"Bet you ten-to-one if we ever run into Rikku and ask her about it she will also not recognise it."

"...hm."

"Intriguing, for sure. But that reminds me, what is an Al Bhed and why is Wakka... like that... about them?"

"I am also curious about that."

"The Al Bhed are a group of people who do not follow Yevon's precepts and believe that Sin can be defeated using technology."

"Under Yevon's tenets, they are a direct threat by their very existence, since for as long as they try to use technology like they do we cannot ever really say that we have attained sufficient purity.

"However, my mother was Al Bhed, and my father did kill Sin ten years ago."

"How awkward, I see. ...my condolences."

"Thank you.

"For some more strangeness: my father's only guardian, Auron, presumed to have died when my father did, actually spent the intervening ten years in Azym's Zanarkand, raising him as an adopted child. Azym's Zanarkand is an island, while the real Zanarkand—well, our Zanarkand—is reachable by foot. Azym and everyone he has ever known seems to have been under some sort of strange mental effect that made them uninterested in the possibility that the world outside their island existed."

"Mysteries compound on mysteries. Honestly it seems like he might be more mysterious even than I am, I'm just very odd."

"...is it normal for you to go to places where the rules of magic work completely differently from yours? That was not on my radar as a possibility at all."

"No, not at all. But it sounds as if there are many perplexing questions about Azym that must be answered, whereas my only question is a hearty what the fuck. Which isn't much of a mystery at all."