Quote Originally Posted by Daralii View Post
They didn't harbor any hatred toward Hydaelyn or allegiance toward Zodiark. They wanted to bring about another calamity because their world is falling apart and Elidibus sought to use their desperation to get them out of the picture(tips the First toward the dark ever so slightly), trigger a rejoining(tips the Source back toward balance) and ideally kill the WoL(tips the Source back toward balance). People seem to have a big misunderstanding of what the idea of WoLs and WoDs are- it's yin and yang, not good and evil.

It's been awhile but I could of sworn in "One Life for One World" they harbored hatred towards Hydaelyn, in the flash back scene, they said they did everything that was asked of them by her but as a result their world fell to ruin and they were abandoned; when Hydaelyn went quiet, (she did in the source too), they took that as betrayal. They wanted to cause another Umbral Calamity to tip the world towards darkness and weaken Hydaelyn's influence on the first shard. When Hydaelyn enters Minfilia and tries to talk to them, the leader tries to attack her because of his rage towards her. I play on the Japanese version so I'm not sure if there are differences between the dialogs and translations but when I did the quest, It definitely gave off the impression they blamed Hydaelyn for their situation.


On a separate note to my earlier point that they are not true warriors of darkness, I just remembered that after losing to us, their final attack was calling forth "Crystals of Light" to attack us, not darkness. If we look at our interactions with them, they never use darkness, they defeated the primal using the echo(given to warriors of light) and they use light against us. In fact they themselves didn't seem to have the power to influence darkness, they hoped to use primals to cause a calamity, which would weaken Hydaelyn. From what we know from the information we got about Shadowbringers, we as Warriors of Darkness will gain abilities that allow us to influence the First shard with darkness directly and not as a by product of a separate being.