story question (Stormblood)

[Klao]

Please tell me why a warrior of darkness appears in the trailer Stormblood? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1h...INALFANTASYXIV

[Adeacia]

Do you mean the guy who is the Monk and Samurai? That isn't a Warrior of darkness, it's the representation of us players. If you look, he's in all the cgi trailers.

[Elissar]

Keep playing until ShB

[Klao]

I knew it ... But for some reason I wanted to think that it was not so.

[Brightamethyst]

Yeah. "Generic Midlander Guy" is just how they represent the Warrior of Light (aka, us players) in the trailers and promotional videos.

[Jeeqbit]

The Warriors of Darkness were based on the characters they use to represent the players in these trailers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbxPsWFyU8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h542YbZuwkQ

It's a way of saying they are the dark versions of you and it was a way to make use of some characters that already had familiarity from the trailers.

[Frizze]

Yeah, as the others have pointed out the human-looking guy in the trailers is supposed to be a stand-in for you. The devs have referred to him as Meteor(since he was a meteor survivor), but the community tends to call him Derplander. And as Jeeq said, using a character who looks similar to your stand in as the warrior of darkness is thematic. Someone similar to you(at the surface level anyway) is on a different/the wrong path, how sure are you that youve made all the right decisions along the way? Or that you wont be miss-lead in the future? Its something to think about. Or at least, that was my take on it.

[Gabadabs]

I find that it's pretty common that people don't understand that he's supposed to represent the WoL.

[Tarryme]

I'm a bit confused with Storm blood. It doesn't seem to follow on with the story very well. People, principals and even voices have changed. And what I really don't get is how and why after you defeat someone they are able function better than before the fight. What did I do, give them a gentle telling off?
It's like what's-his-name, I defeat him yet he goes on to make a long speech as if he had won the fight, and then, get's his balls out and uses them to summon a dirty great big primeval. Sometimes the game really tests your imagination to the point of silly.

After a battle it now feels as if my opponent has felt sorry for me and pretends to have lost just so I don't cry. No one has the heart to tell the warrior of breadcrumbs that they are a joke.