The quote from FFXIV's Erik, the MNK job questgiver:
http://xivdb.com/?quest/66602/Five-Easy-Pieces
My personal interpretation... I drew a diagram! =D
![[Image: rvyDyKs.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/rvyDyKs.jpg)
Everything in red is INTERNAL. Everything else is EXTERNAL.
Most Eorzeans have no direct access to or control over the chakras. They draw from an interior reservoir of aether, instead (denoted in the diagram as "the mana pool"). Everything in red, that constitutes an individual's aether, that's borrowed from Hydaelyn/the land/the world/the lifestream. When an individual dies, everything in red returns to the land. This is why Black Magic is treated as vile: you're damaging the land, as the aether that's used up never returns again to Hydaelyn. Similar in concept to...
http://xivdb.com/?quest/66602/Five-Easy-Pieces
Quote:The vital energy of Hydaelyn, that which is called aether, is one and the same as the life force in which you monks believe. As the center of our world, these Silvertear Falls are connected to what you call chakra in an inexplicably profound way.
We all share in the same existence. We are neither separate nor distinct from the world. Our energy and its energy are one.
My personal interpretation... I drew a diagram! =D
Everything in red is INTERNAL. Everything else is EXTERNAL.
Most Eorzeans have no direct access to or control over the chakras. They draw from an interior reservoir of aether, instead (denoted in the diagram as "the mana pool"). Everything in red, that constitutes an individual's aether, that's borrowed from Hydaelyn/the land/the world/the lifestream. When an individual dies, everything in red returns to the land. This is why Black Magic is treated as vile: you're damaging the land, as the aether that's used up never returns again to Hydaelyn. Similar in concept to...
![[Image: 1qVSsTp.png]](http://i.imgur.com/1qVSsTp.png)
