What caused Eorzeans to lose their memory of the 7th Umbral Calamity?

[Tanama]

Topic title.

I made a new character and saw this mentioned by Baderon but I cannot remember why this happened.

[Rannie]

They remember the calamity that happened, they just cant remember what the faces of the adventurers who helped with the battle of Cartneau. As Momodi put it, it's like they are standing in front of a brilliant white like and so their faces are blacked out. (Which btw gets resolved for the 1.0 Legacy Players at the end of 2.0 Everyone but 2 people who had remembered them during the story finally remembers them when they're leaving the Praetoreum after defeating Gaius). It was caused to Louisouix flinging those said adventurers into the future basically (or time rift for 5 years) and it was a bit product if said spell.

[YianKutku]

It was caused to Louisouix flinging those said adventurers into the future basically (or time rift for 5 years) and it was a bit product if said spell.

I've always wondered why. As in, why a spell to presumably push several people into the future would also cause very specific and localized amnesia. And not just about the 1.0 player characters either; Una Tayuun has amnesia about herself.

Like, what vagaries of aether manipulation would cause such a side effect?

[Enkidoh]

It's a story handwave to avoid having to identify the original player characters who were the original Warriors of Light (as 1.0 players transferred their character data into ARR), and thus who have a special 'Legacy story' that merely added a few extra details to the 'normal' story that referenced their pre-Calamity accomplishments. Stating that "no one remembers who they were" is a simple way of avoiding having to go into too much detail about identifying who they were for new players (and thus cuts down on the writing task required if they had two completely seperate stories). It's simple narrative pragmatism.

So, Louisoix did it I guess?

[Rannie]

Well there was a lot of aether use going on at that point in time Louisouix tried to invoke the power of the 12 to contain Bahamut which failed plus the fact that Bahamut's Aether was just plain out of wack in on it self.

[Iscah]

What bothers me is that if you're not a legacy character, what happened to the original heroes?

[Sathona]

What bothers me is that if you're not a legacy character, what happened to the original heroes?

Apparently they are somewhere out there doing things[?]
I dont think it was explained

[Rannie]

I figure they're either still stuck out of time or when they came back said Deuces! And retired to live out their remaining lives at Costa Del Sol.

[redheadturk]

Canonically even if you are not a legacy player, you're still one of them. They just never retconned it into the actual script, it was retconned in *later* after the script was written.

[Gaethan_Tessula]

What bothers me is that if you're not a legacy character, what happened to the original heroes?

They're the legion of conveniently echo-imbued adventurers that constitute the playerbase besides yourself?