Warriors of Darkness

[Kallera]

I'm hoping before the platoon content(which I hope is really good/not abandoned like chocobos) arrives derplander and crew decide to make a entrance. I'm also hoping him and his crew are more than just scowls and grimaces. I remember people making meme images of the white mage.

[TribalReturns]

What's this Platoon content you speak of

[Kallera]

What's this Platoon content you speak of

I'm not going to speculate on it, but it sounds like SE is ppanning this in 3.4-4.0. We will have a group of companions with us, able to do instanced content. they've been fairly tight lipped about it though, so I'm not holding out hope for anything like what I hoped path companions would be.

[CyrusArjuna]

They might go the FFXI Trust system where your companions fill up party slots and have different roles assigned...hopefully you'll be able to change the roles easily though for people who like to swap jobs.

[TribalReturns]

Ah never got deep into FF11 sadly. Played and beat 3(6 in japan) 7, 8, 9,10,10-2 13, 13-2 and lightning returns though lol

[Anonymoose]

Unless I see short blond pigtailed Dunesfolk in White Robes or a Sea Wolf in Silver Armor, I'm inclined to say only lolDRGlander still exists :P

Heh, fair point. We're one player, he's one player. I just walked it backwards from "DRGlander changed his job from WAR in the Heavensward CG" to "the Heavensward CG WAR was the same as guy as the End of an Era WAR, who did have friends". Darklander is still a WAR, ergo ipso facto columbo oreo maybe the whole group was duped. But maybe not

<...> and confirming that there was (and likely still are) multiple dimensions. I'd like to posit that the Warriors of Darkness came from one such dimension and in fact are AU versions of the Trailer group

I feel like this ties into one big unknown - that even we have that piece of the puzzle, we can only see the reverse side.

We have a foundation: Hydaelyn says that the Source was split into 14 pieces (including our own) when she removed Zodiark from their original shared being. As far as we've been told, mortal life didn't exist then. It came later, created specifically because she "feared the moon" and His hatred of Her. On which world(s)? We're on the original world and we know it's teeming with life. But what of the reflections of the Source? Would She (and could She) seed the others? Would there be any reason to when all signs point to our world being where the barriers that must be broken down need defending?

If the answer is yes, the Ascians destroy millions, if not billions of Her children every time they successfully initiate a rejoining and re-collapse one of the other dimensions. That's a pretty big blow to the "maybe they're not so bad" theory. Seven worlds have been destroyed. (SO FAR!) That's a lot of death! Do we, as children of Hydaelyn, as players, as people just write them off as collateral damage sacrificed to restore Elidibus' proper path? I guess, in that case, Darklander's crew could be outside of this realm and still connected to Hydaelyn...

Also, what are the Ascians in this case? One representative of each world (seven of whom have now seen their worlds annihilated), each lifted from the shackles of mortal life and given immortality in Darkness by Zodiark, as he did for Lahabrea? With one white-robed Ascian from the realm in which Zodiark is trapped? Or are they from before mortals - from the Age of the Gods? The "are the Ascians the Twelve" question comes up over and over, but even if they aren't those specific entities, that doesn't mean they're not from the Age of the Gods.

But let's assume for a second that the reflections of the Source weren't seeded with life. Maybe they're elementally unstable. Maybe the shard(s) of Light and Darkness don't create a habitable plane. Maybe it's too close to the Source (lacking the planet/moon division). Whatever. Where the hell did the Ascians come from? All we've got left are various degrees of what mortals would call gods. But, if this is the case, the Warriors of Darkness would have to be from our dimension.

Or is the Truth in the gray? For one thing, I think the Gerun Oracles contain a hint.

...The sea sundered in fourteen.
To the seas She cast Her children, for fear of the Moon.

But, it does look like their visual identities were chosen because we'd already be able to infer so much - that they were adventurers, that they were chosen by Hydaelyn, that they were at Cartenau, that they took up arms against the Darkness (until ... something).

Unless that's all misdirection...

Please look forward to it.™

[TribalReturns]

Whats this DRGlander you guys keep mentioning ? o.O

[Dualblade]

DRGlander is the guy from the trailers, also known by some as Derplander. The Hume WoD Warrior (Edgelander) is basically him prior to HW since he was a Warrior at the time (Also see the ARR opening, where DRGlander was WARlander.)

[Anonymoose]

Whats this DRGlander you guys keep mentioning ? o.O

Long ago, people named what I called the CG Midlander "Derplander" because he seems easily confused and his facial expressions change rapidly. When Derplander was representative of both the players and himself as a character (a little of each, a little vague, it didn't matter), that was the only name he needed... but then the Warriors of Darkness showed up looking just like his party... things had to get more specific.

A lot of people feel as if the WAR that would one day become a Warrior of Darkness was in fact the side of Derplander that was his own man, rather than a trailer avatar for us. So Derplander, who was both, split into "Darklander", the WAR who joined Elidibus, and "DRGlander" the guy who became a Dragoon and still represents us in the trailers.

Funny enough, DRGlander was seen in the same trailer as Darklander. I bet their meeting was awkward...

[Theodric]

Funny enough, DRGlander was seen in the same trailer as Darklander. I bet their meeting was awkward...

I ship it.