What Ever Happened To The Other Maps Planned For The Feast?

[Nalien]

Any pics of the Proving Grounds, for reference? Want to be sure that I'm thinking of the right place.

No, but unlike the Colosseum you can enter the Proving Grounds whenever, it's not locked behind a quest. I think it was used for one or two fetch quests and that was it, it's just kinda there, unused... Interestingly, the map has two halves, but you can only access one of them... All we have now is pretty much a viewing platform, so I wonder if it might be used for the spectator matches that Yoshida has mentioned on occasion... The Colosseum, while seemingly great for that, doesn't really have anywhere you can watch from... There's a bit outside the Gladiators guild looking down on it, but I don't think that's ideal...

It's perhaps more likely to be used for something Chocobo Companion related, given that is it's main purpose according to the NPC there, but they also mention that it gets rented out for other private and public uses, so I could see the Eorzean Alliance renting it for some PvP...

As far as the artwork being the Colosseum goes, it's too gray IMO... Ul'dah is very yellow/orange, Limsa is white/some wood, this looks very much like it's built out of gray stone, like much of Ishgard. The Proving Grounds are also indoors, so no snow, and the arena is floored with sand, while the Colosseum actually isn't. It's most likely an artistic representation of the Wolves Den, but it looks a lot like the Proving Grounds to me...