What if our character died?

[Fenral]

The problem was not the earthquake, so much as having a single source of power for all mankind. As that seems to be G'raha's end goal (but apparently not Salina's), I'd say we're exactly repeating history. Given it can "only" be opened by the royal blood, according to in-game sources, if you can accept the possibility of it being opened again without the royal blood, then the royal blood never needed to be preserved inside it to begin with. Not even Alexander can sort out that paradox.

Anyway, my point was that having a single anything in which you place all your hopes invites disaster, be it world-powering power sources or the one person on the planet with any semblance of individual agency. This may be my Libertarian side showing, but I think the story as it is now could easily be rerouted into an examination of why Eorzea needs to be able to save themselves without counting on a Warrior of Light to do everything for them.

tl;dr: The story could only become more interesting if we died.

[Morningstar1337]

Anyway, my point was that having a single anything in which you place all your hopes invites disaster, be it world-powering power sources or the one person on the planet with any semblance of individual agency. This may be my Libertarian side showing, but I think the story as it is now could easily be rerouted into an examination of why Eorzea needs to be able to save themselves without counting on a Warrior of Light to do everything for them.

tl;dr: The story could only become more interesting if we died.

That does seem interesting though I don't think we'd die until the end if at all simply because...The Warriors are Player Characters, and chances are most people would be mad if their character were to die (especially in the unlikely scenario of SE decides to force an inability to play as such characters and force players to make a new one form scratch).

So something like that would either be reserved for a "Rhapsodies" type plot, as in an epilogue, be used as the basis for the Shards (which I don't think is likely), or if we decide to follow G'hraha's example and seal ourselves away for some reason...

With that said, The way the Warriors of Darkness were presented (Undead, using Crystals, otherworldly powers). Kinda makes me think of Madoka Magica and how the Magical Girls on that show were secretly Liches. Meanwhile the Ascians seem far closer to the traditional Lich (though still not an exact match), both cases are known to use the Echo to become such beings. It has me wondering if the Writers have Madoka or Lichs in mind when writing regarding the Ascian conflict?