I don’t see anyone else mentioning this so: I find it interesting that the source is being referred to as “the Promised Land, land of boundless aether”. So we also have FF7 references, not just FF4.

I mean, arguably we had 7 parallels in Endwalker. The Amaurotines were equivalent to “cetra”, and we even have a threat from space that, in a way, fed off of despair. (Tho Meteion is really not anywhere near the Jenova parasite’s malevolence level.)

But it’s just kinda neat to *be* from “the promised land” in this scenario. Also, gives me hope that, if cetra really are gonna equate to the ancients of the unsundered world, maybe we’ll get more of them? Two directions that could go: more Unsundered World, either via time travel or other means like memory diving maybe. Or it could imply we might meet and deal with some of the remaining ascians. I’d like either one.

Also, to continue the 7 parallels, we know the war on the 13th was called the contra memoria, which I think means something like “against memory”. The importance and power of memory is a huge thing in 7. Arguably, Sephiroth uses Cloud’s memory of him to remain anchored to existence during the compilation. Jenova used people’s memories of their dead loved ones against them. The lifestream in 7 is essentially the colllective consciousness of the planet and made up of the memories and soul energy of the dead, which also serves to feed Jenova/Sephiroth when it’s corrupted into “negative lifestream”.

I have no idea where these concepts are going, but I think we can safely say there are bits and pieces of them present now in the 13th and also during endwalker itself and it’s interesting.