Heavensward Ending (Spoiler)

[Puggy]

Well, I think it is more of a foreshadowing thing. Like starting the whole game into a more PvP oriented gameplay.

"The time has come for you and 'yours' to join the fray, Warrior of Darkness." Sounds to me like there will be several of them, all striving to battle the Warrior of Light. A bit like a two Faction System in the next expansion, where you have the light guys fighting the darkness guys. Of course both are doing the "just" or "right" thing. If it does hint at a new playable faction (mind you with most likely the same races and classes) it would make sense to take the most generic representative for one of the Warriors.

Going with usual Fantasy philosophy, total light would mean stagnation and petrification, no change, every standing still. Maybe the second moon they are standing on is like a place where the Light was successful, and that is what they try to prevent (extremes either light or dark being bad).

[Kallera]

Well, I think it is more of a foreshadowing thing. Like starting the whole game into a more PvP oriented gameplay

"The time has come for you and 'yours' to join the fray, Warrior of Darkness." Sounds to me like there will be several of them, all striving to battle the Warrior of Light. A bit like a two Faction System in the next expansion, where you have the light guys fighting the darkness guys. Of course both are doing the "just" or "right" thing. If it does hint at a new playable faction (mind you with most likely the same races and classes) it would make sense to take the most generic representative for one of the Warriors.

Going with usual Fantasy philosophy, total light would mean stagnation and petrification, no change, every standing still. Maybe the second moon they are standing on is like a place where the Light was successful, and that is what they try to prevent (extremes either light or dark being bad).

Even if it is just for the purpose of story(which, given many players distaste of pvp...), being able to choose which side to take would have me extremely giddy, and would throw in some real flavor in the somewhat monolithic "adventuring community" of npcs.

[Anonymoose]

I'm at least a little hesitant to make the jump from, "...you and yours, Warrior of Darkness." to there being multiple Warriors of Darkness. Me and mine have been working on Eorzea's problems this whole game, but the Scions aren't all Warriors of Light. It's possible, but Midgardsormr made it sound like it was a pretty big deal that we were Hydaelyn's Champion (not one of Hydaelyn's champions), so I've always assumed we were the only one. Unless multiple Warriors of Darkness are needed to beat us back (very possible), the and yours might just refer to his allies, whoever they are.

[S__th_rn_fl_am_]

I'm guessing that the Warriors of darkness will be similar to ffxi. They are similar to the "classic" warriors of light but they are their own unique individual members of a group. It would be cool for SE to start including NPCs that mention multiple warriors of light ( thereby opening the narrative bit to make it less self centered, and open up the lore a bit).

[Etwo]

Just a theory: Player is a primal as well. Summoned when the true Warriors of Light disappeared and people were desperate for a guardian

[Cilia]

Just a theory: Player is a primal as well. Summoned when the true Warriors of Light disappeared and people were desperate for a guardian

This has been brought up time and again, and time and again I feel the need to remind people that the Archons have special goggles that allow them to view aether flow; if we were a primal they would have noticed it upon our first meeting. Probably.

[CyrilLucifer]

Since we're on the subject of those goggles, assuming they are able to get a good look, wouldn't they be able to discern an Ascian as well? I'm under the assumption that, with an Ascian in a host, there would be two different aethers within a single soul space, which would probably disturb the natural aetherical flow of the host.

That being said, we went right into Thancred's soulspace and fought Lahabrea there Prae, so with 100% certainty, Echo users can discern an Ascian when in a host, I'm just curious as to what other tools SE might pull out of the box at a later point.

(The primal theory is interesting, but I don't buy it for a second. Thordan probably would have beat you flat out if you were a primal, since, it's as he said, he had thousands of years of constant prayer. The WoL are much more ephemeral throughout history).

[MilesSaintboroguh]

And I also don't buy the "player is a primal" theory because the story keeps hammering the point of how a primal can drain aether from the land very quickly by simply existing in said space. We would have sent the world into ruin by now and no, I'm not going to buy the theory of how we're "special" and thus making us a primal that doesn't drain aether.

[ChazNatlo]

And I also don't buy the "player is a primal" theory because the story keeps hammering the point of how a primal can drain aether from the land very quickly by simply existing in said space. We would have sent the world into ruin by now and no, I'm not going to buy the theory of how we're "special" and thus making us a primal that doesn't drain aether.

Arguably, we are a sort of not-primal but something in the same vein anyways. Rather than taking our power from the land and life in our immediate vicinity, we cut to the chase and tap right into the Mother-crystal herself. Hence her weakness after we beat Lahabrea the first time. Though now we are apparently strong enough in and of ourselves to avoid that. ((Sortof. We haven't replicated the Sword of Light feat again without special items.))