Warriors of Light question. Explanation needed.

[Alenore]

The child would not only forgotten by his parent's. but by every one outside of his best friends. It would be as if he didn't exist. He might get replaced by a similar child in their memories

Why, outside of his best friends? No one remembered us but Cid, and that's because he lost his memories, then regained it.

The timeline gets changed somehow so that those that know the guy would somehow be dead or otherwise incapacitated (And this would be done by the Asceans because so far I can't see Hydealyn being that dickish, and also because villains usually kick off doomed hometown plots)

Huh? Nothing in what happened shows any of this is possible. We had a family (duh), and a bunch of people we met before 2.0 are still alive and well.

If they see him again they would feel compelled to avoid the guy...and think he was crazy.

Same as before.


The most likely scenario is its family would remember having a child/siblings etc, that he was at Carteneau, but wouldn't remember exactly who he was / looks like. Just like every other NPC in game.

[Tsuga]

There was a fan theory many months ago that the warrior(s) of light from 1.0 soul/whatever came to possess our adventurer. Of course it's better explained by those people.

But it's explicitly stated to all of the players with the legacy route in 2.0's story that they are the original warriors of light. At least two key NPCs confirm it, and several others imply it.

[Alice_89th]

To be fair, if you are a non legacy player (like me) several NPC compare you with the original warriors of light, and some start to wonder whether you are one.

This leads to expressions like "you are just like..." "I wonder if you could be..." "you remind me of...".
In most cases this would imply that you are a warrior of light. In most rpgs if someone wonders whether you are The Chosen One, you are The Chosen One.
ARR is special in the sense that 1.0 existed, so there really are original warriors of light.

Long story short, even if you are a non-legacy player NPCs start implying that you may be a warrior of light, when you are really not.
And then they declare you to be a new warrior of light in the end for your achievements in the present (see the post made by Enkidoh for a proper explanation).

[Shoupsy]

Thanks everyone for your answers, that's mostly what I was thinking about. So now I will be able to start my RP considering those info

[Kieren-Dohla]

Cid recalls a memory while on the specially retrofitted airship to cross into the vortex that you gave him something and that you are a Warrior of Light.

It was so strange to me me that my character just looked at him and nodded lol.

[Alice_89th]

I think that cutscene is intended as where Cid 'remembers' you.

But if you are a non-legacy player it is a bit strange, because you only met not to long ago.

[Mholito]

I believe it's actually you using the echo to help Cid regain his memories. You basically give him the goggles so he can see clearly into his past.

[Lisieta]

Cid recalls a memory while on the specially retrofitted airship to cross into the vortex that you gave him something and that you are a Warrior of Light.

It was so strange to me me that my character just looked at him and nodded lol.

Exactly. I got really confused at that cutscene. Thought it was meant for legacy player only.

[FriendlyUncle]

Well, in a general way, 1.0's story went: (Gridania) Show up, beat up some dogs, tree attempts to murder you, you find out that because you were in the wrong place at the right time the trees blame you for murdering the tree trying to murder you, so you go to a party. After the party some things happen and this leads to you talking to a teenage girl in furry pants and getting a sassy friend, discovering the invasion of the Garlic nation and some stuff involving angry old religious leaders. Then you blow up the moon and Bahamut gatecrashes so Lou sends everyone into the vortex.

I think there's a few videos on YouTube of all of that, too.

This has to be one of the best posts I've seen all day. Here is one point of internets, sir.

[Niwashi]

The term itself is somewhat ambiguous, but originally, it referred to the adventurers who fought at the Battle of Carteneau. Gameplay wise these were a certain group of version 1.0 players, specifically, those who passed a certain point in 1.0's storyline, namely, destroying the Lunar Transmitter.

That's one possible interpretation, but it's not all that cut and dried. There are some references that could be interpreted as meaning that all our characters, whether legacy or not, were in fact those Warriors of Light that fought at the Battle of Carteneau.

It was five years ago, and our characters are all adults, so clearly they all lived through the Calamity, and yet new players need it explained to them, so our characters are said to have lost their memory of the event. This is what's used to justify a lot of the early game exposition, and it also references the fact that this is connected to how everyone forgot who the Warriors of Light were. So while never explicitly stated, it's strongly implied that for our characters to remember their own part in the events surrounding the Calamity would be equivalent to remembering the Warriors of Light (because that was their part in those events).

So while some players played through that portion of the storyline and some didn't, the characters themselves could be thought of as having been there regardless. The difference lies simply in whether it was a playable part of the game, or just part of the backstory. The whole Calamity and everything surrounding it has become backstory in ARR.