thank you for compiling this. Unfortunately, as discussion I made on reddit years ago regarding the backstory, guess in the end the true culprit never got the justice they deserve & instead the people the heroes was to protect became the victim. Was hopinh this remake would finally address that, but i guess it was just too impossible given the timeframe.
Weird how the termites became so integral to the lore of the seven heroes. In the original they were a one time enemy and out of nowhere at the end they come back. Then in the remaster they added the Dread Queen without any context except that she's claims to be as powerful as the seven heroes.
They've been essential to the setting roughly since the get-to but SaGa has always been kinda bad about putting all of its story in the game itself. Guidebooks, the manga adaptation from the 1994, the various mobile games, as well as the stage play adaptation in 2018 expanded on the backstory a lot, especially about the Seven Heroes; which included defining the Hive Queen as the calamity the Heroes assembled to thwart and what necessitated their creation and use of assimilation magic. Dread Queen was new to the remaster in 2017 but the "True Queen" during the Final Emperor's scenario already claimed she was something even the Seven Heroes feared back in the original SFC game. The Dread Queen in the Maze of Memories was speaking directly to the Seven Heroes in the remaster since the whole dungeon is just a memory sealed away beyond time and space (thus why Hasten Time doesn't work there). The Remake uses SaGa the Stage as a basis for a lot of the memories/flashbacks to the Heroes and dismantles the Maze of Memories to relocate a lot of its content to different parts of the game, so unlike the Remaster, the Dread Queen is addressing the Final Emperor instead of replaying a moment in history against the Heroes.
Nevermind I JUST found it. I didn't explore the other side of Iris Village and thought it lead back through the mountain so my dummy self thought it was nothing😅
