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Mercenary, former SOLDIER · Nibelheim
“A reserved mercenary who joins Avalanche in its fight against Shinra. He struggles with his past and with his sense of identity.”
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Avalanche leader
The passionate leader of Avalanche fights Shinra over its exploitation of the Planet. Protecting Marlene is central to his cause.
Martial artist · Seventh Heaven
Tifa runs the Seventh Heaven bar in the slums and fights alongside Avalanche. Her childhood in Nibelheim ties her to Cloud.
Nibelheim resident · Tifa’s father
A Nibelheim resident and Tifa’s father.
Nibelheim resident · Cloud’s mother
Cloud’s mother, who raised him in Nibelheim.
Flower seller · Cetra
The last known Cetra sells flowers in Midgar. Her connection to the Planet draws the attention of Shinra and Sephiroth.
Demolitions · Avalanche
A resourceful Avalanche fighter and aspiring performer, Jessie secures equipment and explosives for the team.
Tactics · Avalanche
Steady and reliable, Biggs handles planning and logistics for Avalanche. He helps hold the team together under pressure.
Recon · Avalanche
Warm-hearted and observant, Wedge supports Avalanche with scouting and mission preparation.
Daughter of Barret Wallace
Marlene lives in the slums and represents the future Barret is fighting to protect. She is also close to Tifa.
Barret’s former friend
Dyne and Barret were once close friends from Corel. A tragedy in their hometown drove them apart.
1st Class SOLDIER
An optimistic SOLDIER First Class from Gongaga. His story connects Shinra’s past with Cloud, Aerith, and Sephiroth.
Shinra president
He heads the Shinra Electric Power Company and rules Midgar through corporate power and military force. His policies drive the conflict with Avalanche.
Vice president · Shinra
The president’s ambitious son has his own plans for Shinra’s future. He favors control and calculated displays of power.
Urban development · Shinra
As head of urban development, Reeve helps shape Midgar. His moral doubts put him at odds with the company he serves.
Scientist · Shinra
The ruthless head of Shinra’s science department oversees SOLDIER and Jenova research, treating people as experimental subjects.
Security chief · Shinra
The boisterous head of public security deploys Shinra’s military force against Avalanche and other opponents.
Weapons development · Shinra
A ruthless executive in charge of weapons development, Scarlet pushes Shinra’s military projects forward.
Space program · Shinra
The eccentric head of Shinra’s space program still clings to the company’s abandoned plans for spaceflight.
Former research director
The former head of Shinra’s research division studied the Cetra. His work and family history shaped Aerith’s story.
Leader · Turks
The composed leader of the Turks coordinates Shinra’s intelligence operations. His assignments repeatedly bring him to Aerith.
Field operative · Turks
A quick-witted and confident Turk, Reno handles many of Shinra’s field operations with Rude.
Field operative · Turks
A reserved and experienced Turk, Rude is Reno’s dependable partner in the field.
Field operative · Turks
The newest member of the Turks is eager to prove herself and takes on field assignments for Shinra.
Turks · Compilation
A Turk with a close connection to Zack, Cissnei balances company loyalty with personal concern.
Ninja · Wutai
The bold ninja from Wutai hunts for materia and hopes to restore her homeland’s pride. Her path crosses the party’s in unexpected ways.
Guardian · Cosmo Canyon
Nanaki belongs to the guardians of Cosmo Canyon. Traveling with the party changes how he sees himself and his heritage.
Fortune-teller · Shinra connection
A talking mascot who rides a giant moogle, Cait Sith has a hidden connection to Shinra’s urban development division.
Former Turk · Nibelheim
A mysterious former Turk whose past is entangled with Shinra’s experiments and the events in Nibelheim.
Pilot · Rocket Town
A sharp-tongued pilot whose dream of spaceflight was put on hold. His aircraft and skills become vital to the party.
Elder · Cosmo Canyon
The scholar of Cosmo Canyon teaches the party about the Planet and Nanaki’s origins. His observatory offers a wider view of the world.
