Besaid Besaid Island is a location from " Final Fantasy X " and " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . It is a small tropical island at the southernmost point of the world of Spira . The island features a large beach and seaport , a small village surrounded by forests and waterfalls , and a temple of Yevon . The island has a blitzball team called Besaid Aurochs , notorious for being the worst team in the Spiran league . Besaid houses a chapter of the Crusaders , a military branch of Yevon , led by Luzzu . In the English localization , Besaid is . Treasure lies beneath one of the bridges . In " Final Fantasy X " , the player must enter through airship . In " Final Fantasy X - 2 " , Yuna can simply jump from a small space just before the first bridge . Introduced in Chapter 1 as a new area in Spira to be explored in " Final Fantasy X - 2 " , the completion of its mission is required to advance in the game . To the first right of the cave , just after the entrance / exit , there is a wall guarding a treasure — its lock can be broken with four ciphers . Story . " Final Fantasy X " . Ten years ago summoner Braska arrived in Besaid during his pilgrimage and fell in love with the island ' s peace . He asked his guardian Auron to bring his daughter Yuna to come live in Besaid after his pilgrimage would be over . After Braska performed the Final Summoning and perished , Auron passed down the request to a Ronso named Kimahri who brought Yuna to Besaid and stayed by her side on her request . Yuna became an apprentice summoner , wishing to follow in her father ' s footsteps . Tidus washes ashore on the beach following his second encounter with Sin and is greeted by Wakka and the Besaid Aurochs who had been training on the beach . Wakka is impressed by Tidus ' s blitzball prowess as he returns their wayward ball , and asks for what team he plays for . As Tidus claims to play for the Zanarkand Abes Wakka puts it down to disorientation brought on by being subjected to Sin ' s toxin , and decides to help Tidus and takes him to the village . Yuna graduates into a full - fledged summoner and summons Valefor at the village square to awe the villagers . A celebration is held as she is to depart on her pilgrimage the next day . Tidus is introduced to her and her guardians , Wakka being one of them . In the morning Yuna and her guardians depart Besaid for Kilika with Wakka taking Tidus along so he can find the blitzball team he belongs to Luca . During her pilgrimage Yuna becomes branded a traitor of Yevon , and a summoner arrives in Besaid ready to summon Dark Valefor to halt her in case she should return . Yuna returns to Besaid after to relax and enjoy her life after defeating Sin . She practices holding her breath for extended periods of time to play blitzball , and is frequented by people from all over Spira who wish to receive advice from the high summoner . During one of her visits to Besaid , Rikku shows Yuna an ancient sphere recording of a man bearing an uncanny likeness to Tidus jailed in Bevelle . Yuna joins Rikku ' s sphere hunting group to search for him , absconding Besaid without telling anyone . " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . Wakka and Lulu have married and live in Besaid expecting their first child . The Crusaders are disbanded with the downfall of Yevon after Sin ' s defeat . The Besaid Aurochs join the newly established Youth League and Beclem is sent to Besaid to train them , but finds the place lackluster and stuck in obsolete traditions . Yuna and her her Gullwings companions , Rikku and Paine , visit the island time to time and explore a cave near the beach for an old sphere they make into a new dressphere . Yuna shows Beclem she is not just a relic of the past by competing against him in the Gunner ' s Gauntlet and Shinra installs a CommSphere at the village . The fayth disappears from the temple leaving a deep hole in its wake from where fiends pour out of . Beclem wants to burn the temple to stop the outbreak , but Wakka disagrees and ventures inside alone to stop the fiends and ends up injured and saved by the Gullwings . Yuna and her friends stop the fiend outpour by defeating a possessed Valefor . The Gullwings keep in contact with Besaid villager via the CommSphere until it is broken . Beclem is called back to Youth League headquarters and makes amends with Wakka with whom he hadn ' t gotten along with before . Wakka and Lulu have their baby and she lets Wakka come up with a name . After Yuna and her friends fell Shuyin in the Farplane restoring peace to the world , she returns to Besaid on the Gullwings ' airship and finds Tidus in the water off the coast of Besaid and the two are reunited at long last . " Final Fantasy X - 2 . 5 ~ Eien no Daishō ~ " . Everyone returns to the village to celebrate Yuna and Tidus ' s return . Yuna is welcomed back at the temple by the village elders and she spends a long while telling them of her adventures with the Gullwings . The elderly , who had lived by Yevon ' s teachings all their lives , feel displaced , and Yuna feels culpable for Yevon ' s downfall and the elders ' struggles . The village is said to be more prosperous than ever due to tourism brought on by Yuna ' s fame and a newly established fishery . While out looking for Yuna , Tidus boards a boat at the shore and falls asleep in he cabin . Yuna finds him and takes the boat out and when he awakes the two argue over Yuna ' s feelings of guilt but soon make up . As they try to return to Besaid they are caught in a storm and end up shipwrecked on a mysterious island that resembles Besaid , with Tidus eventually theorizing they have traveled back in time a thousand years . It is revealed Besaid used to be a place where ancient summoners trained during the Machina War a thousand years ago , back before Yevon existed and people used to worship a different set of deities . Yuna and Tidus come in contact with ghosts of the past and Tidus dies after mistaking a bomb for a blitzball . Yuna unknowingly beckons him