- The Hokuten (Northern Sky) control lands mainly on the left side of the map, and Nanten (Southern Sky) control lands on the right. But remember that old maps had east at the top, and that's where north and south went.
- Cloud's birthday in Final Fantasy VII is in August, which should make him a Leo, but in Tactics his zodiac sign is Aquarius. Who does have the right birthday to be an Aquarius? Aerith.
- Speaking of Cloud, his ability to wear female-exclusive equipment like ribbons is probably a Shout-Out to the infamous crossdressing sidequest from his home game. However, ribbons aren't gender-restricted in that game (even though some equipment, like the Minerva Guard, is), so it could also be that Cloud doesn't see anything wrong with a man wearing a ribbon because everyone could wear them back home.
- Might also be Production Foreshadowing, as in the rest of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII everyone wears a ribbon in Aerith's memory.
- Also speaking of Cloud, his Limits can only be used when he's equipped with a Materia Blade. But then you remember that characters in VII could only cast magic when they were equipped with Materia. Between the Limits using his Magic Attack and several of them being In Name Only in terms of visuals, they have more in line with his home series' magic than his actual Limit Breaks.
- Argath infamously shows his elitism by claiming that commoners are nothing but animals, and "animals have no God!" However, all Monsters have a Faith value, which means that they certainly at least believe in some sort of higher power. This means that Argath isn't just a classist asshole, but factually wrong.
- Many jokes are had at the expense of that one archer in the Dorter Slums that tries to fight your party completely unarmed. But remember the Corpse Brigade is an underequipped commoner rebellion whose poverty is a central plot point. They probably didn't have enough bows to equip all of their archers and as such gave them to the primary lookout(s) (e.g. the guy waaaaaay up on top of the lowest building).
- Why do the characters with very high Faith leave Ramza? Ramza is a heretic, so of course those with high Faith won't follow him anymore. Alternatively, it could also mean they became so religious that they don't want to fight anymore.
- Along similar lines, with charge times, most of the casting jobs are less useful later in the game. Most of those jobs are governed by Faith, and given high faith makes you more vulnerable to enemy magic, it's often better to reduce faith. Which means the more Ramza learns about the corruption in the church, and about how the messiah the church is based around was not so holy, the less useful having Faith is (until you unlock Calculator/Arithmatician, who casts spells by the almighty power of math).
- Alternatively, sticking to caster classes is a different sort of Fridge Brilliance: despite being branded a heretic, Ramza and his pals can call on the power of the divine for their benefit at will, meaning even the gods don't think much of Ivalice's clergy.
- Seeing that Ramza is praying at Zeltenna's church, it is more likely that he is only a heretic in that he has made an enemy of the church, not of the faith. Guess this is why you can cap his ''Faith'' even after he became a heretic.
- Alternatively, sticking to caster classes is a different sort of Fridge Brilliance: despite being branded a heretic, Ramza and his pals can call on the power of the divine for their benefit at will, meaning even the gods don't think much of Ivalice's clergy.
- The Samurai job has level requirements in Knight, Monk, and Dragoon - and by extension of having to reach and level up Dragoon, also Archer. Outside of Japan, samurai are most closely associated with the katana; but anyone with some knowledge of samurai history and weaponry would know that samurai training included spiritual aspects as well as a familiarity with the spear and bow.
- Rapha's Artificial Stupidity makes a bit more sense when you consider she's Thirteen years old. And on the roof of Riovanes? Her brother was just killed - she's at the Despair Event Horizon. Plus? Her bravery stat is the lowest in the game.
- So why are people with low bravery more likely to find items? They're not looking at the battlefield - they're looking at the floor.
- It makes sense that Elmdore would want to kill Rapha - Rapha's compatible with Scorpio just as Delacroix was, but she's not corruptibe and thus can't become the next Cúchulainn.
- Wiegraf joining up with the Knights Templar and suffering Motive Decay; at the end of Chapter 1, Wiegraf has lost everything; his cause, his men, even his little sister. There's heaps upon heaps of evidence in both fiction and Real Life history of a pipeline between desperate, impoverished people and religious fanaticism.
Fridge Horror
- Final Fantasy Tactics is a loose sequel to Final Fantasy XII, right? And other races like Bangaa, Seeq, Viera, etc. inhabited early Ivalice, right? Well, something must have happened in the interim. Did the humans wipe out all the other sentient races? (And speaking of sentience, what happened to the Moogles that they became a summon creature? Has their very existence faded that far into legend?)
- Ever look at the age of your characters? You're using Child Soldiers - considering the main character is only 16 years old. (And implicitly, since his original party consists of fellow recent military academy graduates, they're about the same age.) However, take a look at Rapha... who is only thirteen. And given what she and her brother have been through... YIKES.
- Did Delita and Ovelia have any children? It's not made clear how many years pass between the ending of the game and Ovelia's death but if the final scene is a Mutual Kill as some have interpreted it, then where does that leave the kingdom? Does the story end at the start of a Succession Crisis, just like it started? Apparently, they were succeeded by a Prince Clemmense but the game made no attempt in explaining who he is.
- Apparently, what happened at the church was to celebrate a birthday, most likely Ovelia's, making that scene happen under a year after Ramza's victory. If there is a baby, it's either born, in the making, or do not exist. That being said, however, it is said that Delita had a long rule and united Ivalice, which may be true, seeing that after all he did to become the very thing he despised, he might as well keep himself busy.
- The situation with Ovelia might actually be far worse than what was previously implied. According to Word of God, Ovelia actually survived being stabbed by Delita in that ending scene. She died much later from an unspecified illness. This means she was now fully hostile, and possibly homicidal towards Delita from there on, for the rest of her life, and he knows it too. Now he has to keep her contained to both keep the conspiricy hidden, as well as his major role in it, and to keep her from assassinating him. As for an heir? Either he gives up on it, or he has to consider forcing the matter. No matter the choice though, Ovelia is probably going to be confined to a particular private prison, just for her, for the rest of her life.
- There's unfortunately every chance that Ovelia, having been the victim of several kidnappings and attempted murders as well as learning information that threw into question her origins, her purpose, and even her faith... just snapped at the end. And perhaps the ending scene is Ovelia's paranoia (justified or not) and mental collapse reaching a boiling point, and Delita's sadness as he realizes that he has to hold together the struggling kingdom himself while looking after a mentally deteriorating wife that will never love him but also is the only link to his legitimacy as a ruler. After all, Delita is a commoner without a drop of noble blood, and though the end of the war leaves a massive power vacuum it's still much more likely that he rules through his connection to the (as far as anyone knows) legal heir to the throne than in his own right. For that matter, given the implied timeline of the epilogue scene (less than a year after Ramza and co. defeated Altima), Delita and Ovelia have been married/king and queen for several months at best. As with any war in a medieval-esque setting, there would have been cleanup of any resistance pockets for the first several months or maybe years of relative peacetime, and planning a royal wedding and coronations also weren't something that could be done both properly and quickly.
- What happened to Prince Orinus and the former Queen, Louveria? Orinus was (at best) two- or three-year-old child by war's end (unless you spent in-universe years on grinding and sidequests). If you know anything about the medieval time period the Ivalice setting is loosely based in... after a new monarch is on the throne, anybody that could be set up as a rival claimant usually doesn't last very long. And you've got a royal couple who basically clawed their way to the throne and have both been through a lot of trauma in the last few years so are paranoid of everybody including each other. Maybe they were feeling merciful and allowed mother and son to live their lives in exile. But then, that's no guarantee of the rest of Ivalice's people. There'd be many who'd wish to make a clean end of it - particularly for Louveria, who was not well liked.
