"It was something called Sin," Tidus explains, a grim pull of his mouth. "Been around for about a thousand years. Went around destroying anywhere that got too populated." So, it was a world not unaccustomed to death.

"It's gone now, and there aren't really summoners anymore. But I did hear that there was some trouble--people with different opinions rubbing each other the wrong way. But a world like that, it's gonna have growing pains. Everything got turned upside down right around Sin was defeated."