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Seymour Guado (Japanese: シーモア・グアド ''Shīmoa Guado''; formal titles: '''Maester Seymour Guado''' or '''Lord Seymour''') is a Fictional Character and villain in the the Square Enix Role-playing Video Game '' Final Fantasy X '' of the '' Final Fantasy '' series. Seymour is the leader of the Guado nation, a race of humanoids in the world of Spira . He is also a Maester Of Yevon . He inherited both positions after the death of his father, Lord Jyscal Guado . BIOGRAPHY Early years Seymour is actually half-Guado and half-regular human, as his father married a normal human woman. However, many saw the boy as an abomination and Jyscal's decision to wed an ordinary human led to disunity in the Guado tribe. In order to avoid further strife amongst the Guado nation, Jyscal had his wife and son exiled to the island of would her son be accepted by the people.2Seymour: "No! Mother, no! I don't want you to become a fayth!" / '''Seymour's mother:''' "There is no other way. Use me and defeat Sin. Only then will the people accept you." / Seymour: "I don't care about them! I need you, Mother! No one else!" / '''Seymour's mother:''' "I don't...have much time left."(''Final Fantasy X'') Horrified, Seymour refused the aeon and returned to Baaj3, where he dwelled alone for years, becoming increasingly more morose and cynical. In time, he came to believe that death was the only freedom from the suffering of life, and that it would be in everyone's best interests to die.'''Auron:''' "Kinoc!" / '''Tidus:''' "Why, you!" / Seymour: "I have saved him. He was a man who craved power. And great power he had, but he feared losing it. Trembling at unseen enemies, he spent his days scheming petty schemes. Chased by his fears, never knowing rest. You see... Now he has no worries. He has been granted sleep eternal. Death is a sweet slumber. All the pain of life is gently swept away... Ah, yes. So you see... if all life were to end in Spira, all suffering would end. Don't you see? Do you not agree?"(''Final Fantasy X'') But to achieve his aims, he had to have something more powerful than Anima, whose power he eventually accepted.4 At eighteen years of age, during High Summoner Braska 's Calm, Seymour's exile was revoked and he was summoned back to Guadosalam , the capital of the Guado nation, where he was then ordained as a priest of Macalania Temple.5 Seven years later, he returned to Zanarkand to accept Anima's power, and then had its fayth statue transported to Baaj Temple, which he revisited several times while deciding if he should carry out a plan he had devised.6 Due to his years of loneliness and ever growing morbid philosophy, Seymour had concluded that his duty to Spira and release them from the painful prison which he believed life to be. As a result, he knew he would need a power greater than Anima's and saw Sin as Spira's only hope. Shortly before and during the events of ''Final Fantasy X'', Seymour set in motion a plan to ascend the hierarchy of Yevon, with his ultimate goal being to become the next Sin, so that he may kill everyone in Spira.Auron: "Kinoc!" / '''Tidus:''' "Why, you!" / '''Seymour:''' "Come, Lady Yuna. Come with me to Zanarkand, the lost city of the dead. With death on our side, we will save Spira, and for this... I will take from you your strength, Yuna, your life, and become the next Sin. I will destroy Spira! I will save it!"(''Final Fantasy X'') ''Final Fantasy X'' Two years later, just before , daughter of High Summoner Braska , and immediately became interested in her. During the tournament, he orchestrated an attack of fiends, which were formed and released into the stadium by Guado warriors. He used the attack as a means to display his power as a summoner using Anima, in order to gain the trust of the people. Later, at Mushroom Rock Road , Seymour was present along with Maester Wen Kinoc to support Operation Mi'ihen, a joint Crusader - Al Bhed offensive against Sin using Al Bhed weaponry (machina), which was forbidden by the Yevon order. The operation failed, and many Crusaders and Al Bhed died at the hands of Sin. After the battle, Seymour returned to Guadosalam in anticipation of Yuna and her guardians. As revealed in '' form. When she then goes to confront Seymour, she learns that he has already left for Macalania Temple. At Macalania, where he expected Yuna to accept his proposal of marriage, Seymour was surprised to find that she had come to stop him. The sphere Yuna received from the unsent form of Jyscal detailed Seymour's treachery and implored whoever saw it to stop him.Jyscal: "What I am about to tell you is the unclouded truth. I swear it on my honor as a Guado. Listen to me very carefully, for I shall tell you the truth about my son, Seymour. His mind is closed even to me, a maester of Yevon. But I can feel flames of darkness burning in his heart. He is using Yevon, the Guado, and even the summoners. If he is not stopped, he will surely bring destruction and chaos to Spira. I will leave this world soon, killed by my own son. But I do not fault him. Because I was not wise enough, he has suffered, and become twisted. I could not protect him and his mother from the world and its cruelty. I will accept death as punishment for my deeds. But whoever is watching this... I implore you to stop Seymour! Stop my son."(''Final Fantasy X'') Yuna, along with her guardians, then fought and killed Seymour in self-defense. However, Yuna was prevented from sending Seymour's spirit to rest on the Farplane by his Guado retainer, Tromell . As a result, Seymour's spirit was able to remain in the living world and become an unsent. Yuna was soon kidnapped on , the capital of the Yevon religion. There, Seymour forces Yuna into marriage. After she tricks him into believing that she will marry him — a ploy intended to allow her to get close enough to him to send him — her guardians attack Bevelle in a rescue attempt and are quickly apprehended, leaving Yuna with no option but to marry Seymour or sacrifice her guardians. Yuna and her guardians are soon put on trial and convicted of high treason, sentenced to death in the winding, fiend-infested halls of the Via Purifico, the title of which is Latin for "the Path of Purification." They soon escape from this fate, however, and confront Seymour, who reveals his murder of Maester Kinoc and his plans for Yuna: to turn him into the next Sin so that he may kill all living things and grant them what he believes to be the highest favor imaginable. After a battle between Seymour and Yuna and her companions, Seymour is temporarily defeated, but Yuna is unable to send him. He then returns on , the spirit dwelling within Sin that ensures its survival. At last defeated a final time and left with nowhere to flee to, Seymour is sent to the Farplane by Yuna, departing with the ominous warning that Spira's sorrow will continue.Seymour: "So it is you, after all, who will send me. But even after I am gone, Spira's sorrow will prevail."(''Final Fantasy X'') ''Final Fantasy X-2'' Seymour's role in ''Final Fantasy X-2'' Seymour, however, is an accessable character during battle in ''Final Fantasy X-2 International''. REFERENCES |
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