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[Wolfen]

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Fusoya: Long ago, the world that lay between the Red Planet and the Great Behemoth stood at the verge of destruction, both terrible and complete. The last survivors of that devastation boarded a ship and escaped to the Blue Planet. / Cecil: Blue Planet? / Fusoya: The one that you call home. But your planet was still in the midst of its evolution, you see. And so those travelers created a second moon for the planet, and there they settled into a long and quiet slumber.

The text Red Planet links to Mars, and the text Great Behemoth links to Jupiter. I clicked on the links and saw that there was indeed a world between Mars and Jupiter, called Ceres.

FF4 was released before scientists started classifying dwarf planets. The name of this world also has a similarity to the name of one of the characters from FF6, Celes.

Coincidence?

[Avarice-ness]

Originally Posted by Wolfen ^

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Fusoya: Long ago, the world that lay between the Red Planet and the Great Behemoth stood at the verge of destruction, both terrible and complete. The last survivors of that devastation boarded a ship and escaped to the Blue Planet. / Cecil: Blue Planet? / Fusoya: The one that you call home. But your planet was still in the midst of its evolution, you see. And so those travelers created a second moon for the planet, and there they settled into a long and quiet slumber.

The text Red Planet links to Mars, and the text Great Behemoth links to Jupiter. I clicked on the links and saw that there was indeed a world between Mars and Jupiter, called Ceres.

FF4 was released before scientists started classifying dwarf planets. The name of this world also has a similarity to the name of one of the characters from FF6, Celes.

Coincidence?

Eh, I dunno. It's pushing it.

Ceres was known as an asteroid originally, it's existance alone (not classifaction) could make it so.

It's not like they don't pull things from real life or philosophy or religion and bring it into the game. I.e. The fall of satan and kefka's final tier form. Starts as satan when he was an angel, ends with the demonic form he is seen to be today.

[Wolf Kanno]

Actually, you find the story quite a bit in anime made in the 80's and early 90's. I bet its more of a reference to that.

The Ceres/Celes may have the typical connection of the authors just wanting to reference past games. Highwind has been the last name of three characters in the series for instance... This of course is assuming Celes' name isn't a translation issue much like the famous Aeris/Aerith one. Celes could be short for Celestial which ironically counters Terra's name for balance despite Terra's true name being Tina.

[abrojtm]

Ceres is named after the Roman goddess of fertility/earth/harvest/etc. (equivalent to Greek Demeter), so I doubt Celes was based after her unless it was a mistranslation. I guess what FuSoYa is saying is that what is known to us now as the asteroid belt was once home to the race known as the Lunarians (that live on the Blue Planet's second moon).

I don't see what you're getting at with the dwarves though...?

[Wolfen]

I don't see what you're getting at with the dwarves though...?

Dwarf planet as in like Pluto, not dwarf like the race. XD

But yeah, I read on Wikipedia about stories that tried to explain the existence of the asteroid belt as being a destroyed world, and eventually figured that was what Fusoya is talking about.