Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
Getting back on the topics of darkness...

People were talking about the allagan empire and how the stagnation of their society may be an example of the "flood of light" that require a Warrior of Darkness to push back. But it seems the Ascians are unique in their own role...unless we count archons and their machinations (the scions) as entities designed with maintaining the status quo of power.
Ascians are the "Harbingers of Chaos" which means that they are neither light nor Darkness. So The WoL and WoD both are little more than pawns for the Chaos.