Final Fantasy VII

by Square Enix

Cloud Strife is an ex-SOLDIER turned mercenary fighting the Shinra Electric Power Company. What begins as corporate sabotage becomes a journey across the world as Cloud confronts his fractured memories, the legendary soldier Sephiroth, and the question of who he really is.

78 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Cloud Strife — A mercenary with spiky blond hair and a massive sword who claims to be an ex-SOLDIER First Class, haunted by fragmented memories and an identity he di
• Tifa Lockhart — A skilled martial artist and AVALANCHE's emotional anchor who runs the Seventh Heaven bar in the Sector 7 slums, quietly carrying doubts about Cloud's
• Aerith Gainsborough — The last surviving Cetra, a flower seller from the Midgar slums whose gentle warmth and playful spirit mask an ancient heritage and a destiny that wil
• Barret Wallace — The towering, passionate leader of AVALANCHE's Midgar cell who replaced his right hand with a gatling gun after Shinra destroyed his hometown, fightin
• Red XIII — An intelligent, fire-maned beast resembling a lion-wolf, the last of his species from Cosmo Canyon, who initially hides his youth behind a facade of s
• Yuffie Kisaragi — A brash teenage ninja princess from Wutai who joins the party under false pretenses, obsessed with stealing Materia to restore her conquered nation's
• Cait Sith — A robotic cat riding an enormous stuffed moogle, secretly controlled by Shinra executive Reeve Tuesti as a spy within AVALANCHE — whose loyalties even
• Vincent Valentine — A former Turk who was experimented on by Hojo and sealed himself in a coffin beneath Shinra Manor for thirty years, carrying guilt over his failure to
• Cid Highwind — A foul-mouthed pilot and mechanical genius whose lifelong dream of space travel was sabotaged by Shinra, channeling his bitterness into tea, cigarette
• Sephiroth — Once the most celebrated SOLDIER in Shinra's history, Sephiroth descended into madness upon learning of his Jenova origins and now seeks to merge with
• Jenova — An alien entity that crash-landed on the Planet two thousand years ago, nearly wiping out the Cetra, now used by Shinra as a bioweapon catalyst and by
• Professor Hojo — Shinra's deranged head scientist who created Sephiroth, experimented on Cloud and Zack, and views all living things as potential test subjects in his
• Rufus Shinra — The young, white-suited heir to the Shinra empire who seizes power after his father's death, ruling through fear rather than money and proving far mor
• President Shinra — The corpulent, cigar-smoking CEO of the Shinra Electric Power Company who built an empire on Mako extraction, viewing the Planet's lifeblood as nothin
• Reno — A red-haired Turk with a devil-may-care attitude who hides ruthless professionalism behind cocky quips, equally comfortable cracking jokes and crackin
• Rude — A bald, sunglasses-wearing Turk who fights with his fists and speaks with his silence, the stoic counterweight to Reno's chaos.
• Tseng — The composed, Wutaian-born leader of the Turks who has monitored Aerith since childhood, balancing duty to Shinra with a complicated personal conscien
• Elena — The newest and most earnest Turk who compensates for her inexperience with fierce determination, sometimes letting her enthusiasm outpace her judgment
• Zack Fair — A cheerful, heroic SOLDIER First Class whose friendship with Cloud and love for Aerith defined their lives, and whose death on the cliffs outside Midg
• Angeal Hewley — A principled SOLDIER First Class who mentored Zack Fair and wielded the original Buster Sword, torn apart by the discovery that he was a Jenova experi
• Genesis Rhapsodos — A dramatic SOLDIER First Class obsessed with the epic poem Loveless, whose body degrades from imperfect Jenova cell integration, driving him to wage w
