Stranger Of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin: Who Is The Lufenians' Extraplanar Collaborator?
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin has a far more complex story than the trailers let on, and delving deeper into it is one of the joys of the late-game experience, along with the hack-n-slash combat and loot collecting.
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One way the game conveys its lore to you is through Lufenian Reports - ten of them gathered throughout the game. These provide background over the Stranger Project, time travel, and a mysterious collaborator who goes unnamed, their identity redacted.
There will be major spoilers from here on out.
As explained through the Lufenian Reports, the mysterious collaborator is the individual who gifted the Lufenians with the dimensional crystal matrix. This item allows the Lufenians to turn back time and enact what they name a "reset" - this prompts their cycle of experimentation on the world of Cornelia and the other dimensions they have access to.
When the world is reset, a vast amount of energy is generated - in return for the dimensional crystal matrix, the collaborator is given this energy.
In this way, the extraplanar collaborator is the facilitator of the game's plot and would be the true antagonist for Jack and co.
From the reports, we know the following about the extraplanar collaborator:
While we cannot know for certain until future DLCs potentially reveal the collaborator's identity, we have some theories about who they could be.
A few characters from the original Final Fantasy do not show up in Stranger of Paradise, such as Matoya and Sarda - this is odd, considering that the games are so closely linked. It is tempting, then, to consider that any of these might end up being the extraplanar collaborator. An
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