Final Fantasy VII/Catalogs/Locations
This article uses material from the "Junon", "Costa del Sol", "Temple of the Ancients", "Mythril Mines (Final Fantasy VII)", "Nibelheim", "Mt. Nibel", "Gold Saucer", "Battle Square", "Corel Prison", "North Corel", "Bone Village" articles on the Final Fantasy wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
Bone Village
An archaeological dig site on the Northern continent; the party must excavate here while on the way to the Temple of the Ancients.
Corel Prison
Corel Prison was once the town of Corel, but after its destruction by Shinra, it has become a prison in the shadow of the Gold Saucer. The townsfolk have since relocated to North Corel. The prison is loosely guarded, since security is not needed. The harsh desert around makes escape by land impossible. It is largely self-run by Mr. Coates and a mysterious leader. Despite being largely in ruins, the faint outline of a town can still be seen. Convicts in the Corel Prison are used in the Chocobo Races.
Old Corel is the birthplace of Barret Wallace and his best friend Dyne who worked in the coal mines.
Cosmo Canyon
Costa del Sol
Costa del Sol is a coastal resort town that also serves as the main port on the western continent in Final Fantasy VII. The town specializes in making Softs.
Gold Saucer
The Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy VII is a towering amusement park, built on Corel's ruins and operated by Shinra. Cait Sith joins the player party during the first visit.
The games in the Gold Saucer do not use Gil, but GP (Gold Point) as a currency. Gold Saucer is divided up into seven attractions, most of which consist of minigames.
Gold Saucer can only be reached via a free cable car from North Corel. Inside the Gold Saucer are a number of zones:
- Speed Square: a minigame where the player controls a moving turrent which fires at a variety of objects to earn points.
- Battle Square: In the Battle Square, the player selects a single character and fights in a gauntlet-style match, fighting eight enemies in a row for prizes.
- Chocobo Square: When leaving Corel Prison, Cloud must win a Chocobo Race. The player can then bet on chocobos. Later in the game, the player can bring their own chocobos to race.
- Ghost Square: Ghost Square serves as an Inn that costs 5 GP a night, and it has an item shop that uses Gil. It is here that Cloud's date (either Aeris, Tifa, Yuffie, or Barret) picks him up on date night.
- Event Square: a theatre where plays are put on; used during the date night sequence.
- Round Square: has the entrance to a ride where one can see the Gold Saucer as a whole.
- Wonder Square: This is the place where the party originally meets Cait Sith. He is posing as a fortune teller and gives Cloud a fortune foretelling doom to something he cherishes. Later the party can play various minigames at Wonder Square to win GP.
Junon
Junon is a major city and military installation on the eastern continent. It used to be a peaceful fishing village before Shinra built the new city right beside it. The city's elevated airfield was built directly above the old village, blocking out the sun and polluting the surrounding seas. As a result the once-thriving fishing industry has died out but the economically deprived village soldiers on, dominated by its larger neighbor.
The new city of Junon became the secondary headquarters for the Shinra Corporation and the central office for the Vice President, Rufus Shinra. Junon is heavily defended by retractable artillery batteries and its sizable Shinra garrison as well as being the initial home of Shinra's major defense project, the Sister Ray, a large long-range cannon powered by Huge Materia. As well as being Shinra's primary airbase, Junon is also a major port, having a Submarine dock below in the Junon Underwater Reactor and being one of the ports of call for the Cargo Ship. There is also a helicopter that will can carry the party to the different parts of the city or even completely out of it to the World Map.
Mideel
Midgar
Midgar is the largest city in the Final Fantasy VII world. It consists of a circular arrangement, with an upper 'plate' which is suspended above large slums. In the center of the city is the large Shinra Building, home of the Shinra Corporation which run the city and the many Mako reactors. Each zone of the city has a Mako reactor, a number of which get destroyed during the game. The city has a number of train services which go between the slums and up on to the plate.
The Sector 7 slums contain a bar owned by Tifa called "7th Heaven". The eco-terrorist group AVALANCE meets underneath the bar in a base accessible using a pinball machine that turns into a lift. Sector 7 also houses a beginner's zone where new players can learn about the game.
Sector 6 is the home of Aeris/Aerith, and is also close to a church which she tends to.
In the slums is a particularly disreputable area known as Wall Market, ruled over by Don Corneo, and is home to a number of highly suspect enterprises including the "Honey Bee Inn" - a brothel and sex club, a sleazy bar, a weapons shop and a gym populated by transvestites. Perhaps strangest of all is a shop which contains little more than a computer which, when activated, causes a machine gun to be fired at the operator of the computer.
Mt. Nibel
Mt. Nibel is a mountain located near the small village of Nibelheim in Final Fantasy VII. It is the site for a Shinra Mako Reactor and is where Jenova was stored for some time.
Mythril Mines
The Mythril Mines are a short dungeon in Final Fantasy VII. They are mines used for extracting the precious metal Mythril by the population of Kalm. The mines travel beneath the mountain range in the eastern continent, connecting the Chocobo Farm to Fort Condor and Junon. Recent appearances of the monster Midgar Zolom have stopped Mythril production.
Nibelheim
Nibelheim is a small mountain village at the foot of Mt. Nibel, and near Cosmo Canyon in Final Fantasy VII. It is the hometown of both Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart. Years ago, something terrible happened there, although it was covered up and never revealed to the public. Afterward, Shinra claimed their hero, Sephiroth, to be dead. Most of the Sephiroth Clones, waiting for the Reunion, can be found all around the town. There is a Mako Reactor located on nearby Mt. Nibel. The Shinra Mansion is the most prominent structure in the town.
North Corel
North Corel is a town at the foot of Mt. Corel in Final Fantasy VII. It was built by the survivors of Corel, which was destroyed by Shinra. Since it is a relatively new settlement, the town is just a collection of crude dwellings, with little of the advanced technology that makes up human civilization on the Planet. It serves mostly as a stepping ground for the resort of Gold Saucer.
Rocket Town
Cid Highwind's hometown and home of the Shinra space program: a large rocket leans over the town after being abandoned many years prior.
Temple of the Ancients
The Temple of the Ancients is a location in Final Fantasy VII. It was built by the Cetra thousands of years before the start of the game to house the most destructive Materia, the Black Materia. The outside of the Temple is similar in architecture to Mayan and Aztec pyramids of the real world Central America. The interior houses a large maze-like cavern of staircases, a passage when the party must avoid falling boulders, and finally a large room where the party must input a time on a clock, then walk across the clock's hands to access the different rooms its hands can point to.
A Key Item called the Keystone is required in order to be able to open the Temple's door. The Temple lies on an island, and can only be reached via the Tiny Bronco. It can only be visited once, then is replaced by a crater on the World Map when the Temple is destroyed.