several characters optionally encountered by fellow Returner and magic user Celes Chere, who is attempting to reunite the other party members in an attempt to save the world from Kefka, who now resides atop a tower of rubble and dirt as a nihilistic mad god. Instead, Celes finds Terra without the strength or will to fight after she has become the surrogate mother figure for the children of the town of Mobliz after it had been razed by Kefka for opposing him, with the two oldest survivors being a teenage couple named Duane and Katarin. The town is attacked by a demon known as Humbaba, with Terra finding herself to be too weak to stop it and requiring Celes's party to intervene and defeat it. After locating Setzer and unlocking airship travel again, the player returns to Mobliz just as it is attacked by Humbaba again, who is much stronger this time and cannot be defeated until Terra decides to join the party. Her drive to protect the children unlocks her Trance ability again, slaying Humbaba, however she is unable to revert to her human form until she sees the children gather around her, leading to her realizing that has finally found love despite the state of the world. She resolves to join the party in an attack on Kefka's tower as Katarin, now pregnant, urges Terra to "make sure these kids have a world to grow up in!" while Duane promises they will take care of the children until Terra's return. Terra and her allies move to attack Kefka's tower from the air, battling their way to the pinnacle of the tower where they discover the Warring Triad drained of its magic, meaning Kefka has completely absorbed its power and become the source of all magic in the universe. As Kefka appears in person, he ridicules the party and the other people of the world for trying to hold on to hope when everything they love and cherish can be destroyed by him at a moment's notice, to which Terra and her allies respond by explaining that it is the mundanities of peoples' lives and their love for each other that make their lives worth living. They defeat Kefka just as he prepares to destroy all of creation to prove his point, however with him gone magic begins to disappear from the world. The tower begins to collapse and