Wutai ninja
A Wutai warrior and Yuffie’s partner on a covert mission in Midgar. A personal loss drives his resolve.
Technician · Rocket Town
A meticulous technician who works with Cid on the rocket. Their relationship carries a long and complicated history.
Former 1st Class SOLDIER
Once celebrated as Shinra’s greatest hero, Sephiroth becomes a major threat to the Planet. His origins are tied to Hojo and Jenova.
Extraterrestrial life-form
An alien life-form whose discovery shaped Shinra’s research and Sephiroth’s story. Jenova’s influence reaches across the Planet.
Former 1st Class SOLDIER
A SOLDIER First Class driven by poetry and questions about his origins. His path puts him in conflict with Shinra and former comrades.
Former 1st Class SOLDIER
An honorable SOLDIER First Class and Zack’s mentor. His ideals stand in contrast to Shinra’s secrecy.
Advent Children
A mysterious young man from Advent Children who searches for a connection to Sephiroth alongside his companions.
Advent Children
One of Kadaj’s companions, Loz combines immense strength with an impulsive fighting style.
Advent Children
Kadaj’s quiet companion and a precise fighter, Yazoo joins the search with Kadaj and Loz.
Tsviet · Deepground
A dangerous Deepground operative and brother of Weiss, Nero is part of the wider Compilation of Final Fantasy VII.
Tsviet commander · Deepground
The white-haired leader of Deepground is a central figure in Dirge of Cerberus. His organization operates beneath Midgar.
Aerith’s adoptive mother
Elmyra took Aerith in and raised her in the slums. Her care gave Aerith a home in Midgar and shaped her life.
Cetra · Aerith’s mother
A Cetra and Aerith’s birth mother, Ifalna escaped Shinra’s research facility and protected her daughter.
Scientist · Nibelheim
A scientist whose work and personal choices connect her to Hojo, Vincent, and the truth about Sephiroth’s origins.
Guardian · Nanaki’s father
Nanaki’s father once stood against a threat to Cosmo Canyon. His story is central to Nanaki’s legacy.
Gi warrior · Cave of the Gi
A formidable spirit of the Gi tribe encountered beneath Cosmo Canyon, tied to the ancient conflict with Seto.
Leader of Wutai
Yuffie’s father and the leader of Wutai, Godo faces the political legacy of the war with Shinra and a strained bond with his daughter.
Underworld boss · Wall Market
An influential crime boss who controls parts of Wall Market’s underworld through intimidation and a network of contacts.
Wall Market · Remake
A Wall Market resident whose personal search brings him into Cloud and Aerith’s orbit.
Director · Honeybee Inn
The charismatic director of the Honeybee Inn recognizes Cloud’s potential and offers his help.
Corneo’s henchmen
The paired headsmen serving Don Corneo in Wall Market.
Underwater reactor town resident
A girl from the coastal town near the underwater reactor. Meeting her draws the party deeper into the conflict with Shinra.
Sector 7 resident
A talkative resident of the slums whose path repeatedly crosses with Cloud and Tifa.
Former researcher · Project G
A Banora scientist and Angeal’s mother who hosted Shinra’s Project G before leaving the company.
Scientist · Chaos and Omega research
Vincent’s father and Lucrecia’s colleague, Grimoire researched Chaos and Omega before dying while protecting her.
Tsviet · Deepground
A powerful Deepground warrior who willingly joined its experiments and became one of Weiss’s Tsviets.
Informant · Avalanche HQ
An easygoing Avalanche informant who gathers intelligence in Sector 7’s bars and works with Yuffie’s cell.
Sephiroth-clone · collective portrait
A generic portrait for the anonymous robed test subjects injected with Jenova cells and drawn toward Sephiroth.
Former SOLDIER · Kalm innkeeper
A former SOLDIER who runs Kalm’s inn; after cellular degradation, he becomes one of the robed figures.
