Probably just an excerpt of passage that is left out for non-legacy. I vaguely remember a gathering of NPC's in the last cutscene similar to what you described, but nothing to those effects of words said to us. They most likely replaced it with something vague like "A new adventurer came into our land and preserved it for all of us, even though it wasn't his/her true home." It has been a long time since I finished the storyline so I can't remember exact words used, but I definitely don't remember being recognized in any extravagant way. I'm not sure what they could actually replace that particular passage with for non-legacies anyway. We weren't around for 1.0

We did get a very long list of PC names who beat the original 1.0 storyline in our credits after the final CS played, but I doubt that has anything to do with what your trying to ask.

Sorry I couldn't help out more!