Explaining the Term "Warriors of Light"

[KimimiAvesta]

The reason I'm so salty about the issue is because, as far as I've ever seen, there was no indication that a specific quest needed to be completed in 1.0 to earn the alternative ARR story until after ARR came out :/

If anyone can provide pre-1.0 shutdown evidence to the contrary please share a link, I'd love to be wrong on this

Edit just to clarify - IIRC there was a "letter" on the old Lodestone website calling *all* able adventurers to Cartenau, not just those that had destroyed the Lunar Transmitter. I'm just not understanding the distinction (in game or out) between those that fought at Cartenau and did destroy the transmitter and those that fought but didn't. From my perspective I was able to best *two* Primals and unite Gridania/Ul'dal/Limsa to a common cause... but then ARR says that rather than go with everyone to the fight-or-we-all-die battle I... went away? Had a holiday? Got scared? Then I decided that when the coast was clear I thought I'd pop back on a carriage and literally act like nothing had happened?

This is doubly confusing because I *was* whacking Imperials right up until the servers went down (well, when the servers weren't giving me connect/disconnect errors anway), so I'm really struggling to reconcile what I did do with what ARR says I did.