So about the "warrior of darkness" [spoiler]

[dvoraen]

Now what should really be baking everyone's noodle is: what happens if we Echo-join with our Darkness counterpart? Instant Rejoining? Or divine ascension? /tinfoil

[IveraIvalice]

Wtf that's a horrible title for the thread. How do you warn people of a spoiler after you name the spoiler?!
I should make a thread called "so about ishgards leader dying (spoiler)"

[dragoelete]

Wtf that's a horrible title for the thread. How do you warn people of a spoiler after you name the spoiler?!
I should make a thread called "so about ishgards leader dying (spoiler)"

technically the title itself is not a spoiler unless you already know the spoiler... for all someone who doesn't know the spoiler knows they could mean the DRK... as DRK is "a warrior of darkness"

[Mimiru_S]

Wtf that's a horrible title for the thread. How do you warn people of a spoiler after you name the spoiler?!
I should make a thread called "so about ishgards leader dying (spoiler)"

In the Heavensward trailer, you hear the title 'Warrior of Drakness'. So there is no spoiler there. The spoiler tag is for the discussion, taking place about the WoD.

[Kaiser-Ace]

Now what should really be baking everyone's noodle is: what happens if we Echo-join with our Darkness counterpart? Instant Rejoining? Or divine ascension? /tinfoil

Short answer, Nothing good.

[Kallera]

Now what should really be baking everyone's noodle is: what happens if we Echo-join with our Darkness counterpart? Instant Rejoining? Or divine ascension? /tinfoil

Ever fight a Gradius boss? That. With the crystals as our options.

Barring this, probably either a battle in the center of the mind or a alternate universe telling of our and WoD's events that ends in a feedback loop of pain and depowering.

[Mimiru_S]

Will they follow the internet rules? "The hero must always lose the first fight, with a new villain"? lol

[Kaiser-Ace]

Will they follow the internet rules? "The hero must always lose the first fight, with a new villain"? lol

I'm not sold that the WoD is a traditional " villain" like Lahabrea. If the pull an FF3 on us the what the WoD is trying to do is just as noble as us. That being save his/her world from destruction.

[Amiaze]

[QUOTE=Lyrica_Ashtine;3137595 Are you, the warrior of light, in fact a primal yourself? [/QUOTE]

I was actually discussing this very possibility with a friend the other day. Primals are just beings manifested, but what if the Warrior of Light is really just the symbol of everyone's hopes? You help everyone universally, not just Eorzea. Hydaelyn might call upon you because you were manifested, not because she made you. Similarly, Ysale could have been the heretic's manifestation. That could explain partly why you were so much stronger than she ever was -- because you're the warrior for all of Hydaelyn, the planet, not sure one side.

Alternatively, Warriors of Light aren't new concepts in Eorzea. The Twelve might have very well been warriors themselves. You could be a real person that took on that role simply because people wanted another warrior, so Hydaelyn bestowed the gift to you rather than twelve new people, which is likely what helped zap her strength in the first place.

[Mimiru_S]

Alternatively, Warriors of Light aren't new concepts in Eorzea. The Twelve might have very well been warriors themselves. You could be a real person that took on that role simply because people wanted another warrior, so Hydaelyn bestowed the gift to you rather than twelve new people, which is likely what helped zap her strength in the first place.

Hopefully, it's more along the lines of this.

The whole Warrior of Light being a primal theory feels a bit cheap, to me. Prefer to believe that maybe Hydaelyn saw in our characters, a truly incorruptible spirit and that's why she chose "us" to become her champion.