Crazy yet somewhat plausible theories... Thread

[Berethos]

While reading through the Encyclopedia Eorzea, a couple things came together with things we've seen in-game and this crazy theory popped in my head.

Unukalhai is a former Warrior of Light.

Specifically the Warrior of Light from the 13th world, the one that fell to the Ascian plotting too quickly and was thus transformed into the void, with the World of Darkness as its precipice.

He tells us of how his world was one where champions would slay their primal-like beings and use auracite to capture their essence, becoming empowered. This eventually led to the fall of his world and the dreadful transformation of those who wielded the auracite...he then drifted alone in darkness, before being rescued by Elidibus. We do know that it doesn't require the Warrior of Light on the Source to slay primals, though without the Echo (curiously, Unukalhai has an ability similar to the Echo) it can come at a great cost...so those champions on his world need not have been Warriors of Light themselves.

Enter Cuchulainn. As stated in the EE, there is one theory that holds that the voids creation came about due to champions, including Cuchulainn, wielding auracite to combat their plane's primals, but becoming transformed as it happened...and eventually as they warred over the dwindling source of aether, the "Flood of Darkness was unleashed."

Seems to cleanly place Unukalhai on the same world that would become the void, does it not? So where does the Warrior of Light aspect come in?

Igeyorhm.

It was she that was too successful, residing in the 13th world, where her "power proved too much for the inexperienced Bringer of Light, and their one-sided battles eventually resulted in a Flood of Darkness consuming the entire world and rendering it a nigh-empty void." The same void, it would seem, from which Cuchulainn hailed. The same Cuchulainn that, according to one theory, was transformed by the use of auracite, in a manner all too similar to what Unukalhai said he experienced. Also worth noting that the WoL of the world that fell and became the void due to Igeyorhm's being too successful is described as inexperienced...which is either an error, or Hydaelyn's chosen of that realm and the champions slaying primals and becoming more and more powerful are most likely distinctly separate.

Interesting as well (assuming that Unukalhai's world and Igeyorhm's 13th are the same world, and they sure do seem to be here), that what supposedly happened to the rest of the beings left was that they changed and became aether-starved monsters. Now there's two possibilities here - one is that Unukalhai was like-wise changed, and in a manner consistent with other voidsent, is merely occupying the body he inhabits in the Source and it is not his. The other is that he did not change and was ultimately protected - perhaps by a gift from Hydaelyn from a time when she was strong enough to at least offer that much across to the 13th.

So that's my crazy theory - Unukalhai and Igeyorhm clashed on the 13th, but being young and inexperienced he never stood a chance, while she actively encouraged other champions of a more power hungry nature to employ the use of auracite to deal with the primal threats, knowing of its fatal flaw and believing that it would lead to the desired result of a Rejoining...but she was overzealous and moved too early, and also overestimated Unukalhai and underestimated the impact of the auracite using champions (and the timing with an attempt at an Ardor on the Source may have been off as well), and the world fell to become the void, leaving Unukalhai protected from becoming voidsent, yet alone until found by Elidibus. Partially out of gratitude and knowing full well the impact that imbalance between the Dark and Light, especially if it happens at the "wrong" time, he chose to serve Elidibus.