Sephiroth

Articles About Sephiroth
Main Continuity	Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
Sephiroth's Remnants	Kadaj - Loz - Yazoo
Alternate Continuity	Dissidia - Kingdom Hearts - Super Smash Bros.

“	Do not worry. Soon the girl will become part of this planet's energy. All that is left is to go North. The Promised Land waits for me over the snowy fields.	„
	~ Sephiroth to Cloud Strife

“	... Over... It's over... Everything... everyone... everything... It's all over... Now everything will begin with me!!	„
	~ Safer∙Sephiroth

“	Tell me what you cherish most. Give me the pleasure of taking it away.	„
	~ Sephiroth to Cloud Strife

“	Mother, let's take back the planet together. I... I had an epiphany. Let's go to the Promised Land.	„
	~ Sephiroth to Jenova

“	This was the work of the "kids," as you called them. Their movements were deliberate and precise, which tells me they've received military instruction. You mistakenly assumed the children and elderly were weaker than you simply because of their age. People make assumptions about me too, and I strive every day to prove them wrong. In the course of my training, I've learned that to be a good SOLDIER, you need to be strong in body, mind, and heart. A well-trained body, a sharp mind, and a hardened heart—one ruthless and unwavering and devoid of hesitation. A SOLDIER led by their emotions is second-rate—or rather, dated. They have no business being on the battlefield. Out here, the only way to survive is to kill them before they kill you...!	„
	~ Sephiroth to Matt Winsord, Lucia Lin, and Glenn Lodbrok

“	Overconfidence will destroy you...	„
	~ Sephiroth

“	Seven seconds till the end. Time enough for you, perhaps. But what will you do with it? Let's see.	„
	~ Sephiroth to Cloud Strife

“	They say she's a monster. That she can peer inside you—into the very depths of your soul. That she can become those you hate. Those you fear. Those you love.	„
	~ Sephiroth

Background

Sephiroth is the main overarching antagonist of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Once a legendary SOLDIER and unrivaled swordsman who served as the inspiration for countless SOLDIER candidates across the years, Sephiroth found out about the truth behind his unnatural birth and was driven insane. He grew to hate the planet and sought to destroy it, only to be opposed by Cloud Strife and his friends.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Sephiroth’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Sephiroth, having been raised inside of the Shinra Power Electric Company and trained his entire life, was viewed as unstoppable in combat even as a young boy. Thanks to his unrivalled levels of skill, he was instrumental in ending Shinra's war with Wutai, and was promptly hailed as a hero. Several young boys from around the world, including Cloud Strife, were inspired by Sephiroth as a result. During his glory days as a SOLDIER 1st Class, Sephiroth was best friends with Angeal Hewley and Genesis Rhapsodos, fellow SOLDIERs who constantly served as sparring partners for him. With Genesis and Angeal's departure from Shinra, however, Sephiroth was sent down a long spiral of figuring out his true identity. On a mission to Nibelheim alongside Zack Fair, Sephiroth discovered the ancient alien, JENOVA, who shared the same name as his mother. After countless days of obsessive research inside the Shinra Mansion, Sephiroth learned the truth; he was a lab experiment created by Shinra, using JENOVA's DNA. Because of this, Sephiroth viewed himself as a monster who was wronged by the planet, and fell into insanity. Growing enraged with the planet, Sephiroth murdered the people of Nibelheim and reunited with JENOVA. However, he was opposed by Zack and Cloud Strife, who managed to fatally wound Sephiroth and send him tumbling into the Lifestream. From then on, Sephiroth's anger grew to extreme levels, and he developed an obsessive hatred towards Cloud Strife. Having been partially diffused into the Lifestream, Sephiroth acted from a distance and would use the JENOVA DNA within Cloud to control him and do his bidding; eventually leading to Cloud delivering the Black Materia to him. Using the Black Materia, Sephiroth would call upon Meteor to destroy the planet. He was once again opposed by Cloud, however, and seemingly killed for good. Two years passed, and a horrible plague known as Geostigma infested the planet. This was the doing of Sephiroth and JENOVA, who still existed within the Lifestream as they could not be completely diffused into it. Sephiroth used his will to develop three remnants of himself, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo. These remnants scoured the planet for JENOVA's head, eventually finding it and bringing Sephiroth back to the living world. After a long and arduous final battle against Cloud, however, he was once again killed. With his final words, he claimed that he would never only be a memory.

