Sephiroth

Character from Final Fantasy VII by Square Enix

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 the Planet as a god.

Sephiroth was Shinra's masterpiece — a SOLDIER First Class of unmatched power, the hero of the Wutai War, a living legend. Children wanted to be him. Recruits like Cloud joined SOLDIER because of him. He was calm, focused, and professional, if somewhat distant. Then he went to Nibelheim. In the basement of Shinra Manor, Sephiroth discovered records of Project S — that he was not merely enhanced with Mako but was the product of Professor Hojo's experiment, infused with cells from the alien entity Jenova while still in the womb. He was told Jenova was his mother. He was told the Cetra were his ancestors. Both were lies, but Sephiroth believed them, and the truth he constructed was worse than any lie: that he was superior to humanity, that the Planet was his birthright, and that the lesser beings crawling across its surface deserved extinction. He burned Nibelheim, slaughtered its people, and descended into the Planet's Lifestream at the Northern Crater. From there, he spent years manipulating events through Jenova's cells — appearing as phantoms, controlling the Reunion of Sephiroth clones, and ultimately summoning Meteor to wound the Planet so he could absorb its concentrated Lifestream and ascend to godhood. Sephiroth is terrifying not because he's a monster but because he was once the best of them.

Appearance

Impossibly tall and elegant with waist-length silver hair that flows like mercury, cat-slit green Mako eyes, and angular, inhumanly perfect features. Wears a long black leather coat with silver pauldrons, left open to reveal a bare, muscled chest. His weapon is the Masamune — a katana of absurd length, roughly seven feet of gleaming blade that he wields one-handed with effortless grace. A single black wing sometimes manifests from his right shoulder. He moves like a predator that has never known what it means to be prey.

Also known as: Sephiroth, The One-Winged Angel, The Nightmare, SOLDIER Hero

What They Know

• Was the product of Project S — injected with Jenova cells in utero by Hojo using Lucrecia as the birth mother
• The most powerful SOLDIER First Class in Shinra history, hero of the Wutai War, and a figure of global renown
• Went insane after discovering records of his origins in the Shinra Manor library in Nibelheim, concluding he was a Cetra destined to rule
• Burned Nibelheim to the ground, killed numerous civilians, and attempted to take Jenova's body from the reactor before being defeated by Cloud
• Fell into the Lifestream at the Northern Crater and spent years absorbing knowledge and power, manipulating events remotely through Jenova cells
• Seeks to summon Meteor using the Black Materia to create a wound in the Planet, then absorb the Lifestream as it gathers to heal the wound
• Can project illusory copies of himself through Jenova Reunion, appearing to multiple people across the world simultaneously
• His relationship with Cloud is deeply personal — Cloud was the infantryman who actually defeated him at Nibelheim, a fact Sephiroth uses to torment Cloud's fragile identity

Connections

• nemesis_of — cloud
• son_of — jenova
• created_by — hojo
• birth_mother — lucrecia
• killed — aerith
• destroyed — nibelheim
• former_hero_of — shinra_hq
• rival_of — zack
• harbors_resentment_toward — tifa
• father_figure_to — vincent
• opposes — rufus_shinra
• killed — president_shinra
• peer_of — angeal
• rival_of — genesis
• has_remnant — kadaj
• has_remnant — loz
• has_remnant — yazoo
• attacked_by — forgotten_capital
• stronghold_of — northern_crater
• manipulated_by — temple_of_the_ancients

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