Equilibrium must needs be restored [heavy sppoiler]

[Balipu]

The time has come for you and yours to join the fray, Warrior of Darkness

Yes, the final line of the launch trailer. The one that really changes the game.
I figured I will make a separate thread for this, even though the trailer is discussed.
Now I won't hope for playable warriors fo darkness *cough* 4.0 *cough*, but even their very existence is huge news. It raises several questions though?

Who are they? Where are they? How can they know all this?

Jem lyrics aside, we have no idea where they live (definitely not in the world of darkness), absolutely no idea how dark they are or who the speaker is. Since the crystal tower is not part of the main scenario and the cloud of darkness is already defeated it is probably an unrelated matter. Are they perhaps Zodiark's chosen? Is the speaker Zodiark?

[BlueThunder]

Who knows? Some are saying maybe the "main" Warrior of Darkness will be a copy of your character.

Me? I'm excited to see how he/she and they will look, and will be happy no matter if it ends up being a copy of my character or their own entities.

[Waffilicious]

I really hope is a Divine Might or Maat fight kind of battle it would be awesome.

[Draxxion]

I have a feeling this is kind of a larger question that needs to be answered. We know that this has to do with the Echo. We know now that the Ascians have the Echo too. This brings into question as to where this power comes from what it is capable of doing. The fact they say they have become one in the video shows they are using the power of the echo to join with the power of the figures on the floating continent who we know from past game lores (FF6 for instance) are figures who are all about balance. The Ascians are using their knowledge of the Echo to join with one of these figures to become the Warrior of Darkness. That is a lot of power for three beings to possess. The bigger question I am getting at is what is the Echo and why does it seem that even the bad guys (those we consider the bad guys) have it too?

[Waffilicious]

echo must be a power bestowed by gods to wield greater power so to say they choose their generals for their chess game.

[Balipu]

I have a feeling this is kind of a larger question that needs to be answered. We know that this has to do with the Echo.

Really? We know? I think even that is speculation at this point. I think it has more to do with the Blessing of Hydaelin.

It might not even be related to the Ascians. The Ascians are looking for Chaos, not equilibrium. That being said, if warriors of light are blessed by Hydaelin, Warriors of Darkness might be blessed by Zodiark.

[Cilia]

Simply put, we don't know.

More elaborately, the Warrior of Light is the PC, who can be any race or sex and has a vague backstory. The only thing that marks us as the "Warrior of Light" is Hydaelyn's favor; if that's true, the "Warrior of Darkness" is likely similar, albeit with Zodiark's favor instead.

Even that's just speculation, though.

[Draxxion]

Really? We know? I think even that is speculation at this point. I think it has more to do with the Blessing of Hydaelin.

It might not even be related to the Ascians. The Ascians are looking for Chaos, not equilibrium. That being said, if warriors of light are blessed by Hydaelin, Warriors of Darkness might be blessed by Zodiark.

Yes what I posted is speculation, but lore conversation is full of speculation and conjecture. I still question if the Echo is in fact from Hydaelyn or Zodiark. There are too many loose ends to the question such as that Sahagan Shaman who had it. We know so little about it after all. I am hoping we get more answers to what it really is in this expansion.

[Balipu]

Yes what I posted is speculation, but lore conversation is full of speculation and conjecture. I still question if the Echo is in fact from Hydaelyn or Zodiark. There are too many loose ends to the question such as that Sahagan Shaman who had it. We know so little about it after all. I am hoping we get more answers to what it really is in this expansion.

The echo is most definitely not from Hydaelin. Not only do Ascians use it, but we retained the echo even after the blessing of hydaelin was taken from us by Midgarsormr.

The echo might actually come from the speaker who is above Hydaelin and Zodiark. Maybe we really are in the rift and it is shinryu.

[Draxxion]

The echo is most definitely not from Hydaelin. Not only do Ascians use it, but we retained the echo even after the blessing of hydaelin was taken from us by Midgarsormr.

The echo might actually come from the speaker who is above Hydaelin and Zodiark. Maybe we really are in the rift and it is shinryu.

Which brings us back to your original question which is this Equilibrium. I doubt Zodiark would care about balance and Equilibrium. It is hard to say who or what those voices are at the end except that they might have to do with the floating continent and as we know from past lore in other games what might be on that continent. What we do know is we have some figureless voices, an Ascian talking about the true power of the Echo and in one of the earlier videos (the dungeon one) you could make out three figures together in a triangle formation rather quickly in a shot of the floating continent. Could it be those three? No idea, but that is why I proposed it as an idea as to me it seemed the most likely.

I also want to add that I like it from a game play standpoint because if they go with the FF6 style of play if the Ascians do bring about the Rejoining with this it could mean remaking the rest of the world so it is flyable everywhere. Just a thought.