Interesting Final Fantasy Idea

When someone told me that "Gaia" is one of the possible names for the world in FFVII (judging from "Gaia's Cliff"), I remembered that wasn't there also a "Gaia's Cliff" in another Final Fantasy game? Was it FFVI? And then I remembered that "Gaia" was the official name of the world in either FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, FFXI, or FFXII.

Well, that got me thinking: since there's such a consistent similarity in the world's of each Final Fantasy game no matter which ambiguous time period each game is set in (sharing similar names of many different things), wouldn't it be neat if each installment in the series was a different period in the timeline of the same world (Gaia), and that all the characters of each game were not set in separate worlds with separate histories, but in fact, they all actually existed in the same reality? It kind of feels that way in the games, too.

If that were true, what would the chronological order of each installment be in juxtaposition with the world's history? Well, FFVII, FFVIII and FFXIII would definitely be at the end (with futuristic settings), and games like the original Final Fantasybe in the distant past.

It would be really cool if this were to be made official with a future installment!

I think it's an interesting theory but the entire landscapes have changed. I guess over time that is feasible to think that the lay of the land would be altered but these would have to be significantly separate time periods (we're talking a series spanning multiple millions of years) for these changes to take place and for the previous civilization to have disappeared. CNUrGames