Quote Originally Posted by YianKutku View Post
The term "Warrior of Light" and its related monikers feel a little inconsistent to me, with regards to how official they are.

For the most part, it seems like "Warrior of Light" is just something civilians use to describe first the adventurers at Rivenroad and Carteneau, and then yourself for saving the realm from the Ultima Weapon (if you're not a 1.0 veteran; if you are, then you're just reclaiming and re-affirming the title). As in, it's a name given by mortals.

However, more cosmic beings also call you things like "Hydaelyn's champion" and "Bringer of Light", generally with immense amounts of ham. "Hydaelyn's champion" is fairly straightforward, since we try to stop the Ascians in order to help Hydaelyn, and they know it. But "Bringer of Light" might be a bit more meaningful now that we are supposedly going to be "bringing the darkness" to the First.

So I don't know if the term "Warrior of Light" (and correspondingly "Warrior of Darkness") will be something other mortals call us, or if it has actual cosmic significance. Or both, and the civilians are somehow subconsciously responding to the cosmic titles by adopting it and assuming they came up with it themselves.

In the keynote we were told that in the first area we will visit there is a legend that one day a Warrior of Darkness will come and save them from the encroaching light.... I suspect that´s where the whole warrior of darkness thing will come from as news and rumors of a champion from a faraway place spread in our wake.

That said, warriors of light are, near as I can tell, heroes that rise up to fight some evil or avert a catastrophe, usually at the behest of Hydaelin. They may or may not have light crystals, since others we know such as Ysayle have crystals but arent warriors of light; and the other two warriors of light we know of, Ramza and Tenzen, may or may not have had crystals. Over the ages these heroes invariably rose to prominence in the eyes of the people who started calling them Warriors of Light. At least thats what I can gather, maybe the Eorzea encyclopedias offer more insight on how the term came to be used.