Hiya!
I have been reading the translation since Chapter 1 and this last one left me so intrigued that I have to ask this!
Is the "Mage of Zanarkand" actually Yu Yevon?
It is mentioned in the book that "the Mage of Zanarkand, his daughter and his followers" are heretics and such... Does this mean the the Mage is Yu Yevon and his daughter Yunalesca? They were summoners, after all, and Yu Yevon was said to be peerless in that he was extremely powerful, moreso than the other summoners.
Another thing that ground my gears is the fact that, in this book, Bevelle seems to be using summoners whilst Zanarkand is using weapons. Wasn't it the other way around as stated in the games? Bahamut's fayth said that the summoners of Zanarkand didn't stand a chance against Bevelle's weapons, that's why Yu Yevon created that multitude of the fayth and summoned Zanarkand anew before creating Sin, destroying the original Zanarkand and browbeating Bevelle into spreading his teachings. Unless the Bedohls created weapons so powerful that they overpowered Zanarkand's? It's so confusing.
Does this also mean that Zanarkand created fayth the way we see them in FFX, since Yunalesca used Zaon to create his fayth that way, whilst Bevelle used aeon cores, like Ifarnal, Kush and the other summoners? Is that why the aeon core method practically vanished from history after the Machina War?
I liked this book!
Until now, it has nothing of the BS people had been saying, and it has raised a few questions that I'm making now!
Unfortunately, we're not having FFX-3 so soon..
Bummer.