(07-01-2013, 08:26 PM)Asyria Wrote: I dunno, the Warriors of Light was the name given to the 4 heroes in Final Fantasy, it's a pretty iconic name for an adventuring party.Just because the term was used for a small band of adventurers in the original Final Fantasy does not mean it is the same here. We still have the iconic summons, the moogles, the chocobos, and lots of shout-outs to prebious games, but the details of what they are and how we interact with them are unique to this game.
Couldn't find anything about it for FF XIV though, aside from how CE owners get a Warrior of Light hat or something.
I'd still say it sounds more like C, though. KKhaze'to would know his sibblings and recognize them but wouldn't know they were actually at the battle and would wonder wtf they were doing for the past 5 years.
For instance, in earlier games Ifrit was just a bit of magic, it had no detailed origins or reasons for existing, it was just there. In FFX it was a collection of human souls coalescing into a physical form for a summoner to use. And here in FFXIV, it is a dark "god" that requires the faith of its beastmen (and the people they convert) in order to stay on the physical plane without returning to the Aether.
The characters in the openings are merely "mascots," not real characters (unless one of you has seen that specific group as NPCs, in which case I will bake you a nice batch of cookies) because the player is meant to be the protagonist of the game.
From what I've read in the game while playing it, here's what I know about the Warriors of Light and the issues surrounding them:
- The Warriors of Light are implied to be the people with the Echo (a.k.a. 1.0 characters) who fought in the final battle and were transported through time by Louisoix. This is used in game to explain why all 1.0 characters still exist from an out of game perspective. All 1.0 characters have also been "marked" on their backs by the experience, which you can see in screenshots of 1.0 characters. All 1.0 characters also experience the story differently as if they were transported through time, as stated by Yoshi P. himself. If that doesn't qualify them as the Warriors of Light, then I don't know what else possibly could.
- People (NPCs) who were not at the battle but had experiences with the WoL still remember that they existed and that they did things, but their memories of what happened during and immediately after the battle are fuzzy and while they remember the Warriors of Light as people that affected their lives, they cannot remember their names or faces. It's kind of like remembering someone you knew when you were a small child, you know they were there and the basics of what kind of relationship you had with them, but the details have been lost.
- People who were at the battle (the Grand Company leaders) but were not teleported still remember the battle itself, they just cannot remember the details of who the brave warriors were, in the same vein as the other NPCs.
- With the amount of story we have been given in phase 3, we haven't yet seen what happens with anyone who was related to one of the Warriors by blood or friendship, which is why this is a conundrum.
If it were me, I would play it as they have amnesia+. They still can't remember the specific details (like exactly how they looked, or how their name was spelled) but they can remember what kind of relation they had to them and how they interacted with them up until they disappeared/died. If they ever met them again, they could fill in the gaps they don't have and regain that closeness with them, but because of the time distortion it will always feel a little different.
Anyway, my two cents.
EDIT: Herp derp Black beat me to the punch. WHY DO I TYPE SO MUCH.