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I'll inaugurate so you guys have an idea of what to expect. Obviously, future questions don't have to be this far-fetched. You can keep them simple x)

We are in the bad timeline and desperate people have formed a cult to the Warrior of Light. One day, they manage to summon them 'back to life' to bring succor and salvation.

What is the primal version of your WoL like? (physically, their values, etc.)

Skaar wrote:

I'll inaugurate so you guys have an idea of what to expect. Obviously, future questions don't have to be this far-fetched. You can keep them simple x)

We are in the bad timeline and desperate people have formed a cult to the Warrior of Light. One day, they manage to summon them 'back to life' to bring succor and salvation.

What is the primal version of your WoL like? (physically, their values, etc.)

Probably something like Nael. Her horns would be drastically elongated, so would her tail. The glowing eyes would eclipse the sclera and just be angry gold. The design would change slightly with every summon, but there would always be a long blue coat. Her lance would be the Fae spear but three inches to the left, the plants and blossoms growing from it just Not Quite Right. All the dragon attributes would be exaggerated; long fangs, clawed hands and feet, covered in scales.

Her name would be invoked to bring vengeance on those who have done wrong to the summoning parties, and also as a protective prayer to children. Ironically, being a primal, anything that would bring disturbance to the natural world (sort of like Ramuh and the sylphs).

She would definitely become a woodland cryptid, sighted deep in the forests or mountains at night, often high up and off in the distance. Sometimes the glowing eyes are all you can see. She moves faster than you can see, wheter that's farther away or close enough to kill. 50/50 odds either way. She will only ever retaliate, she doesn't actively seek out conflict.

Skaar wrote:

We are in the bad timeline and desperate people have formed a cult to the Warrior of Light. One day, they manage to summon them 'back to life' to bring succor and salvation.

What is the primal version of your WoL like? (physically, their values, etc.)

My answer to this always changes, but my wife and I actually do have a Future AU of Modern Eitherys (progressed 300 years) where the very dead Warrior of Light is a Christ-like figure called the Saint of Hopeless Causes. A small cult does show up and kidnap Eryn Fields (the reincarnation of 'Biff Guy') and install a primal within him. 

This primal is a six-winged angelic figure wielding a sword of light! He has birdly tendencies in response to the real memories within Eryn's soul of his previous life. He's light aspected, is dressed up like an old Greek statue (complete with rippling abs and light-singed chiton), and is meant to represent humanity's power of undying hope. However, the fact that the WoL was a person imbues the primal with anger, so when I wrote the lyrics for his theme, they were particular to Biff's story, of which Eryn is unaware.

So when Severian (my wife's character) shows up to put down the primal threat, they are having a showdown in a beautiful Cathedral with stained glass windows.

Although the fight didn't go down like this, I like to imagine he had all the weapons he's had in previous games as part of his arsenal. His final form would have him only fighting with his samurai sword (who, if you know Biff, is also a tsukumogami and his husband). The main colors are white and gold, which is sort of a reference to him almost transforming into a monstrous Sin-Eater. 

I altered the lyrics to Return to Oblivion for his primal theme and imagine it being a metal cover of the song, so it's kind of like the cover of the cover for Oblivion?? LMAO. The vocals would be male and kind of screamed? I guess in the style of Fiend or something like that. Here are some of the lyrics, I guess??


Unending bliss
That was your wish
Caught in the throes of passion,
A promise made 'tween hearts ablaze

In pieces, I lie
They won't let me die
Memories faded, light unabated,
My love shall death defy

Turn the light on
and let me in, Won't you
turn the light on?
Turn the light on,
purge the sin,
I will turn the light on.
Turn the light on,
our wish won't win unless you
turn the light on
This world longs for oblivion, oblivion

Time spins around us, but I won't surrender
My soul will renew until their hearts remember
By my hand will I make an eden to house you
Again and again and again and again and

They spiral about me, my love and his faces
Light and the moon and our stolen embraces
Come to me, love, we shall stain the world red
Again and again and again and again

Hopeless, I cry
Without him by my side
Hollow eyed, the idol stands
at the altar of sacrifice

This world will be mine
A garden divine
A home furnished with passion,
Risen from the ashes of all who defy