Would you like the WOL to have a villian arc (mSQ spoilers)

[Connor]

Since we ourselves play the ‘Warrior of Light’, wouldn’t it be redundant to try and make them the villain? Everything they do would just seem heroic or ‘good’ because it’s being filtered through our perception. And having them do ‘blatantly villainous’ things would just seem completely out of place.

[Zelda206]

I can safely say that I indeed would enjoy a villain arc if that means I need to force some heads together out of a life of mundanity, complacency and loafing gaslighting political fires. Idle hands make for the devil's playthings, such and so forth.
Sometimes you have to be the bad guy in order to inspire others to be better, because we can't all pretend to be good; it would double up as a form of self-checking, to make sure that we weren't going down the same path of self-righteousness with all the major villains out of the way (presently), and possibly because we may or may not be in familiar company moving forward in some adventures.

[Eastwall]

A evil female lala wearing princess dress? I am in for it

[LisseyCrowe]

I dunno about a villain arc, but I've always wondered if there isn't a world where the people's faith in the WoL could somehow lead to the creation of a Primal. However I don't know if that should be a new entity that we end up fighting against or if the WoL's very nature shouldn't be altered somewhat directly, perhaps subtly at first, to where it starts creating doubts and rifts between us and our friends.

Maybe this isn't how Primal summoning works though, or would at least require a significant timeskip (perhaps due to being lost in a different shard for a time) for the people to grow that desperate. But I have to admit that I don't know if the writers want us to feel like this world is doomed without us, rather it feels like they'd like the message to be that people are good and someone would pick up the mantle, so maybe that's not a good angle? Sorry, I guess this is all a bit rambly.

I do overall feel like the WoL is ... rather terrifying in nature and that it would be a bit of a blemish on what is a very good story to never really do anything more raw with it.

[Carin-Eri]

Whilst not a fan of the idea of 'our' Warrior of Light becoming a Villain, I do like the idea of us meeting an Azem shard who didn't follow the path of heroics. We had a teaser, of sorts, of this with Ardert and the Warriors of Darkness when we first met them and didn't have any insight into their backstory.

It would, in my view, be pretty interesting to come across/into conflict with someone who has, essentially, the same gift/power as the Warrior of Light but took a very different path.

[NegativeS]

While I think something like this is a novel concept, too many people would think their agency is being taken away for this to be feasible.

Maybe something like the HW DRK class quests would be a way to make this work...

[Heavenchild]

No. Really no. This would be the first exp I would skip.

[CaptainLagbeard]

It both could and couldn't work probably...

It could make for a good story bit to be forced to do some questionable actions, which ultimately would end up being done for a good reason and to ultimately save the world from some upcoming big bad...


But at the same time, we just had Golbez, who became a villain and tried to invade the Source in order to save people of the 13th... Being an anti-villain, doing bad things for a good endgoal...

[Fhaerron]

Oh yes, I just want to f* sh* up.

[mallleable]

I don't know about a full on villain arc, but I am a sucker for a 'one against the world/fight the power' tropes.