I thought it’s the Ultimate

I thought Ultimecia maybe comes from Ultimate.. because the strongest sorceress

I agree, so I subscribed. He's closing in on 200 now.

It’s must be Ultimecia’s doing.. she brought his channel back in time lol

Hardest final boss fought in all of final fantasy

Side note: I was sure we would fight Ultimecia at the end of the Eden raid series in XIV, since other FFs' final bosses had been directly brought in for Omega. I was sad when that only halfway happened, but now I see that that also halfway happened IN Omega, and I am happy. It's like we actually did fight Ultimecia in XIV, just split into conceptual halves. :)

I'll do that for you. Artemesia herself was named after Artemis. So it goes to say that transitive, a reference to Artemesia would be a reference to Artemis. That's why her hair's done in the shape of a bow and the hunter's moon is present in her boss fight.

YEAH

Artemisia? I thought its Ultimecia, lol. :-)

"as it’s the only explanation for the name Griever" until you look at the actual translation from Japanese, where she says she picks Squall's most "powerful GF" directly from his "mind". And in his mind: That's Griever.

Omg for the last time. Ultimecia and Rinoa are not connected.

anyone who says "R=U" theory and tries to pretend there's evidence clearly ate lead paint chips btw, the game already disproves it by having ultimecia be MANY generations in the future.

I just added a reply myself, but not sure how much traction this video really gets. but I'll post it here because it further expands on what he says. "This was very interesting anyways, as far as the masculinity aspect I wanted to point out... This is Hyne, not Artemicia (which I also call her because ultimecia is dumb) Sorceresses get influenced and slowly get taken over by Hyne. The longer the sorceress power remains, the more monstrous they become, simulating Hyne. Hyne hid himself in women for a long time to avoid being captured. And at the very end of ff8, Hyne emerges from Artemicia's legs... which you can clearly see because Artemicia is hanging upside down asleep. So Adel and Artemecia are becoming more masculine because...they have a 'man' inside them. Now, Halicarnassus plays a more direct translation here.. A man who pretends to be a woman to lure people into a false sense of security? No... couldn't be. Halicarnassus and Hyne do the exact same thing. Also of historical note Halicarnassus is the city that created the first Mausoleum, for The King (which has DIRECT correlation to the unknown king that Sacred and Minotaur guard). This goes into the theories that hold a lot of weight... the king could NOT die because he had the brother's junctioned to him much like sorceresses have a part of hyne junctioned inside them. It requires someone else to take that power to finally see death. Oh, and... we'll get back to the 'unknown' in the next paragraph. Halicarnassus was ALSO originally known as Zephyria (you know.... the KNIGHT in ff8? Zephyr? The one Laguna played in a movie that Seifer idolizes) The last king before it became Halicarnassus in name also has no record of which king it was. So he is literally the unknown king. Thank you for coming to my ted talk."

it's more accurate to say Halicarnassus and Hyne/Hein are the same. They are the ones with a castle in the sky and hide in another's body (or in the body of a woman)

Bro playing us like a damn fiddle…

FINISH HIM!!!

I always thought it looked like Yunalesca's Final Form. My theory is all summons are just monsters/humans in the interdimensional rift. One form, many variants in superposition. The FF6 God'sTriad were most likely just summons as well. Maybe even variants of other FF bosses that reached the IDR trying to destroy their world in their dimension.

Point 3 really isn't that odd of an idea. The Japanese love their wordplay and it wouldn't surprise me at all if that's why they've kept with Ultimecia despite them also arguing against the whole Aeris name, as Aerith is more faithful to the translations and the meaning of the name. Artemisia is a bit on the nose, which while not weird on their part, still seems like they would blend the names to obscure the callback and leave them as they are, a callback and not the same character or related.

3 is not possible because Artemisia of Halicarnassus is too much influence on the rest of the game. To shorten this, Halicarnassus is also the first city that had a mausaleum... of the unknown king. Back when the city was called Zephyria (the sorceress knight Zephyr) before the city was changed to Halicarnassus. Hyne(hein) and Halicarnassus do the same exact thing. Both have castles in the sky (in ff3 and 8 for Hein, and 5 for Halicarnassus) and both hide themselves in the bodies of others (the elder tree for 3, the bodies of sorceresses for 8 and Halicarnasuss took the disguise of a woman. The connections between these are way too close for it to have been 'ultimate/ultimo'

@@dragames the evidence is compelling but we'll never know for certain until Nojima and/or Kitase comment on the matter. Even then it has been so long that they probably don't remember unless they have developer notes to refer to. The reason I'm not completely convinced is that the romanization of several character names in the Japanese version of Dissidia: Final Fantasy don't match what the North American release used. Cefca instead of Kefka, Butz instead of Bartz, Tina instead of Terra, and Frioniel instead of Firion are all used in the Japanese version and I get why the chances were made in the NA version but why not use Artemisia instead of Ultimecia in the Japanese version?

