Trivia / Shards of Memory

• What Could Have Been: Some scrapped concepts include:
  • Mateus would have revived all the villains, which would have lead to a Dual Boss fight with Safer Sephiroth and God-form Kefka. This was cut because having so many characters in the story's late chapters would have bloated it all, and there would have been little for them to do.
  • Cecil and Golbez would have combined their powers to summon the Shadow Dragon to battle Ultimecia's Griever.
  • After Dissidia came out in the West and the story became fully known, it was considered for the character the Warriors of Cosmos to meet at the end of the story, and that has been speaking to Cloud and Hikari in earlier chapters, to be revealed as Cid of the Lufeine. But the author realized that too much foreshadowing had been built up that it was Shinryu, so rather than Retcon past chapters, they left it was it was.