Do those characters from the Opening Cinematic exist in the Story?

It's something I just got to thinking about earlier, but those characters from the opening cinematic *seem* to be fairly important in that cinematic, yet I've never encountered in-game. As they're all wearing player-attainable gear, I can assume they're meant to "represent us, the players", yet Louisoux (sp?) seemed pretty intent on protecting them, specifically.

It got me to wondering; do those characters have any other story?

If nothing else, I'd definitely like to see them introduced into the game's story, if they aren't already. It seems like we have a fairly short list of recurring NPC's, and given that they clearly held their own during the Calamity, seems like a great way to bring them into the mix. Maybe as the first official "Warriors of Light" NPC's, instead of relying purely on us silent protagonists? :D

Derplander and co are the first to do anything :D

derplander's in game name Realm Reborn :P

its basically a standard group with all races that SE made to show off all jobs dungeons and when they show off screenshots models :D warriors of light have it made

Pretty sure they're just meant to represent the players from 1.0

Actually, Derplander and his party are both - they both represent the player's character, and are characters in their own right. Ferne confirmed this fact in this (now archived) very long thread in the Lore section back before ARR launched: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-CG-Midlander

Also, Derplander and his party were first introduced to us in the original opening movie for 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2cRTU-Og8

His name is DERPlander?! Lol

You sure they're not from the job quests?

Those characters represent the player base. They are the Warriors of Light. And if you remember the first part of the main scenario you're told they forgot their names.

I thought derplanders name was Meteor?

Actually he's officially unnamed - 'Derplander' is just a pseudonym the player community have fondly given him (I believe it was Vilheim on the old forum who first started calling him it), due to the silly faces he keeps pulling in the trailers.

But yes, in the Waning of the Sixth Sun story recap Bluray disc that came with the collector's edition of ARR, he has the placeholder name of 'Meteor'. But it remains to be seen whether or not that is his real name or something else. Either way, until his real name is canonically revealed I'm going to continue to call him 'Derplander' as the name has stuck. ;)

Like others said, they are "characters" in the world technically but don't ever expect to see or hear from them as they represent the player base. And so far as the opening movie goes, they represent us legacy players there.

The battle you see in the cinematic was an actual in-game event that took place in the final day of version 1.xx. I remember very well the hours spent of us legacy players gathering and watching the red moon crashing down and the Imperials invading with a massive war breaking out all across the game world. *sigh*. Even at the end of the cinematic you see them being teleported to some remote place... us legacy players actually go through that. When we started in 2.0 with our old characters, we appear in the same location and we even get the same armored black tail chocobo you see the warrior ride away on in the end.

So yeah basically, their legacy players.

Hmm, interesting. I'm not trudging through 96 pages of posts to find one comment, so I'll just take your word on it :P

Either way, I definitely hope to see more out of Derplander/Meteor and crew! Would be cool to see them as recognizable characters, to sort of help move the story along in more ways than "Alphanaud constantly bossing you around".

They are the Default Characters of 1.0 named the Warriors of Light and if a player is a Legacy Player then the Legacy Player is a member of the Warriors of Light. New characters created in 2.0 are their successors due to being chosen as the new Warriors of Light named New Adventurers.

The story slightly differs between Legacy and New Adventurers since Legacy version is slightly altered represent the player is a Warrior of Light of 1.0 that has returned.

You can see their story and 1.0 storyline here which is narrated by Louisoix...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXc0loyuq9I

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Originally Posted by Terin

Hmm, interesting. I'm not trudging through 96 pages of posts to find one comment, so I'll just take your word on it :P

Either way, I definitely hope to see more out of Derplander/Meteor and crew! Would be cool to see them as recognizable characters, to sort of help move the story along in more ways than "Alphanaud constantly bossing you around".

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Hehe, don't worry, I managed to find Ferne's post in that thread which revealed all: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...626#post898626 But to summarize:

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Originally Posted by Fernehalwes

But that still leaves one question—was the party an actual party, or were they merely symbols meant to represent you, the players? Well, you can breathe easy knowing they are both. They all ventured into Eorzea at the same time as you did. They all did similar quests, and lived through similar adventures. They exist as your characters exist (in a virtual world-sort of existence). The fact that you haven’t come across them is probably the same reason you haven’t come across my character, Amanda Hugginkyss (or maybe you have? /wink). They’re just somewhere else. Though, maybe you’ll stumble across their party in the future. Or maybe you won’t. How’s that for committing to an answer?

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:) So there you have it. Straight from the ahriman himself. ;)

Awesome, thanks Enkidoh!

So yeah, hopefully we run into those guys at some point in the Story!

Yes, they exist. They are you, me & the rest of us.