(Responding to way back with the initial question) This theory may have been posited before but...what if the warrior of darkness is a primal?

I mean, an important distinction in Heavensward is that the primal does not need to be related to their base concept. (The Vanu Vanu Bismark not matching the scriptures, Shiva being based on Ysayle's ideal of Shiva instead of the person) All it takes is faith, aether, and an image of a being to create a primal.

Now, to the citizens of the city states, we're heroes, living legends, "The beacon of hope", etc.

But what are we to, say, the beast tribes? We, who aided their heretics, who slaughtered their people, and murdered their god, often in front of them. However justified we were, to them, aren't we destroyers, monsters? What if the warrior of darkness is a primal based on the image our enemies have of us?