What is a Warrior of Light?

[Ginal]

What exactly is a Warrior of Light, and furthermore, how many are there?

Is a Warrior of Light someone in communication with Hydaelyn? Would that then include Minfilia and Iceheart, or s it someone with only a specific blessing?

Are the Warriors of Light from before the Calamity the same thing as our current player characters? Do any of them still technically live?

Lastly, is there really only one Post-Calamity Warrior of Light?

[Anonymoose]

The specific term Warrior of Light is used a few different ways, but ultimately means the same general idea.

At first, you have the NPCs who are using it in the early story to refer to the adventurers blessed with the Echo who stood beside Louisoix at the Battle of Cartenau and were sent into the interdimensional rift. When people try to recall them, they cannot. They liken it to trying to make out their silhouette against a blinding light - ergo, the Warriors of Light.

This is how term is used for the whole of the early game, but it fades out such use quickly and you stop hearing about them in the plural altogether. There is just you, the Warrior of Light, who, if a Legacy player, is a Warrior of Light returned. Once the story stops treating Legacy players and new players slightly different, Hydaelyn starts to refer to you as Warrior of Light, as well, and then, after that, you pretty much never hear of a Warrior of Light or the Warriors of Light. It's as if you're the only one left worthy of the name. At this point, it starts to seem like NPCs came up with that name coincidentally.

Summary so far, it pretty much seems exclusive to "the player"; Hydaelyn's Champion. Used in the plural, it usually refers to players in general.
Historical figures, however, seem to have borne the title before you (including, but not limited to, those who were also at Cartenau).

What to call NPCs blessed by Hydaelyn (who are not The Champion, but still chosen) varies a bit by time and language. German actually had a neat way of doing it, referring to you as the Warrior of Light and to Iceheart as a Bearer of the Light. In the same instance, English called her simply "The Gifted". There's a scene in Toto-Rak where some languages specifically have Lahabrea point out that it's been a long time since he's seen a true Warrior of Light, so I suspect that it refers specifically to a true Champion of the Light - a chosen bearer of many Crystals of Light. Hydaelyn seems to be able to protect you at least somewhat even if you only have one (given that Krile survived Val), however, so perhaps having all of them just makes it that much more powerful of a blessing (the glyph thing).

It might be fair to just say anyone with the glyph has the Warrior of Light's level of blessing.

Have other pre-Calamity Warriors of Light returned? Not as far as the story includes, but it doesn't really preclude it, either.

Did I answer the right things in there somewhere? Sometimes a "thorough" answer misses the main point being sought, lol.

[Morningstar1337]

Have other pre-Calamity Warriors of Light returned? Not as far as the story includes, but it doesn't really preclude it, either.

That might depend of what we might find out about the Warriors of Darkness (who look like the 5 Warriors of Light that Louisoux flung into the future)

Speaking of which I was wondering if anyone had these silhouettes? I want to see if they also look like that group of echo-users

[Lambdafish]

What exactly is a Warrior of Light

We beat up bad guys and save the world, thats what we are.

In all seriousness, the warrior of light is the champion of Hydaelyn, we might not be the only ones who can communicate with her, but we are her chosen warrior (literally warrior of the light crystal), destined to save the world, presumably from Hydaelyn's counterpart Zodiark and its minions (ascians, warriors of darkness etc.)

[Ginal]

So as far as the primary story is concerned, there is only one champion-warrior of light, but there are at least a handful of others with lesser degrees of Hydaelyn's blessing?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

3.1 spoilers.

What about the Warrior of Darkness? They had to have been Warriors of Light at some point since the flashback shows them slaying an Ascian and they're wearing normal colors on their gear.

[Belhi]

So as far as the primary story is concerned, there is only one champion-warrior of light, but there are at least a handful of others with lesser degrees of Hydaelyn's blessing?

That seems to be the case.

[CyrilLucifer]

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While I don't disgree with your point overall, I'm not sure that's a good example. There's something more going on.

They didn't slay that Ascian. If they did, Elidibus and Lahabrea wouldn't have been so surprised when you did.

So that Ascian is alive and kicking. Somewhere. Doing something. And I swear, if there is one thing I am going to directly hypothesize outside of me stating I want things, its that that Ascian is going to come back eventually.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

While I don't disgree with your point overall, I'm not sure that's a good example. There's something more going on.

They didn't slay that Ascian. If they did, Elidibus and Lahabrea wouldn't have been so surprised when you did.

So that Ascian is alive and kicking. Somewhere. Doing something. And I swear, if there is one thing I am going to directly hypothesize outside of me stating I want things, its that that Ascian is going to come back eventually.

Maybe "slay" wasn't the right word, but they did kick his ass. It's safe to assume they didn't know the true method of offing them like we did.

[Rocl]

"Exorcise" might be more appropriate imo, since it mirrored us ousting Lahabrea from Thancred's body.