General Information

Key: Before Crisis/Crisis Core | Final Fantasy VII | Advent Children

Name: Sephiroth

Origin: Final Fantasy VII

Sex: Male

Age: 21 - 22 years old (Before Crisis/Crisis Core), 27 years old (Final Fantasy VII), 30 years old (Advent Children)

Classification: Ex-SOLDIER 1st Class, Perfect Monster, One-Winged Angel, JENOVA Experiment

Species: Human/Alien Hybrid

Occupation: Shinra SOLDIER (formerly)

Status: Alive, Deceased after Nibelheim (Sephiroth is fatally wounded and thrown into the Lifestream by Cloud Strife) | Undead (Sephiroth refused to be diffused into the Lifestream and used his will to continue to exist in the mortal world) | Undead (Sephiroth refuses to disappear and will reanimate himself into host bodies in the living world)

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Sephiroth is seemingly good-hearted and has nice intentions, though he can be a bit flippant. He freely off-loads his missions onto Zack Fair when he decides that he doesn't want to do them, valuing his own feelings over his direct orders. Sephiroth has casually overlooked transgressions Zack makes, in order to allow Zack to visit Aerith) | Chaotic Evil (As stated directly by those who knew him, Sephiroth went from hating Shinra and the experiments that made him, to hating the entire world. He is filled with hatred for all things and only desires to destroy all things. Although he is influenced by the will of his mother, Jenova, Sephiroth has goals of his own revolving solely around causing pain and torment to everyone around him) | Chaotic Evil

Name: Sephiroth

Origin: Final Fantasy VII Remake

Sex: Male

Age: Around 30 years old

Classification: Ex-SOLDIER 1st Class, Perfect Monster, One-Winged Angel, JENOVA Experiment

Species: Human/Alien Hybrid

Occupation: Shinra SOLDIER (formerly)

Status: Undead

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Codex Statistics

Key: Before Crisis/Crisis Core | Final Fantasy VII | Advent Children

Tier: High 3-A | High 3-A | At least High 3-A

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Multi Supercluster level (As confirmed by Professor Hojo, Sephiroth knew Super Nova during this time, which has him create a dimension containing starry skies and multiple galaxies. He is also consistently stated to be the strongest character in the series, placing him above Bahamut Fury, who can also create a dimension with a starry sky, and Knights of the Round, which can destroy its own dimension containing a galaxy cluster) | Multi Supercluster level | At least Multi Supercluster level (Has become so much stronger that he could casually deflect the move that previously killed him)

Durability: Multi Supercluster level | Multi Supercluster level | At least Multi Supercluster level

Striking Strength: Multi Supercluster Class | Multi Supercluster Class | At least Multi Supercluster Class

Lifting Strength: At least Athletic Human

Travel Speed: Athletic Human (Is comparable to Cloud Strife, who can run at similar speeds to a Chocobo; Chocobo are said in the Dissidia Final Fantasy Museum to run at 20 mph) | Athletic Human, Superhuman with flight (Should have similar flying speed to his futre self) | Athletic Human, Superhuman with flight (Has a wing and thus scales to Genesis Rhapsodos, who can fly this fast)

Combat Speed: FTL+ | FTL+ | At least FTL+

Reaction Speed: FTL+ (Was confirmed by Hojo to have known Super Nova at the time of their fight, meaning he could react to the comet of his Super Nova) | FTL+ | At least FTL+ (Was so much faster than before, that he could casually deflect the move that killed him previously)

