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The only theory part is more on Necron and the rest is pretty explicitly laid out in game but it doesn't beat you over the head with it. Memoria is tied to the Void which is a common theme in FF and is either the vacuum in space separating the game worlds or, more likely, a metaphysical interdimensional nothingness separating them. It can be traveled to and through, ie Gilgamesh. Every incarnation of Gilgamesh is the same guy from FF5 but he visits all the worlds because he's a Void traveler.
In Memoria, you're definitely traveling back in time while also in a place outside of space and time as an observer. It's the "memory" of the universe up until that point, hence Memoria. Cribbing from the wiki here but each screen shows the story instead of telling it and the names are:
- Outside
- Entrance
- Stairs of Time
- Recollection
- Outer Path
- The Past
- Oblivion
- Recollection
- Time Interval
- Ruins
- Lost Memory
- Familiar Past
- World Fusion
- Portal
- Birth
- Ocean
- Time Warp
- Gaia's Birth
- Stairs
- Gate to Space
- To the Origin
The only theory part is the Hill of Despair and Necron's tie in. Considering the Void theme through all of FF and how emo everyone goes right before they wake up, It's certainly not a huge leap of logic to think they're now fully in the Void and facing the god of the realm of nothingness to fight for existence.
Not all game worlds interacted with the Void and larger multiverse but were separated with no knowledge of the larger scope of things. This was one of those along with several other entries.
+1. I do smoke a lot of weed and this needs to be a reaction option to posts. Would fit so many things.
I'm not as diehard about the larger multiverse theory as I'm probably coming across. It is just connecting the dots fanfic nonsense but is a lot of fun if you're a fan. If you play a lot of JRPGs (I do) or watch a lot anime or read manga (I don't), the FF series is actually fairly coherent.
Edit: Lol, didn't even read the FF9 entry for the Void on the wiki I posted before posting it. But yep, sums everything I said in a different way. Same interpretation.
Although not directly referred to as the Void, Kuja deems everything unfit to live with his sudden knowledge of his limited life span, and goes out of his way to destroy the Crystal, the origin of all life, to revert everything to nothingness. This passion is shared with Necron, a mystical being that has deemed the lives of living beings are suffering due to their fear of death. Necron refers to the concept of a world with no life as the "zero world".
There is also a black Void-like area between Memoria and the Crystal World that Zidane and his friends must cross to get to the beginning of all time, the Crystal. Going through Memoria is implied to be reaching back through time, until there is nothing but Void left, and the Crystal at the end of the Crystal World. This would comply with previous interpretations of the Void as the original state of the universe before the worlds were born.
There is also a black Void-like area between Memoria and the Crystal World that Zidane and his friends must cross to get to the beginning of all time, the Crystal. Going through Memoria is implied to be reaching back through time, until there is nothing but Void left, and the Crystal at the end of the Crystal World. This would comply with previous interpretations of the Void as the original state of the universe before the worlds were born.
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