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RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Kilieit - 05-27-2016
The closest thing Aghurlal has to magic powers is his Echo, and it manifested when he travelled to Eorzea. Like: normal(ish...) man leaves Othard. Has godsawful dreams on the boat over. Congrats, the awful dreams are now visions you have during your waking hours, and you have them unwillingly and seemingly (because you refuse to talk to anyone about what's happening to you) at random! Enjoy your stay!
Medic is a conjurer (but not a hearer). She gained this ability because she wanted to help heal people, and Stillglade Fane had just started training adventurers like her, so she took advantage. She found the magic came naturally to her, so she advanced through her training at a decent pace.
Caiden's most magical-seeming abilities (the huge majority of her skillset is non-aetherial in nature) are also Echo-based. It started out as "just an intuition", but eventually developed into a clarity and breadth that was highly unusual. I think the first time she realised she should maybe investigate a magical cause behind what she could do - and also the strongest demonstration of her ability to date - was when she successfully not only identified a fake artefact, but also uncovered fruitful leads as to the fraudsters who had created it and the clients who stood to profit from its "discovery", simply by examining the object itself. Let's just say she's not so keen on handling aetherial gear...
Confiance began learning conjury at a relatively young age (he showed an interest and his parents encouraged it). Due to his nosy temperament, he ended up being palmed off on a specific tutor. When that went south in a pretty dreadful way, he asked to be permitted leave to study arcanima in Limsa Lominsa. He's been there ever since; his perspective as a former conjurer brings a new dimension to his studies and allows him to provide insights that his arcanima-only peers might have missed.
I have other characters as well, but I just woke up... so maybe I'll write about them another time. xD
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - U'roh Tia - 05-27-2016
Roh's closest thing to magical powers is proper Dragoon training. Got a Big ol back story on this one.
He got his training from a Ex-Dragoon, who valued her country so much she abandoned it to fight in the end of 1.0. (I can't even spell the place's name I won't even try.) Obviously one does not simply go AWOL in Ishgard and was branded a heretic for her actions. She has long since been given sanctuary in the Shroud for her efforts and spends her days training Adders in lancing techniques.Â
Having found Roh on deaths door, she took him in and trained him, feeling every being has a right to defend their honor and sensing his desire to end his weakness. She spent the next few years training him into the "Free" Dragoon he is and told him many stories of Ishgardian honor. Even now Roh sees this woman as his second mother and she is the source of his Knightly values.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Garza Redwing - 05-27-2016
(05-27-2016, 09:39 AM)Zhu Wrote:I usually buy a stack of 5 every few months to use now and then.(05-27-2016, 08:04 AM)Garza Redwing Wrote: Back when Garza worked with Aether and Arcanism, he ruined his own Aether and now he unwillingly changes form to acquire similar qualities of whoever he has physical contact with the most.
One day he's a Hyur.Â
After a good night with his wife, he's a Miqo'te.
Sounds like fun! But also expensive. How many fantasia do you use in a few months?
Fortunately, my girlfriend plays Garza's wife. So it saves me money. Lmao
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Garza Redwing - 05-27-2016
I lagged and it posted twice. Delete this one please c:
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Ritsu - 05-27-2016
I was like brand spanking new to RP when I started the game. Had a friend drag me into it more or less.
Ritsu was already made, so she is who I started out RPing. I kind of started her out from the floor up as I leveled her. She was a decent enough archer/tracker now she is a pretty exceptional one. (She is coming up on..three years old) The power aspect came up when my friend decided to RP her sister. Runs in their family. Ritsu however isn't one to embrace it. When I used to RP on Gilga she had some run in with mages that made her pretty against magic. So at the moment the only time you will see magical abilities from Ritsu is when she loses her shit. And I mean..most than have interact with her can guess how often that happens XD She tends to be very very level headed even in the face of danger.
My other mage character was also born with it. She is more healing/light magic natured. She is very much in the learning process so it is fun seeing her trying to do one thing and something different happening.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Kellach Woods - 05-27-2016
Picked up an axe, started killing shit. Never stopped.
Picked up a sword, started miming shit.
Verdict is still out on WTF happened
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Zelmanov - 05-28-2016
Adopted and raised as heir apparent, biological heir comes into the mix, Orrin goes to the army and trains. Made it 15 years without dying.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - ckingch - 05-29-2016
My character's dad initially taught him how to fight. His lifetime of fighting and military service helped refine his fighting and he has learned to use a lot of different weapons as well. For his aetheric abilities, they first developed through intense focus, training, will power, and his emotional turmoil. Recently his best friend, a Fist of Ralghr, has been offering him guidance as he trains to unlock his chakra, though his first was unlocked before this without him realizing what has actually happened. His full potential has yet to be realized, as he is still set in his way of fundamental combat techniques over aether usage.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Mia Moui - 05-31-2016
All Mia wanted was to become a mother and help raise her sisters and nieces. Â She waved off becoming a warrior or a hunter and learned to cook and sew instead. When she and three of her younger sisters were betrayed by their Matriarch and handed over to the Coeurclaw, Mia was desperate to escape but not without her sisters.
