(09-22-2015, 12:04 AM)Faye Wrote:(09-22-2015, 12:00 AM)celestial_mage Wrote: i thought they did take from the environment no? or at least borrow aether which is how it can b abused harmfully
THM takes from the environment, WHM borrows from the elementals. If a WHM does not pay proper respects to the elements and get their permission, the WHM will end up using their own life aether and, eventually, kill themselves.
No.
THM takes from the caster's aether reserves. It's literally the entire plot of the THM questline.
CNJ borrows from the land.
BLM steals from the land.
WHM takes from the land, under permission of the Elementals (or at least the knowledge of how to be a WHM is guarded by the Elementals).