The Tale of the Dark Knight (DRK Spoilers)

[shinros]

I still think my WOL is a madman for asking Sidurgu to train Rielle. Oh another note Cilia is right on the mark as the quest journal states the WOL wanted to dispense justice as they saw fit according to the level 30 journal entry. Plus without people hiding behind the law as well we all remember 2.55 right? Oh and "Fray" did also note have strength, gaining it and using it is suffering in itself as well.

I always took that line as normal people always flock to the powerful for request and such and the more power you gain the more things people are going to demand from you and each time its going to get more dangerous, well we are a DRK and that's what are whole life is. Suffering for someone else in the name justice man our life sucks doesn't it. :P

I do wonder what is truly happening when you are attuning or doing the communion because each job quest the dark aura around "Fray" get's bigger, I do understand its a dark ritual and such hence why we can't do it in the holy see. (plus it gave an excuse to go outdoors gameplay wise) I always saw it as you gaining understanding from your dark side (very slowly I might add) and why he/she is annoyed somewhat and also what the dark side desires from you. I also think that you attuning to it so you can use the dark powers. I mean the aura at level 45 was pretty scary and ominous, what do the rest of you think the communion was?

[Raminax]

Rawr!

I personally interpreted it as our mind being opened up to Fray or our inner self/subconcious/whatever. Essentially a very fancy way of confronting our 'darker' (well, more selfish than anything) impulses (wanting to leave Eorzea and its needy citizens to itself) and suppressing them (continuing maintaining a smile, despite everything). Assuming we consider Fray or our other self as an individual, Fray essentially wanted the PC to see Fray's way and run away with them on adventures outside Eorzea, so that we could be considered free from duties we aren't all too happy to perform. Kind of like that excessively loyal friend who only thinks about you, yet still fails to consider your own feelings when searching for solutions to a dilemma.

It probably also had something to do with Fray assuming our appearance in the lvl50 DRK quest; each communion kind of 'weakened' the PCs barriers towards their undesirable self, meaning that it would've been easier for Fray to hijack your body and mind. While it likely wasn't what Fray wanted to do (as exciting as battles within the mind are, they are probably rather taxing), they ended up having it as a backup plan. It's how I understood the final quest in the beginner's DRK questline. Fray is so sick and tired of the PC keeping the mask despite repeated attempts to get the PC to just admit their own feelings and their pain, so as a last resort, Fray attempts to become the dominant personality so that they can force the PC away from everything.

So uh, tl;dr: The communion is a fancy method of confronting ones urges, masked behind edgy imagery (Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!).