The shards and the butterfly effect + nonud time travel [Spoilers for end of HW]

[Enkidoh]

Well 1.0 characters get a totally different intro so it is hinted that people who missed all the 1.0 aren't the same warriors of light. Of course in the grand scheme of things it matters little. We are outsiders that arrived in Eorzea either durting 1.0 or 2.0 And no matter what race we are and where we go, none of this is our actual home. Hell it might turn out that we are from one of the shards.

Not quite: not all 1.0 players got the 'Legacy' opening and varied storyline in ARR, only those who passed a certain boss battle in 1.0's '7th Umbral Era' storyline. If you didn't pass that point, you started ARR like a new player (with the standard ARR opening on the ferry/chocobo carriage), only with the Legacy tattoo and all that old gear and levels/exp intact from 1.0 never explained where it came from.

But you are correct that eventually it doesn't matter anyway as by the end of ARR all adventurers, regardless whether they were one of the 'original' Warriors of Light from the Calamity that Louisoix teleported five years into the future, a pre Calamity adventurer who is not an original Warrior of Light, or a new adventurer recently arrived in Eorzea after the Calamity, all are anointed by Hydaelyn as a Warrior of Light, and that is what is ultimately important. Not what you may have or may have not done in the past, but what you have done now.

[Balipu]

Thanks for the clarifiction. Personally I like the non legacy opening as meeting the old merchant after the Ul'dah incident again gives It a very nice feel. However sometimes i do lament that I wasn't there for all the original stuff like Travanchet messing up Limsa, Urianger being all creepy and not really affiliated with the Scions, Nael being involved in the story, and so on.