(07-01-2013, 08:20 PM)Black Wrote: I would submit that everyone remembers their family and friends. If you had a sister/brother that went into battle, you remember them, but you don't necessarily remember they went into battle (and from in-game convos, they would be unsure if they went as well).That makes a certain amount of sense to me and definitely would allow me to move past my writers block when it comes to this subject.
It is not really A,B, or C. It is basically (IMO) we all have a moment in time that has been suppressed/forgotten.
To complicate matters, I would even think that many people who participated in the battle remember they were in it (and also the loved ones remember them going to battle) but as the battle started/raged...no memories.
I don't think the world sees that everyone who went into battle were/are the "warriors of light": Only a select few are that but that "few" can be implied to be "Player Characters". So, the army cooks and the guys who polished spears and toted water? Yeah, they were at the battle and are not "WoL": They know they were in a battle, but not the details. Even who won or ultimately lost because "memory gap". Same with the generals on the sidelines who led things.
"WoL" is pretty vague and ambiguous; anyone could be one, even some NPCs. Heck, people could lie about being one and not many would know (unless someone remembered he was hiding).
Basically, all people remember their lives before/after the battle/calamity but not during the epic/finale.
As I said I haven't got a 1.0 version character and I don't know what the cut scene that some of them get reveals about it, are you saying they don't really remember what happened either then?
So in your opinion I can talk to my family, know they are my family and all that good stuff and its just a case that no one would know they were some of the warriors of light (If i chose to make them that way at least).
So many different opinions, I guess like many things its really open to interpretation until we get a definite answer one way or another. Is anyone with a registered account able to ask this on the lodestone, I can't but we might be able to get an answer from the lore people there.