Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
I think some of you are placing a lot more weight on the light/dark thing than was "advertised"

Have you ever played FF3? The Warriors of Darkness in that game never opposed the Warriors of Light, and even helped you out against the final boss. Yet when some people heard about the whole WoD thing for FF14 it had them wondering if we would become the outright evil villains of the story. Uhh, no?

Anyone who was expecting a huge WoL characterization shakeup hasn't been paying attention, IMO.
I think it's more like... they talk about us being the warrior of darkness, they show WoL shrouded and covered in darkness, becoming a dark knight, and every trailer teased the idea of us embracing the darkness or changing from being a warrior of light to a warrior of darkness. "Become what you must".. well I didn't become anything, I just kept taking light and then using it to open the sky's darkness again. Not to mention the american commercial they played as if it was to imply we're ya know... gonna relate to DARKNESS.

I don't think we wanted to become a villain, I think we just wanted to see us not be more "oh glorious warrior of light" and use light every dang instance. We did get the type of feel we needed this expansion with light wardens and sin eaters being creations of beings that were once people, which set the right tone of us being the warrior of darkness putting down souls who didn't have a choice in their fate since it was changed.... But as far as the darkness aspect, I can't say I saw much "darkness" going for us in any of it other than us changing the sky back to night.

Quote Originally Posted by Destati View Post
Okay now that you mention it that might have been awesome. Especially since this expansion made me sympathize with the Ascians/Zodiark a lot more. Would have loved to get some interaction with him.
For all we know, it still may go in that direction. We still don't truly know the story from Zodiark himself and we still haven't really dealt with the idea that our "mother" is a primal and we're possibly tempered ourselves. There's a lot still to be dealt with and honestly, I could see them having us delve more into the other half of things now that we have some more to the whole story.