In Dawntrail, Our Hero Lived Long Enough To Become The Villain

We’re far sufficient out from Last Fantasy 14 Dawntrail’s launch that I really feel I can sort out this topic. Nonetheless, for individuals who have but to finish the Principal State of affairs Quest, there are spoilers forward. You’ve been warned.

So, do you do not forget that Last Fantasy 14 character who determined a load of different characters—regardless of their look, personalities, and particular person lives—weren’t actually folks as a result of they had been simply mere shades of who that character deemed to be ‘actual folks’, and so had no qualms about killing them? No, I don’t imply Emet-Selch. I imply the Warrior of Mild.

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I touched upon this briefly in a earlier article, however Dwelling Reminiscence, the ultimate space of Dawntrail, sees our Warrior of Mild switching off terminals to delete the Limitless, successfully killing them. For these unaware, the Limitless are digital variations of individuals’s recollections which were backed as much as the Cloud. They don’t actually have souls, however they’re primarily copies of who they had been; so when folks die an unnatural dying, they’ll return to life by means of their Regulators, which requires utilizing different souls to work.

When folks die a real dying, both as a result of they lack extra souls to return to life or they die from previous age, they turn into Limitless, a bodily manifestation of their digital backup that doesn’t require meals or water however can go on residing as they did of their prime in Dwelling Reminiscence. There, they exist in a bodily area, residing a life equal or higher to what they skilled earlier than, constructing relationships with others and getting a second probability at life and love. The issue with the existence of the Limitless is that it requires aether, which have to be harvested from residing folks. Successfully, others must die in order that the Limitless can proceed current.

Dawntrail ensures it is a morally gray subject for gamers by throwing in characters we or our allies care about into the combination of Limitless, making urgent that delete button all of the harder. In the end and inevitably, we energy down Dwelling Reminiscence and the Limitless who reside there stop to be. However don’t fear, we are able to inform ourselves it’s okay as a result of they weren’t actually residing folks—they exist in a different way from everybody else we all know and love.

It’s exhausting to not see the parallels between what we do because the Warrior of Mild in Dawntrail, and what Emet-Selch and the Ascians had been attempting to realize. The Sundering cut up the Supply into 13 reflections, and every of the folks on the Supply (besides a choose few) had been additionally cut up into 13 completely different shards—13 separate folks residing wildly completely different lives in numerous worlds.

As one of many survivors of the Supply, Emet-Selch desires the Unsundered World again because it was. He desires these he loves again as they had been. To realize this, the Ascians plan to trigger Umbral Calamities within the 13 reflections to merge them again into the Supply as a part of the Rejoining. After the Supply is reinstated in full, the plan was to sacrifice a part of their inhabitants to carry again their family members, in the same approach to how they sacrificed themselves to create Zodiark.

After all, the Ascians’ plan meant these particular person worlds with all their inhabitants as they presently exist must die to ensure that the Supply and the Ancients to be restored as they as soon as had been. To the Ascians, our Warrior of Mild and allies should not ‘actual folks’, we’re only a fragment of these they really take into account to be actual, in order that they don’t care if entire worlds must die in an effort to restore what they misplaced.

In each instances, these aspiring to be killed are deemed lower than an actual existence. After we do it, we’re the heroes, however when Emet-Selch and the Ascians attempt to do the identical factor, they’re the villains. I can’t assist however think about the best of a rag-tag band of Limitless led by a sure Warrior taking problem with us going round Dwelling Reminiscence deleting us, and going out of their approach to cease us, very like we did to the Ascians.

Whereas Dawntrail goes to nice lengths to indicate a number of the Limitless are glad with the concept of being deleted, absolutely not all of them would welcome their demise, particularly as we see so many fortunately residing the lives they had been denied of their true life? At this level, I needed to marvel, are we the baddies?

It’s a wierd function reversal to contemplate, one which hits even more durable as Dawntrail involves a detailed and we see Sphene’s crown by itself with a hanging similarity to that of the Ascians’ glyphs they generally have in entrance of their faces.

The most important distinction between the 2 dilemmas is that others weren’t being killed for us because the shards of the Ancients to outlive, however the identical can’t be stated of the Limitless. As they want an excessive amount of aether to proceed functioning, Sphene was focusing on different nations and worlds to make sure the survival of her personal folks.

On the floor, it looks like a sufficiently big drawback that we felt pressured to delete an entire metropolis of individuals. But for all of the occasions we’ve dabbled and handled aether previously, I can’t assist however marvel if it could have been possible that one other resolution may have been discovered? A supply of aether or different to make sure the Limitless may proceed ‘residing’ as they had been, with out the necessity for others to die? We didn’t even attempt to discover another. I assume we’ll by no means know.

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