Warrior of Darkness: Deceptive Marketing?

[Makeda]

I think it was a little deceptive.

I was not expecting us to be evil. I was expecting dark to be seen as the real good; which we did get on the First.

But then there was all the dialogue of NOCs calling you sinner without context for it. It’s actually a great greeting if context is given. I could see something like members if a Christian-like faith calling each other that as a reminder of imperfection.

But on the First it was just a random word and they could have used “Fred” and had equal impact... as in none.

And why were sin-eaters called that? It isn’t what they do in how the lore sees them...

We had the trappings of an Inquisition world with Lord Vauthry as the chief inquisitor but only in the labels. In the actual story it was just straight normal monsters who overspent on white dye on the mog station...

And not only that... but the final villain is a lord of Darkness and we use light to defeat him... which is basically backwards of the advertising. I expected us to team up with the Ascians to defeat Hydalyn after the media tour reveal that she is a primal. I got more of us being tempered by Hydalyn, with the slight twist that we’re actually a light-side Ascian reborn... to defeat the darkness...

It was a good story minus the flaws with depth behind “sin eaters” noted above... but it was not what it held itself out to be and less than it could have been.

Emit-Selk, as unredeemably evil as I found him to be, was the actual Warrior of Darkness.

Heavensward was the actual expansion where we were the Warrior of Darkness fighting the Light - as a metaphor for heretic vs church.