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AEONS

The purpose of a summoner's pilgrimage is to visit the temples in
each of the major locations in Spira. Once there, the summoner
must enter the Chamber of the Fayth and pray for the power to call
upon spiritual beings for protection. These beings are called aeons.

SUMMONING AEONS:

After Yuna has entered a temple and recived the blessing of the fayth, the aeon may
be summoned in battle. The summoner must pass through a Cloister of Trials to reach
the Chamber of the Fayth.

The aeon is summoned to perform devastating attacks against enemies, and its
Overdrive attacks are impressive to behold. You can shorten the aeon's entrance scene
in the Config menu. By using the Short option, each aeon's full summon animation
and full Overdrive are only shown once.

OTHER AEON COMMANDS

Press right on the directional pad to display another lift of commands. Aeons can
use the Abilities Shield, Boost, and Dismiss on any turn.

Shield causes the aeon to defend. The aeon will only take one-quarter damage
from both magic and physical assaults. Sadly, the aeon's Overdrive gauge does not
fill even when attacked. These effects last until the aeon's next turn.

Boost causes the aeon to lower its own defenses. It will take more damage from
attacks, but its Overdrive gause will charge twice as fast. This is great for dispos-
ing of weaker enemies. Boost lasts until the aeon's next turn.

Dismiss sends the aeon away. The party returns to the battlefield and contin-
ues the fight. The order of turns before Yuna summoned is maintained, as if all
the aeon's action took place during Yuna's turn.

AEON FIGHTING TIPS

Aeons are useful in boss battles to shield the party from high-damage attacks.
Their Overdrives inflict lots of damage, but the long recovery time sometimes
means death for the aeon.

Since aeons are immune to almost every status effect, summon them to fight
creatures such as Ochu, Mandragora, and Malboro.

Elemental aeons can heal themselves by casting their own type of black magic
on themselves. ifrit is healed by Fire, Shiva is healed by Blizzard, and Ixion is
healed by lightning.

Most aeons' regular attack cannot hit an enemy at a great distance. However, an
aeon's unique attack always reaches regardless of the enemy's range.

If a fiend is about to unleash a powerful attack against the party, summon an
aeon and use its shield ability to reduce damage. Then, if you want, you can
Dismiss the aeon so that the characters can resume the fight.

AEON POWERS

After Yuna Summons an aeon, it can take its turn immedi-
ately. Most aeons start with a regular attack and a unique
attack. Many aeons can cast black and white magic as
well. Late in the game, most aeons can learn new com-
mand abilities just like your characters.

Aeons' unique attacks may be less powerful than their
regular attacks, but unique attacks often have other useful
properties. Unique attacks often have more recovery time
as well, so enemies might get to attack more than once
after your aeon performs its unique attack.

If an aeon performs its Overdrive, surviving enemies will
often get two or three turns before the aeon can attack again.
Only use Overdrives when you're sure it will wipe out the
enemies, or if you're sure the aeon will survive the remaining
enemies' attacks. Check the CTB Window before performing
Overdrives.

Aeons are immune to every status ailment except curse.
All aeons posses the auto-abilities Sensor, Piercing, Break
HP Barrier, and Break MP Barrier.

Most aeons' Overdrive gauges fill whenever they attack or
are attacked.

AEON ABILITIES

Once you receive the key item Summoner's Soul, you can use
items to teach aeons new abilities. These include stronger
spells, curative magic, support magic, as well as any special
techniques and skills that the characters can learn.

AEON ATTRIBUTES

After Yuna defeats Belgimine, she will receive the Aeon's Soul.
With this key item in your inventory, you can increase aeons'
attributes by using spheres.

The attributes that you can increase are: HP, MP, Strength,
Defense, Magic, Magic Defense, Agility, Luck, Evasion, and
Accuracy. The number of spheres required to increase an
attribute depend on how high an aeon's attributes are. Use
spheres to increase an attributes of aeons that are particularly
low. It's a good idea to use up spheres in this manner when
you've acquired 99 of one kind of sphere.