It's been posted before, elsewhere, by a number of people far more versed than I in lore, but it comes down to this:
Conjury is borrowing the power you need to cast spells from the world around you. Key word is "borrow". You essentially allow yourself to be a conduit for aether that is not yours, and you channel the energy given to you in the form of a spell. White Magic takes this a step further in that the individual accesses Succor (whether the Elementals grant/loan them access or the individual learns how to access Succor in a manner that is forbidden through Amdapori texts comes down to individual cases).
Thaumaturgy is using your own aether to power your spells, using the gems in rods/staffs as focii. Arcanima works in a similar fashion: the arcanist provides the aether, and the geometries shape the spells rather than focii.
Black Magic is forcibly stealing/ripping the aether from the land in order to fuel tremendously destructive feats that are shaped in a similar fashion to thaumaturgy. The process is the same, but the fuel source differs. This is actually harmful to Hydaelyn/the planet.
Conjury is borrowing the power you need to cast spells from the world around you. Key word is "borrow". You essentially allow yourself to be a conduit for aether that is not yours, and you channel the energy given to you in the form of a spell. White Magic takes this a step further in that the individual accesses Succor (whether the Elementals grant/loan them access or the individual learns how to access Succor in a manner that is forbidden through Amdapori texts comes down to individual cases).
Thaumaturgy is using your own aether to power your spells, using the gems in rods/staffs as focii. Arcanima works in a similar fashion: the arcanist provides the aether, and the geometries shape the spells rather than focii.
Black Magic is forcibly stealing/ripping the aether from the land in order to fuel tremendously destructive feats that are shaped in a similar fashion to thaumaturgy. The process is the same, but the fuel source differs. This is actually harmful to Hydaelyn/the planet.
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