It would be funny if Alicer and Myaw never saved a town called Termi and now those citizens are profiting with that legend through tourism and souvenirs:
- This village has a lot of history. Apparently, a heroine came to visit, and took to this town greatly!
- The statue of the heroine is atop that hill. It is said that even the most skilled stone mason could not do justice to her beauty.
- This is the Hill of the Person of Courage. Isn't it romantic? Perfect for a couple, isn't it?
- Ah, there's lots of greenery and the smell of the sea!
Motabia's map is a point to have in consideration, but personally I don't think the it would be a problem after the Great Collapse. I think after that event anything can go with the Motabia's Pangea.
Regardless of that, I think Termi's statue is really a reference to that statue from Nei's Text Adventure, mainly because the description of the Paseo's statue matches what we see in PSIV:
Statues of the legendary heroes Alisa and Myau rise from a small pond in the center of the plaza. Outfitted for battle, and with a laconia sword and animal claws equipped respectively, they have a gallant appearance to them.
I also wanted to point out that according to the pennant they sell at Baya Mare gift shop, the town's name
(
terumi) may have been intended to be called TELLMI (either
Tell Mi or
Tell-Me), not Termi.
In the picture we see the statue of a heroine at the top of the hill, we also see the sea and we can also see the town's name.
Tell is a word with Arabic origins that describes ruins of long lived ancient settlements which often appears today on the shape of tall hills (e.g. Tell es-Sultan was Jericho, Tell ed-Duwier was Lachish, etc.). More details about this phenomenon can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fyI1XOselI
The name of the town can be an important piece of evidence, because it is not the first time Phantasy Star uses Arabic references (e.g. desert setting and some hunter's clothes, Algol and the
Sheik/LaSheik, an important medicine starting with
Al). In the end, I cannot discard the possibility that maybe Tell-Mi was meant to be Paseo and its ruins are on the lowest layers. If so, then we can literally see Alicer holding her laconian sword (which was the model that Baya Mare gift shop had based their Alis' sword).