#is it a perilous hill to stand on to say i won't pick up an sff novel if the names are too stupid? perhaps

[queerpyracy]

as a person who has frequently and loudly complained about Naming Things in sff before i understand with deep empathy that naming things your fantasy setting is hard

However,

if you're doing a lot of analogs to real historical places in your setting you need to fucking try harder than "obviously a real world place name but i changed or added one letter"

[terraxcloud]

Wildflower Plateau, the Most Important Spot

Sorry it took a long time to return, although I'm still only slowly going to do so now that I have Rebirth for PC (and can play on ultra settings). I never had my own PS5, so I had to improvise last year to get though it...which was a rushed affair...but now I can do whatever I want.

I played till I got to the Wildflower Plateau and took some pictures. Don't think I mentioned this detail...

The devs purposely designed this area to show you the huge pipe coming from Midgar. The Sector 7 reactor (the only visible numbered one) is on the left of that pipe, meaning that it comes from the Sector 6 reactor, the one Zack fell down into in one of the timelines where Biggs dies.

The Sector 6 pipeline is the one that's featured in the first Kyrie quest ("Lifeline in Peril"). If Zack travels through this pipeline, he will be able to exit it through the leak shown in the quest since it won't be fixed in that timeline. I can't be perfectly sure that's the Sector 6 pipe or if their plans will change a little bit, but it's not the southern pipe at least.

I don't know the exact way Zack gets to the Wildflower plateau though. The "major hint" is the scene in World of Final Fantasy's DLC where Zack is dropped on a bed of flowers by Bahamut on what looks like...a wildflower plateau, and with Serah there to greet him with the whole "...'ngel?" bit. I mentioned it multiple times now...Cloud is mentined as being "Snow's friend" and the conversation derails to it being about him, and then I noticed this scene was connected to FF15's "Terra Wars" DLC by how Noctis does something similar when he wakes up to a "Sarah".

The Junon Tifa quest "Dreaming of Blue Skies" hints at the condor while also combining it with the Remake "Hollow language" (Hollow only plays around the pipes and Wildflower Plateau). Actually, there's no real reason why anything about this quest is about "blue skies" in the first place other than Tifa mentioning it at the end.

The original hint in WoFF involved Bahamut. The monster that takes the cow in this quest seems to be a hint at Bahamut and connects it with the reactor (some of the Sector 6 reactor pipe runs underwater). Also, why is a "Mystic Dragon" rotting? Maybe "caves" can refer to the pipes?

The condor appears in the Intergrade DLC right as well. Note that the Condor is around Midgar and is flying towards "the blue sky". There are even pipes shown in the right shot.

The bottom two pics are the condor in FF7 Rebirth for comparison. So we know the condor goes around Midgar.

The area around the plateau is very large as if something big will happen at this spot at some point, but all we get is a side quest that forces us to get here ("Flowers from the Hill"). This obviously means something will happen here in the next game, and it's connected to Aerith's "flower picking for the orphanage" event from Remake. The spot is expansive, possibly to get the condor through here and drop Zack.

By the way, most people don't know this but Yuffie stands by the Foxtail grass (Tifa - White, Red XIII - Red, Barret - Blue). Don't know about Cait Sith. Everyone takes the quest early, so it was hard to find out what Yuffie does. In Remake, Foxtail was about "surprise", the white ones were loyalty, and the yellows were "reunion".

Loveless explains that the "goddess" will "descend" around what is probably the time when the Weapons come from the earth and wreck havoc. If Sephiroth is doing the FF9 thing where two planets become one in other timelines where mako has run out, then the "planet" will likely be descending over Midgar to replace how Meteor does it in the OG timeline. If that's the case, it's possible that Terra will descend somewhere around Midgar, but I'll see if there's a hint to that detail.

The condor quests also hint at something happening "next time". Yuffie's date does this a lot, so I'm going by that for reference.

That's all for now. See you later.

I do have to say though..."Hollow" is Terra's actual theme from FF6 mixed with "Awakening" and redesigned for FF7 Remake so it sounds difficult to notice unless you compare the songs.