"All right, settle down. I get it. You already know this story. You're sick of it. You've read it in books, seen it in movies – you've even played games based on it. The whole thing has become a trope to you. The age-old tale of good triumphing over evil. And it's pretty cut and dry, right? This side is good. This side is evil. Black and white. Simple as that.
"Except it's never really that simple, is it? The real world has gray areas. Oh, and there's something else you have to take into account here.
"'History is written by the victors.'
"So what do you do when you want to know the truth? You go to the source. That's what this is. This purports to be the factual account of the events that transpired all that time ago, told by those who were actually there. This is the story of Aeris, and Sephiroth, and a terrible corporation known as Shin-Ra…"
