Theory - White Mage is the ultimate Evil
 

She couldnt save who protected her

She Killed the same person twice for trying to compensate not being able to save him

She knows that the fate of the world lies in the hands of "heroes" as good as villains ('xcept for fighter)

She went to the beginning of time to understand it all

She questions her faith more then once...

...i dont know... if she became the ultimate evil, i wouldnt be surprised... after all... if the bad guys are bad, and the good guys are bad... innocent dies anyways, and being "just" good she cant save nothing at all... why save anything at all? Why not gather enough power to subdue both sides?

Makes sense to me at least :shifty:

Care to explain to me how questioning your faith makes you the ultimate evil? 'Cause I'm lost, here.

It's a nice theory, though.

Well... she is a White mage for a reason... so that she can bring peace and do good...

but if with her power she cant do good that compares to the evil that others do (and that she SAW being done), and with her power she cant save innocents... that could make her question her beliefs... and the fact that maybe she should be more than "just" a white mage... something more powerfull, that on hers Point of view would even the balance...

you know... like... "Doing good by being bad"

I don't buy it. Personally, I'm suspicious of Sarda and Black Mage.

I don't think White Mage has done a deed that could be considered "evil" yet. Any attacks against BM are counted as self-defense and probably for the common good as well.

So she's evil because her bodyguard died saving her from an evil creature--and in guilt she tried to bring him back to life? That doesn't really say "evil" at all. If she were evil, BB would have likely been considered expendible, wouldn't he? And wouldn't she have had him die in a less noble cause than trying to stop a Fiend?
And she is frequently quite upset and confused about this. The LW seem to be a roving band of murderers, but at the same time she is aware the gods work in mysterious ways. Her faith compels her to follow the LWs, trusting that the gods would not annoint false warriors of destiny.
She was sent there by Sarda without her consent. And how is that evil?
Wait, what? A person who never questions their faith is far more likely to be evil than good.
The LWs are a band of roving criminals, but they're the band of roving criminals that are set to destroy the archfiend Chaos, who plans to destroy the world. The general idea is that she follows the LWs, righting their wrongs, up until the point that they destroy Chaos and save the world. The LWs are the only force that can stop Chaos. And she is the only force that can right the world after the chaotic final few steps.

Heroes always undergo trials. I'm not sure why you would label the most-clearly good character in the series 'evil' because her faith is challenged but unbroken at every turn.

If Sarda is the ultimate enemy, how could the LW's possibly stand to win?

Sarda is omnipotent, after all.

Oh, I see your point now. Your first post makes it look like you're claiming she's a naturally evil character. Still, I don't buy this. She has shown no sign at all yet that she considers "ends-justify-the-means" doctrine acceptable at all; indeed, BM's similar viewpoint is what most horrifies her. It doesn't make much sense that she would act in an evil sense for some end if that end is "stopping others from acting in an evil sense for some end."

Many of us have had this same theory before: essently, WM, the representation of light and purity, becomes corrupted and all this bad shit happens.

It's a neat idea, but no. I see the part she plays in the evolution of BM as the end-all-be-all big bad as being far more interesting.

Damn if white mage was the ultamit evil I just might see her and BM getting together. :O

You see... thats the beauty of the idea...

The deeper her knoledge gets (about the LW deeds, Sarda, and everything else) More deeply she can change... experiencie after alll does that... not that ANY of that WOULD made her evil... but all those experiences could work out in a way to change her point of view in goodness and salvation...

But if she would to become the "Ultimate evil" she didnt even would have t be corrupted... that's the "beauty"...

Just think about it... in exchange for her Beliefs and innocence, She could recive power enough to Stop the Dark Warriors, The Light Warriors and Pose a chalenge to chaos itself... in a Twisted point of view, that could be see as "Doing good for the world"...

And in a world mixed on Final Fantasy and D&D, is not really hard to imagine a few thousand beings capable to manipulate a person down that road... ESPECIALY if their beliefs are shaken by recent facts