Well yeah, but I also use incense and meditation and stuff too.
Also helps that I have a girlfriend. It anchors me a little to have someone who's always in my corner. But I'm lucky. I've always had people who were trying to help me when things got bad.
It's... well, someone chosen by Hydaelyn to help the world. She's... sort of a goddess? It's complicated.
There were Warriors of Light that helped fight against the fall of the lesser moon Dalamud, but they disappeared during the battle and no one knows what happened to them. No one can even remember what they looked like. But... after I started helping people with big things like fighting Primals, they started calling me a Warrior of Light as well.
Sort of? People started labeling me as one and then it just kind of stuck. I'm not going to pretend that it's a title I ever wanted, but it's a title I have.
[He has many titles, for better or worse.]
Hm? I manipulate aether. It's in the world all around us. I've heard some people compare it to 'atoms', but aether is generally drawn towards being elementally charged. For example, when I use my red mage abilities I tend towards fire, lightning, earth, and wind aether. When I use my paladin abilities I tend towards using light-based aether, and my reaper abilities tend towards dark-aspected aether.
[Luz's eyes went pretty wide when he started to describe what he can do].
Whoa. In my world, and probably even the Boiling Isles, they would have just said you were a full-blown wizard! My glyphs can do basic elements, and for them to do more I have to actually draw out other combinations for them to actually work.
Well... I am unusually powerful and skilled compared to a lot of people in my world, but I don't know how much of that is due to my work and how much is based on... other things.
[Souls in his world can get Complicated.]
It's not really hard at all. I mean... from my viewpoint, you're moving aether yourself. From the air-based aether that fills your lungs to the water-based aether in your blood, you're as made of aether as anything else.
Yes, exactly! It's something nearly everyone can do. There's only one race I know of that can't intentionally move aether - in the form of magicks, I mean. The Garleans have some sort of inability to use it, which is why they rely so much more on technology.
But how do YOU do it? Something like breathing is involuntary with humans, so actually moving things around you is supposed to be impossible. It just sort of IS.
I see. Well... hm. For me it's something akin to meditating. It takes a little practice to develop a sense for it, but I can reach out to the area around me or the flow of aether inside of me and pull the relevant element out of it. It's a concentration thing, for the most part.
"... In what sense?" He quirks his head, a little confused. "As to how it physically works in transferring one type of aether to another, or how it moves, or... ?"
"I mean...how do you do it? I know in magical working, it's different for people here because their magic is all different too. So I guess yes, how does it move?"
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Date: 2022-12-27 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-28 07:14 am (UTC)Does that...help? I did the same thing, after I got corrupted. It's way harder than most people think.
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Date: 2022-12-29 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-29 07:07 pm (UTC)Also helps that I have a girlfriend. It anchors me a little to have someone who's always in my corner. But I'm lucky. I've always had people who were trying to help me when things got bad.
Thinking of them helps too.
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Date: 2022-12-29 07:11 pm (UTC)[Now, at least. Before, he wasn't really caring.]
There's people who care about me as well. Though having a partner like that... I'd be worried about worrying them too much.
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Date: 2022-12-29 08:05 pm (UTC)[Luz hoped it was enough. She liked Nara'a, and she didn't want anything bad happening to him.
Though even Luz didn't know if these things were enough. She hardly knew it about her own struggles with corruption].
Oh, I do! All the time! It's kinda why I try not to jump so easily into things as I usually do. I'm trying to stay alive.
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Date: 2023-01-02 03:19 am (UTC)... Ah... well. That's kind of been my whole life - at least since I left home. I've been getting into a lot of trouble...
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Date: 2023-01-02 06:39 am (UTC)You attract trouble or...do you sort of fall into it, like me?
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Date: 2023-01-03 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-03 05:59 am (UTC)What does that entail?
Vague Shadowbringers spoilers
Date: 2023-01-04 03:43 pm (UTC)There were Warriors of Light that helped fight against the fall of the lesser moon Dalamud, but they disappeared during the battle and no one knows what happened to them. No one can even remember what they looked like. But... after I started helping people with big things like fighting Primals, they started calling me a Warrior of Light as well.
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Date: 2023-01-04 04:44 pm (UTC)How do you fight? I mean, how does it work? You've already seen my glyphs.
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Date: 2023-01-04 06:55 pm (UTC)[He has many titles, for better or worse.]
Hm? I manipulate aether. It's in the world all around us. I've heard some people compare it to 'atoms', but aether is generally drawn towards being elementally charged. For example, when I use my red mage abilities I tend towards fire, lightning, earth, and wind aether. When I use my paladin abilities I tend towards using light-based aether, and my reaper abilities tend towards dark-aspected aether.
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Date: 2023-01-04 08:55 pm (UTC)Whoa. In my world, and probably even the Boiling Isles, they would have just said you were a full-blown wizard! My glyphs can do basic elements, and for them to do more I have to actually draw out other combinations for them to actually work.
How hard is it for you to do this kind of magic?
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Date: 2023-01-10 07:48 pm (UTC)[Souls in his world can get Complicated.]
It's not really hard at all. I mean... from my viewpoint, you're moving aether yourself. From the air-based aether that fills your lungs to the water-based aether in your blood, you're as made of aether as anything else.
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Date: 2023-01-10 09:23 pm (UTC)[She'd ask about that later].
So you mean to say moving aether is something we all naturally do, except you can do it in a more refined way?
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Date: 2023-01-11 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-11 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-14 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-14 03:28 am (UTC)"How exactly does it work?"
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Date: 2023-01-17 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
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