Quote Originally Posted by CyrilLucifer View Post
I guess if we're going full crackpot and not just head-canon, my total crackpot would be that the WoDs come from an AU and that Ascian they killed was the cutscene of their AU you (eg how you were a Spitewarden in the true FFXI world), hence the mocking "Warrior of Light" bit. Because to them, you being called the Warrior of Light is a mockery.
Didn't I already post a similar theory on the first page (though that speculated more on the nature of the AU world itself)?