I've found that FFXIV is so inconsistent with itself that your character can be whatever you want it to be, John Everyman or Chosen One. Consider for a moment what makes your character the Warrior of Light - that would be the inability to be tempered by Primals. Everything else is circumstantial. The game begins with a vision of Hydaelyn, but like the many RPers that play crazy powers, this can be dismissed as a dream. Everything your character does up until the moment they meet their first members of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn is rather ordinary and could have been achieved by any member of the Adventurer's Guild. Then your character discovers that they possess the Echo, a quality not exclusive to your character. At that point the game becomes a repeating cycle.
Do relatively normal thing > Experience Echo > Immunity to Tempering
The rest of it is all jargon. The Scions spout off about you being the WoL, but do they really believe it? Is that why literally 90% of the game's quests are delivery or messenger jobs, when a courier or linkpearl would have done it faster and better? The game also completely fails to address the fate of the original WoL, and if your character is he or she, or if the original vanished into insignificance and your character picked up the reins. The only time we ever see the WoL status verified is by Midgardsormr, when he supposedly removes it, but again literally nothing changes for your character. He or she retains the Echo and still can't be tempered.
So the complete lack of the status of WoL meaning anything, combined with the world's gross mistreatment of the single most important person alive, combined with important NPCs constantly making arbitrary declarations based on absolutely nothing (ending the 7th Umbral Age), combined with your character only ever exhibiting a single extraordinary quality (the Echo) that he or she never loses throughout the entire MSQ, leads me to one conclusion:
You're a dude or dudette with the Echo, the Echo prevents you from being tempered, and you're not the only one. The Scions of the Seventh Dawn like their self aggrandized pretend time, but you're just a slightly less average adventurer.
Do relatively normal thing > Experience Echo > Immunity to Tempering
The rest of it is all jargon. The Scions spout off about you being the WoL, but do they really believe it? Is that why literally 90% of the game's quests are delivery or messenger jobs, when a courier or linkpearl would have done it faster and better? The game also completely fails to address the fate of the original WoL, and if your character is he or she, or if the original vanished into insignificance and your character picked up the reins. The only time we ever see the WoL status verified is by Midgardsormr, when he supposedly removes it, but again literally nothing changes for your character. He or she retains the Echo and still can't be tempered.
So the complete lack of the status of WoL meaning anything, combined with the world's gross mistreatment of the single most important person alive, combined with important NPCs constantly making arbitrary declarations based on absolutely nothing (ending the 7th Umbral Age), combined with your character only ever exhibiting a single extraordinary quality (the Echo) that he or she never loses throughout the entire MSQ, leads me to one conclusion:
You're a dude or dudette with the Echo, the Echo prevents you from being tempered, and you're not the only one. The Scions of the Seventh Dawn like their self aggrandized pretend time, but you're just a slightly less average adventurer.