@@dtcharo this is a bad argument They use all the changed american names in the English speaking releases. Bartz is an awful one because in ff5 when it was released in US, it was Bartz and it is once again Bartz in Dissidia. Same for Terra and Firion. They didn't fix anyone's name in the English release from their original names. The only one they ever made that exception for was Aerith because of fandom bs. In the japanese version, her name is still pronounced Arutimicia like it's written in japanese. They don't say ultimicia. they don't say bartz for butz... They use the pronunciations they had in the original japanese releases. Unlike with English, the japanese do not have a problem with pronunciation when it's written out. There's no deviation in accent, strong syllables, or pronunciations of any symbol because it is always said as it is written.

@@dragames you don't need to attempt to educate me on Japanese. It was my minor in college and I passed the level 2 JLPT. That's not to lecture you but more to inform you that I understand the issues with transliteration particularly with Japanese. It's also unnecessary to (incorrectly) try and explain the reason for some of the name changes. I have some knowledge of the development history of these games. What I wrote is a simple statement of fact that obfuscates the subject matter covered in the video. It's not meant to sway opinions but clarify my own personal confusion with the choices made at SqaureEnix. For those who don't have access to it, when you're at the character select screen on the original Dissidia game on the PSP, for the Japanese version, the romanized spellings for the character names are depicted. For various known and potentially unknown reasons, Golbeza, Butz, Cefca, Tina, etc., are used. They do not use the transliterated names in the NA/Global release of the game for many characters. Since the game was specifically for a Japanese audience why not use Artemisia instead of Ultimecia? They had no issues with using Frioniel, Aerith, Tina, etc., so why not use Artemisia if that was more in line with the creator/scenario writers' intentions? Honestly, I'm not sure why hence the statement of fact. It's not an argument in favor of one or the other. Personally, I'm cool with the headcannon. The video makes a compelling case for sure. I could make a similar (albeit less compelling video) regarding the romanization of the name Guy from FF II when it should be Gai. In Dissidia: Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, the Global version uses Guy instead of Gai. However, Gai being the masculine short for Gaia refers back to a common thread through Final Fantasy when referencing Gaia and Terra. Considering that DFFOO gives Guy an Earth affinity in the game and his backstory gives him a strong tie to the natural world it could be argued that the Global version of DFFOO and most other localizations have incorrectly named him Guy instead of Gai. Gai is the exact Romanji/romanization of the katana for GAI. At this point, am I working backwards from a conclusion I've drawn or is there more to this? Is what I'm saying possibly true or is it a potential anachronism as many have argued that Ex-Death, originally intended to be Exodus, the incorrectly transliterated name should have been. It's all speculation until we get an official answer. Enjoy the headcannon aspect of it and no need to be a dick if someone isn't bought in 100%. That's all.

???? uh no. she's Artimecia I, Queen of Halicarnassus...

Yes.

But Artemis is name of Greek goddess in Greek mythology

@@Omega-jg4oq And as the creator of the video stated, Artemisia was a queen of Halicarnassus in real life.

or how Shiva was supposed to be Ziva and now think she was based off a hindu God and not a slavic goddess

@@dragames The thing is, though. Shiva is supposed to be the Hindu god when he was incarnated as a woman in an icy mountain. That's why Shiva is often seen with a bindi or other articles inspired by Hindu women's apparel.

@@RCDeschene You're speaking about the later incarnations after the mistranslation coming up. Originally Shiva such as in her ff 3, 4, 5, and 6 are modeled after the slavic dance dress and the thing that drapes behind their back. 7 was the first to acknowledge the hindu aesthetic to mix in, modeling her after Kali who was a blue skinned goddess and not Shiva What most people because of the mistranslation don't know is they never looked up Ziva's mythology. While she is known as the mother goddess (of nature and rebirth) but she was within the slavic's tongue actually called the Goddess of living water and in winter her body was frozen until the spring where she'd break free and use the icy waters to then bring about rebirth.

@@dragames I see. Makes sense.

Rather, I think they were making a play on Artemisia but using the different katakana to refer to Ultimate or another spelling or spin on the way you say it.

no coincidence that hyne and Halicarnassus both do the same thing by 'pretending to be women' to lure people into a false sense of security/hiding.

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