SPOILERS: After Endwalker... I have some questions

[Iscah]

No need for spoiler tags when the thread title is clear.

As the zone is trying to be essentially "The end of the universe", and there is a literal Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe, amongst other things. Ultima Thule really just meaning "the extreme limit of travel and discovery."

I don't see how Ultima Thule makes for a better pun than Terminus. Both are "the end" but Terminus seems more instantly evocative and can mean both "farthest" and "final" (and was already used in that sense for the terminus beasts) while Ultima is only "farthest" and a stranger phrase if you haven't come across it before.

It's the furthest place in the universe but also the ending point of worlds, and those endings are the conspicuous thing once you're there.

And if I remember correctly, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe was of the final apocalyptic variety, making Terminus the better reference on that front too.

Since “terminus” has been in use since the Amarout dungeon in ShB, I’m kind of glad they didn’t just reuse it here, and opted for a name of similar meaning.

That's exactly why I think they should have used it for a thread of consistency. They didn't actually use it as a location name there, so bringing it up now at the end of everything seems to make sense.