(01-02-2016, 06:30 AM)Valence Wrote: Yeah, it seemed for some reason I interpreted wrong the way it was presented by e-Sumi.
Now then it makes me wonder something else though... If conjurers cry in horror at people like Sylphie trying to draw aether from their own bodies, and their doctrines advise now to use the aether of the land, why is that thaumathurges, who probably are even less scrupulous about ethics and stuff, don't? Why do they persist in risking their own life?Â
The black mage taboo?
It's important to remember that Conjury was never meant to be channeled from your own aether. The school of magic is set up in such a way that it's extremely unnatural (and difficult) to use it in such a manner. I have a personal theory that it might be all but impossible to manage it unless you have a natural, innate talent with Conjury that requires no real schooling to pick up. In general, Conjurers have to receive training to learn how to use Conjury, even though the art itself is not difficult to learn. Sylphie, however, appears to have been self-taught from numerous comments during the Conjurer questline. A possible explanation for this is that Sylphie isn't just a Conjurer, she's an untrained Hearer. It's implied in the storyline that her talent is inherited, and that her mother was a Hearer as well (and also untrained). Her mother was convinced that normal Conjury harmed the Elementals, because while she could hear them, without proper training she misunderstood what they were saying. She passed on that mistaken belief to Sylphie, and since Sylphie didn't exactly need training in Conjury to grasp particular spells (she managed to figure out Raise without being taught the spell), she just did things the way she saw her mother do them.
Thaum is a bit different.
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