Final Fantasy XIV’s Korean community welcomes the Grandpa of Light

Longtime players of Final Fantasy XIV may well remember Isildaure, the elderly Elezen whose granddaughter Alianne accompanies him into joining the Scions and then remains following Isildaure’s retirement. Why bring that up? Well, it turns out that something similar actually happened over on the game’s Korean servers, where a player getting kicked from a group as a suspected bot was revealed to be an older gentleman playing the game with the help of his grandson and his grandson’s friends.

The good news is that the community rallied immediately around the player in question, nicknaming him “Grandpa of Light” (a play on both the in-game designation “Warrior of Light” and the Japanese television series “Daddy of Light”) and offering as much help as they were able to give. So while the odds are that the player in your group who seems to miss mechanics a lot is not a 66-year-old retiree who’s still learning how to play in his first MMO… well, you can’t discount the possibility.