Do you feel empathy towards the Warriors of Darkness?

[Cybylt]

Yes and no. Yes because of their plight and that of their world, no because they appeared to have learned nothing from it until they're talked down.

They apparently started the flood by rushing into every obstacle without thinking, then when that backfires on them they keep doing it with the only difference being they do it on targets set by the Ascians.

Hear, Feel, Think. They failed every point of the only instruction we're ever given by Hydaelyn and at no point did doing so ever cause any amount of introspection on the responsibility of their own actions.

[myahele]

Hear, Feel, Think. They failed every point of the only instruction we're ever given by Hydaelyn and at no point did doing so ever cause any amount of introspection on the responsibility of their own actions.

I think the same could be said about the WoL and Scions. They know doing everything right would lead to a Flood of Light, yet they still defeated Primals and other potential sources of darkness. The mysterious man kept telling the WoL and Scions to stop what they were doing in regards to fighting Garlemald (not that they knew) and eventually intervened in during WoL vs Elidibus.

Hydaelyn's instructions by the end of 2.0 was to "spread light through all creation" and to not listen to the Asciens. The WoLs of the 1st failed on the 2nd part, but they did as they were told, especially once Hydaelyn became silent.

[YianKutku]

I think the same could be said about the WoL and Scions. They know doing everything right would lead to a Flood of Light, yet they still defeated Primals and other potential sources of darkness. The mysterious man kept telling the WoL and Scions to stop what they were doing in regards to fighting Garlemald (not that they knew) and eventually intervened in during WoL vs Elidibus.

The best way for the WoL and Scions to not spread light by defeating Primals is to not have the Ascians tempt people to summon Primals in the first place.

Like, every indication we've had is that the balance between Light and Dark would have been perfectly fine if the Ascians simply left well enough alone.

That we are fighting for our survival (in the specific case of our actions against the Warriors of Darkness and Elidibus) and the protection of innocents (in the case of the Primals) is something I cannot imagine to be considered "bad". Are we supposed to just roll over and die? Maybe cause a few atrocities while we're at it?