If the Warriors confirm their No.1 finish and claim Scotland's first major trophy of the professional era, it will be Ali Kellock, a native Glaswegian retiring after nine years in his native city during which the Warriors have trebled their average gate to more than 6,000.
If Munster reclaim the title they last won four long years ago, it will be Paul O'Connell. While his precise whereabouts post-World Cup are a matter of conjecture, this GUINNESS PRO12 Final will be his last match for Munster and the end of a Celtic League career which has stood the test of time over 14 years.
The victor will find himself in exalted company. At the RDS this time last year, Brian O'Driscoll and Leo Cullen bade Leinster farewell by helping their native province retain the title, even if injury decreed that the former made an exit far earlier than planned.
And two years before that, at the same Dublin venue, Shane Williams didn't just bring the curtain down on his time in the Celtic League but the whole house with it, scoring the last-minute try when the Ospreys won the last of their four titles.
It still required a touchline conversion from Dan Biggar to finish Leinster off and nobody will bet against a similar scenario this time, not after last weekend's Play-Offs - hair-raising affairs even allowing for the unfailing capacity of the PRO12 play-offs to produce the closest of shaves.
Warriors and Munster squeezed into the PRO12Final by a combined margin of five points against Ulster and Ospreys respectively. There could scarcely have been less to choose between the top four, the outcome preserving the record of every Final featuring the first and second teams over the 22-match season.
From Clydeside on Friday night to the Shannon the following afternoon, the semi-finals took the fans through so many twists and turns that it could just as easily have been an Ulster-Ospreys final. Instead, after four Finals in Dublin and one in Limerick, Ireland's sixth will be the first without a home presence.
Ulster took such command of the first-half in Glasgow that they will probably still be kicking themselves for not ridiculing the theory that the home team in a PRO12 play-off never loses. The Warriors had been this way before, of course, against Munster in last year's semi.
Kellock's men emerged from that one in '14 by a point. Last weekend, in seeing another formidable Irish provincial team off the premises at Scotstoun, they doubled the winning margin.
They did so thanks to their indomitable spirit, based on an unshakeable conviction that they simply do not lose at home and this, their 20th in a row, took some winning. As scrum half Henry Pyrgos put it: 'We just kept believing.'
Nobody personified that better than Finn Russell, a 22-year-old who has come a very long way since making his PRO12 debut in February 2013 after swopping his job as an apprentice stonemason for a professional contract. When the chips were down as never before and the Warriors needed something special, Russell rose to the occasion.
He had the vision, nerve and ability to float the lofted pass which outflanked Ulster for the only time. DTH van der Merwe took full advantage with the crucial try on his return from lengthy injury and Russell then banished the spectre of extra-time with his decisive conversion from the widest of angles.
Kellock's tearful farewell during his valedictory walk round Scotstoun as a Warrior would have been nothing compared to O'Connell's at Thomond Park had the rejuvenated Ospreys done a season's hat-trick over Munster.
In the end Ireland's gigantic captain lived to tell the tale but only after enduring the trauma of the TMO after Ospreys had come-back from 21-8. The Welsh region would have stolen the game had Josh Matavesi's last-minute touchdown not been disallowed, rightly so, because of a knock-on by Rhys Webb which had escaped the notice of referee Nigel Owens.
Munster, disrupted by a number of injuries, most notably to Conor Murray, made their first PRO12 Final since 2011 despite Ian Keatley's faulty radar off the tee. The Warriors have been vowing to go one better this time around ever since they lost last year's PRO12 Final in Dublin.
Now, all the wiser for the experience and back in Ireland for the winner-take-all decider, they make their final stand on the ground where they suffered their heaviest defeat of the season, 29-9 seven months ago.
Munster were in Belfast three weeks ago, playing out a terrific 23-23 draw with Ulster in what would have been a dress rehearsal for the big day had the Warriors not justified their No.1 seeding by removing the hosts and thereby ensuring the first Final on neutral territory.
Fasten safety belts and stand by for a thriller.
Head to head - Warriors v Munster, the last eight meetings:
This season:
Feb 28, 2015: at Cork
Munster 22 (Tries-Earls, Guinazu, Stander, O'Donoghue. Con-Keatley).
Warriors 10 (Try- de Klerk. Con-Braid. Pen-Braid).
December 20, 2014: at Scotstoun
Warriors 21 (Tries-Nakawara, Gray. Con-Russell. Pens-Russell 3)
Munster 18 (Tries-Copeland, Hanrahan. Con-Hanrahan. Pens-Hanrahan 2).
Last season:
May 16, 2014 at Scotstoun (Play-off semi-final)
Warriors 16 (Try-Reid. Con-Russell. Pens-Russell 3).
Munster 15 (Tries-Varley, Dougall. Con-Keatley. Pen-Keatley)
April 12, 2014 at Thomond Park:
Munster 5 (Try-Stander)
Warriors 22 (Tries-Maitland, Gray, Strauss. Cons-Weir 2. Pen-Weir).
October 25, 2013 at Scotstoun:
Warriors 6 (Pens-Weir 2)
Munster 13 (Try-Hanrahan. Con-Hanrahan. Pens-Hanrahan 2).
Season 2012-13:
March 29, 2013 at Scotstoun:
Warriors 51 (Tries-Maitland, Matawalu, Jackson, Hogg, Bennett, Barclay. Cons-Jackson 4, Weir 2. Pens-Jackson 3).
Munster 24 (Tries-Laulala, Kilcoyne, Howlett. Cons-O'Gara 2, Keatley. Pen-O'Gara).
December 3, 2012 at Thomond Park:
Munster 31 (Tries-Stander 2, O'Donnell, penalty try. Cons-O'Gara 4, Pen-O'Gara).
Warriors 3 (Pen-Weir).
Season 2011-12:
April 14, 2012 at Cork:
Munster 35 (Tries-O'Dea, O'Mahony, J Murphy. Con-Keatley. Pens-Keatley 6).
Warriors 29 (Tries-Hogg 3. Con-Weir. Pens-Jackson 2, Weir 2).
September 9, 2011 at Firhill:
Warriors 12 (Pens-Weir 4).
Munster 23 (Tries-Zebo, Ronan. Cons-Keatley 2. Pens-Keatley 3).
PRO12 Finals (regular season finishing place in brackets)
2014: Leinster (1st) 34, Warriors (2nd) 12 at the RDS.
2013: Leinster (2nd) 24, Ulster (1st) 18 at the RDS.
2012: Ospreys (2nd) 31, Leinster (1st) 30 at the RDS.
2011: Munster (1st) 19, Leinster (2nd) 9 at Thomond Park.
2010: Ospreys (2nd) 17, Leinster (1st) 12 at the RDS.
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