(01-01-2016, 10:06 AM)Oli! Wrote: If I remember correctly, the issue is this:
When a thaumaturge or a conjurer uses aether, they draw it from the source, and then they put it back somewhere. A Thaumaturge might expel it into the environment where someone or something can reabsorb it later. A Conjurer might just let it disperse into the environment in the same way.
On the other hand, when a White Mage or a Black Mage uses aether, in order for the spells they use to have the effects that they have, that aether dissipates entirely instead of returning to the environment. In other words, when they cast their spells, they contribute to the "magical heat-death" of the universe.
This is my understanding of it as well. Thaumaturges and conjurers have to play by equivalent exchange while white and black mages don't. That's basically the entire problem with them and how they almost destroyed the world in the War of the Magi and are now outlawed etc etc
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