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Final Fantasy XIV announces FF7 'Beyond the Lifestream' raid series

gamingJul 25, 2026972,648

Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming expansion Evercold will add an 8‑player Normal Raid series titled "Beyond the Lifestream." The raid is a full collaboration with the Final Fantasy VII Remake and brings some of FF7 Remake's most iconic characters into FFXIV. Developers credited veterans of the original Final Fantasy VII for the project, and one announced detail names Kazushige Nojima, the scenario writer for the FF7 Remake trilogy, as supervising the raid story. The Beyond the Lifestream raid was revealed as part of the Evercold expansion rollout and is positioned as a major cross‑title addition to FFXIV's post‑expansion raid lineup.

FINAL FANTASY XIV
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Presenting a FINAL FANTASY XIV x FINAL FANTASY VII Remake crossover: Beyond the Lifestream—the Evercold raid series!

Text in the foreground reads Beyond the Lifestream, the title of the upcoming Final Fantasy 14 Evercold raid series in collaboration with Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Two iconic characters from the series are portrayed back-to-back in front of a large city filled with industrial buildings under ominous dark clouds.
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Nova Crystallis
@novacrystallis.com

What's the theme of the new 8-player raid? "Beyond the Lifestream" Final Fantasy VII Remake

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rat dad11

finally a practical use for my master’s degree

Mer 🐇 (🐺 敖尹's milk supply)10

im sorry ff7 was my first ff yes i know ff7 is "overrated" idc i'm so fucking excited for this because ff7 is so dear to my heart and now my very first oc since i was a young girl will have the biggest chance to shine

crow7

If you laugh you go to hell

"Wild Freaks" Truther6

I'm mildly frustrated both the alliance raid and normal raid series are now crossover IPs instead of relatively original FF14 lore We were doing so well with Arcadion, what happened?

3than son reebok o son nike6

i don’t need a subscription for the hit MMORPG final fantasy 14

Suuri6

FINE. But only if it is like the Ivalice crossover where it BUILDS ON THE UNIVERSE OF THE GAME, or else I'm gonna start blasting

Michelle Ehrhardt5

I’ve been wondering what type of emergency would cause them to break this particular glass

Kiwi | Kefka's 🕳 P34

finally... we can sit through sephiroths attack which last almost as long as idyllic dream youtu.be/2CCI-UZtEi4?...

that ff8 raccoon4

if this lets you fight sephiroth I'm going to explode. being an ff8 fan sucks. we got shafted so hard and every other ff villain is literally in this stupid fucking game to fight. instead we got a booby tree. cool. and they said draw and junction 🫡 waow so cool

Mana - Music..? VTuber3

This is literally just to get Sephiroth into FFXIV and make an ultimate around him later on. I’m disappointed because I like original stories more than collaborations in FFXIV, but also because generally the raid gear is going to look boring as hell. Cloth soldiers? Turk Suits? Oh boy, so new.

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