Baaj Baaj , known as the Submerged Ruins during the first visit , is a mass of ruins off the mainland of Spira , situated south of the island of Bikanel in " Final Fantasy X " . Baaj is the first location that may be explored by the player , and is critical to understanding the emotional development of Maester Seymour Guado , one of the game ' s major antagonists . Baaj was a great island city before an attack by Sin left the underlying geology permanently destabilized . Most of the city collapsed into the sea , save for a series of interconnected ruins surrounding the temple . Baaj Temple is the only remaining building on the archipelago , though it is in poor structural condition . The entrances are submerged conduits and may only be accessed by swimming through fiend - infested waters . As a former temple of Yevon , it shares the style and iconography with the other temples , but the Cloister of Trials and the main antechamber have been lost to the sea . To access Baaj Temple , the player must acquire the " Fahrenheit " and talk to Cid and access the coordinate option . Baaj is found by searching for coordinates X = 11 - 16 , Y = 57 - 63 . Visiting Baaj is essential for receiving the aeon Anima . Baaj is inaccessible in " Final Fantasy X - 2 " . Story . Twenty - eight years before the beginning of the Eternal Calm , Jyscal Guado and a human woman bore a son named Seymour . The Guado , intolerant of other races , were angered by the perceived blood - treason and threatened rebellion , especially since three years after his son ' s birth Jyscal became the leader of the Guado . To secure peace for all parties , Lord Jyscal had his loyal follower , Tromell , take his wife and son to Baaj Temple for their safety when Seymour was eight years old . Two years later , after his mother became a fayth for his sake to earn the trust of the humans and the Guado alike , Seymour received her aeon , Anima , but never used it to battle Sin like his mother had wished and returned to Baaj alone . The Guado ' s internal strife subsided during high summoner Braska ' s Calm , and the 18 - year - old Seymour was summoned back to Guadosalam where he assisted his father in the duties of a Yevon priest . The Guado became followers of Yevon and Jyscal was made a Maester . When Seymour was 25 he was made the Maester of Macalania Temple , and had the body of his mother , now the fayth of Anima , secretly relocated to Baaj Temple where he sealed her up . Seymour frequented the temple and during these visits began to formulate his nihilistic plan for Spira . Shortly after Seymour left Baaj for the last time the temple was attacked by Sin and reduced to a scene of dank desolation . Ending up in Baaj after being separated from Auron when Sin whisked them away from Dream Zanarkand , Tidus explores the ruins and is attacked by Sahagins before barely escaping a Geosgaeno and ending up in a ruined chamber in the temple . He is rescued from a fiend attack by Rikku and her Al Bhed salvage squad . The party can return to Baaj after obtaining the airship to defeat Geosgaeno and access the temple . They can undo the seal on Anima by collecting Destruction Spheres from the other temples of Yevon . Upon entering the Chamber of the Fayth , the party talks with the spirit of Seymour ' s mother about Seymour ' s lonely childhood . Seymour ' s mother grants Yuna the ability to summon Anima in the hope she can save Seymour from himself . Quests . Temple trials . The player has to open the treasure chests in each Cloister of Trials of the six main temples ( Besaid , Kilika , Djose , Macalania , Bevelle , and Zanarkand ) to break the seal which guards the entrance to the Chamber of the Fayth . In the antechamber , there ' s a puzzle that shows off the aeons ' glyphs . A pattern corresponding to each aeon lights up behind each of the statues once a Destruction Sphere has been used in the corresponding temple to open a hidden treasure chest . When finding a special chest in the other temples Anima ' s glyph flashes . Each Destruction Sphere sphere has an elemental - sign , and the matching aeon ' s summoning glyph lights up behind the statue when it is used on a pedestal in Baaj . The statues are arranged as indicated when viewed from the entrance : If the player did not get the hidden treasures from Besaid and Macalania Temples in the PAL , International and " HD Remaster " versions , then they will have to defeat Dark Valefor and Dark Shiva , respectively to enter to the temples and obtain them . This can be done after gaining the airship and completing the mandatory visit to Bevelle . One of the statues has a glyph for the Zanarkand Cloister of Trials even though Yuna did not speak to a fayth there and obtain an aeon , so it is unknown what aeon uses it ; it may be the glyph for the Final Aeon . Music . " Creep " plays in the Submerged Ruins , a slow and dark track . " Out of the Frying Pan " plays during the time Tidus is trapped in Baaj Temple . " Leap in the Dark " plays when the Al Bhed capture Tidus .