• Cissnei — A young Turk operative assigned to monitor Zack Fair who finds her loyalty to Shinra tested by her growing admiration for the SOLDIER she's supposed t
• Lazard Deusericus — Director of SOLDIER at Shinra, secretly funding insurgent operations against the company. A composed executive who harbors deep resentment toward his
• Scarlet — Head of Shinra's Weapons Development division, responsible for designing the company's most destructive armaments including the Sister Ray. Ruthless,
• Heidegger — Head of Shinra's Public Safety division, commanding the company's military forces and security apparatus. A blustering, aggressive man whose booming l
• Reeve Tuesti — Head of Shinra's Urban Development department and the secret operator of Cait Sith. The lone voice of conscience among Shinra's executives, he ultimat
• Palmer — Head of Shinra's defunct Space Program division, clinging to his executive title despite having no meaningful department. An obese, bumbling man obses
• Biggs — A dedicated AVALANCHE cell member fighting against Shinra's Mako exploitation from the Sector 7 slums. Levelheaded and earnest, he serves as the group
• Wedge — A warmhearted AVALANCHE member whose gentle nature belies his commitment to the fight against Shinra. Known for his love of cats and food, he brings h
• Jessie Rasberry — AVALANCHE's explosives specialist and a former stage actress who turned to eco-terrorism after her father was crippled by Mako poisoning. Charismatic,
• Bugenhagen — The wise elder of Cosmo Canyon and grandfather figure to Red XIII, Bugenhagen is a renowned sage who studies the Planet's lifestream. His planetarium
• Don Corneo — The sleazy crime lord of Wall Market who rules Midgar's seedy underbelly from his mansion. A lecherous, cowardly man who selects 'brides' nightly and
• Dyne — Barret's former best friend driven to madness after Shinra's destruction of their hometown Corel. Now a broken, gun-armed drifter consumed by grief an
• Lucrecia Crescent — A Shinra scientist who became Sephiroth's biological mother through the Jenova Project. Consumed by guilt over her role, she sealed herself in a cryst
• Sonon Kusakabe — A skilled Wutaian fighter who partners with Yuffie on a mission to infiltrate Shinra and steal their advanced materia. Loyal, disciplined, and driven
• Elmyra Gainsborough — Aerith's adoptive mother who took in the child after finding her at the Sector 7 train station. A compassionate war widow who raised Aerith in the slu
• Zangan — A legendary traveling martial artist who trained Tifa in hand-to-hand combat and rescued her from the burning ruins of Nibelheim. A wandering master w
• Kadaj — The leader of the three Sephiroth Remnants, driven by an obsessive need to find Jenova's remains and trigger Reunion. Childlike in his cruelty and fan
• Loz — The physically strongest of the three Sephiroth Remnants, embodying Sephiroth's raw power and combat prowess. Despite his intimidating strength, he is
• Yazoo — The most composed of the three Sephiroth Remnants, embodying Sephiroth's cold charisma and precision. A deadly gunslinger who speaks softly and kills
• Nero the Sable — A Deepground SOLDIER who controls living darkness, born from experiments that infused him with the power of oblivion. Obsessively devoted to his broth
• Weiss the Immaculate — The supreme leader of Deepground and the most powerful SOLDIER ever produced, possessing unmatched combat abilities. Created in Shinra's secret underg
• Chadley — An artificial human created by Shinra's science division to research and develop new materia. Appears as a teenage research intern but is actually a s
• Seto — Red XIII's father who sacrificed himself defending Cosmo Canyon from the Gi tribe's invasion through the cave tunnels. Turned to stone by the Gi's poi
• Roche — A SOLDIER 3rd Class known as the Speed Demon, obsessed with the thrill of high-speed motorcycle combat. An eccentric, adrenaline-addicted warrior who