Stamina: Superhuman (Sephiroth is able to fight for incredibly long periods of time, while using large amounts of Materia, without any signs of fatigue. He was able to fight both Zack Fair and Cloud Strife with no trouble, only showing signs of tiring after receiving a fatal wound. He was about to fight Genesis and Angeal for prolonged periods of time without tiring) | Limitless (Sephiroth has transcended the flesh and likely will never tire if left to his own doings. He was able to plague Cloud along his entire journey without need for rest) | Limitless

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Masamune, Far Higher with Materia and within Negative Lifestream

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (An extremely experienced and prodigious SOLDIER, who became a legendary war hero in the Wutai War at the age of 12. He was noted to be the first SOLDIER 1st Class, and inspired several others. Sephiroth, even before learning of his JENOVA heritage, could take on both Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley at the same time, who each have several years of experience. Later, he was able to gain extreme amounts of knowledge of the thousand-year old alien, JENOVA, and gain knowledge through the Negative Lifestream)

Tier: 2-C

Cardinality: ℵ0

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Universe level (Absorbed the Whispers into himself, and could contend with Cloud Strife who had previously defeated the Whisper Harbinger; the Whispers connected to all of time and space)

Durability: Universe level

Striking Strength: Universal

Lifting Strength: At least Athletic Human

Travel Speed: Athletic Human, Superhuman with flight (Has a wing and thus scales to Genesis Rhapsodos, who can fly this fast)

Combat Speed: Unknown

Reaction Speed: Unknown (Absorbed the Whispers into himself, and could keep up with Cloud Strife who had previously kept up with the Whisper Harbinger; the Whispers connected to all of time and space)

Stamina: Limitless

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Masamune, Far Higher with Materia and within Negative Lifestream

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius

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Powers and Techniques

Spirit Energy Physiology, which includes: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Blessed (Everyone born into the world is blessed with Spirit Energy), Sheer Will (Willpower alone can be enough to fight off Mako poisoning, and the will of Jenova. Those with a strong enough will can retain their sense of self after dying and returning to the Lifestream), Memory Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Rage Power, & Aura (Limit Breaks are born of memories, are comprised of Spirit Energy, and are unleashed when the user's anger is pushed to the limit. They give off an aura when used), Non-Standard Interaction (Characters can interact with the souls of the Gi Tribe), Regeneration Negation (Mid-High; Can completely kill pieces of Jenova, preventing them from regenerating). Jenova can regenerate itself fully so long as its cells remain, as Cloud Strife participates in Jenova's Reunion despite only containing her cells. Despite this, pieces of Jenova defeated by the heroes were unable to enact the Reunion), Accelerated Development (When Sephiroth fought the party far earlier than he was supposed to, the main characters could still contend with him, even after Sephiroth absorbed the Whispers and became stronger than he had ever been)

