(07-10-2015, 07:21 PM)Kaniko Niko Wrote: I've really grown to enjoy Black Mage and thaumaturgy in general.Glad to see someone shares my headcanon for the give and take of thaumaturgy. '3'
Cocobuki Wrote:Thaumaturgy is a form of arcane manipulation that allows the practitioner to unleash (his/her) will as deadly manifestations of primal power. The origin of our art can be found in the cumbersome magicks of our ancestors - subsequently focused and refined through their use in the funereal rites of the Order of Nald'thal. Though once used exclusively for the preparation of the dead, these incantations of destruction soon found new purpose on the battlefield. Hm hm hm... "Death," of course, is still very much the central focus of the discipline.
While the official game data and the above state that thaumaturgy comes from within, it's implied (at least to me) that our inner aether provides the catalyst to start the flow and we start "pushing and pulling" aether from our surroundings in and out of our physical forms.
Astral Fire and Umbral Ice.
Just, uh... Don't abuse it. Unless you really, really hate your internal organs.
