(04-15-2017, 03:10 PM)L Wrote: It's both. THE Warrior of Light is the main character in ARR and beyond, and they're called that because they reminded the GC leaders of the sort of bravery shown by the WarriorS of Light at Carteneau.
Ahh, well - that seems like a simple enough detail to mistake. Thanks for the clarification.
(04-15-2017, 03:58 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: This part is confusing mainly because what Virella said isn't entirely accurate. SE has always maintained a solid definition of what happened and who the Warriors of Light were, but the details are often filtered through an in-universe, confused interpretation.
In 1.0, after defeating Nael van Darnus at the Rivenroad, a group of adventurers pledged to Louisoix that they would go around and pray to the stones carved with the runes of the Twelve (that are still in ARR) and lead others on the pilgrimage to those stones. This same group of adventurers also vowed to stay by Louisoix's side during the Battle of Carteneau and protect him while he performed the summoning. The community has taken to calling these adventurers: the Twelvesblades.
When Louisoix propelled his adventurer protectors forward in time, he did this to that specific group, who were torn from the memories of anyone who knew them. When people attempted to recall the faces of these individuals later, all they could see were silhouettes in front of a blinding light - and so these Twelvesblade adventurers became known as the Warriors of Light.
As you progress through the storyline, various NPCs will compare you to the warriors of light, saying you remind them of them. As your deeds grow and you become famous across Eorzea towards the end of the ARR storyline, they stop comparing you to the warriors of light and start referring to you as a Warrior of Light incarnate or the Warrior of Light returned, depending on your legacy progression. This is what seems to confuse people. It's not that there weren't "warriors of light" but you're the only one who has come back / the only one who has risen to the scope of their deeds, hence why you have become known as THE Warrior of Light.Â
I made a much more in-depth explanation of the Calamity and its events in this older thread.
A timeline of important events which lead up to the Calamity can be found here.
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The effects of the Calamity were more far-reaching than just the scope of what you see on Carteneau. People tend to skim over the ramifications of that day, but Bahamut truly did plunge the realm into chaos - reshaping the land, altering the weather, burning down half of the Twelveswood, disrupting aetherial channels, destroying aetherytes, disabling linkpearls, killings hundreds of thousands of people, and displacing hundreds more, destroying food supplies and livelihoods for years to come. Louisoix succeeded in sparing the realm the worst of Bahamut's wrath, but he did not save it from everything. It's really too much to list just everything the Calamity changed... because, well, it changed everything.Â
First - Hi! Thanks for replying.
Second - I'd heard you were the local lore guru, and you didn't disappoint! Thank you very much for these in-depth explanations and cited resources. This helps a ton and clarifies a whole bunch of stuff I didn't quite comprehend fully. I also saw your Lore Compendium, which, uh - I haven't read through entirely yet. But thank you for putting it together all the same, its ace.
(04-15-2017, 04:08 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: You can feasibly come up with a story involving your character being flung too far into the future; It's been 1-3 years since ARR depending on the Simpsons' bubble and there's nothing to say otherwise in the lore.
Just consider that being a part of that fling-forward would have expectations on your character: Namely, that you were advanced enough in the MSQ to be important to Important NPCs and that suddenly showing up would be a big enough event to be Important, capital letters.
Balmung tends to skew more "casual life" than "epic importance" but that's just my experience. Being a part of the Task Force To Save The World comes with drawbacks.
Yo again!
Yeah, the importance associated with the event is likely to carry connotations - ones I hope to distance myself from. Honestly, part of my 'clean slate' concept was to essentially obliterate the expectations, developing more of a 'how can some nobody with amnesia be anything other than what he is now?' philosophy. I don't want to use the symbol to infer any superiority - good grief, with as little knowledge of the setting I know I doubt I'd know how to conduct myself as being any better than anyone else if I tried.
Though frankly, the notion of being 'relevant' on the global stage because of some stupid neck tattoo is troubling - I just want to use it as an excuse to know nothing! Were there really so few transported? The impression I got was that there was loads of folk at that battle shot forward. Perhaps that was my OOC side creating a false perception, though - I concede to rationalising it a little bit as 'but all those characters people have from 1.0 have it, so surely there couldn't have only been a handful teleported, right?'
