fal'Cie
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The fal'Cie (ファルシ Farushi) are supernatural beings in Final Fantasy XIII. In the Famitsu magazine in June 2009, the fal'Cie were revealed to be formed from the crystals residing inside of them. The crystals act as energy sources to the beings. The director of the game, Motomu Toriyama, described the fal'Cie as "god machines surrounding the crystals". They are not real gods, though, because in the Fabula Nova Crystallis lore, there is an even greater being that created the fal'Cie and sent them into the world. However, people worship the fal'Cie as gods because of the variety of things they offer to the humans to improve their lives.
The fal'Cie have the power to brand people with the power of the crystals in order to make them fulfill special missions called Focuses for them. These people, called the l'Cie, can be identified by a symbol somewhere in their bodies. Lightning and her companions are marked as l'Cies by a fal'Cie.
In the interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine in August 2009, producer Yoshinori Kitase revealed that there are various types of fal'Cie, their actual number being incalculable, although only a handful will appear in Final Fantasy XIII. One of the fal'Cie is responsible for building the floating city of Cocoon over the world of Pulse, and it represents the power of sun and light. Another fal'Cie belonging to Pulse was discovered in Cocoon, which lead to the events depicted in Final Fantasy XIII. The Pulse fal'Cie represents the power of nature and has a green glow. A possible third one is shown in the TGS trailer, as Lightning and her companions fly into the energy arcs it creates, to evade Sanctum aerial forces. Its energy arcs are yellow. There is also the fal'cie Kujata at Ewleede Canyon, which is visited as a tourist attraction. This fal'cie turned Dajh Katzroy into a l'cie.
[edit] Other appearances
Beside crystals, the fal'Cie are a central part of the story in the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIII. Due to this, they also appear in the two other confirmed parts of this compilation: Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII.
While this has not been confirmed by the developers directly, recent concept art for Versus revealed fal'Cie to appear in the game. The Goddess Etro is speculated to be one of them. In Agito, the army of Cid's country is said to consist out of l'Cies, which leads to the assumption, that fal'Cie maybe an important part of the story here as well.
However, this should be handled with care, as the story may change during development.
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