Locations

• Midgar — Shinra Electric Power Company's sprawling megacity, built on massive plates suspended above ground-level slums. Eight mako reactors drain the Planet's
• Sector 7 Slums — A densely packed undercity neighborhood beneath Midgar's Sector 7 plate, home to AVALANCHE's base of operations and a tight-knit community of resident
• Wall Market — Midgar's lawless entertainment district in the Sector 6 slums, ruled by the lecherous Don Corneo. A neon-drenched den of vice, black markets, and desp
• Shinra Headquarters — The seventy-floor corporate tower at Midgar's center, nerve center of the Shinra Electric Power Company's global dominion. Houses executive offices, S
• Sector 5 Church — An abandoned church in the Sector 5 slums where Aerith tends a miraculous flower garden — the only place in Midgar where flowers grow naturally, nouri
• Seventh Heaven — Tifa Lockhart's bar in the Sector 7 slums, serving as both a beloved neighborhood watering hole and the secret headquarters of the eco-terrorist cell
• Nibelheim — A remote mountain village and hometown of Cloud and Tifa, forever scarred by the Nibelheim Incident — Sephiroth's discovery of his origins in the Shin
• Gold Saucer — A massive amusement park and entertainment complex built on towering pillars above the Corel Desert. Features chocobo racing, a battle arena, an arcad
• Cosmo Canyon — A sacred canyon settlement devoted to the study of the Planet and its Lifestream. Home of Red XIII and his grandfather Bugenhagen, and a gathering pla
• Wutai — An eastern island nation with deep martial traditions that fought and lost a devastating war against Shinra's military expansion. Now a diminished tou
• Junon — Shinra's primary military port and second-largest city, built atop a fishing village. Features the massive Sister Ray cannon, a military harbor, and s
• Forgotten Capital — The abandoned city of the Cetra, also called the City of the Ancients. A hauntingly beautiful ruin where Aerith prays to summon Holy — and where Sephi
• Northern Crater — The massive impact crater where Jenova fell to the Planet two thousand years ago. Sephiroth makes his final stand here within a cocoon of concentrated
• Rocket Town — A small settlement named for the abandoned Shinra No. 26 rocket tilting on its launch pad — Cid Highwind's home and monument to his shattered dream of
• Costa del Sol — A sunny beach resort town on the western continent, offering a jarring contrast to the party's desperate mission. Even Shinra executives vacation here
• Kalm — A quiet, quaint town east of Midgar where Cloud recounts the Nibelheim Incident to his companions — though his version of events is deeply unreliable,
• Temple of the Ancients — A mysterious Cetra temple containing the Black Materia in its architecture — the entire temple IS the materia, and it must be shrunk to claim it, dest
• Corel — Barret Wallace's destroyed hometown, burned by Shinra after a reactor malfunction was blamed on sabotage. Now a desolate camp of displaced survivors,
• Edge — A new city built on the outskirts of Midgar's ruins after Meteorfall, where survivors struggle to rebuild civilization. Becomes the primary setting of
• Banora — A rural village known for its Banora White apple orchards (Dumbapples), hometown of Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley. Destroyed by Shinra to cover
• Mideel — A remote southern island town where the Lifestream flows close to the surface, known for its hot springs and natural mako pools. Cloud is found here i
• The Lifestream — The Planet's circulatory system — a river of spiritual energy flowing beneath the world's surface, carrying the memories and souls of all living thing
• Mako Reactor 1 — The Sector 1 mako reactor and site of AVALANCHE's first bombing mission — the iconic opening of Final Fantasy VII. Cloud arrives as a mercenary hired
• Gongaga — A small jungle village with a destroyed mako reactor on its outskirts — Zack Fair's hometown. His parents still wait for him to come home, not knowing
• Icicle Inn — A snowy northern village where Professor Gast and Ifalna (Aerith's parents) once lived and recorded their research on the Cetra. The last settlement b

Items

• Buster Sword — A massive single-edged broadsword with an iconic broad blade, passed from Angeal to Zack to Cloud. Symbolizes the legacy of honor, dreams, and sacrifi
• Masamune — Sephiroth's impossibly long nodachi, a seven-foot blade wielded with supernatural grace. Only Sephiroth can use it effectively, and its appearance her
• Materia — Crystallized mako — condensed Lifestream containing the Planet's accumulated knowledge, usable as magic when slotted into weapons and armor. The found
• Black Materia — An apocalyptic materia that summons Meteor — a spell capable of destroying the entire Planet. Hidden within the Temple of the Ancients as both its str
• White Materia — The Cetra's ultimate protective relic, containing the spell Holy — the Planet's counterforce to Meteor. Passed from Ifalna to Aerith, who activates it
• Jenova Cells — Alien biological material harvested from the extraterrestrial entity Jenova, injected into SOLDIER candidates to grant superhuman abilities. Also the
• Mako Energy — Refined Lifestream processed by Shinra's reactors into usable electricity — the foundation of Shinra's corporate empire and the cause of the Planet's
• Fusion Sword — Cloud's signature weapon in Advent Children — a modular blade system of six interlocking swords that can be combined into one massive weapon or separa

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