Before they could be delivered, Dalamud exploded. Â During the distraction, Mia tried to escape. Â She was able to kill two of her captors and she was surprised by how easy it was. Â But before she could free her sisters, a third captor drove an ax blade into her face. Â Fortunately, it was a shallow blow that spared her eye but left her face disfigured. Â Without treatment, it grew into a vivid scar that made her unsuitable as a concubine to the Coeurclaw King.
So it was that Mia was trained in hunting and fighting. Â Over the five years of servitude she had become highly skilled and gave no hint whatsoever of her desire to escape. Â She was trusted and that trust was rewarded on a number of occasions.Â
But when an adventurer came along, causing no small amount of distraction, it was Mia who took the opportunity to flee with her sisters.
Sadly, upon returning to their home and finding that all of their family had died in the Calamity, they were set upon by traffickers. Â They ambushed Mia, catching her completely by surprise. Â When she awoke, her sisters were gone.
It has been two years since that day and over that time, she has only improved her existing skills and has added more as she has moved from town to town searching for the last remaining members of her family.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Roger Holmes - 06-01-2016
Roger (or I should say Satoru since it was when he was a child), was a very adaptive kid while we was growing up. He was left at the border of East Thanalan and the Shroud where someone found him and took him into their organization which dealt with information, reconnaissance, and tasks which needed to be done, but not seen. Through them, he was able to learn how to stay hidden while in plan sight.Â
The organization also had a huge archive of information that he had access to, which opened up his curious nature and wishing to try things out that he has read, which helps with his adaptiveness. After the whole organization, he tried to cast his past aside before he went into seclusion in the Shroud and learned how to hunt with a bow and a blade, leaning more towards the blade after a while. Everything was either self-taught or him watching adventurers as they traveled through. Being self-taught that he doesn't really follow the style of the gladiator's guild nor having any proper training until much later in his life with Dalinat.
Pretty much he has had a thing for blades since then as he grew up, but he has an understanding of how other weapons work. He might not know how to properly wield them as others do, but finds a way to use them for the task at hand. Which also kind of leans into one of his styles where he performs unorthodox moves to try and confuse his opponent (He even tried using two shields at one pointÂ
).As for magic, he was never the magical type initially as an adult, but as a child he had quite a bit of skill in wind magic and using a form of it to mend injuries. But since he cast his past aside, he didn't know he had this ability albeit of form of minor healing which drained him of his own aether rather than using the surrounding aether, but it was only for dire situations. It was only when the organization tracked him down and tried to control him where his wind magic manifested for several brief episodes and now he is trying to learn how to control it again. He is still a novice at it though and only uses it to supplement his swordplay.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Klynzahr - 06-01-2016
Klynzahr received her magical powers, when she was given her first pair of glasses...
.... or not. What that very ordinary pair of glasses did do, was open the world of reading to the scrawny teenage sea wolf. Her emerging love of books lead to a voracious interest in arcanima. She was fortunate enough to have an accomplished arcanist sailing in the same crew as her, who most unfortunately turned out to be a drunk and a terrible teacher. Eventually her persistence and aptitude for numbers won through, and she was a passably decent arcanist before her twentieth birthday.
Klyn was forced to put her books up, when the calamity left her shipwrecked and penniless in the Silver Bazar. Eight years later (or five depending on how you count it) she has began the process of relearning arcanima from memory. By now her eyes are too weak for any magical glasses to cure. So she works through memory and persistence, with substantial help from her carbuncle.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - ZacharyVolfire - 06-02-2016
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Studdied to be an Arcanist from the age of 12.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Flynn Rosenberg - 06-02-2016
Flynn the Highlander was trained and adopted by a retired Lalafell Gladiator. He received the Echo during the 2.0 timeline, assumed the "meteorites falling from the sky" was just a bad dream, but learned he had it when he could understand someone talking another language.
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Parth Makeo - 06-02-2016
For a long time, Arala had her Paladin power suppressed by the Mark on her head. It contained much of it until the moment she finally was able to break the seal on combat against Xyla. With so much built up it was disperced and after, she could actually use Paladin abilities.
So plot twist! Arala for two or so years in RP was a gladiator in Paladin armor the whole time!
RE: How did you discover or get YOUR powers/abilities? - Celise - 06-02-2016
Celise was trained in basic assassin-like stuff, with using daggers and the like by an assassin hired by the guy she worked for in Ul'dah. I figure this is close, though not strictly identical, to the rogues' guild's techniques. She also learned some basic martial arts there.
I've left who trained her a little vague. Something to figure out, some day.
She learned some stuff after she got to Limsa, too. Eventually I might look at actually learning ninja stuff but I need to investigate the lore a lot more to see if that's reasonable (as I've, uh, never done the ninja quests (but just hit 30!)).