The "Warriors of Light"

[Andreas-Lycaeus]

There's something I found particularly interesting today:

STORY OVERVIEW
Eorzea. A land embraced by Gods and forged by Heroes.

Seeking control of this realm and its abundant crystal resources, the Garlean Empire sends forth a massive host on a campaign to conquer its southern neighbour. Driven by madness, the commander of the invading forces silently plots to tear the moon from the heavens and hurl it down upon the land. The people of the realm soon learn of this foul scheme and join their hands in prayer in an eleventh-hour attempt to entreat the aid of the gods, only to see their endeavours fail. From within the moon emerges Bahamut, an ancient terror seething with rage fuelled by countless generations of imprisonment. Sensing the tug of fate, a powerful magus channels the last of his strength to send Eorzea’s heroes in to a temporal rift. There they wait, untouched by the flames of destruction, until they are needed again. Those heroes are you, and the hour of awakening is now. Come and witness…A Realm Reborn.

The bold segment makes me very curious as to how players starting afresh are going to experience the early hours of the game. According to this new bit of information everybody will be a Warrior of Light from 5 years prior, not just 1.0 players. How do you feel about this?

Personally I'm very excited! It should help those who missed out on the original game feel much better about getting involved in the storyline without feeling excluded from the title of "Warrior of Light". As someone who finished 1.0's story but who will be starting on a fresh server, this also makes getting into character a lot easier.

Post your opinions here!

[LlenCoram]

Seems to me it's still just 1.0 players. Louisoix couldn't have sent adventurers who weren't there. The storyline implies that we were all at Carteneau Flats when Louis magic'd us. New players wouldn't have been.

[YeaniNah]

i though long ago they said .. new player will start the game when entering city ..and 1.0 people will have different scene and appear at the spot where they fight

[Zenaku]

SE said the storyline would be somewhat different from us 1.0 vs players who just start playing in ARR. NPC would call you by a different name and such.

[Andreas-Lycaeus]

I'm just wondering why on a press release aimed at people who will be buying the Collector's Edition [so a lot of new players] they would say "Those heroes are you".

[Zenaku]

I'm just wondering why on a press release aimed at people who will be buying the Collector's Edition [so a lot of new players] they would say "Those heroes are you".

The heroes are us there a post somewhere that explain this. I try and explain it pretty much the heroes are us they can't really add every single look of everyone char in a movie/trailer so they make few heroes and they are us in the sense that they walking around eorzea as adventurer just like us. At the same time they are real NPC in eorzea and one day we get to see them. The reason we have not yet saw them is because they never in the same spot this is what the Dev team said.

[Andreas-Lycaeus]

Oh you mean the CGI characters? I know Warrior of Light is a term for those who fought against Darnus and the Empire in 1.0 and those in the opening movies are the same.