(05-08-2015, 02:59 PM)Blue Wrote: I remember little from my thaumaturge quests, but I do recall that Thaumaturges take care of embalming and burial rituals in Ul'dah. The Goldsmithing quests also reveal that scepters and staves are often made out of bones as spoils from the dead work as better receptacles for thaumaturgy's magicks.
I am just making 2+2 here and poking theories, but perhaps, inversely to conjury channeling the aether from the living forest (the Elementals), thaumaturgy does the opposite, instead receiving its aether from the caster and his ability to channel the aether from the dead (when things die in Hydaelyn, their aether is said to return to the lifestream, so it doesn't just disappear).
Then there's the void, but that stuff is purely related to black magick, which is a forbidden form of thaumaturgy.
Oh dang! Kind of makes sense, doesn't it? All that aether just floating free.. might as well put it to use, right? >
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