Yuna and her guardians first encounter Seymour in Luca when Grand Maester Mika announces Seymour's position as a Maester. Three years later, Seymour made his first move only two weeks prior to Tidus's arrival in Spira by murdering his father to succeed him as the leader of the Guado and as a Maester of Yevon, a move that even Jyscal saw coming, but despite having plenty of time to avoid it, allowed it to happen out of his own guilt for the cruelty that Seymour had suffered as a child. The rejection and loneliness of his childhood and his mother's sacrifice had made him fully nihilistic, and he longed to become Sin and destroy the world, "releasing" Spirans from the suffering of existence. Afterwards, Seymour frequented Baaj and, during these visits, began formulating his plan. He secretly traveled to the Zanarkand Ruins to transport Anima's fayth to the abandoned Baaj Temple and sealed it up. Seven years after returning to Guadosalam, Seymour, now twenty-five years old, assumed the post of high priest of Macalania Temple at Mika's nomination. A year later, Jyscal became a Maester of Yevon as part of Grand Maester Yo Mika's "sub-races appeasement policy." It also made him thirst for more power after tasting the initial amount he had gotten from his mother's aeon.Īt eighteen years of age, during High Summoner Braska's Calm, Seymour's exile was revoked, and he was summoned back to Guadosalam to help his father in the duties of a Yevon priest. Instead, he returned to Baaj alone and spent his remaining childhood in the temple, where his isolation slowly, gradually inspired his nihilistic views on life and death. Not caring for acceptance if it meant losing her, Seymour mourned for his mother and did not use Anima to battle Sin. Jyscal was aware of Seymour and his mother going to the Zanarkand Ruins, and privately supported it. At the time, Seymour's mother was dying, motivating her desire to become a fayth for her son, even though she knew of the mechanics of the Final Summoning through Jyscal, as the Guado possessed their own records that tell of Spira's sealed histories in fragments. When he was but ten years old, Seymour was brought to Zanarkand, where his mother intended to become a fayth so her son could use her aeon incarnation, Anima, to win the peoples' love by destroying Sin and bringing the Calm. Fearing strife from his people over what they saw as an impure abomination, Jyscal had the wife of his retainer, Tromell, take the then-eight-year-old Seymour and his mother out of Guadosalam in the dead of night and bring them to the island of Baaj to live in exile. Though his existence was meant to foster friendship between the Guado and human races, it only made him the target of both races' hatred. Seymour was the son of Jyscal Guado, who became leader of the Guado, and an unnamed human woman.
Seymour lost his unnamed mother when she sacrificed herself to become the fayth for an aeon called Anima, which she intended to have Seymour use to fight a monster known as Sin so that he could sacrifice himself in order to destroy it, grant the world of Spira a period of peace known as "the Calm," and have the people accept him despite his half-Guado/half-human heritage, before Sin re-formed and started its destruction once again. He is the leader of the humanoid Guado race, as well as one of the Maesters of Yevon, which is basically a high-ranking priest.
Maester Seymour Guado, simply known as Seymour Guado, is the main antagonist of Final Fantasy X. ~ Seymour rationalizing his murders as acts of mercy.
Don't you see.if all life were to end in Spira, all suffering would end. All the pain of life is gently swept away. Pitiful mortals.your hope ends here.and your meaningless existence with it!