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Introduction
While calm in appearance, the serenity that blankets the world is merely a curtain over the turmoil that threatens to surface...
An unprovoked attack against a neighboring country, an assault by a strike team deep into enemy territory, and a declaration of war against the world plunges a previously peaceful existence into bitterness and chaos.
Thrust into the ensuing madness is a young man named Squall Leonhart, a cadet in the Garden military academy of Balamb. A lone wolf by the standards of others, Squall's relentless drive to become the best leads him into SeeD, an elite mercenary unit. His final test as a graduating cadet of SeeD is to settle the growing hostilities between the neighboring countries of Galbadia and Dollet.
What was already a confusing set of events takes a turn for the worst when Galbadia begins its invasion on the rest of the world. For Squall, the turmoil of the world around him is nothing compared to the turmoil inside of him; his encounter with a free-spirited young woman named Rinoa Heartilly has turned his well-ordered universe upside down. As an intense man who thrives in the regimented discipline of the military academy, Squall finds Rinoa's carefree attitude fascinating. Yet there is no time to ponder these thoughts, for Galbadia's irrational hostility has been linked to a sorceress named Edea. The job of dealing with this new threat has fallen to Squall and the rest of SeeD. Focused on this new task, they can only ponder what the future will hold.
from Square-Enix
Seifer, along with Squall, is a SeeD cadet at the beginning of Final Fantasy VIII. SeeDs are special mercenaries that have the ability to cast magic and summon deadly and fearful Guardian Forces (GFs) - the path to become one takes several painstaking and long years. Training usually starts somewhere between 5-6 years old, and with the exception of Quistis, most cadets usually don't graduate until they are 17 or 18.
There are three SeeD institutions in the game, all of which are called Gardens. The centre Garden is Balamb Garden, where all our heroes hail except for Selphie Tilmitt from Trabia Garden, and Irvine Kinneas from Galbadia Garden.
SeeDs specialize and train to protect the world from peril and sorceresses that threaten that safety. Although focused on realizing this goal, SeeDs have been known to hire themselves for the right prices too: Headmaster Cid Kramer conducted a deal with Rinoa Heartilly, who paid for the services of SeeD in order to get one step closer to her own personal goal of Timber liberation. However, Seifer completely nullifies and forsakes his history with SeeD as he later sides with Sorceress Edea and becomes a rogue of sorts.
Return: Seifer
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