Another world

Another world is a recurring story element in the Final Fantasy series, which focuses on transporting the protagonist(s) to a different world of which the characters have little to no knowledge about. This transition serves as pretext for an epic adventure, giving the protagonist(s) and the player the feeling of a great journey to achieve their goals.
==Appearances==
===Final Fantasy V===
Bartz Klauser and friends decide to venture to Galuf's world to defeat Exdeath.
===Final Fantasy X===
Tidus is brought to Spira by Auron, a new world he knows nothing about. He starts learning about Spira, its cultures, and the world's enemy, Sin.
===Final Fantasy XIII series===
In Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning and her l'Cie comrades travel to Gran Pulse to look for a way out of their predicament, a world of wilderness habited only by monsters and ferocious fal'Cie.
In Final Fantasy XIII-2, Lightning is pulled to Valhalla, a mysterious realm dislodged from time that exists between the real world and the afterlife. Once there, she gains a divine mission to save the world.
In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning again finds herself in a new world, but this time she is not a frontier explorer of it, but ends up in a world entirely habited by people who have gained biological immortality and agelessness at the cost of being unable to reproduce. She is tasked with shepherding their souls to the new world the god Bhunivelze is building.
===Final Fantasy XIV===
In the Shadowbringers expansion pack, the Warrior of Light is transported to the the First, another version of their original world.
In the follow up story to Endwalker, the Warrior of Light travels to the Thirteenth to learn about the world of darkness and save Vrtra's sister.
Several characters are known to have been transported to Hydaelyn before returning to their respective home worlds. These include Shantotto and Iroha (Final Fantasy XI), Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII), Noctis Lucis Caelum (Final Fantasy XV), and Clive Rosfield (Final Fantasy XVI).
===Final Fantasy Tactics===
Cloud Strife, the protagonist of Final Fantasy VII, is accidentally summoned by Mustadio Bunansa to Ivalice.
In the War of the Lions versions, Balthier and Luso from other Ivalice games befall the same fate.
===Final Fantasy Tactics Advance===
Marche Radiuju is transported to a fictional version of Ivalice via the Gran Grimoire.
====Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift====
Similar to the game's predecessor, Luso Clemens is transported to Ivalice with the power of a mysterious grimoire.
===Dissidia Final Fantasy series===
Both villains and heroes from across the series are transported to World B, a world created as a parallel and mirror of the world of the original Final Fantasy.
====Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia====
Although branched from Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, the initial world of Opera Omnia has little in common with it or with any previous world in Dissidia lore. The world is said to have been created by the gods Spiritus and Materia at the urging of a master Crystal; doing so also awakened Mog, a spirit moogle chosen to gather heroes from across the universe. The gods, wanting a place for their champions to rest, molded the world into being. No sooner was their task completed than the phenomenon known as torsions began to appear. And so, the warriors fight to preserve this world's order. 
The warriors eventually discover that the world they have landed on is but one half of a much larger world after its light half is obliterated by one of Shinryu's voracious larvae. They explore this dark half, recovering bit by bit memories of their past lives until their search for the truth leads them to Shinryu itself, which consumes the world but for the actions of the Warrior of Light and Garland, who in their fighting transported their comrades to safety.
The warriors find themselves in a second world, again stripped of their memories as they must continue fighting to preserve it. The new world — the very seat of the gods — seems to have a will all its own, as it continues to summon more warriors and shape itself from the memories of those who now call it home. As the warriors recover their powers one delegation at a time, a massive flood of light begins to emerge, prompting the Cloud of Darkness to manifest and draw new strength from Spiritus's most vile evildoers. With both gods also weakened, the Cloud of Darkness nearly succeeds in devouring the world if not for the combined efforts of warriors of light and darkness. The toll of this seemingly final battle is massive, as the gods must place themselves in stasis to support the world as it now stands.
===Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin===
===Final Fantasy Lost Stranger===
===Final Fantasy: Unlimited===
Wonderland is another world connected to an alternate version of our real world. The beginning of the story has the twins Ai Hayakawa and Yu Hayakawa journey to Wonderland on an Interdimensional Train in search of their parents, researchers of Wonderland who never returned on one of their trips.
The anime was originally planned in two chapters, with the first half mostly set in Wonderland and the second in the real world. Due to financial reasons the anime only animated the first half, while the second half was adapted into other media such as Final Fantasy: Unlimited After.
==Origin==
Isekai is a 2010s coined term within Japanese literature to describe adventure stories about going into another world, mainly within light novels and manga. Though the term has brought "another world" stories into modern mainstream awareness, isekai as a whole has existed long before its identifying designation, some of the earliest stories being The Odyssey, The Tale of Urashima Taro, Journey to the West, and Alice in Wonderland. Though the term has an affinity with fantasy, going into another world unknown to the protagonist(s) is the main point regardless of genre.
Category:Recurring story elements