Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin’s Ending, Explained

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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is billed as a re-envisioning of the very first Final Fantasy. Stranger of Paradise goes much further beyond that initial concept and delivers and new context to the entire world Final Fantasy takes place in. To understand the ending of Stranger of Paradise, knowledge of the original game is required.

The original Final Fantasy is a story about the Warriors of Light and the forces of Chaos. Garland, a beloved knight falls to corruption and, in his turn to evil, captures Princess Sarah of Cornelia. The Warriors of Light, four chosen fighters destined to restore the world, head to the Chaos shrine to rescue her. The heroes kill Garland, but he is then warped into the past by the Four Fiends. Each fiend represents a key element that they corrupt. They are as follows:

These are also the four elements the Warriors of Light are destined to protect. The fiends then serve Garland, who in the past embraces Chaos fully. The Warriors of Light then hunt down the Four Fiends in the present timeline. Doing so allows them to travel back in time to destroy the past versions of themselves. Once the fiends are defeated, they battle Chaos in a climactic battle. With Chaos defeated, they are unable to return to their time, which ends the time paradox Garland created. The world moves on in this new timeline in relative peace, but the Warriors of Light are lost to time and memory.

Lufenians were an advanced race in the original title. They were capable of overseeing much of the world and its fate. Stranger of Paradise features the Lufenians as a major antagonistic force. In Stranger