Huh... w/e.
Still, haven't seen what you can do in two short minutes, from scratch.
If I give it a little thought and it got a backstory, a reason, and other things.
The gods, why did they want to stop him? How about they wanted to see who could stop him. In many fables gods argue about who can do what and such, this could easily be such a case.
"When he passes through your country, do all you can to make him stop"
But nothing stopped the pioneer from his goal, his goal to see the world. In rage the gods killed the family he had and the friends he met.
In what way could this be related to FF? It's completely oblivious from FF.
It's surely must've been the word pilgrimage, since they call the journey summoners do to be able to face Sin. Since that was the only word I could see the slightest relation to FF.