Question from the original FF14

[Rextab]

yeah i was just wondering if those guys were just meant to be representatives of the players...or were they actual NPCs. also the Warriors of Light that we come across various times in the game...I was wondering if they were in 1.0 as well.

[Aeora]

I suppose the only true warriors of light would be the Scions . . . . well, ones that we know of anyway

[Falen]

yeah i was just wondering if those guys were just meant to be representatives of the players...or were they actual NPCs. also the Warriors of Light that we come across various times in the game...I was wondering if they were in 1.0 as well.

Mainly, representatives/front-men (aka real-world faces of the game).
What Warriors of Light did we actually see/meet in the storyline...anyone know? Anonymoose?

[axemtitanium]

Actually, word-of-God says (a la, Ferne), that 'Derplander' and his party are both a metaphor for the player's own character, and are also actually unique npcs of their own. There was a huge thread made by Moose on the old 1.0 Lodestone (now archived) which went into great detail about that (and other 1.0 storyline-related material, in fact it was what effectively caused SE to add this Lore section to the forum in the first place, that thread became so bogged down it was decided it warranted it's own forum!). This is the thread in question: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-CG-Midlander

I admit it was that thread that drew me to finally signing up on the Lodestone in the first place after resisting it for so long ).

Yeah, I'm a bit sad that we haven't seen hide nor hair of Derplander and his Merry Band since they showed up as pop-up text bubble NPCs in open beta.

[Falen]

Yeah, I'm a bit sad that we haven't seen hide nor hair of Derplander and his Merry Band since they showed up as pop-up text bubble NPCs in open beta.

They're probably in DF all the time.

[Aerion]

Hi there !

Wouldn't be nice for non V1 players to be able to play somehow the events "before the meteor" ? It would be an easy content add ad a way to give us an access to the previous storyline quests.
Personnaly, I would be pleased to play it only to know the lore a bit more.

What's your opinion about this ?

[Rextab]

Hi there !

Wouldn't be nice for non V1 players to be able to play somehow the events "before the meteor" ? It would be an easy content add ad a way to give us an access to the previous storyline quests.
Personnaly, I would be pleased to play it only to know the lore a bit more.

What's your opinion about this ?

there is another popular MMO that has something similar to this.
i always enjoy lore. i think having things taken from V1, or reworked....heck even allow us to participate in the loisoix and bahamut battle...that would be awesome.
play through events that have been mentioned but we never have seen. maybe they could be like "echoes of the aether" or something.
it would be cool.

[Enkidoh]

It won't happen though I dare say - the whole point of the 7th Umbral Era events being written into 1.0's storyline in the first place was to give a narrative reason for the complete change in map design from 1.0 to ARR - 1.0's storyline and all the connected events was therefore a once-only thing never to be repeated (in fact, the achievement for completing the 7th Umbral Era story in 1.0 was literally called 'Once in a Lifetime!').

So yeah, apart from the occasional Echo-vision of events pre-Calamity, I can probably safely say players will never experience that again. Yes it's unfair for those who didn't play 1.0, but that's life sadly.

[Nialle]

You can find various videos of 1.0 cutscenes and storyline synopses online, so it's not a total loss of history.

[Fluttersnipe]

I have a question regarding this. The heroes in the intro cut scene are basically the 1.0 players, and the lone hero about to enter Eorzia are th 2.0 players, right?