I want to be a Warrior of Darkness! D:

[Uriel_Kross]

I feel like we are taking "the warrior of darkness" too literal I have a theory that it's based on perspective like warrior of light is. We are the WoL because we are the hero of Eorzea I feel like us being the WoD is based on The empires perspective of us when we attack them in 5.0 Eorzea sees us as a hero the empire sees us as the villian..just a thought.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

Those who are worried about our character becoming "edgy", don't be.

We'll be nodding in silence like we always do.

But it will be edgy nods and silences.

[BillyKaplan]

I feel like we are taking "the warrior of darkness" too literal

We're the unwilling servants of a massive Crystal of Light. We used the power of Light to fend off Lahabrea. We use smaller Crystals of Light and had the one Crystal of Darkness.
We're taking it literal because so far, that's how the game's been treating it.

[Kallera]

One major theme in Shadowbringers is finding out just what Zodiark is, which could be any number of things, but I have the feeling people want him to be more than "arrogant nihilist end boss #42", a lot of folk hope that he is the voice in 4.4, a "fathercrystal" who has a tenuous grip on existence. Or an entity whose removal would prove as disasterous...or as important...as severing Hydaelyn's own reins.


Becoming the WoD could be a realization that our powers and actions are starting to no longer be seen as things normal people do, and we are eventually transitioning into being seen as not a hero that stands against the impossible and succeeds, but a monster leaving mounds of dead in their wake. This need not require "edgeiness" on our end, so much as a shift in opinion as what the player character is, from someone relatable and heroic, to something alien and off putting.

[Hidde95]

:3 i want too :3

[Nestama]

If it's anything like FFIII's Warriors of Darkness, then... being a Warrior of Darkness won't really be any different than a Warrior of Light. We'll probably go on a quest to find Crystals of Darkness and then use the Blessing of Darkness to stop the Flood of Light. Or something.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I don't see why we can become the Warrior of Darkness, but we can't have Necromancer as a job.

[SenorPatty]

I don't see why we can become the Warrior of Darkness, but we can't have Necromancer as a job.

Dark =/=evil/malefic, which is what Necromancers fuel on. I want Necromancer or any sort of malefic caster job but it's gonna be hard selling the idea and origin story to lore purists.

[Kallera]

Dark =/=evil/malefic, which is what Necromancers fuel on. I want Necromancer or any sort of malefic caster job but it's gonna be hard selling the idea and origin story to lore purists.

While one could handwave black magic as thaumaturgy due to the reliance of fire spells. Practicibg necromancy likely wouldn't be as easy and would result in a leveplate for your head.

[Sylvina]

It's because edgy teenagers, batman, dark knight, and all that.