SPOILERS: After Endwalker... I have some questions

[kaynide]

That's my point.

Not the end of the people who turned into blasphemies, but the end of their very worlds – the crumbling remnants of so many, hanging together in that alien sky. That's what the zone is about to me: not just being a "faraway place" but a place of endings.

Back on the would-be Kingdom Hearts reference I mentioned earlier, the "world terminus" was a sub-zone of the End of the World: a gauntlet of deserted and monster-infested recreations of the worlds you had visited previously. That's stuck with me even though I haven't played it in years.

I think that was their point; Ultima Thule does not represent an endpoint to the universe when it is infinitely large- in 3D space an end point makes no sense. Neither does it represent an end of hope, or even an end to life there as made clear by our victory there.

Moreover Terminus has a variety of meanings such as simply being a train station. More-moreover, I think they wanted to be careful NOT to evoke other SE franchises that utilize Terminus, such as Kingdom Hearts.

Ultima Thule is exactly what it means to be- a place “beyond the borders of what we know”. Not an end, just beyond. No weird connections or hidden meanings.