Explaining the Term "Warriors of Light"

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The opening scene for a new non-legacy character is the final battle and loux teleporting everyone out then it opens to you in a cart with a suspicious merchant(same merchant no matter what city/state you start in) and you not knowing where you came from. This to me always symbolized my character coming out of the void. I do not have a legacy account and most story npcs said I looked familiar and my Cid scene does not end after black text. I got my account 3 days after OR. Even the twins make a comment on how they believe the leaders to be not so truthful when using the phrase warriors of light, when they say that they don't remember you, as such deeds are not that easily forgotten.

I feel really bad about having to tell you this... but I don't that is what's happening in the merchant introduction at all. Take a look at the "Twelvesblade" intro here and you'll see a very clear teleported out of the fold animation. Yes, we both see the vision of the ascian shown to us by the Mothercrystal, but if your introduction consisted of a merchant, what you see is that you are a normal, run of the mill adventurer sleeping mid-travel and this is when Hydaelyn awakens you to your cause. It was much the same in Version 1.0 - the player character was en route to a city, nodding off, and the next thing you know - BAM. Visions from the Mothercrystal.

If you had a merchant introduction, but Cid talked about the floating island with you... that sounds like a glitch. If you were sent into the fold, you would appear in a column of light in the same location as the New Beginning video and you would skip the merchant sequence entirely. You'd just automatically find your way back home, where you've been a thousand times.