Joshua and Clive, Phoenix and Ifrit, two brothers who spent thirteen years believing one had killed the other, finally fighting together toward the same end. The fates that collide in this session are not hostile to each other. They are the same fate, split at Phoenix Gate and reunited here, in a place that exists outside the world they were born into.

The flames are both. Phoenix's light, Ifrit's absorption, the Eikon power that was supposed to doom Clive being the exact thing required to reach Ultima. The game keeps doing this — finding the redemption inside the wound, the specific shape of the damage being the precise tool needed to repair it.