User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 8 - Magnolia is on Fire?/Blue Cat Happy, Review./@comment-173.35.174.29-20150220041709/@comment-4449950-20150220053721

No idea to be honest XD It's not something I've really been thinking about :P

However, some people have a theory that Yury is one of the Four Gods of Ishval, and after seeing their reasoning I have to say it is an interesting theory.

See the guy up the back with the weird spiky things coming out of his back?

There is a lightning god in Japanese mythology known as Raijin and images depicting this god show him with a ring of something (I think they are drums) surrounding him. Some people think that one of the Four Gods is modelled after him, and, after seeing Yury learn Lightning Magic and Warrod make it into the Ten Wizard Saints, some people have a hunch that the guy is an older, very experienced Yury. I don't mind the theory to be honest, and, if Yury is still alive, I think it would be neat ;D