(08-09-2014, 01:18 PM)Sounsy Wrote: I'm of the opinion that it's completely okay for a Conjurer to have control over all six elements - as honestly, it makes absolutely no lore sense for them not to have. Considering absolutely no lore has been put forward as to why Conjurers no longer have control over Lightning, Fire, and Ice and why suddenly a dynamic must exist between one class having three and the other having three others, I say feel free to continue to abide by 1.0 lore. I mean especially if your character was a Conjurer pre-Calamity. Perhaps the way Conjury is taught has changed in the last five years (makes sense) but if your character pre-dates the Calamity they would've been taught or at least started learning the 1.0 way of things.
Hey guys: First of all, I want to thank all of you for how amazing this discussion has been. I've been keeping up with it, but have also been away traveling for a bit. x__x
Sounsy, you totally jogged my memories of being a Conjurer pre-Calamity, in 1.0. (Reima's been around since the original Alpha days). It's been so long that I'd almost forgotten that we originally had control over all six elements.
Also, K'ailia's mention of Conjurers who exist outside of Gridania and whether or not they'd be more effected by the elements prominent in those locations only has me thinking more and more about why Conjurers would suddenly be completely incapable of communing with the other three elements from an RP standpoint.
In Reima's case, I wanted to give her a little story concerning the character's transition from 1.0 to 2.0. Six years ago, before the Calamity in 1.0, she was a Conjurer in Gridania. During the events of the Calamity, she was relocated to Ul'dah (yadda yadda, backstory elements that will eventually make their way from my head and notebooks to the Wiki). When I picked the game back up in 2.0, an amnesiac Conjurer Reima was making her way back to Gridania in order to decipher the voices of the elementals that she'd never stopped hearing--however faint--even while in Ul'dah.
Remembering that she (at one time at least) had direct control over all six elements just adds a bit of validity to the idea that she could still commune with all six elements, and perhaps once again learn to harness them.
So now I'm just wondering about the points made on 1.0's lore. If the technical aspects of Conjurer were retconned, but the lore never was, then...does the canon just become what we make of it?
"Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
                                -George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
