(04-22-2017, 08:48 AM)Sounsyy Wrote: 4] Â This is another theoretical, but possibly. I think I briefly mentioned it in the very top link, but magic is not static. Mages are always learning, experimenting, and mixing various forms of magic. (Look at Red Mage or Scriptomancy or how the Nymian Scholars originally created faeries as inter-ship messengers before discovering they were really really powerful aetherial beings.)Thank you! I found a couple of the links in older threads but not all of them!
If you want to create a geometry that summons fire, then have your character formulate a geometry that conjures fire! Basically what you learn in game or what you learn from job quests / the soul crystal is what his being taught and proven to work. But beyond that is a wider realm of possibilities.
I like to think of it like this: At Hogwarts they teach you the basic spells that everyone knows like expeliarmus, but then you see Dumbledore do all kinds of crazy stuff like giant water bubble or transfiguring flying glass shards into sand. And it becomes obvious that there's still a lot of learning to do beyond your graduation at Hogwarts because they don't teach you that stuff. It's the same with the guilds (and I think 1.0 illustrated this much better as you only got guild-issued quests at lvl 20, 30, and 36). There's stuff they can teach you, but actually going out, improving, and learning new things is done on your own.
Hope this helps answer your questions! ^^
And yeah, I figured it was the like your Hogwarts example but I just wasn't really sure if there was any kind of limitations. So going off of that, would you think replicating an exact spell from black/white magic be harder for a arcanist to do as it would be using their own power instead of drawing from outside sources (In most cases)... OR would it in be possible to be more powerful if you had access to a greater pool of aether from a particularly powerful mage than drawing in from nearby sources would allow... If that makes sense (I think what I'm trying to say is in a similar sense to discussing CNJ/WM using their own aether for spells). Or would that also be in the realms of headcannon?