Is the FFXIV story basically the PURGE?

[Alleo]

Please show me an instance of an Ascian doing anything other than roleplaying as Darth Vader. You know, like setting up an orphanage, giving a kid a lolly, maybe even helping an old lady cross the street.

While it may be true that light and dark may not be written as good and evil as a mere handwave, the Ascians aren't really written as anything but pretty darn evil.

Thats the problem I have with the concept of FF14 too. Light and darkness are not meant to be good and evil, yet we as the WoL are doing things for the good of the world while the ascians are trying to sow chaos by doing horrible things. Maybe they should not just push us into those categories if they want us to believe that neither is good or bad.

The WoL can also be a Dark Knight, and/or a Black Mage, two jobs who are associated with darkness and the void. Black Magic was used in the ushering of the sixth Calamity, but it was created in the first place in order to save Eorzea from a meteor that would've otherwise created a Calamity on its own. Does it make Black Magic inherently evil that people used it for such purposes after the fact? Absolutely not, and that's been the recurring motif of the BLM questlines since you got your soul crystal.



The WoDs being too strong caused their world to be overrun with Light, making it as barren and dead as the Void which was a world where the Ascians were too strong. In our world, the Ascians were the bad guys so long as they stood uncontested, but once we showed up we began standing up to them, and now we're the ones pushing back, which makes us the disturbance to the balance.

Yes the jobs are the only part where something is not completely good or bad but the WoD are another example of Light being used in the context of doing Good. They said that they were too good at their job of helping their world thus they caused a Flood of Light. So until we get more information about this it seems like WoD doing good things = Flood of Light and the female Ascians doing too many bad things = Flood of Darkness. That for me totally seems like Light = Good, Darkness = Bad.