Ultimecia's Real Name | Final Fantasy VIII

Love this, wow! I always thought the name "Ultimecia" was one she chose for herself, as it was her ambition to be the last and the ultimate. "Artemisia" is now, for me, undeniably her birth name, and Halicarnassus is either a predecessor or fictional sorceress from VIII's world.

It's a crime you only have 138 subscribers! That was an amazing watch, appreciate all your research and work you've put into the video.

This was honestly one of the coolest things I have ever seen regarding history and multiverse madness. Thank you SO MUCH for putting this whole video together.

Great job!! I didn't know what to expect when I saw the length of your video, but now I can say only one thing... I want more

Wow, great investigation! My favorite character

To me ultimecia’s name is perfection, what a gorgeous kreation !!

Bro, this is so well researched. Hope you keep uploading new content!

my speculation is, ultimecia tragic lore is inspired by legend of artemis.. in the ff8, the game had a lore of great hyne.. how he lose a battle to his tools (human).. and he split his body into two part.. one had magical power that ran away.. and one had lesser power that humans battled each other to had it.. then learned that the true hyne with magical power had ran away.. the lore said hyne (half of his body that ran away) used to take refuge inside a female body.. in the game sorceresses are called decendants of great hyne.. i noticed the final battle is kind of retelling the lore of when humans battled hyne.. that ultimecia junctioned griever when started to get defeated she split lower half of their bodies.. kind of same what happen when hyne get defeated by humans for the first time.. where hyne split his body in half for humans.. in the final form when hyne appear, the physical body of ultimecia were seen lifeless dangling from belly down.. now, i think ultimecia was just any random woman that are unfortunate enough to be posessed by power of magical hyne.. but outside the game lore, artemis is known to grief for her lover death a mere mortal unlike her.. perhaps, ultimecia once had a knight that could be her lover.. she also probably a good sorceress that refused to give up her sorceress power to any other unfortunated woman until the end of times.. but also since she uses gf junctioning (apparently she had griever as her gf) from time to time she started to lose her mind (the game tutorial stated memory loss was thought to be possible side effect of juctioning gf.. plus she also inherit power of great hyne) and started to become evil ended up killing her knight/ lover just like the legend of artemis did (artemis got deceived by apollo).. then succumbed to what hyne always wanted.. to get rid of humans.. time compression etc..

Wonderful work you've done. It's mindboggling how much thought and work put in these games, kudos to everyone who participated in building the final fantasy verse.

in the German Game the Translation was Artemisia

As a lifelong FF VIII fan and FF fan in general. Also for one like myself who likes these obscure bits of information, this was a fantastic video.

Thank the algorithm for recommending this. Truly an incredible video!

Thx for the investigation, Dude!

Excellent video, it really surprised me! I thought you were going to talk about the greek godess Artemis/Artemisa and her association with the moon (another theme of this game), but ended up actually learning a lot. Thank you!

I always knew there had to be more connections between 5 and 8. Bravo! well done in finding them!

Wow! I love the investigation into this. great job!

You definitely did your research, wow.

I wish you made more videos. You clearly have a great knack for it.

Very mind-blowing. This just puts more fire under my feet to play the pre-FF7 Final Fantasy games.

Let's also consider that this connection also may have been a subtle yet intentional nod by developers that, had Square maintained the original numbering sequence of the western Final Fantasy releases/sequels (Final Fantasy 4ej = Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy VI = Final Fantasy III), then Final Fantasy VII would have been numbered Final Fantasy IV in the west, and Final Fantasy VIII in the west would have been numbered...Final Fantasy V.