Materia researcher · R&D
An android created by Hojo who researches materia and assists Cloud while secretly seeking independence from Shinra.
Shopkeeper · Bill’s Ranch
Billy’s younger sister helps run the family chocobo ranch and cares deeply for her family and its birds.
Rancher · Grasslands
A chocobo expert who runs Bill’s family ranch with his sister Chloe and helps Cloud’s party learn to ride.
Chocobo expert · Nibel Region
A reclusive scholar who shares his extensive knowledge of chocobos.
Cloud and Tifa’s adopted family
A Sector 7 boy orphaned by the plate collapse who finds a home with Cloud, Tifa, and Marlene.
Owner and director · Gold Saucer
The charismatic Gold Saucer owner collects relics, runs the park, and becomes an ally to Cloud’s party.
Midgar mayor · Avalanche insider
A disempowered mayor who secretly helps Cloud’s team infiltrate Shinra’s headquarters.
Chocobo racing manager
A skilled chocobo wrangler at the Gold Saucer who registers racers and looks after their birds.
Private investigator · Midgar
The illegitimate son of President Shinra rebuilds his life as a detective and partners with Mireille and Kyrie.
Former P0 SOLDIER · Wutai resistance
A former P0 SOLDIER who leads the Shinra Resistance Committee and becomes a leader in Wutai’s interim government.
Midgar deputy mayor
Domino’s courteous assistant offers Cloud’s party paid hints while quietly discontent with Shinra’s rule.
Scientist · Project G
A disgraced Shinra researcher whose Project G work connects Gillian, Angeal, and Genesis.
Sector 7 resident
Jessie’s unnamed mother lives with her comatose husband Rowan and believes their daughter is pursuing acting.
Chocobo jockey · Gold Saucer
A confident, competitive jockey and champion racer whose mount is the chocobo Hyperion.
2nd Class SOLDIER
A well-informed SOLDIER operative and Zack’s close friend who keeps him up to date on Shinra.
Former thief · Midgar investigator
A Sector 5 slum native who later works with Evan and her grandmother Mireille as a private investigator.
SOLDIER director
The strategist who directs SOLDIER and personally oversees Zack’s promotions and missions.
Queen’s Blood player
A deceased card-game creator whose ghost tests Cloud’s skills and asks him to stop a cursed card.
Queen´s Blood player
A character encountered during the events of Final Fantasy VII.
Former P0 SOLDIER · sniper
A skilled marksman who served with Glenn and Matt in the P0 SOLDIER class before joining the resistance.
Masseuse · Wall Market
The shrewd owner of Wall Market’s massage parlor is one of Don Corneo’s Trio and a successful businesswoman.
Landlady · Sector 7 slums
A street-smart Sector 7 landlord who looks after Tifa and helps residents during the plate collapse.
Midgar resident
She is a teacher at the Leaf House orphanage in the Sector 5 slums by day, and a honeygirl dancer at the Honeybee Inn by night.
Former P0 SOLDIER · strategist
A level-headed SOLDIER analyst and engineer who served alongside Glenn and Lucia before joining the resistance.
Apparent goddess · Lifestream
A mysterious being connected to the Planet’s consciousness who appears to Genesis and challenges Zack.
Angel of the Slums · Sector 5
Kyrie’s grandmother secretly steals from the powerful to help Midgar’s slum residents.
Avalanche HQ coordinator
An intelligent Sector 7 Avalanche organizer who coordinates with Wutai and helps Yuffie and Sonon.
Avalanche HQ strategist
The youngest member of his Avalanche branch, Polk plans operations and is passionate about Fort Condor.
Under Junon mayor and sheriff
A determined Under Junon leader who resents Shinra and helps Cloud’s group despite their Avalanche bounty.
3rd Class SOLDIER
A rebellious speed-loving SOLDIER and Cloud’s rival, later subjected to Hojo’s experiments.
Tsviet · Deepground
A sadistic Tsviet who leads Deepground operations and serves Weiss.
