Red Mages are a FF tradition - someone who can wield black and white magic together but not as good as their more specialized counterparts. Sages are basically advanced Red Mages that are extremely rare.
There's many instances of FF characters using both, but it seems like XIV is a universe where it is far less possible than others. Many players have leveled WHM and BLM to Level 50 so they could heal and DPS on the same character, but do you think it would be possible to be a practitioner of both White and Black magic in an In-character sense?
Both schools seem to be at odds both in the past and present from what I've read, and even though Thamaturgy uses one's own aether, I highly doubt the elementals and the Padjal would be fine at all with my character's justification for drawing power from the Void.
I was wondering about this because I had an idea of my character wanting to learn both for the purposes of aetherial balance and eventually accepting as a Scion that both are useful and vital to the balance in their own way, without having to deal with the dogmas of the guilds. It could also allow her to bypass the Job sections of the questlines in a RP sense.
Plus it was at one time rumored that one way to unlock Red Mage could be to have both BLM and WHM at 50. I would guess the lore behind Red Mages will probably be that they used to be elite soldiers who used both back in the days of the War of the Magi, but with those days long gone and the arts outlawed, few if any exist today, and in any case we haven't found a Soul Crystal or someone who could teach us yet.
There's many instances of FF characters using both, but it seems like XIV is a universe where it is far less possible than others. Many players have leveled WHM and BLM to Level 50 so they could heal and DPS on the same character, but do you think it would be possible to be a practitioner of both White and Black magic in an In-character sense?
Both schools seem to be at odds both in the past and present from what I've read, and even though Thamaturgy uses one's own aether, I highly doubt the elementals and the Padjal would be fine at all with my character's justification for drawing power from the Void.
I was wondering about this because I had an idea of my character wanting to learn both for the purposes of aetherial balance and eventually accepting as a Scion that both are useful and vital to the balance in their own way, without having to deal with the dogmas of the guilds. It could also allow her to bypass the Job sections of the questlines in a RP sense.
Plus it was at one time rumored that one way to unlock Red Mage could be to have both BLM and WHM at 50. I would guess the lore behind Red Mages will probably be that they used to be elite soldiers who used both back in the days of the War of the Magi, but with those days long gone and the arts outlawed, few if any exist today, and in any case we haven't found a Soul Crystal or someone who could teach us yet.