#cryptic background references

In the remake of Final Fantasy III, it is revealed at the end of the Floating Continent’s arc that the four main characters are from the surface world (then known as the world of darkness). This is brought up and subsequently never followed up on. In the unused dialogue, it is slightly followed up on in the town of Falgabard as Ingus is hit with a sense of nostalgia upon entering. Whilst I briefly mentioned it in passing, the Cave of Shadows has a similar scene. What follows is a play-by-play of the two scenes:

The scene presumably takes place shortly after the Dark Knight at the cave entrance dies, after giving the party the Kotetsu. Luneth notices Ingus shaking and Ingus claims that he’s merely trembling with excitement. Refia theorizes that it may have been the Dark Knight and whether or not they were worthy of receiving the Kotetsu. Ingus notes that there is that, but he also has some sort of feeling (I’ve tried dissecting the relevant words and the best I could get is that he has a vague premonition). Arc figures that it has something to do with the Fang of Earth being hidden, but Luneth goes silent.

In the second scene, Luneth out of the blue asks Ingus if he ever went through the mountain range with the holes before their current adventure. Ingus asks why and Luneth states that he remembers seeing something. Whilst Ingus initially denies it, he does admit that he found the mountain with holes familiar and that it was a distant memory from before he went to Sasune (for reference sake, this would mean he was four at best when that happened, according to the Falgabard scenes). Luneth says that he doesn’t remember well either and all he remembers is taking a trip on a vehicle that flies through the sky.

The “mountain of holes” they’re referring to is most likely the mountain range around the Cave of Shadows. The interesting part of that looking at the surface map, the Cave of Shadows is on the other side of the map. Questions are already raised on how Ingus remembers it, even accounting for him heavily implied to be from Falgabard, but if Luneth’s memory of the airship is connected in any way, then that just raises further questions.