Human Achievements (Sephiroth became a SOLDIER 1st Class), Acrobatics, Weapon Mastery (Sephiroth is extremely skilled with the Masamune), Flight (Sephiroth can freely fly with and without the One Wing), Teleportation (Sephiroth can teleport), Energy Projection (Sephiroth can launch blasts of energy with the Masamune), Life Manipulation (Heartless Angel will leave opponents at the brink of death), Magic, Healing Negation (The wound Sephiroth dealt Tifa could not be healed with Cure Materia), Portal Creation (Was able to create a rift into Ifrit's pocket dimension, and into Destiny's Crossroads), Damage Boost (All attacks from the Masamune are critical hits), Summoning & Life Manipulation (Heartless Angel summons an angel that lowers the opponent's health to near-death), Retrocognition (Can make others see visions of the past), Disease Manipulation (Can inflict the plague of Geostigma), Transformation (Sephiroth can transform into Bizarro and Safer Sephiroth), Telekinesis (Can use telekinesis to suspend people in the air), Illusion Creation (Type 2; Formed a complex illusionary recreation of Nibelheim), Clairvoyance (Sephiroth can sense the emotions of anyone on the planet), Pocket Reality Manipulation & BFR (Type 1; Sephiroth can draw others into his pocket dimension where he uses Supernova), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation) & Absorption (Sephiroth can consume the souls of those overcome with negative emotions, and absorb the Whispers into himself), Hive Mind (Sephiroth can manifest and control versions of himself across the planet, despite his real body residing in the Northern Crater), Immortality & Regeneration (Type 1, 2, 8, & Mid-Godly; Sephiroth will always return so long as people's memory of him remains, by freely making them the core of his being and using their memories to re-manifest. He can even manifest himself in other times and onto different bodies through memories, despite being physically destroyed by Cloud Strife and having his spiritual memetic legacy erased by Aerith Gainsborough), Shapeshifting & Advanced Power Mimicry (Has the ability to perfectly mimic people through their memories, such as when Jenova formed Cloud Strife using a combination of Tifa Lockhart's memories of the Cloud she knew, along with Cloud's ideal vision for himself, and the skill and accolades of Zack Fair, which allowed for him to be far more capable and powerful than he ever was before. Sephiroth used this ability to shapeshift himself into a perfect mimic of Tifa Lockhart, down to her exact mannerisms. Sepiroth's Remnant, Kadaj, could also transform himself into exact mimics of people from the memories of others. Jenova shapeshifted into mimics of dead Cetra to fool them. Jenova could make other people into mimics of Sephiroth using Cloud's memories, on numerous occasions, essentially manifesting Sephiroth with this mimic ability)

Has the same abilities as his Remnants, Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo, which include: Incorporeality (As an extension of the Negative Lifestream, Sephiroth can become intangible if he chooses), Vehicular Mastery (Sephiroth can ride a motorcycle), Summoning (Sephiroth can summon Shadow Creepers), Shapeshifting (Sephiroth can turn into black smoke), Creation (Sephiroth is able to materialize things from the Negative Lifestream), Mind Manipulation (Sephiroth can control the minds of those infected with Jenova cells), Telepathy (Sephiroth is able to read the minds of those he touches), Perception Manipulation (Sephiroth can appear to others as if he is someone from their memories, in order to trick them), Fear Manipulation (Sephiroth can instill fear on others), Healing & Biological Manipulation (Sephiroth can take bodily pain away from people), Pain Manipulation (Sephiroth can give pain back to those he took it away from), Telekinesis (Sephiroth can move things with his mind), Teleportation (Sephiroth can teleport).
Resistance to Memory Manipulation and Empathic Manipulation (Despite being diffused into the Lifestream, Kadaj was able to return to his normal self)

Spirit Energy Physiology, which grants Resistance to:

Mind Manipulation & Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Those with high willpower can resist succumbing to Jenova's will, which passively takes over one's mind and eats away at the soul, and can prevent their mind from shattering), Poison Manipulation (High willpower can prevent the toxicosis that comes with the exposure to Jenova Cells), Power Mimicry & Power Absorption (Limit Breaks cannot be copied by others. Only Zack Fair can copy Limit Breaks, though he is noted to be the only exception to this), Corruption (Types 1 & 2; Several main characters have been exposed to high amounts of Mako energy, and never became Makonoid monsters), Biological Deconstruction & Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Main characters have fallen into the Lifestream and returned unscathed, without being forcefully diffused or dissolved into it, or having their spirit be eroded and dissipated), Heat Manipulation & Radiation Manipulation (Can withstand Super Nova without any negative effects of heat or radiation), Limited Disease Manipulation (Those with a will to live are unaffected by Geostigma, which infects those with a weak will)

Resistance to:

Fire Manipulation & Heat Manipulation (Was unaffected by the heat and fire of Ifrit's dimension), Mind Manipulation & Memory Manipulation (His mind was prevented from collapsing within the Lifestream), Paralysis Inducement (Sephiroth is resistant to Stun), Death Manipulation (Sephiroth is resistant to Instant Death), Corruption (Types 1 & 2; Despite being infused with Mako within the Lifestream, Sephiroth never became a Makonoid), Information Analysis (Is unable to be read by Cloud's party), Elemental Manipulation, Time Manipulation (As a spirit of the Lifestream, time holds no meaning to him), Telepathy & Mind Manipulation (Sephiroth is unaffected by Jenova's influence), Radiation Manipulation (Sephiroth is unaffected by his own Supernova), Fate Manipulation (Is no longer bound by the Whispers after absorbing them, which are the Arbiters of Fate)