Chief maintenance engineer · Shinra
Jessie’s father worked on Midgar’s reactors before mako poisoning left him comatose.
Chocobo handler · Wall Market
A risk-loving chocobo handler who runs a delivery service and serves as one of Corneo’s Trio.
WRO scientist and soldier
A World Regenesis Organization researcher searching for her younger sister Shelke.
Physician · Corel
A Corel doctor who treated Tifa after the Nibel Reactor incident.
Tsviet · the Transparent
A Tsviet whose network-diving abilities made her valuable to Deepground before she aided Vincent and the WRO.
Wutaian · Avalanche contact
A Wutai-born Avalanche contact in Midgar who coordinates Yuffie and Sonon’s mission.
Martial arts master · Nibelheim
A wandering martial artist who trained Tifa and carried her to safety after the Nibelheim incident.
Shinra’s walled metropolis, ringed by eight mako reactors and split between the industrial plate and the slums below.
Home to Tifa’s Seventh Heaven bar and Avalanche’s hideout, later destroyed when Shinra drops the plate.
Aerith’s home neighborhood, notable for the church where flowers still grow.
The corporate tower housing Shinra’s executives, labs, and the Turks.
A gaudy market district of the slums, home to Don Corneo and the Honeybee Inn.
A junkyard of abandoned trains beneath the plate, haunted by ghosts.
The barren land surrounding Midgar, poisoned by decades of mako extraction.
A quiet town near Midgar where Cloud recounts the story of the Nibelheim incident.
A ranch on the grasslands where chocobos are bred, run by Chocobo Billy.
A cave connecting the grasslands to Fort Condor, home to Turk encounters.
A mountain outpost built around a giant condor’s nest atop an old mako reactor.
A militarized coastal city and Shinra port, home to the Sister Ray cannon in its later form.
The impoverished fishing town beneath Junon’s upper city.
A sunny resort town on the southern coast, popular with Shinra employees.
A coal-mining town rebuilt after Shinra destroyed the original Corel, Barret’s hometown.
A theme park suspended above the desert, filled with minigames and Chocobo Square.
A prison built beneath the Gold Saucer for troublemakers of the park.
A settlement of scholars devoted to studying the Planet and the Lifestream, home of Red XIII.
Cloud and Tifa’s hometown, burned by Sephiroth and later rebuilt by Shinra as a cover-up.
The mako-crystal mountain range above Nibelheim, home to its reactor.
A town built around Shinra’s abandoned space program and Cid’s rocket.
Yuffie’s home village, a once-proud nation defeated by Shinra in the Wutai War.
The sacred mountain overlooking Wutai, marked by giant carved statues.
A remote jungle village and Zack Fair’s hometown, scarred by a failed reactor.
A small island town known for its cactuar-themed shop and the Cactuar Island sidequest.
An excavation camp near the Sleeping Forest, digging for Cetra relics.
An enchanted forest that disorients travelers, guarding the way to the Forgotten City.
A snowy village near the Great Glacier, where Gast and Ifalna once lived.
A frozen wilderness leading toward the Northern Crater.
An icy maze of gusting winds guarding the path to Mideel.
A remote town near a Lifestream fault line where Cloud recovers from mako poisoning.
The last city of the Cetra, where Aerith prays and Sephiroth kills her.
A shifting, maze-like temple guarding the Black Materia.
The crater formed by Jenova’s meteor impact, and the site of the final confrontation with Sephiroth.
The deepest reach of the Northern Crater, where Holy is held back by Sephiroth.
A haunted mansion in Nibelheim hiding Vincent’s coffin and Hojo’s old laboratory.
A mako reactor built beneath the ocean near Junon, guarded by a giant sea creature.
A secret underground facility beneath Midgar where Shinra bred its most dangerous soldiers.
The city built from Midgar’s ruins two years after Meteor, seen in Advent Children.
A small village famous for Dumbapples, and the hometown of Genesis and Angeal.
A snowbound outpost seen in Crisis Core, site of an early SOLDIER mission gone wrong.