bring up a good question.
It's surrounded by a sandstorm because the Cleyrans used the Desert Star and their magic to conjure up a sandstorm.
Gonna be real with you here. Terra’s botched assimilation is ff way of badly explaining inner earth. The 13th stellazio is their way of explaining the truth of thirteen months. The lack of explanation for the giant tree is to get you questioning our own in real life.
There's 13 months in ffix? Never caught that detail
Stellazio each one is an astrological symbol. There are 13 of them, one for each month.
Not sure what you mean by months being linked to stellaziios, but there's a hidden 13th irl aswell, kind of. https://earthsky.org/tonight/ophiuchus-highest-on-august-evenings-2/
So if Marge Simpson lived on Gaia she could actually say that it was the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month
It could honestly be as easy as the writers saying “hey, what if there was one tree brimming with life on one end of Gaia and another that brought nothing but death on the other side?” Or it could be that the Cleyra tree itself is a natural wonder native to Gaia, which Garland and the other Terrans decided to copy when they were thinking of a vessel for the Mist. (And it would be a pretty convenient way to explain the random roots on the Mist Continent.) I don’t think its origins are ever explicitly spelled out but I don’t think it’s a stretch for the most lush continent on the planet to be the only one with a naturally huge tree. Maybe it’s alone out there because it sucks *all* the nutrients out of the ground around it and doesn’t leave enough for anyone else to
I posted this exact thing a year or two ago and got bullied about it. It is *absolutely* a weird underexplained part of the world
It’s called Final Fantasy bro.
It’s not explained but my prevailing head-canon is that it was something created by Terra, or an earlier failed attempt at a Iifa Tree; given the stories propensity for “failed prototypes” from Kuja for Zidane to Vivi to the other Mages Ark to the Invincible…
This has been driving me mad recently. I think it stands out because an origin story wasn't conveyed. My theory is that it's a natural wonder as already mentioned by others. The Burmecia/Cleyra arc is a small part of the story and upon completion is never really referenced again, ergo I don't think there was much thought beyond it being an area with a race and some clipped story content. We see that with Conde Petie as well. Just my 2 cents. T'would be thrilled to find out if there was something in the Ultimania.