Forcefield Creation (Creates a barrier with different effects), Damage Reduction (Barrier reduces the damage of physical attacks. MBarrier reduces the damage of magic. Wall does both at once), Attack Reflection (Reflect has magic spells be reflected back on the opponent)

Earth Manipulation & Fire Manipulation (Comet and Comet2 launch a flaming rock at the opponent)

Possible Ice Manipulation (Has a chance of attacking with ice using Freeze), possible Earth Manipulation (Has a chance of attacking with earth using Break), possible Air Manipulation (Has a chance of attacking with wind using Tornado), possible Fire Manipulation (Has a chance of attacking with fire using Flare)

Forcefield Negation (Removes Barriers and MBarriers)

Earth Manipulation (Casts Quake)

Fire Manipulation (Casts Fire)

Gravity Manipulation (Casts Demi)

Poison Negation (Poisona negates poison effects), Status Effect Negation (Esuna negates all status effects)

Ice Manipulation (Casts Ice)

Electricity Manipulation (Casts Bolt)

Status Effect Inducement (Confu has a 60% chance of confusing an enemy. Berserk has an 80% chance of inflicting berserk on an enemy)

Poison Manipulation (Casts Bio)

Healing (Restores health with Cure, Cure2, and Cure3), Regeneration (Low; Grants Regen, which slowly restores HP)

Resurrection (Life and Life2 revive an ally)

Sleep Manipulation (Sleepel puts an enemy to sleep), Magic Negation (Silence prevents an opponent from casting magic spells)

Resistance to Physical Attacks & Elemental Magic (Shield provides immunity to physical attacks and elemental magic spells)

Statistics Amplification (Casts Haste, which increases the speed of one's ATB gauge, thereby allowing for them to attack faster), Statistics Reduction (Casts Slow, which decreases the speed of a foe's ATB gauge, thereby making them attack slower), Time Stop (Stop completely freezes a target in time)

Size Manipulation & Statistics Reduction (Mini turns a target tiny in size, and reduces their damage output to 1), Transmutation (Toad transforms the opponent into a toad)

Magic & Attack Reflection Negation (Ultima is a powerful magic spell that ignores all reflection)

Berserk Mode (Paired with Mystify Materia it inflicts Berserk).

Resistance to Petrification & Time Stop (Paired with Contain Materia, grants resistance to Petrify and Stop).
Resistance to Death Manipulation (Paired with Destruct and Odin Materia, grants resistance to Instant Death).
Resistance to Magic Negation & Sleep Manipulation (Paired with Seal Materia, grants resistance to Silence and Sleep).

Resistance to Size Manipulation & Transmutation (Paired with Transform Materia, grants resistance to Small and Frog)

Enhanced Magic (All allows for magical spells to be multi-targeted to all allies or enemies)

Resistance to Elemental Manipulation (Elemental Materia grants resistance to elemental magic when paired with a Magic Materia of that element)

Healing (HP Absorb restores health when the Magic Materia it is paired with is used)

Healing (MP Absorb restores magic power when the Magic Materia it is paired with is used)

Damage Boost (MP Turbo increases the damage of the Magic Materia it is paired with)

Damage Boost (Grants access to D.Blow, which attacks with a critical hit when it lands)

Power Mimicry (Enemy Skill allows for the user to copy and use the abilities of opponents for themselves)

Body Puppetry (Manipulate takes control of an enemy and allows for the user to control their every move)

Power Mimicry (Mime has the user perfectly replicate the most recently-performed attack of either an ally or enemy)

Transmutation (Morph transforms an enemy into an item)

