Ifalna

Ifalna’s Story

Around 28-24 years ago Professor Gast sets out on pilgrimage searching for information on Jenova and/or Cetra/Ancients. At some point he meets Ifalna, one of the very last Cetra. In a unknown period of time they fall in love and secretly move to Icicle Lodge on the Northern Continent not officially notifying Shinra company of their whereabouts.

In the time they lived together Ifalna entrusts her knowledge of Cetra, WEAPONS, and Jenova aka. 'Clamity from the sky' to her husband. Gast tapes these moments and hides the videos in his cabin on the north continent. (Cloud can easily find these tapes later in the game.)

Eventually Ifalna gets pregnant and has a daughter. The two lovers were overjoyed and oblivious to the world. That is until about 20 days after Aerith’s birth when Prof. Hojo locates Gast and Ifalna.

When Hojo claims he needs Ifalna and Aerith for experimental purposes Gast resits and is shot by Hojo's henchmen. Aerith and Ifalna are then taken from their home and relocated to a Shinra lab.

It seems Aerith and Her mother are kept Shinra’s prisoners for about 7 years. Which is backed up by this statement: Elmyra: I‘m...Not her real mother. Oh... it must have been 15 years ago... ...during the war. (If Aerith is 22 in FFVII then for her to have escaped Shinra 15 years ago and captured when she was 20 days old she would have had to be in Shinra’s control for about that many years)

Ifalna plans an escape with her daughter that dose not go quite according to plan. Ifalna was hurt by Shinra employees and dies in front of train station. Her last actions were entrusting Aerith to a nearby woman, Elmyra.