back with Tidus none the wiser on what happened . They find an ancient temple that resembles the Besaid Temple , but its Cloister of Trials is different and there is no fayth . Yuna and Tidus eventually escape the island via separate means , Tidus meeting a spirit who grants him the power to return while Yuna is shipped back by another ancient spirit in a boat while learning the island was but a summoning . Three months later , the Gullwings have gone their separate ways . Yuna stays in Besaid with Tidus , but receives a letter that calls her to reunite with Rikku and Paine to investigate the newly discovered Iutycyr Tower . " Final Fantasy X - Will - " . Tidus has joined a blitzball team in Bevelle and left Besaid . Chuami and Kurgum are sent to Besaid by Baralai , the leader of Spira Council , to meet with Yuna . Reaching Besaid on their airship , Chuami and Kurgum meet Lulu and Wakka who take them to Yuna , who has returned to the mannerisms and dress style of her summoner days and spends her time praying for Spira ' s peace in the temple . Kurgum shows Yuna a movie sphere with a recording of two shoopuf s at the Moonflow . The shoopuf was the last of its kind but it mysteriously reappeared one morning , causing Yuna to speculate the shoopuf had been " beckoned " . Kurgum tells Yuna she must accompany him and Chuami back to Bevelle and address the Spira Council . When Yuna refuses , Chuami tells her about the injured Tidus she had met in Bevelle , compelling Yuna to take action . Kurgum and Chuami ' s airship needs repairs , so the pair , Yuna and Wakka journey to Bevelle on foot . Quests . " Final Fantasy X " . Valefor ' s second Overdrive . After the party first leaves Besaid Village and Wakka gives Tidus the Brotherhood sword , the player can return to the town and talk to the girl behind the counter at the shop . The player should then go to the furthest house on the right side to spot the dog that will yield Valefor ' s second Overdrive . This is best done as soon as possible , as later when the party has an airship , the town will be guarded by Dark Valefor . Dark Valefor . Once the party has gained control of the airship , should they decide to revisit Besaid Village , Dark Valefor will be summoned at the entrance and will attack . This is available in the International , PAL , and " HD Remaster " versions . " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . Gunner ' s Gauntlet . Gunner ' s Gauntlet is a minigame where the player must kill monsters and make it in time to the end of the track . It becomes available in Chapter 2 . The better the player ' s score , the better rewards they can reap . Alternate version of the game is available for play within the Cloister of Trials later . Chocobo treasures . Sending a chocobo to Besaid to look for treasures finds the following items ( depending on the chocobo ' s level ) : Missions . Where ' s Wakka . " Wakka sure is acting weird . And now he ' s gone off to some cave ? Gather clues from the villagers and track him down ! Maybe you ' ll find treasure along the way . . . " Run the Gunner ' s Gauntlet . " Gun down fiends and make your way to the beach within the time limit ! Score high and put Beclem ' s score to shame . " Episode Complete . To get Episode Complete for the Besaid area the player must view CommSphere scenes until Beclem mentions his departure in Chapter 4 . This is possible after finding Tobli in the Moonflow . In Chapter 5 the player will find Beclem at the dock and get the War Buddy sphere to give to Wakka , completing the Besaid episode . It is not necessary to visit Besaid in Chapter 2 or participate in the Gunner ' s Gauntlet to achieve Episode Complete . Enemies . " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . " Note : Watcher - A , R , and S will no longer appear after the Machina Panzer boss is defeated . " Musical themes . In " Final Fantasy X " , " Besaid Island " was composed by Masashi Hamauzu . The piece was one of sixteen tracks selected from the original soundtrack to be rearranged by Hamauzu in the " " album . " The Blitzers " plays on the beach after Tidus meets the Aurochs . In " Final Fantasy X - 2 " , " Besaid " is the new theme for the Besaid Island , including the village , and was composed by Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi . It is a calm track which starts as a piano solo , but later more instruments appear although the piano is the main instrument . Certain parts of " Besaid " are integrated into " Epilogue - A Reunion ! " . Other appearances . " Final Fantasy XIV " . One of the original server s was named Besaid . It was the most popular server at the time . Currently , it is part of the Balmung server along with Fabul . " Dissidia Final Fantasy " ( 2008 ) . One of the rooms from the Online Lobby is named Besaid . " Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy " . Besaid is present as a room for preset characters of the game ' s Multiplayer Mode Online Lobby . " Dissidia Final Fantasy " ( 2015 ) . Besaid Island is one of the six default stages available in the initial arcade release . It ' s one of the more open stages . Previously , the water shores could slow down movement , requiring more strategy for ground - based characters , but as of the April 2016 update , the stage hazard has been removed . Midway through battle , The sky turns to dusk and pyreflies will appear in the stage , referencing both the sending in Kilika , and Zanarkand ruins in the opening scene of " Final Fantasy X " . " Final Fantasy Record Keeper " . Besaid is unlocked by completing Zanarkand in the " Final Fantasy X " realm . Completion of this dungeon unlocks " S . S . Liki " in the " Final Fantasy X " realm . Non - " Final Fantasy " guest appearances . " Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Mobile " . The Besaid and Kilika islands form a stage in this crossover between " Dragon Quest " and " Final Fantasy " . Etymology . " Besaid " is derived from word " beside " , which describes the island ' s calm and passive nature .