Cloud Strife and Sephiroth are finally coming to Eorzea, as Square Enix has unveiled Beyond the Lifestream, an upcoming Final Fantasy 14 Raid that is a crossover with Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. Final Fantasy 14 has crossed over with several of its predecessors, most notably Final Fantasy 4, whose main villains appeared as opponents in the post-Endwalker patch. These crossovers have dated back to the game's earliest quests, with the Crystal Tower from Final Fantasy 3 being a major part of the story.
However, fans have noticed that one name has been missing from the list, as Final Fantasy 7 was lacking a crossover event of its own, at least until now. CBR was in attendance at Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest in Berlin when Naoki Yoshida announced that the next big crossover raid in the Evercold era is Beyond the Lifestream, which he announced by playing a new arrangement of the iconic "One-Winged Angel" From the Final Fantasy 7 Remake series. He was accompanied on stage by Naoki Hamaguchi, the director of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, who revealed his cooperation with the crossover.
The Beyond the Lifestream Raid is being made with the assistance of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake project team, which includes Tetsuya Nomura, the Square Enix icon who designed the characters of the original Final Fantasy 7. The two Naokis joked about the characters they wanted to include, but didn't name any names, even though Sephiroth is pretty much a given as a Raid boss, considering that his theme was played. Your scores appear below.
The character with the highest number is your match — read their description to discover which legend of the Final Fantasy universe has always lived inside you. You are formidably capable and brutally self-contained. You built walls so high that even you sometimes forget there’s someone worth knowing on the other side of them.
Your strength is real — but it was forged in grief, and part of you has never fully left that burning town. What makes you extraordinary isn’t the sword or the silence: it’s that underneath all the cold precision, you still care about people with an intensity that frightens you. The ones who earn your trust don’t just gain an ally.
They gain someone who will walk into the end of the world for them, without ever stating a word about it. You are extraordinary and don’t fully believe it yet. Something inside you — something ancient and luminous and untameable — has always been there, waiting.
Others have tried to control it, define it, weaponize it. What they never understood is that your power isn’t the dangerous part: it’s your heart. The capacity to love that you spent so long being afraid of is your greatest strength.
You are not a weapon. You are not what was done to you. You are what you choose to become — and that choice, made quietly, every day, is the most heroic act in the game.
You feel everything at full volume and refuse to apologize for it. Where others calculate, you leap. Where others grieve in silence, you cry out loud and then help everyone else back to their feet.
You understand instinctively that love is not sentimental — it’s the most courageous thing a person can do. You walked into a journey you didn’t fully understand for people you had only just met, and you gave it everything you had. That isn’t naïveté.
That’s the rarest kind of bravery: the kind that smiles on the way into the dark. You are relentless in a way that unsettles people who don’t know you — and humbles the ones who do. You buried everything soft about yourself because the world required it, and you made yourself into something no fate, no god, and no system could stop.
What people mistake for coldness is actually grief in armor: you loved someone so completely that losing them rewired everything. Underneath the discipline and the precision is a person who would unmake the laws of the universe for the people they love. And has.
More than once. Unfortunately, the Beyond the Lifestream Raid clinched't be arriving when the Evercold expansion for Final Fantasy 14 is released, which is currently planned for January 2027. It was revealed at the Final Fantasy 14 Fan Fest that it's arriving in the 8.
01 patch, which will be dropped several months after Evercold. Chances are, Beyond the Lifestream will launch alongside Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, which is currently set to launch on Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S in Spring 2027. This makes perfect sense, as it will get fans extremely hyped for their Warrior of Light to clash blades with Sephiroth, just as his story comes to a close in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation.