Devil's Plain

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Devil's Plain
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Inhabitant	Devil
Quadrant	D2
Connecting Quadrants	C2 D1 D3
Stage Number	21
Seamless Designer	Takeshi Ochiai (ot)

Devil's Plain is the developer name given to the unused arena of Devil, one of the unused colossi. The picture shows the vacant area in D2 where the arena once resided.

Description

Seamless

Screenshot of D2 from the E3 Demo. The arena was removed and the area was left empty.

It's unclear how the general shape of the arena looked like. What is known is that it was set somewhere high-up near or at the current spot of the D2 archway, at the top of a structure.

Comparison of Devil's pillars with the ones near the 14th Colossus.

Several pillars of two types existed throughout the battlefield: The first were tall pillars, which were set in the outer edges of the arena. This type can still be be found in all versions of the game in C2, outside the cave entrance of the 14th colossus. The second type were smaller pillars set inside the arena itself. Like the taller ones, they were also moved to C2, and can be found in the E3 Demo and PSU Preview versions of the game. However, newer versions replaced the model of the pillars with different ones.

devil_test model in the Athretic Test Stage.

One of the structures in the arena was a separate model that is listed in the PS3 Data Sheets, named "devils_plain_tatemono". It had the same texture seen on the yellowish rectangular blocks from one of the screenshots, and was likely related to the Athretic test object named "devil_test", as both have a similar shape, and are the only known separate objects related to Devil.

Test Stage

Texture of Devil's test area - Stage 21.

Before being placed in the seamless world map, Devil was tested in Stage 21. There isn't much of Stage 21 to be found in the data sheets, aside from its texture segment, listing four textures in total: Two that were of structures, and two that are common in dry places. The most interesting texture is 'mk_wall_en_mip', being of a mandala that is only found today in the 6th colossus' arena, the Canossa.

Location

The location of Devil's Plain in a mockup version of the early map.

The arena was located on the northwest side of the Forbidden Lands, next to Stone Arch Gorge, at quadrant D2.

Comparison between the textures listed in D2 (E3 Demo) and Devil's Plain.

Several pieces of evidence indicate that this was the case. The most concrete one is the amount of textures that match between Devil's Plain's texture segment, and the E3 Demo version of quadrant D2. Most of the textures that are missing from D2 are that of man-made structures, and also of tall grass.

The chip data of Devil's Plain and the final version of D2.

Another piece of evidence is the chip data of Devil's Plain and D2 matching, which indicates both locations had models placed in the same spots.

In the final game, this area is now empty with no purpose except for connecting surrounding quadrants.

Trivia

• Devil's arena was previously speculated to have been located at H2, next to the Beta Dam, but was debunked when new evidence from the PS3 Data Sheets was discovered.
• The stairs in D2 which serves no purpose in the final game may have been remnants of the arena. Their model has materials named as "KAIDAN_enter" and "HASIRA_enter" (They translate to Stairs and Pillar, respectively), suggesting that this might've been the entrance to the arena. The stairs in D1 that act as an entrance to the 7th colossus' arena also have these exact same material names, but the textures are slightly different.

Gallery

The possible entrance to Devil's Plain; still remains in the final game.

Smaller pillar in the PSU Preview version.

Taller pillars, now aligned at the entrance to the cave leading to the Ruins.

The Forbidden Lands World Era 3 World Era 2 Retail Map Beta Map (fan recreation)