Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
...the Warrior of Light (mentioned in the text of the Minion Guide for the Minion of Light) is that they are specifically a hero that appears around the time of a Calamity to unite the people of that time... only to then disappear without a trace as "Calamity rains down from the heavens."

The player is only known as the 'Warrior of Light' as a kind of legacy of the original ones from this era (the 1.0 players who disappeared on the Carteneau Flats, and, from the point of view of a new player, never returned), because their actions came after the Calamity, and so they kind of inheritied the mantle (the Alliance refered to the original 7th Calamity adventurers as such because of the aetheric amnesia that clouded their memories and thus forgot their identities, only leaving a vague sillhouette "as if obscured by a bright light.").
So an additional thought on this... if new Warriors of Light are created in preparation for each Calamity, and we-the-non-legacy-WoL came into our power well after the Seventh Umbral Calamity... we may not just be here to have brought in the Seventh Astral Era, we are primarily here to stop the Eighth Calamity. They're just so close together that the "Eighth Calamity WoL" had to be born before the Seventh even got to do their job yet.

Alternately for a legacy player, the Seventh and Eighth Calamities are so close together that it's their job to deal with both.

And "disappearing without a trace" at the end, hmm.... does that only happen if we fail to prevent the Eighth Calamity? Or are we going to overcome that somehow? (Assuming they're not going to bring our characters to a fixed endpoint without a continuing existance afterwards. Perhaps we'll no longer be 'the warrior of Light' in the end though.) Is that where the possibility of completely breaking the universe-status-quo will come into it?