Leo's Cave

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Leo's Cave
An altar overlooks the lake...
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Inhabitant	Leo
Quadrant	F1
Connecting Quadrants	E1 F0 F2 G1
Stage Number	13
Seamless Designer	Masanori Kajita (mk)
Theme (E3)

Leo's Cave (洞窟) is the developer name given to the arena of the 11th colossus. The name 'Leo' refers to the developer name of the colossus.

Description

The battle takes place at the bottom of a canyon in the desert, in an altar-like area with flickering bonfires and a view of a drying lake.

Location

The arena is located at the north of the Forbidden Lands, close to Northern Span, Dried Marsh and Desert Fortress, at quadrant F1.

Trivia

• The stick that falls off the pedestal can also be acquired via a flash arrow.
• According to the colossi nicknames interview, the lake in the arena used to be a lot bigger, but was eventually toned down because of problems involving the colossus' swimming animations looking weak or slow.
• An old rumor dating over 10 years called the 'Intersecting Points Theory' stated that there was a secret inside the "door" located in this arena. The rumor, while false, got extremely famous.

Leo's Cave Cutscene

• In the E3 Demo version of the game, a cutscene with the theme 'Lakeside' plays when first finding the arena. However, this cutscene was removed in later versions of the game.
• An earlier version of a map close to the final version from the magazine CG World shows a version of F1 with no Leo's Cave. It's possible that it was planned to be moved but likely never did, as there's no texture segment for a normal non-arena F1 quadrant in the sheets.
• According to one of the specifications of the stage seen in The World of Fumito Ueda, it was planned to place a Save shrine atop the mysterious, empty platform outside the cave from the final game. It's unknown if it was implemented.

Gallery

• Original
• Remake
• Earlier versions

Broken structure at the entrance of the arena. Picture by Nomad Colossus.

The lake.

Strange structure not important to the fight.

Looking up to the colossus' altar.

Cliff edge of the altar.

The broken wall that leads to the inside of the cave.

The mysterious door-like design on the back wall.

The altar in the cave.

One of the flame pedestals.

Leo's Cave in the remake.

Footage of an earlier version of the area atop the canyon.

Early screenshot of the area atop the canyon.

Another early screenshot of the area around the top of the canyon.

Early screenshot of F1 near G1.

Early version of the entrance to the arena found in the Athretic Test Stage.

Close-up shot of the ruin at the early entrance to the arena.

Concept art of the fight on the altar.

Development sketch of Leo's Cave. Year of creation: 2003~2004.

Development sketch of the 11th Colossus falling into the lake. Year of creation: 2003~2004.

Sketch of Leo's Cave from the Nico bonus DVD.

Stage specification of Leo's Cave, taken from The World of Fumito Ueda.

Stage and battle specification of the earlier version of the 11th colossus, also taken from The World of Fumito Ueda.

Image from the CG World magazine showing differences between a newer and older map. Leo's Cave is present in the older map to the right but missing in the newer one to the left. Bought by Shuu and sent to Nomad Colossus, who scanned it.

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