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Baaj is a mass of ruins off the mainland of Spira, situated south of the island of Bikanel in Final Fantasy X. Baaj is the first location that may be explored by the player, and is critical to understanding the emotional development of Maester Seymour Guado, one of the game's major antagonists.

Baaj was a great island city before an attack by Sin left the underlying geology permanently destabilized. Most of the city collapsed into the sea, save for a series of interconnected ruins surrounding the temple.

Baaj Temple is the only remaining building on the archipelago, though it is in poor structural condition. The entrances are submerged conduits and may only be accessed by swimming through fiend-infested waters. As a former temple of Yevon, it shares the style and iconography with the other temples, but the Cloister of Trials and the main antechamber have been lost to the sea.

To access Baaj Temple, the player must acquire the airship and talk to Cid and access the coordinate option. Baaj is found by searching for coordinates X=11-16, Y=57-63. Visiting Baaj is essential for receiving the aeon Anima. Baaj is not accessible in Final Fantasy X-2.

StoryEdit

28 years before the beginning of the Eternal Calm, Jyscal Guado, Maester of Yevon and leader of the Guado people, married a human woman, and together bore a son named Seymour. The Guado, well-known for being highly intolerant of other races, were angered by their leader's perceived blood-treason and threatened rebellion. To secure peace for all parties, Lord Jyscal dispatched both wife and son to Baaj Temple, at that time a grand building.

Mistrusted by human and Guado alike, Seymour lived in exile and grew fond of the temple. As an adult, Seymour rejoined the Guado and became a priest of Macalania Temple before having the body of his mother, by this point the fayth of Anima, relocated to Baaj Temple.

Shortly after Seymour left Baaj for the last time - less than ten years prior to the game's story - the temple was attacked by Sin and reduced to the scene of dank desolation Tidus finds after being separated from Auron in Dream Zanarkand. Tidus explores the ruins and is attacked by Geosgaeno. Barely escaping Tidus winds up in a ruined chamber before being rescued by Rikku and her Al Bhed salvage squad.

The party may return to Baaj after obtaining an airship to defeat Geosgaeno and access the temple. On entering the Chamber of the Fayth, the party talks with the spirit of Seymour's mother and views a flashback of Seymour in the temple as a young boy. Seymour's mother grants Yuna the ability to summon Anima.

QuestsEdit

Temple TrialsEdit

Main article: Cloister of Trials

The player has to open the treasure chests in each Cloister of Trials of the six main temples (Besaid, Kilika, Djose, Macalania, Bevelle, and Zanarkand) to break the seal which guards the entrance to the Chamber of the Fayth.

In the antechamber there's a puzzle that shows off the aeons' glyphs. A pattern corresponding to each aeon lights up behind each of the statues once a Destruction Sphere has been used in the corresponding temple to open a hidden treasure chest. When finding a special chest in the other temples Anima's glyph flashes. One of the statues has a glyph for the Zanarkand Cloister of Trials even though Yuna did not speak to a fayth there and obtain an aeon so it is unknown what aeon uses it; it may be the glyph for the Final Aeon.

TreasureEdit

• Lulu's Celestial Weapon, Onion Knight, can be found after defeating Geosgaeno and searching on the opposite side of the entrance of the temple.

Enemy EncountersEdit

Baaj TempleEdit

First visitEdit

• Sahagin x3 (Boss)
• Geosgaeno (Boss)
• Klikk (Boss)

Al Bhed visitEdit

• Klikk (Boss)

Later revisitEdit

• Geosgaeno (Boss)

Salvage ShipEdit

• Piranha (1), Piranha (2)
• Piranha (1), Piranha (2) x2
• Piranha (1), Piranha (2), Piranha (3)
• Piranha (1) x3, Piranha x2
• Piranha (3)
• Piranha (3) x2
• Tros (Boss)

MusicEdit

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"Out of the Frying Pan"
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"Creep" is played in the Submerged Ruins, a slow and dark music track. "Out Of The Frying Pan" is played during the time Tidus is trapped in Baaj Temple.

"Underwater Ruins" is played inside the Underwater Ruins, and "Out Of The Frying Pan" is once again played after Klikk is defeated.

GalleryEdit

Artwork of the staircase within Baaj Temple.

Artwork of Baaj Temple's interior.

Artwork of Tidus swimming through the ruins.

Baaj Temple artwork.

Baaj Temple seal.

Al Bhed salvage ship.

Interior of the salvage ship concept.

Salvage ship crane concept.

Underwater Ruins concept.

Tidus attacked by Geosgaeno in his first encounter with it.

TriviaEdit

• The floors and walls have numerous inscriptions of words in Spiran script, such as "Semour"[sic], "Jyscal Guado", "Fire", "Flower" and "Guadosalam".