Information Analysis (Sense allows for the user to see the opponent's HP, MP, level, and weaknesses)

Statistics Reduction (Enemy Away reduces the chances of running into a random enemy encounter)

Statistics Amplification (Enemy Lure increases the chances of running into a random enemy encounter)

Statistics Amplification & Accelerated Development (Experience Plus increases the amount of experience gained after battle)

Statistics Amplification (Gil Plus increases the amount of Gil earned after battles)

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Equipment

• Masamune: Sephiroth's primary weapon is an extremely large odachi-type blade, with a length of around seven feet long. Because of its length, Sephiroth is able to utilize this blade almost as more of a ranged weapon than a melee weapon. It's very durable, able to cut through metal with ease, though Sephiroth prefers to use it more for piercing foes. This blade has six whole Materia blades, and can be summoned by Sephiroth at will from the Negative Lifestream.

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  Masamune

• Summon: Small red orbs of crystalized Mako energy that can be used to call upon legendary, gargantuan beasts from the distant past, to fight alongside him. This includes giant flaming behemoths like Ifrit, to huge dragons like Bahamut.

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  Summon

• Magic: Small green orbs of crystalized Mako energy that can be used to enable the use of magic spells, oftentimes being elemental in nature, such as Fire/Fira/Firaga which attacks with flames.

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  Magic

• Command: Small yellow orbs of crystalized Mako energy that can be used to enable the use of extra commands in battle, such as the ability to throw items or steal items from enemies.

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  Command

• Support: Small blue orbs of crystalized Mako energy that have the primary purpose of being linked to other Materia, in order to enhance their effects.

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  Support

• Independent: Small purple orbs of crystalized Mako energy that increase the stats of the user, or give them auto-abilities such as Cover.

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  Independent

• Potion: Restores a small amount of health.

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  Potion

• Hi-Potion: Restores a large amount of health.

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  Hi-Potion

• X-Potion: Restores all health.

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  X-Potion

• Ether: Restores a small amount of magic power.

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  Ether

• Turbo Ether: Restores all magic power.

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  Turbo Ether

• Elixir: Restores all health and magic power.

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  Elixir

• Megalixir: Restores all health and magic power of the entire party.

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  Megalixir

• Remedy: Cures all abnormal status effects, including Sleep, Poison, Sadness, Fury, Confusion, Silence, Frog, Mini, Slow, Petrify, Berserk, Paralysis, and Darkness.

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  Remedy

• Phoenix Down: Resurrects one party member from death.

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  Phoenix Down

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Notable Techniques

• Energy Blade: Sephiroth can use giant crescent beams of energy that are launched from swings of his Masamune. He's used this previously to cut through a giant Mako Cannon during his fight with Genesis Rhapsodos.
• Energy Shockwave: Sephiroth gathers a massive amount of energy into the Masamune, which he then stabs into the ground to unleash a huge shockwave.
• Octaslash: Sephiroth's most iconic move, which has him use the Masamune to quickly slash the opponent eight consecutive times.
• Heartless Angel: Summons a small angel that sprinkles magic on the opponent, which leaves them with 1 HP.
• Supernova: Sephiroth's ultimate attack, which has him create his own pocket dimension where a gigantic meteor of energy collides with the sun. The sun is detonated, expanding into a massive supernova that engulfs the entire solar system and destroys each planet individually.
• Geostigma: Also called Jenova’s Memetic Legacy, Geostigma is a horrible plague that Kadaj can inflict on others. Those infected with Geostigma will become infected with S-Cells and thus be subject to the Reunion. Those infected with Geostigma become extremely physically weak, and experience intolerable pain in the affected area that secretes a black ooze.

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Other

Weaknesses: Sephiroth is extremely arrogant in his own abilities, to the point where he viewed Cloud overpowering him as impossible, which then led to his death. His hatred of Cloud has grown to obsessive levels, and can oftentimes impede on his own goals, as he will sometimes go out of his way to try and make Cloud suffer.

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