Lake Macalania

Macalania Lake is a geographical area of Spira in Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. It is a frozen lake with a Rin's Travel Agency. A magnificent ice palace, Macalania Temple, sits atop the frozen waters. The Macalania Woods are located to the south of the lake.
==Story==
===Final Fantasy X===
Yuna and her guardians arrive to the snowy reaches of the lake and meet with Seymour Guado's servant, Tromell. They are ambushed by a group of Al Bhed who want to kidnap Yuna to stop her summoner's pilgrimage. The group's leader is Rikku's brother. Yuna and her guardians destroy the Al Bhed's machina cannon and the Al Bhed retreat.
Tromell takes Yuna away to see Seymour at the temple. Wakka wonders why Rikku can speak Al Bhed, and she reveals her true heritage as Al Bhed. Wakka is upset that one of Yuna's guardians is a "heretic" and that no one told him about it, even accusing Auron for being an Al Bhed when he checks on the machina sled.
Wakka asks Lulu about it and she says that this is an opportunity to learn more about the Al Bhed. Wakka, annoyed that no one sides with him, walks while the others ride on the sleds to the temple. If Tidus rides with Rikku, she reveals she is Yuna's cousin and articulates in a roundabout way that Yuna will die if she continues her pilgrimage, but Tidus does not realize this. If Lulu travels with Tidus, he asks her if a human can ever become Sin, and she finally believes he is not from Spira.
After the party runs away from the temple after being branded traitors due to killing a maester, they are confronted by a Wendigo and two Guado guards. After the battle, the Wendigo shatters the ice, sending the party plummeting onto a dormant Sin that was hiding under the ice that whisks them away.
===Final Fantasy X-2===
Following their banishment from Guadosalam, the diminished effect of the Guado's protection and the disappearance of the fayth melted the lake and the temple sank to the bottom of Lake Macalania. The road ends at the travel agency, and the temple is not accessible. Its aeon, Shiva, is fought in the Farplane rather than the temple as a result.
O'aka XXIII bought the travel agency from Rin with money he borrowed from the Al Bhed. After the temple sank he was left with no customers and unable to pay his debt. Al Bhed come looking for him at the travel agency and O'aka escapes to the woods of Macalania. The Gullwings can chase him down and ask him to join them on the Celsius, or they can hand him over to the Al Bhed.
If the Gullwings hand him over to the Al Bhed, O'aka is sent digging in Bikanel in an effort to pay off his debt. If the Gullwings take him aboard Celsius, O'aka sets up a shop and uses the money he makes to pay to the Al Bhed. In Chapter 3, the travel agency is being infested with fiends, but the Gullwings defeat them. A dying Al Bhed comments on a fiend machina in the lake and gives the girls a dressphere. If the party pays off O'aka's debt, he returns to the travel agency, devastated at the damage and the Al Bhed dying before he could pay his debt. As the Gullwings leave, O'aka promises that he will protect the shop for the Al Bhed, even willing to sell items to fiends. His brother, Wantz, eventually joins him and becomes his assistant.
==Locations==
;Travel Agency
The Travel Agency is located just outside the woods. In Final Fantasy X-2, it is taken over by O'aka and eventually his brother Wantz.
;Macalania Temple
Macalania Temple is one of the temples of Yevon, constructed primarily of ice, it sits atop the frozen Lake Macalania.
;Frozen Lake and Icy trails to the temple
Long winding trails that lead to and from the temple.
===Secret areas===
;Macalania Lake bottom
Tidus and his party fall below the lake.
==Quests==
===Final Fantasy X===
====Affection mechanics====
The character who rides the snowmobile with Tidus is decided by whoever has the highest value in the affection mechanics. Affection mechanics is a hidden gameplay element that governs certain cutscenes and Tidus's actions with party members throughout the game decide the values assigned to his comrades. In Macalania, Tidus can ride the snow mobile either with Lulu, Rikku, Auron or Kimahri.
===Final Fantasy X-2===
====Chapter Five====
=====Secure the Agency!=====
:Note: This is not a compulsory mission, thus is not required to complete the game.
Rout the fiends that have attacked the Travel Agency! There's no time to heal between battles, so you'll just have to withstand them all!
*Objective: Win six consecutive battles.
*Unlock: Becomes available at the beginning of Chapter 3.
*Reward: Pride of the Sword Garment Grid, Berserker dressphere, an Al Bhed Primer.
====Episode Complete====
O'aka and Wantz have returned to the Travel Agency by the lake, and will be working hard to keep it running.
