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The Temple of the Ancients (古代種の神殿, Kodai-shu no Shinden^?) is a location in Final Fantasy VII, built by the Cetra thousands of years before the start of the game to house the Black Materia. The outside of the Temple is similar in architecture to Mayan and Aztec pyramids of the real world Central America. The interior is a large maze-like cavern of staircases, and includes a passage where the party must avoid falling boulders, and a large clock the party must operate, walking across the clock's hands to access the different rooms its hands can point to.

A key item called the Keystone is required to open the temple's door. The temple lies on an island, and can only be reached via the Tiny Bronco. It can only be visited once, and is replaced by a crater on the world map when the temple is destroyed.

StoryEdit

Temple of the Ancients is itself the Black Materia; the Cetra twisted the Black Materia into the size and shape of the temple, so the only way to return the temple to its Materia form is to shrink it. The only way to shrink the temple is from the inside, so anybody shrinking the temple would be crushed. This was designed so nobody would be able to obtain the Black Materia.

Cloud Strife and his party obtain the Keystone from Dio. Cait Sith turns out to be a double-agent for Shinra Electric Power Company and betrays the group and hands the Keystone to the Turks to grab the Black Materia before Sephiroth can.

Tseng, the leader of the Turks, enters the temple, but is attacked by Sephiroth who badly wounds Tseng, and leaves him for dead. Cloud and his party arrive on the scene to find the temple surrounded by Sephiroth Clones. The party fights their way through the temple until coming upon the room where the device to turn the temple into the Black Materia is kept.

Sephiroth appears in a ghostly form, telling the party about his plans to use Meteor to destroy the Planet. He explains the temple's true nature - someone will have to be sacrificed for Cloud to keep the Black Materia away from Sephiroth. Since Sephiroth is followed by his fanatical clones, any of them could get the Black Materia for him. Cait Sith volunteers to do it; as he goes to turn the temple to its Materia form, he says goodbye to the party.

Cloud and his party escape the temple and it turns into the Black Materia. Another Cait Sith, calling himself Cait Sith Number 2, comes up to rejoin the party. Cloud grabs the Black Materia, but Sephiroth takes control of him, forcing Cloud to give up the Materia and to almost kill Aeris. Cloud is knocked unconscious by the remaining party member before this can happen.

After the events, Aeris leaves the party permanently.

LocationEdit

The Temple of the Ancients is located to the South on Gaia's Eastern continent.

Items FoundEdit

• Keystone - recovered from Tseng at the beginning of the Temple.
• Trident
• Turbo Ether
• Mind Source
• Silver Rifle
• Rocket Punch
• Luck Plus Materia - when first found, the game calls this "Lucky Plus".
• Morph Materia
• Princess Guard
• Ribbon
• Trumpet Shell
• Megalixir
• Nail Bat
• Work Glove
• Bahamut Materia

ShopsEdit

About half-way through the temple, there is a room with a little man who can help the party out by restoring their health, and serving as a Save Point. He also has a small item shop.

Item ShopEdit

Enemy formationsEdit

Main AreaEdit

• Doorbull
• Kelzmelzer x2
• Kelzmelzer, Toxic Frog x2 (Back attack)
• Kelzmelzer x2, Toxic Frog x2
• Under Lizard
• Under Lizard, Toxic Frog x2

Mural RoomEdit

• Ancient Dragon x2
• Ancient Dragon x3
• Doorbull
• Doorbull x2 (Back attack)

Under the ClockEdit

• 2x Ancient Dragon (Appears every time you are pushed off the clock)

Room IEdit

• 2x Toxic Frog, 1x Jemnezmy (boss)

Room IIIEdit

• 2x 8 eye (boss)

Room VIEdit

• Red Dragon (boss)

Room XIIEdit

• Demons Gate (boss)

Woodlands AreaEdit

GrasslandEdit

• Dual Horn
• Dual Horn (Back attack)
• Dual Horn x2
• Under Lizard

DirtEdit

• Under Lizard
• Under Lizard x2
• Tonadu

ForestEdit

• Kelzmelzer x2
• Slaps x3
• Slaps x4 (Back attack)
• Slaps x5

BeachEdit

• Tonadu

MusicEdit

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"Forested Temple" from Final Fantasy VII
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The theme of the Temple of the Ancients is the "Forested Temple".

A remixed version of the theme is also heard as Cloud and Tifa's dungeon theme in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.

GalleryEdit

Temple entrance.

Keystone device.

Inside the Temple.

Mural room.

The Time Guardian.

Temple shrinking.

Temple grounds after the Temple's destruction.

Temple of the Ancients after its destruction.

The field model of the miniature version of the temple.

The miniature version of the temple as seen in the fourth disc of the International version.

The Clock Room.

TriviaEdit

• The riddle of the Temple of the Ancients clock is harder in the original Japanese version, because the player can't initially wind the clock. After being knocked off the clock three times, a flag is turned on which changes it to the version of the puzzle the player can control. This flag is always on in other versions of the game, so if the flag was turned off via hacking, the original version of the puzzle can be played on other versions of the game.