What is a Warrior of Light?

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The specific term Warrior of Light is used a few different ways, but ultimately means the same general idea.

At first, you have the NPCs who are using it in the early story to refer to the adventurers blessed with the Echo who stood beside Louisoix at the Battle of Cartenau and were sent into the interdimensional rift. When people try to recall them, they cannot. They liken it to trying to make out their silhouette against a blinding light - ergo, the Warriors of Light.

This is how term is used for the whole of the early game, but it fades out such use quickly and you stop hearing about them in the plural altogether. There is just you, the Warrior of Light, who, if a Legacy player, is a Warrior of Light returned. Once the story stops treating Legacy players and new players slightly different, Hydaelyn starts to refer to you as Warrior of Light, as well, and then, after that, you pretty much never hear of a Warrior of Light or the Warriors of Light. It's as if you're the only one left worthy of the name. At this point, it starts to seem like NPCs came up with that name coincidentally.

Summary so far, it pretty much seems exclusive to "the player"; Hydaelyn's Champion. Used in the plural, it usually refers to players in general.
Historical figures, however, seem to have borne the title before you (including, but not limited to, those who were also at Cartenau).

What to call NPCs blessed by Hydaelyn (who are not The Champion, but still chosen) varies a bit by time and language. German actually had a neat way of doing it, referring to you as the Warrior of Light and to Iceheart as a Bearer of the Light. In the same instance, English called her simply "The Gifted". There's a scene in Toto-Rak where some languages specifically have Lahabrea point out that it's been a long time since he's seen a true Warrior of Light, so I suspect that it refers specifically to a true Champion of the Light - a chosen bearer of many Crystals of Light. Hydaelyn seems to be able to protect you at least somewhat even if you only have one (given that Krile survived Val), however, so perhaps having all of them just makes it that much more powerful of a blessing (the glyph thing).

It might be fair to just say anyone with the glyph has the Warrior of Light's level of blessing.

Have other pre-Calamity Warriors of Light returned? Not as far as the story includes, but it doesn't really preclude it, either.

Did I answer the right things in there somewhere? Sometimes a "thorough" answer misses the main point being sought, lol.