Darkness [Spoiler Warning]

[Gilraen]

I dont get why everyone here thinks dark=bad.

It's not that we think dark=bad, it's that we're all heroes and so far the 'dark' side has been acting solely to destabilize Hydaelyn (planet, not the 'goddess') in an effort of fulfilling less-than-pleasant goal. And clearly the Warrior of Darkness will be tasked with furthering that goal by reigning us, the Warrior of Light, in. For all we know, these people could be every bit as much heroes in their world as we are ours, but that doesn't make them heroes here.

[Hypie]

Just going to drop these two links here about the "Midlander"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag2cRTU-Og8

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...626#post898626

Wow they reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally messed up there Red Line saying "derplander is you" and then "no the derplander is someone else"

If you ask me Yoshi and his team have to sit down and sort out their own story and make a big red line through it.

[Sapphic]

We, as the heroes of the game, will never be swayed from our righteous path. This is the nature of the Japanese RPG hero, and as such everyone playing the game. It's the rare series where the Hero can break free of 'destiny'. Mostly Atlus' RPGs. This said, I can't help but think that the Warrior of Darkness is...

Derplander, or at least Mirror Derplander. He appears in cutscenes as us so it stands to reason that, in the Ascian's world there's people just like us, saving the world in the name of Zodiark while the Ascians fulfill the roles of the Scions.

But that's just a theory...

...based on the Wings of the Goddess storyline in XI.

Append: Clarifying myself.

Warrior of Darkness + Derplander =Warrior of Derpness!

[EdwinLi]

Wow they reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally messed up there Red Line saying "derplander is you" and then "no the derplander is someone else"

If you ask me Yoshi and his team have to sit down and sort out their own story and make a big red line through it.

May be the Midlander is actually experiencing the events our character went through with his Echo.

[Dyvid]

May be the Midlander is actually experiencing the events our character went through with his Echo.

[Hypie]

Yeah just this....

[myahele]

Wow this would be even make sense lorewise!! Imagine we get more into the Zodiark/Hydaelyn Stuff and discover that both need to coexist. The white robe guys says we destroy the balance and there was a ff title where the light was too strong.

Chosing the Light or Dark Side would make logical move. Even so because the Derplander just represents us the Players. Maybe a overworking from the three faction pvp into light/darkness pvp? I would totally ship and buy this shit...and consume it on a daily dose of 20 hours

I dont get why everyone here thinks dark=bad.

So far all of the "dark" things have been "bad"
1.Keepers of the moon miqo'te
2.Xaela
3. Duskwights
4.Nidhogg

Dark = bad is just how it is

[Sicno]

How I'm interpreting all this (heavy spoilers ahead) :

On the archbishop's final moments light is fading away from him. So it's not that there's something dark about us, that's just a representation of his life extinguishing, we just happen to be on his field of view at that moment. I was confused by this at first, because of the mix of that darkness, what he asked -"Who- What are you?!"- and our character's expression afterwards, which at quick glance may look like an evil grin, but I think it to be a worried expression instead.

So, he's questioning both our nature and our purpose. Until now we think we're an entity sent by a higher being -the planet itself- and never questioned it. But what if we're something else? We've always cared only about our mission and never about ourselves, and the people around us have never wondered nor questioned our nature beyond being the "warrior of Light". Nobody researches what a "warrior of light" is. I think the archbishop is the very first character in the entire game to make the honest question, so only now we're left wondering the same. What kind of freak are we?

And a freak I think we are. By what we've learned on Heavensward about summoning I think it's entirely possible that we're nothing more than a primal, channeling the people's hopes for a champion to save them and sustained by Hydaelin's aether. And I think the warrior of darkness is another such primal.

By the way, I also think it's possible for that Nanamo that woke up to be another primal channeling the people of Ul'dah's faith on her leadership and that the real Nanamo is actually dead. (It would give Lolorito's nonsensical schemes some meaning at least)

[BannedatRegistration]

Final Fantasy is a series where the story is on rails and you're never given a choice to switch sides. On a more practical level, Square would cry trying to cram content for two "factions" and they'd probably watered down.

FF Dimensions allows players to be both WoL and WoD...so yeah

[Kikoten]

Well, who- or whatever the Warrior of Darkness is, I want to take him on. If the story's going the way I think it's going, we (WoLs) are really the only ones who will be able to stand up to the Warrior of Darkness.