That's basically what happened in Final Fantasy 3, though, isn't it? The previous world was overflowing with Light and the Warriors of Darkness had to restore the balance. The game you play is when the opposite occurs - Warriors of Light to banish the overwhelming Darkness (manifest in the Cloud of Darkness, which makes me wonder if there was a Cloud of Light). Basically, there needs to be a Balance - and leaning towards one side is just as bad as leaning too far to the other.
Anyway, if we stick to the theory of the worlds being other FF game worlds... perhaps the WoD is from the next turn of that... wherein they failed? Thematically, FF3 was also the first FF game to include job changing, so it'd be a fitting game to "link" to first - along with FF5, which they already did with Gilgamesh in a fashion. Doubtful, I'm sure, but it's a fun thought project.
... Especially if we're going full Inception loremongering and trying to figure out the "true" layout and timeline of the Final Fantasy multiverse. Since, if that makes FF3-World the "consumed by light"... then either the worlds of FF1, FF2, or FF4 would have been "consumed by darkness" to provide the Void Exdeath uses in FF5. If we're keeping to some manner of chronology... which is just flaky thinking on my part - it could be the FF9 world that gets swallowed up in Darkness for all I know.
Anyway, if we stick to the theory of the worlds being other FF game worlds... perhaps the WoD is from the next turn of that... wherein they failed? Thematically, FF3 was also the first FF game to include job changing, so it'd be a fitting game to "link" to first - along with FF5, which they already did with Gilgamesh in a fashion. Doubtful, I'm sure, but it's a fun thought project.
... Especially if we're going full Inception loremongering and trying to figure out the "true" layout and timeline of the Final Fantasy multiverse. Since, if that makes FF3-World the "consumed by light"... then either the worlds of FF1, FF2, or FF4 would have been "consumed by darkness" to provide the Void Exdeath uses in FF5. If we're keeping to some manner of chronology... which is just flaky thinking on my part - it could be the FF9 world that gets swallowed up in Darkness for all I know.
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