Void Beyond The Void Beyond is a location from " Final Fantasy XIII - 2 " . It is a place between Time Gate s , and sometimes lost time travelers end up here . The Coliseum and Serendipity are both parts of the Void Beyond , and the creature Gogmagog travels its depths , seeking a way out . Many monsters inhabit the Void Beyond , and creatures whose natural habitat is here are known as Rift Beasts . Death does not exist in the Void Beyond , so whenever someone with a strong heart is " killed " here , the Void takes the form of a dream world built from their innermost desires , where they live forever as prisoners , unaware of their predicament . " The Void Beyond is a chasm between the seen and unseen worlds . It is a space of shadows that are cast long and dark from Valhalla itself . Many form closed , incomplete worlds that are known as temporal rifts . " Fragment s . " There are other kinds of places here , too , such as palaces and battle arenas molded from nothing more substantial than hopes , dreams , and passions . " " There is no death in the Void Beyond . Souls who long to die instead live within dreams that are spun from the fabric of their deepest desires . Once trapped within these dreams , they have no means of escape . " " Next time you look into a mirror , peer closely at the edge . Do you see the ghostly shimmering ? That is the world of dreams , known to some as the Mirror World . It is an eternal place of wishes fulfilled and happy memories made real — yet the ghosts who inhabit it know not they are prisoners of eternity . " Story . Leaving the Yaschas Massif 1X AF , Noel , Serah , and Mog arrive in a place that resembles Valhalla , but is said to be merely its shadow . Serah begins to lose hope of ever finding Lightning , but Noel reassures her they are one step closer with each Time Gate they go through . Upon their second visit , when traveling to Academia 400 AF , Noel asks Serah about her visions of him and Lightning in her dreams . She replies that she dreamed about them the night he arrived in New Bodhum , and that she had many dreams the next day . Serah asks Noel about Yeul , a mysterious seeress they had encountered on their travels , and he says that neither of the Yeuls they met is the one he once knew in his home world of the Dying World . When Serah assumes she might be a time traveler like them and her fiancé Snow , Noel explains each Yeul is a reincarnation , and that in each generation a girl who looks the same and has the exact same power is born in the tribe of the Farseer s and is named " Yeul " . Serah wonders what will happen if they keep resolving the paradox es and Noel replies it would mean a future where he will never be born , something trivial to him . When Noel , Serah , and Mog get separated in the Historia Crux after leaving Academia 4XX AF , they emerge in the Void Beyond . Noel is stabbed in the back by Caius , who had orchestrated the trap that got the trio separated , and the two disappear from the area . Serah and Mog arrive in the void , and Serah encounters several Yeuls from different time periods who tell her the area is one of many shades of Valhalla , and reveal Serah and her friends were freed from their crystal stasis by the goddess Etro on the Day of Ragnarok . Though intended as an act of benevolence , this had catastrophic side effects as chaos had seeped into the mortal realm , and corrupted the timeline by creating paradoxes . In the Throne of the Goddess , Caius battles the confused Serah before impaling her , sending her to a world of dreams . In the secret ending unlocked by collecting all the fragment s , Caius sits on Etro ' s throne in the Void Beyond , ready to begin his new life in the world without the goddess . Treasure . Players with save data from " Final Fantasy XIII " on their console system can find two adornments : Serah ' s and Lightning ' s Masks in treasure boxes in the Walk of Time during their third visit . Musical themes . The Void Beyond has its own theme , titled " Shadow of Valhalla " .