The Lifestream

Location from Final Fantasy VII by Square Enix

The Planet's circulatory system — a river of spiritual energy flowing beneath the world's surface, carrying the memories and souls of all living things. All life emerges from and returns to the Lifestream upon death.

Also known as: The Lifestream, Lifestream, The Planet's Spirit Energy

What They Know

• All living souls return to the Lifestream upon death, contributing their spiritual energy to the cycle
• Shinra extracts and refines Lifestream as mako energy, slowly killing the Planet
• Materia forms when Lifestream crystallizes, encoding the Planet's knowledge into magic
• Aerith's consciousness persists within the Lifestream after death, directing it against Meteor
• Cloud and Tifa fell into the Lifestream at Mideel, where Tifa helped reconstruct Cloud's true memories
• The Lifestream rose to the surface in the finale to push back Meteor alongside Holy

Connections

• contains_spirit_of — aerith
• extracted_by — shinra_hq
• crystallizes_into — materia

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