Oracle Drive The Oracle Drive is a device created by the Farseer s in " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 " that also appears in " " . In ancient times , the seeress Yeul would transfer her visions of the future into it , and they would be preserved as prophecies . When a future generation would discover the Drive and its memories , the accuracy of its recordings could be proven : the device and its data could be dated , and at least two of its visions were recent history . Datalog . " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 " . " Oracle Drives are ancient image capturing devices found across the breadth of Gran Pulse . They appear to hold the visions seen by the Paddraean seeress . Images that depict the future as seen from that time have been proven to be accurate . " " An Oracle Drive was discovered near the Paddraean Ruins by Hope and his team of researchers . Due to the appearance of several gates in the area , the scientists are focusing on the relationship between the drive and the paradox effect . " " What was the ultimate purpose of the Paddra Oracle Drives ? The dominant theory is that they were archiving device for preserving images of the future . These ' archives ' appear to consist of broken fragments of the seeresses ' prophecies . " " To gain a clear picture of the timeline , it will be necessary to amass a large collection of these images and then piece them together . " " We have noted that the ancients stopped recording visions after a certain point in history . Did the process of recording to the Oracle Drive become an empty ritual ? Was some other means found to preserve the prophecies ? Or did the visions of the future grow so terrible that the Farseers thought it best they never be seen ? " " These devices can record a vision of what is to occur in the future and play it back for others . They are uncovered in ruins that once belonged to an ancient people called the Farseers . This tribe was ruled for generations by the seeress Yeul , who possessed the ability to see the future , and they labored to record the visions with which she was cursed . " " The images which are recorded within an Oracle Drive are sure to come to pass , if the current path of history is followed . If the future that is depicted in an Oracle Drive is somehow changed , then any alternate futures that might arise are then reflected in the Oracle Drive . " " Noel was a Guardian serving the seeress Yeul and a traveler through time . he knows better than anyone alive the unseen sorrows that can arise from changing the future . Is that why he seeks to protect the prophecy shown on the Oracle drive ? Or is it simply that , more than anything , he wants it to be true ? " Profile . One of the possible questions in Captain Cryptic ' s Confounding Quiz reveals that the Oracle Drive is a piece of technology left by the ancient fal ' Cie and the Academy referred to it as a sensory perception device before it was given its official name . The fal ' Cie seen in Paddra Ruins and the Oracle Drive cooperate to play back memories , and presumably work together with the seeress to record them . In the " Ortlinde ' s Bloom " fragment , it is said the fal ' Cie channels the visions of the seeress and records what she sees . In the " Spinning Moonstone " fragment entry , Mog says fragments are made of the same crystal that is inside the Oracle Drive , and that is how they can hold memories . Moogle Hunt ' s animation is the same as that shown when the Drive communicates with the Paddra Ruins fal ' Cie to activate its display . In the " Pathos Jewel " fragment entry , Maqui explains the crystal resonates with the thoughts of nearby people and reconstructs them in its atomic structure . The memories are recorded by injecting energy into the crystal to freeze the structure into place ; if one concentrates on thinking something and then runs a current through the crystal lattice , it is possible to trap the images from inside someone ' s head . Maqui says scientists have even figured out how to date the recordings . Story . " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 " . As revealed by the 200 AF incarnation of Yeul , the Oracle Drive was a device used by the people of Yaschas Massif long ago so that Yeul could transfer the images of possible futures into it . Although the device became obsolete when the Guardian Caius became immortal , allowing the seeress to implant her visions into him , the Oracle Drive still contained images already seen and remained intact up to Noel Kreiss ' s time of 700 AF . In 10 AF , the Academy unearthed the Oracle Drive during their excavation of the Paddra Ruins in Yaschas Massif . When Serah , Mog , and Noel arrive to that time , meeting Academy leader Hope Estheim and his assistant Alyssa Zaidelle , Hope is pestered by the latter to show them the Oracle Drive . As Noel pretends to be unfamiliar with the device , Hope explains the Oracle Drive before showing several centuries old images of Ragnarok saving Cocoon , and Lightning fighting to save Cocoon as a l ' Cie . There is also an image of Lightning fighting Caius in Valhalla , though it is blurred due to the paradox affecting the area that allows Fenrir ' s premature presence . Traveling to Oerba in 200 AF to negate the paradox , Serah and Noel find an Oracle Drive and inspect it , displaying images of the true events on the Day of Ragnarok , showing Lightning alongside the others on Gran Pulse . Caius appears through the Oracle Drive and attacks them until Yeul tells him to stop , as history has already been changed . After returning to Yaschas Massif in an alternate timeline at 1X AF , Serah and Noel not only see a clear vision of Lightning fighting Caius , but also one of Caius indirectly destroying Cocoon in 500 AF . Eventually , while Noel and Serah detour to Noel ' s time in a Dying World in 700 AF , they find the Oracle Drive of that time , and learn the era ' s Yeul had left behind her vision of Noel ' s adventure across time , and the two of them reuniting . Five hundred years after the merging of Valhalla and Gran Pulse into Nova Chrysalia , Oracle Drives are still around . In Luxerion , the Oracle Drive is said to be connected to the recent murders in the city . As Lumina explains , people who view the Oracle Drives believe the future is fixed and must be acted out . Noel claims an Oracle Drive shows the Shadow Hunter killing the savior and bringing peace to the world , as according to the assumptions formed from the recording , the savior ' s appearance would spell destruction . Noel becomes obsessed with the Oracle Drive ' s prophecy , as it also contains a vision of himself reuniting with Yeul . Although Noel wishes he didn ' t have to kill Lightning , he believes it necessary to make the prophecy come true . When Lightning awakens from crystal stasis and becomes the savior , she arrives in Luxerion and Noel stalks her until they meet face - to - face . They duel , but when Noel gains the upper hand he realizes he can ' t kill Lightning , because it ' s not what Yeul would want him to do . Noel destroys the Oracle Drive to free himself from the hold its prophecy had on him , but Yeul ' s spirit appears from the Drive and tells Noel they will see each other again soon . Later , Lumina tells Lightning the Oracle Drives ' prophecies were but " pretty fakes " , and Hope echoes this sentiment when Lightning wonders whether it was right to stop Noel from killing her . However , it is implied the Oracle Drive ' s final prophecy is fulfilled when Noel departs to the new world with Yeul .