Warrior of Darkness: alter ego or something completely different?

[Fenral]

As long as it's not Allagans, I'm game for pretty much anything they could throw at us.

Maybe the Lunarians are the 1st AE precursor culture that built the Heart of Sabik?

[Nalien]

The thing that strikes me as odd, is that it's just thrown in randomly... With Krile, she's been mentioned since release, and I can make a guess that one day she'll visit the Twelveswood (which the Allag clearly wouldn't call as such, so we'll have to find a Moore fitting name) and somehow an Eikon will be released and we'll get ExDeath in the form of Exodus, the Judge-Sal... With the Warring Triad and Azys Lla, I'd imagine a certain nation of magic-inept people (who've also been around since release) might develop a means to harness magic, maybe turn a certain Legate mad in the process... Best I can come up with for the moon is that Zeromus, the Condemner is up there... Heck, given how Primals work, perhaps Bahamut was never even killed and he is just chillin' on the moon like he was in IV... There was no build up though, no Four Fiends, no Tower/Giant of Babil, no Lunar Whale... I think the closest we've got is a certain Dragoon being susceptible to mind control, and he certainly does a more impressive job of it than Kain ever did... Wait a minute... How many times did Kain turn traitor due to mind control? Estinien has done it twice now... Dragons may even be Lunarians, seeing as Midgardsormr is a magical space dragon... Holy crap Nidhogg is Golbez...

Still can't fit Derplander and Elidibus being up there as well though... They were in the middle of nowhere doing seemingly nothing... Perhaps I'm overthinking things, maybe Derplander was just there to find a cave full of Hummingways to change his name...

[myahele]

I also personally believe that derplander and co are the Warriors of Light of 1.0; after all, people mentioned a group of Warriors of Light pre-calamity and if you're a legacy player then you were one of them.

From 2.0 onwards our character ends up re-establishing the WoL status and eventually the rest were forgotten. Who knows, maybe WoD and his crew were intercepted by an Ascien (or Zodiark pulling a Hydaelin) and slowly convinced them to be on their side. There's a lot we don't know Echo and Hydaelin, but there are plenty of hints in game that the Ascien aren't that "bad"

Elidibus did say we'll join his side if we knew the truth. The Path of Knowing (Minfilia's group pre-scions) consisted of echo-users trying to find out more about the echo. Apparently, they go on journeys to learn more, but once they return they learn disturbing things that's best left unsaid. Then there's also the Archon/ echo wielder joining "cloaked mages"

I don't have the quote, but they did mention that the derplander and co are "real" character within the game and who knows if we'll "bump" into them.

Louisoix specifically time warps the WoLs in 1.0 .... maybe they were transported a little bit later into the game's timeline like after our character became the de facto WoL and gained Hydaelin's blessing? In other words, there was not much they could do since the we already defeated the primals/Garleans. All they could see was just the aftermath: threat was removed but things are still a mess

I think Darklander and WoD!Broegadyn are real, in-game characters, while DRG Derplander continues to take "our" place in the few scenes they showed.

Time will tell.

My thoughts exactly! There's the character-insert derplander used for promos and then there's the WoD Derplander. Thematically, it kinda shows (to us) the 2 sides of the same coin type of thing since they're using the same model for promo WoL and WoD

[Morningstar1337]

Slap a Vivi minion in Void Ark while we're at it...

Isn;t Vivi based on I's Black mage, which in turn already has a minion as one of the Veteran Rewards?

[Cilia]

I think Darklander and WoD!Broegadyn are real, in-game characters, while DRG Derplander continues to take "our" place in the few scenes they showed.

Time will tell.

[Rbstr]

Where are my IX references, SE!?

3.3 24-man: Ispens castle. Do more damage by doing less damage.
Suddenly you want all the players out of that 90minute WoD-run-of-nightmares in your group.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

3.3 24-man: Ispens castle. Do more damage by doing less damage.
Suddenly you want all the players out of that 90minute WoD-run-of-nightmares in your group.

We'd probably need a debuff to mimic that since the devs won't make the ilvl requirement much lower than everything else for the sake of gimmick throwback.

Also, we ain't gonna get a 2nd 24 main raid not related to Void Ark within 3.X, as much as I'd want it.

[Frederick22]

But this is so confusing. Imagine we cant make a character of our own. Imagine we are Derplander ( no customise, no name, etc ). So we will facing our dark side again?
But if we are complete different charaters ( us, whoever the players wanted to make their characters ) We will be facing a WoD version of the GC adventurers?

[Kallera]

But this is so confusing. Imagine we cant make a character of our own. Imagine we are Derplander ( no customise, no name, etc ). So we will facing our dark side again?
But if we are complete different charaters ( us, whoever the players wanted to make their characters ) We will be facing a WoD version of the GC adventurers?

No you're not "facing your dark side", even if the WoD was a doppelganger. Different origins.

Though being able to create our WoD would be rad as hell, and likely not planned for. ^^;;;

[Frederick22]

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Remember that there are screenshots of Derp and his party on an echo vision?
Derp had a weapon of light and he and his party had not Af1 dyed in black.