[Good to know. Sephiroth is hardly going to spend hours researching the specific history of Chocobo Farming of all things. Never mind the hours he's already spent in one Library or another since the correspondence with Biggs.

He nods, understanding, to the Old Man and then flicks his vibrant gaze down to the Moogle when it speaks up. For all that he's adjusting to having Spencer around him all the time, moogles are still like literal walking plush-toys to him.]

Less influence, less people, more monsters. That makes sense.

[Between the Esdham and Heran powers, it seemed, Aqures Ixen really was the dulled northern corner of the whole World. Or at least it ties up with what he's read so far. It's almost sad, but civilizations do naturally rise and fall over time.]

Sounds like this may be a more long-term problem, then.