If the player took O'aka onboard the Celsius and paid off his debt before the Chapter 3 mission in Lake Macalania, they can gain an optional Episode Complete in Lake Macalania and witness O'aka and Wantz at the travel agency. This Episode Complete is optional and not a replacement for the main one, and does not affect the attainment of Mascot dressphere.
==Shops==
===Final Fantasy X===
====O'aka - Agency Front====
Item 	Price
Potion 	100 → 75 gil
Hi-Potion 	1,000 → 750 gil
Phoenix Down	200 → 150 gil
Antidote 	100 → 75 gil
Eye Drops 	100 → 75 gil
Echo Screen 	100 → 75 gil
Soft 	100 → 75 gil
Item 	User 	Price
Sonic Steel 	Tidus 	18,450 → 13,837 gil
Halberd 	Kimahri	3,900 → 2,925 gil
Force Knuckles 	Rikku 	1,950 → 1,462 gil
Serum Ring 	Yuna 	4,350 → 3,262 gil
Echo Bangle 	Lulu 	4,650 → 3,487 gil
Echo Armlet 	Kimahri	1,650 → 1,237 gil
Soft Bracer 	Auron 	3,750 → 2,812 gil
Soldier's Targe	Rikku 	3,450 → 2,587 gil
====Rin's Travel Agency====
;Before airship
Item 	Price
Potion 	50 gil
Hi-Potion 	500 gil
Phoenix Down	100 gil
Antidote 	50 gil
Eye Drops 	50 gil
Echo Screen 	50 gil
Soft 	50 gil
Grenade 	300 gil
Map 	50 gil
Item 	User 	Price
Baroque Sword 	Tidus 	825 gil
Ductile Rod 	Yuna 	825 gil
Switch Hitter 	Wakka 	825 gil
Variable Mog 	Lulu 	825 gil
Halberd 	Kimahri	1,650 gil
Shimmering Blade 	Auron 	1,650 gil
Devastator 	Rikku 	825 gil
Seeker's Shield 	Tidus 	1,575 gil
Seeker's Ring 	Yuna 	1,575 gil
Seeker's Armguard	Wakka 	1,575 gil
Seeker's Bangle 	Lulu 	1,575 gil
Seeker's Armlet 	Kimahri	1,575 gil
Seeker's Bracer 	Auron 	1,575 gil
Seeker's Targe 	Rikku 	1,575 gil
Longsword 	Tidus 	50 gil
;After airship
Item 	Price
Potion 	50 gil
Hi-Potion 	500 gil
Phoenix Down 	100 gil
Antidote 	50 gil
Eye Drops 	50 gil
Echo Screen 	50 gil
Soft 	50 gil
Power Distiller 	100 gil
Mana Distiller 	100 gil
Speed Distiller 	100 gil
Ability Distiller	100 gil
Grenade 	300 gil
Map 	50 gil
Item 	User 	Price
Baroque Sword 	Tidus 	16,650 gil
Ductile Rod 	Yuna 	16,650 gil
Switch Hitter 	Wakka 	16,650 gil
Variable Mog 	Lulu 	16,650 gil
Halberd 	Kimahri	16,650 gil
Shimmering Blade	Auron 	16,650 gil
Devastator 	Rikku 	16,650 gil
Tetra Shield 	Tidus 	90,750 gil
Tetra Ring 	Yuna 	90,750 gil
Tetra Armguard 	Wakka 	90,750 gil
Tetra Bangle 	Lulu 	90,750 gil
Tetra Armlet 	Kimahri	90,750 gil
Tetra Bracer 	Auron 	90,750 gil
Tetra Targe 	Rikku 	90,750 gil
====O'aka - Road====
Item 	Price
Potion 	100 → 75 gil
Hi-Potion 	1,000 → 750 gil
Phoenix Down	200 → 150 gil
Antidote 	100 → 75 gil
Eye Drops 	100 → 75 gil
Echo Screen 	100 → 75 gil
Soft 	100 → 75 gil
===Final Fantasy X-2===
====Travel Agency (Al Bhed)====
This shop is only available before O'aka and Wantz take over the Travel Agency.
Item 	Cost 	Chapters Available
Potion 	50 	All
Hi-Potion 	500 	Ch 3+
Phoenix Down 	100 	All
Antidote 	50 	All
Eye Drops 	50 	All
Echo Screen 	50 	All
Soft 	50 	All
Holy Water 	300 	All
Icy Gleam 	3,000	All
White Ring 	3,000	All
NulFrost Ring	8,000	Ch 3+
====Travel Agency (Wantz)====
This shop is only available after an obtaining an Episode Complete at the Travel Agency during Chapter 5.
Item 	Cost
Faerie Earrings	10,000
Kinesis Badge 	10,000
Safety Bit 	10,000
Beaded Brooch 	10,000
Crimson Ring 	10,000
Snow Ring 	10,000
Ochre Ring 	10,000
Cerulean Ring 	10,000
Chaos Shock 	15,000
Fury Shock 	15,000
Lag Shock 	15,000
System Shock 	15,000
====Travel Agency (O'aka)====
This shop is only available after an obtaining an Episode Complete at the Travel Agency during Chapter 5.
Item 	Cost
Faerie Earrings	10,000
Kinesis Badge 	10,000
Safety Bit 	10,000
Sword Lore 	50,000
Bushido Lore 	50,000
Arcane Lore 	50,000
Nature's Lore 	50,000
Black Lore 	50,000
White Lore 	50,000
Crimson Ring 	10,000
Snow Ring 	10,000
Ochre Ring 	10,000
Cerulean Ring 	10,000
==Items==
===Final Fantasy X===
*Al Bhed Primer vol. XVI
*Mega-Potion
*Lv. 1 Key Sphere
*4000 gil (Agency Front, after defeating Crawler)
===Final Fantasy X-2===
;Chapter 1
*Hi-Potion
*Megalixir (from Al Bhed man, must turn O'aka over)
;Chapter 2
*Hi-Potion x2
;Chapter 3
*X-Potion
;Chapter 5
*Elixir
==Enemies==
===Final Fantasy X===
;Lake Macalania
*Crawler, Negator (Boss)
*Wendigo, Guado Guardian x2 (Boss)
;Agency Front
*Snow Wolf x2, Ice Flan
*Evil Eye, Ice Flan, Snow Wolf
*Snow Wolf, Ice Flan, Mafdet
;Crevasse
*Evil Eye, Snow Wolf, Ice Flan
*Mafdet, Snow Wolf, Ice Flan
*Mafdet, Evil Eye x2
===Final Fantasy X-2===
;Chapter 1
*Sallet x3
*White Elemental, Red Elemental, Sallet
*White Elemental, Red Elemental
*White Elemental, Sallet
*White Elemental, Red Elemental x2
;Chapter 2
*White Elemental, Red Elemental x2
*Sallet, Barbuta
*White Elemental, Red Elemental
*White Elemental, Red Elemental, Sallet
*Red Elemental, Sallet x2
;Chapter 3
*Rhyos, Vertigo (during mission)
*Barbuta x3 (during mission)
*Barbuta, Flan Blanco (during mission)
*Blue Elemental
*Flan Blanco x2, Watcher-S
*Flan Blanco x2
*Barbuta x2
*Barbuta, Flan Blanco, Watcher-S
*Barbuta, Watcher-R
*Barbuta
*Barbuta, Flan Blanco
*Barbuta x2, Watcher-A
;Chapter 5
*Barbuta, Flan Blanco
*Barbuta x3
*Flan Blanco x2, Blue Elemental
*Barbuta, Flan Blanco, Blue Elemental, Watcher-A
*Barbuta, Blue Elemental
*Barbuta, Blue Elemental, Watcher-S
*Flan Blanco x2, Blue Elemental, Watcher-A
*Barbuta, Flan Blanco, Blue Elemental
*Barbuta x3, Watcher-S
==Musical themes==
In Final Fantasy X, "Phantoms" plays in the Lake Macalania areas until the temple. "The Void" plays when Rikku reveals she's Al Bhed. "Hymn of the Fayth - Shiva" plays under the lake.
In Final Fantasy X-2, the theme "Macalania Woods" plays at the lake.
==Other appearances==
===Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade===
FFAB Macalania Lake FFX.png|Normal background.
FFAB Macalania Lake FFX Special.png|Special background.
===Final Fantasy Record Keeper===
==Gallery==
Macalania Lake.jpg|Artwork of Macalania Lake.
Macalania Lake 2.jpg|Artwork of Macalania Lake.
Snow-Sled.jpg|Snow Sled.
Lake Macalania Bottom.png|The lake bottom.
X sin appears in macalania.jpg|Sin appears in Lake Macalania.
Lake Macalania Hole.png|The hole caused by Wendigo.
Lake Macalania X-2.png|Lake Macalania in Final Fantasy X-2.
Category:Lakes
Category:Locations in Final Fantasy X
Category:Locations in Final Fantasy X-2
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